Current Affairs 25th February 2017 | General Awareness 25th February 2017

1. 9th BRICS Summit

• BRICS is the acronym  for an association of five major emerging national economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.
• China will host the first BRICS Sherpas Meeting in Nanjing in the country’s Jiangsu Province.
• The 9th BRICS Summit will be held in China’s Xiamen city from September 3-5.
• The theme of this year’s event is ‘BRICS  Stronger Partnership for a Brighter Future.

2. India to host Combined World Cup for shooting in 2019

• India will be hosting the Combined World Cup for shooting in 2019, a qualifying event for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, which will further boost the country’s profile as a global shooting destination.
• The National Rifle Association of India’s (NRAI) bid was approved by the International Shooting Sport Federation’s Executive Board in its meeting held in New Delhi.

3. Swachh Bharat Abhiyan

 

• Five more states– Gujarat, Haryana, Punjab, Mizoram and Uttrakhand– are likely to be declared defection free (ODF) in next 6 months.
• As of now, three states, Kerala, Himachal Pradesh and Sikkim, had declared themselves ODF under the clean India mission Swachh Bharat Abhiyan.
• The Swachh Bharat Abhiyan was officially launched on 2 October 2014 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

4. International conference on ‘Bharat Bodh

• The President of India inaugurated an international conference on ‘Bharat Bodh’ (Idea of Bharat) organized by the IGNOU and Bhartiya Shikshan Mandal on Feb 23, 2017 in New Delhi.
• He added that Bharat has always been recognised “as the storehouse of knowledge and discovery – knowledge which liberates, and discovery which fathoms the deepest thoughts of humanity and co-existence.

5. TCS emerges as third most valued IT brand

• Ata Consultancy Services, today announced that it has broken into the list of the Top 3 most valuable brands in the IT Services industry, in an assessment done by Brand Finance, the world’s leading brand valuation firm.
• “Just five years ago the TCS brand had achieved a major milestone, emerging as one of the big four brands in the IT Services sector.

6. Centre sets up fund for POSCO victims

• Union Minister for Women and Child Development, Maneka Gandhi, has decided to set up a POCSO Victims Compensation Fund to provide financial help to minors who are victims of sexual abuse.
• This fund will draw financial resources from the Nirbhaya Fund.
• Gandhi made the announcement after she ordered financial assistance by way of a compensation of Rs 3 lakh for treatment of a 3 year old girl who was allegedly sexually assaulted and found abandoned at a railway station in Ahmednagar in Maharashtra.

7. SRM’s Next Tech Lab team wins Hackathon

• A three-member team of Next Tech Lab, SRM University, won the IESA Hackathon-Vision Summit 2017, a note said.
• The 30-hour hackathon that was organised by Intel at Bengaluru from February 21- 22. Swaroop Belur, Akash Jain and Suresh Kumar prototyped a Smart Industrial Failure Detection System and won Rs. 1 lakh.

8. Aerospace team to visit Australia

• The Aerospace Industry Development Association of Tamil Nadu and the Society of Indian Aerospace Technologies and Industries will organise the visit of a 20-member Indian aerospace delegation to Australia during February 28 March
• The delegation is scheduled to participate at Avalon 2017.

 

9. Sikkim becomes 22nd State to join UDAY

• The GOI and the State of Sikkim signed an MOU under the Scheme Ujwal DISCOM Assurance Yojana (UDAY) for operational improvement of the State’s Power Distribution Department.
• With the signing of MoU, the total number of States covered under UDAY has reached 22.
• UDAY is the financial turnaround and revival package for electricity distribution companies of India initiated by the GOI.

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