Daily Current Affairs || 21.02.2023 - Govtjobsalerts

22 Feb 2023

Daily Current Affairs || 21.02.2023

                                                  


1.The Reserve Bank on Friday issued the draft guidelines for minimum capital requirements for market risk - under Basel III framework, wherein it proposes to impose a slew of curbs on a bank's trading and banking books and steeply increasing the penalties and provisioning ratios.


2.UAE and India launch the UAE Chapter of the Business Council to Boost Bilateral Trade & Investment.


3.The 12th World Hindi Conference concluded in Nadi, Fiji.


4.World’s highest weather station rebuilt on Mount Everest.


5.The rising man-made (anthropogenic) underwater noise emissions (UNE) from ships in the Indian waters are posing a threat to the life of marine mammals like Bottlenose Dolphin, Manatees, Pilot Whale, Seal, and Sperm Whale.


6.Third phase of Sagar Parikrama aimed to resolve fishermen issues to begin in Gujarat.


7.Northern India’s first nuclear plant to come up in Haryana’s Gorakhpur.


8.'Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar attended the Rann Utsav in Gujarat.


9.Shri Amit Shah attended the birth centenary celebrations of freedom fighter and founder of 'Lokmat' Shri Jawaharlal Ji Darda.


10.Indian team settle for Bronze at Badminton Asia Mixed Team Championship in Dubai.


11.India women’s team captain Harmanpreet Kaur set a new world record by becoming the most capped player in world cricket in the T20I format.Harmanpreet Kaur surpassed Indian men’s team captain Rohit Sharma to become the most capped player in Twenty20 Internationals..


12.India's Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and Singapore's PayNow will be linked to enable faster and cost-effective transfer of cross-border remittances. So that funds can be transferred from India to Singapore.


13.India and Fiji have signed a MoU on visa exemption for holders of diplomatic and official passports. Under this agreement, holders of diplomatic and official passports will be able to enter, exit and stay in each other's territory without visa for a period not exceeding 90 days.


14.To raise awareness about climate Emergency, the 'Dont Selection Extracting' campaign launched by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has won gold and silver in two different categories at the second annual Anthem Awards.


15.Velocity, an Indian financial technology company, has launched the country's first ChatGPT integrated chatbot dubbed as “Lexi". As per the company, this latest AI development has been integrated with its existing analytics tool, Velocity Insights.


16.Indian Railways in collaboration with India Post has started door to door pick-up and delivery service of railway parcels. The name of this service is 'Rail Post Gati Shakti Express Cargo Service'.


17.Under the Smart City Mission, 22 cities will be made 'smart', including Agra, Varanasi, Ranchi, Bhopal, Indore, Udaipur, Pune, Pimpri Chinchwad, Ahmedabad, Surat, Chennai, Kakinad, Coimbatore, Erode, Bhubaneswar, Salem, Visakhapatnam, Vellore, Madurai, Amaravati, Tiruchirappalli and Thanjavur have met all the parameters of the Smart City Mission. A total of 100 cities have been selected under this program of the Center to make them more citizen friendly and sustainable.


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