Around INDIA
# Government has set up an
inter-ministerial committee on medicinal and aromatic plants for the North -
East to suggest actionable measures to generate more livelihood opportunities
in the region
# FATF (Financial Action Task Force)
plenary decided to put Pakistan back on the "grey list", subjecting
to direct monitoring and intense
scrutiny by the International Co-operation Review Group (ICRG) on terror
financing; Pakistan had been on the same list from
2012 to 2015
# Government to convene a meeting on Lokpal
on March 01, 2018
- Prime Minister, Lok Sabha Speaker, the
Chief Justice of India and the leader of the single largest Opposition Party
will participate in the meeting
# Supreme Court directed the government to
frame a law to regulate the auditing profession, saying "failures of
auditors have resulted in scandals in the past"
# Vice President, Mr. Venkaiah Naidu
released a commemorative stamp and a book on Mr. B. Nagi Reddy
# Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi
addressed the Economic Times Global Business Summit in New Delhi with the theme
"New Economy - New Rules"
# Ministry of Culture organised the
"Rashtriya Sanskriti Mahotsav" under the Ek Bharat Shrestha Bharat
matrix in Madhya Pradesh from Feb 24 - March 02
TAMIL NADU
# Engineering admission in the State to go
online for the academic year 2018-19
# JITO - 2018 (Jain International Trade
Organisation) was held in Chennai
# Former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, M. J.
Jaylalithaa’s 70th birth anniversary; government to roll out subsidized two –
wheeler scheme today
STATES SCAN
# Assam: "Aadi Mahotsava", a
tribal festival was organised in Guwahati; the festival celebrates the art and
culture of tribal communities
# Assam: Government has announced that Sep
22 will be celebrated as "Rhino Day"
# Delhi: around 20 officers of the Delhi
Police searched Chief Minister, Mr. Arvind Kejriwal's residence in the Civil
Lines area to seize CCTV footage of the alleged attack on Chief Secretary Mr.
Anshu Prakash
# Madhya Pradesh: 44th Khajuraho dance
festival started off in Chhatarapur Dt of Madhya Pradesh
# Telanagana: Government aims to double the
valuation of its life sciences ecosystem to $100 billion in 10 years; 15th
BioAsia Summit was held in Hyderabad
BILATERAL ISSUES
# India and German signed MoU for
implementation agreement in sustainable urban development and smart cities in
India
- Germany contributes up to 8 million EUR
for the project; the project will be carried out for 3 years (2018 - 2020)
# Andijan region of Uzbekistan and Indian
Government have inked an agreement for cooperation in the pharmaceutical
industry
# Leaders of TAPI
(Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India) officially inaugurated the TAPI
pipeline project in Turkmenistan
- The quartet aims to complete the 1840 km
pipeline and begin pumping natural gas from Turkmenistan's giant Galkynysh gas
field by the beginning of 2020
WORLD
# Maldives: amid a persisting political
crisis, the Election Commission of Maldives has said the Presidential elections
will be held in September
# USA: announced fresh measures to tighten
the scrutiny of H1-B visa petitions, mandating fresh documentary requirements
for workers at third-party worksites
ECONOMICS
# Union Finance Ministry announced the
first sale of electoral bonds will start from March 01, 2018 for a period of 10
days at selected branches of SBI
MISC
# A supercritical carbon dioxide Brayton
cycle test loop facility was inaugurated at the IISc, Bengaluru; It is claimed
to be India's first supercritical CO2 Brayton cycle test bed and also the first
ever to be coupled with a solar heat source
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