• Today (24th February) is Central Excise Day.
• The 1st Gramin Khel Mahotsav is going to be held in Delhi from 25th to 31st March.
The festival is being organised to help involve rural youth to participate in popular sports.
• The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved the enhancement of capacity from 20,000 MW to 40,000 MW of the Scheme for Development of Solar Parks and Ultra Mega Solar Power Projects.
• Indian IT services major Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has been ranked the world's third most valuable brand in IT services industry by brand valuation firm Brand Finance.
IBM topped the brand value list, followed by Accenture.
• Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty has been chosen as the Brand Ambassador for the government's cleanliness initiative Swachh Bharat Mission.
• AYUSH Minister Inaugurates the World Integrated Medicine Forum on Regulation of Homeopathic Medicine in New Delhi .
• The Government of India and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) signed a 375-million-dollar loans and grants in New Delhi to develop 800-km Visakhapatnam-Chennai Industrial Corridor.
• Malaysia headquartered Asian Hockey Federation (AHF) has appointed Abhijit Sarkaras as vice chairman and also the chief of AHF commercial and TV committee .
• Hassan Ali Khaire has been appointed as prime minister of Somalia by Mohamed Abdullahi, President of Somalia .
• A hill station cycle path, believed to be the first in India, recently opened in Darjeeling.
• PM Narendra Modi yesterday unveiled a 112-foot tall Lord Shiva statue in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, on the occasion of Mahashivratri.
• South Africa's AB de Villiers scored his 9,000th ODI run in his 205th innings, breaking an all-time record of least matches played to reach the milestone. He broke former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly's record of 228 innings, set in 2004.
• India Signs MoU with Bangladesh to provide financial assistance of Taka 240 mn for development of Sylhet city .
• Venezuela and Libya have been suspended from voting in the UN General Assembly in for the second time in two years due to huge sum of unpaid dues by the nations to the UN Body.
• Dena Bank has unveiled a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) enabled banking card at its Mumbai branch.
• Belgium’s Hockey Captain and Olympic silver medalist John-John Dohmen was awarded the Best Male Player of the Year Award (2016) by the International Hockey Federation (FIH) at the gala FIH Hockey Stars Awards Ceremony in Chandigarh. In the Women’s category, Netherlands’ Naomi van As won the International Hockey Federation’s (FIH) Best Female Player of the Year (2016) awards.
• International rating agency Moody’s report titled ‘Modest Acceleration in the Global Economy’ has predicted that India will be the fastest growing economy among G-20 countries in year 2017 with 7.1% growth.
• Following the failure of its global bid, the Indian Railways has decided to manufacture its own trainsets in Chennai that can run at up to 160 kmph. Named 'Train-2018', the first such trainset is expected to be ready in 2018.
• Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal, who became a member of the International Olympic Committee's Athletes' Commission (IOC AC) last year, would be representing the panel in the Badminton World Federation (BWF).
• India won all three medals in the 12.8 Kilometre Individual Time Trial at the 6th Asian Para-Road Cycling Championship held in Bahrain.
They are :
Gold - Abhishek (Chandigarh)
Silver - Divij Shah (West Bengal)
Bronze - Harinder Singh (BSF)
• Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje inaugurated a medical project Rajasthan Heart Attack Treatment programme (RAHAT) at the Eternal Heart Care Center Hospital in Jaipur.
• Japan has unveiled the world’s first robot table tennis tutor FORPHEUS (Future Omron Robotics Technology for Exploring Possibility of Harmonised aUtomation with Sinic Theoretics) which has the ability to play the game better than humans.
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