Tuesday, 21 February 2017

Daily Current Affairs Update --- 21st February, 2017

     
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• Today (21st February) is International Mother Language Day.
Theme of International Mother Language Day 2017 : "Towards Sustainable Futures through Multilingual Education".


• According to a latest report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), India has been the world's largest importer of major arms in the last five years.


• China has appointed 1.6 metre-tall self-driving robot police officers with electric riot control tool to patrol the streets.


• The Kerala government is going to make a six-day anti-corruption induction training mandatory for government service officials in the state.
Claimed to be the first of its kind in India.


• The Raj Bhawan in Goa has turned cashless with all their transactions including household expenses and tour expenditures shifting from regular to plastic money.


• N Chandrasekaran today took over as Chairman of Tata Sons, the principal investment holding company for over 100 Tata firms.
Important Note : Chandrasekaran will be the first non-Parsi chairman of the near 150-year-old Tata group.


• Tata Consultancy Services today announced the appointment of V Ramakrishnan as its Chief Financial Officer effective February 21.


• Justine Clark became the first Australian woman in a wheelchair to compete in the Miss World Australia contest .


• VIVO IPL 2017 List of Most Expensive Player --
Ben Stokes – Rising Pune Supergiants – Rs 14.5 crore .


• Bharat QR code the world's first inter-operable payment acceptance solution, was launched as part of efforts to move towards less-cash economy at an insignificant cost, according to RBI.  Payment networks such as MasterCard and Visa have joined hands with NPCI to launch Bharat QR, a common Quick Response(QR) code that would enable seamless digital payments without card swiping machines.


• Cash purchases of jewellery will attract 1% TCS (Tax Collected at Source) from April 1, 2017 if the amount exceeds Rs 2 lakh,as against the current threshold of Rs 5 lakh.


• Country's largest lender State Bank of India (SBI) has rebranded its corporate website as "bank.sbi" from the earlier sbi.co.in.  Bank.sbi is the highest domain protocol, known as generic top level domain (gTLD).


• US President Donald Trump has appointed Lt Gen Herbert Raymond McMaster as his new National Security Advisor following the ouster of Michael Flynn last week.
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