Current Affairs February 2022

International Day of Human Fraternity: 04 February

International Day of Human Fraternity: 04 February

The ‘International Day of Human Fraternity’ is celebrated across the world on 4th February.  The first International Day of Human Fraternity was held in 2021. The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution to declare 4 February as International Day of Human Fraternity on 21 December 2020. The day aims to raise awareness about different cultures and religions, or beliefs, and

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World Cancer Day 2022: 04 February

World Cancer Day 2022: 04 February

World Cancer Day is observed every year globally on 4th February by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC). The day aims to raise awareness and education about cancer, and encourage governments and individuals across the world to take action against the prevention, detection, and treatment of the disease. So this year’s World Cancer Day’s

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Sony buys ‘Destiny’ game developer Bungie for $3.6 billion

Sony buys ‘Destiny’ game developer Bungie for $3.6 billion

Sony Group Corp. is purchasing Bungie Inc., the U.S. video game developer behind the popular Destiny and Halo franchises, for $3.6 billion to bolster its stable of game-making studios. The deal announced on Monday by Sony Interactive Entertainment is the third significant video-game acquisition this month, following Microsoft Corp.’s purchase of Activision Blizzard Inc. for $69 billion two weeks ago and Take-Two

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Former RBI governor Urjit Patel resigns as independent director of Britannia Industries Limited

Former RBI governor Urjit Patel resigns as independent director of Britannia Industries Limited

The former Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Urjit Patel has tendered his resignation from the post of non-executive and independent director of Britannia Industries Limited with effect from January 31, 2022. The reason behind stepping down is attendant time constraint, due to his full-time work assignment at AIIB, starting from February 01, 2022. Patel was recently appointed vice

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Centre appoints Ravi Mittal as new Chairman of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India

Centre appoints Ravi Mittal as new Chairman of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India

Ravi Mittal, the former secretary, of Department of Sports, has been appointed as the Chairman of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI), as per the notification issued by Ministry of Corporate Affairs on February 02, 2022. Ravi Mittal is a 1986 batch IAS officer from Bihar cadre. Ravi Mittal who was earlier posted as

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Three-day annual Torgya Festival celebrated in Arunachal Pradesh

Three-day annual Torgya Festival celebrated in Arunachal Pradesh

In Arunachal Pradesh, the celebration of the annual Torgya Festival started on January 30, 2022. The three days long Torgya Festival of the Monpa tribal community of Arunachal Pradesh is celebrated at Tawang Monastery, Arunachal Pradesh. The main attraction of the festival is the ‘Sha-na Cham’, the ritual dance performed by monks to showcase the Choe-Gyal Yap & Yum Tsa-Munde deity. The objective of

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IISc. commissions one of India’s most powerful supercomputers ‘Param Pravega’

IISc. commissions one of India’s most powerful supercomputers ‘Param Pravega’

The Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, Karnataka has installed and commissioned ‘Param Pravega’, one of the most powerful supercomputers in India, and the largest in an Indian academic institution under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM). The system has a total supercomputing capacity of 3.3 petaflops (1 petaflop equals a quadrillion operations/second). The supercomputer has

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Sanctuaries in Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh listed as Ramsar sites

Sanctuaries in Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh listed as Ramsar sites

The Khijadiya Bird Sanctuary near Jamnagar in Gujarat and Bakhira Wildlife Sanctuary in Uttar Pradesh have been listed as Wetlands of International Importance by the Ramsar Convention. With this, the total number of Ramsar sites in India goes up to 49. Khijadiya has become the fourth wetland of Gujarat to get the Ramsar tag. Nalsarovar Bird Sanctuary, Thol Wildlife Sanctuary and Wadhwana wetland are the other

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