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PM Modi to inaugurate Shivamogga airport in Karnataka

PM Modi to inaugurate Shivamogga airport in Karnataka : Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated Shivamogga airport in Karnataka on 27 February 2023. The airport has been built on 663 acres of land with an investment of ₹449.22 crore. February 2023 Current Affairs Quiz The prime minister visited Karnataka to initiate several other development projects as well that cost more […]

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PM Modi to release 13th installment of Rs 16,800 crore under PM-KISAN

PM Modi to release 13th installment of Rs 16,800 crore under PM-KISAN: Ahead of Holi and rabi harvesting, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will release the 13th instalment of financial benefits worth Rs 16,800 crore to over eight crore eligible farmers under the flagship PM-KISAN scheme on Monday i.e. February 27, 2023. The highly anticipated release

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MIT professor Hari Balakrishnan wins 2023 Marconi Prize

MIT professor Hari Balakrishnan wins 2023 Marconi Prize: Computer scientist Hari Balakrishnan has been awarded the 2023 Marconi Prize. Dr. Balakrishnan is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The prize, announced annually by the Marconi Society and named after Italian wireless pioneer Guglielmo Marconi, is considered

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Karnataka plans country’s first marina at Byndoor

Karnataka plans country’s first marina at Byndoor: To promote coastal tourism in Karnataka, the Karnataka government will construct the country’s first Marina, or a boat basin with dockage, at Byndoor in Udupi district. The government will also seek permission from the Centre for the relaxation of coastal regulation zone (CRZ) to take up beach tourism

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Lt Gen RS Reen takes charges as Director General Quality Assurance

Lt Gen RS Reen takes charges as Director General Quality Assurance: Lt Gen RS Reen was appointed Director General Quality Assurance. Lt Gen Reen is a 1986-batch officer who attended the Indian Military Academy in Dehradun. He had completed his BE (Electrical) from National Institute of Technology, Srinagar, Specialisation in Radio Engineering and post-graduation in

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Nokia updates their logo to mark the beginning of a new era

Nokia updates their logo: Nokia will no longer use the colour blue and will instead use whatever is more fitting given the circumstances, so no specific colour scheme is assigned. Nokia is now a “enterprise technology company,” according to Lundmark, rather than just a maker of smartphones. February 2023 Current Affairs Quiz Nokia will focus

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IOC to set up green hydrogen plants at all refineries

IOC to set up green hydrogen plants at all refineries: India’s top oil firm IOC will set up green hydrogen plants at all its refineries as it pivots a Rs 2-lakh crore green transition plan to achieve net-zero emissions from its operations by 2046, its chairman Shrikant Madhav Vaidya said. February 2023 Current Affairs Quiz

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Meta launches LLaMA model, a research tool more potent than OpenAI’s GPT-3

LLaMA (Large Language Model Meta AI): Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder of Facebook, announced Meta Platforms’ impending release to researchers of LLaMA, a new large language model (Large Language Model Meta AI). It’s raining chatbots! After OpenAI’s ChatGPT sparked a revolution, Google introduced its BARD and several others followed suit. The model, created by Meta’s Fundamental AI

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Lionel Messi scores 700th career club goal

Lionel Messi scores 700th career club goal: Lionel Messi scored his 700th career club goal in Paris St. Germain’s 3-0 victory over Marseille. With the goal, Messi became just the second player in history to score 700 career club goals, according to IFFHS (International Federation of Football History and Statistics). Messi’s long-time rival Cristiano Ronaldo

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Pakistan Govt raises policy interest rate by 200 bps for IMF Bailout

Pakistan Govt raises policy interest rate by 200 bps for IMF Bailout: In the midst of a severe economic crisis, Pakistan’s government has decided to raise the policy rate to 19% or 200 basis points, a 2% increase. It is currently at 17 percent. A new high in Pak’s level of Interest rate: The increase

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