Important Current Affairs February 20 One liner
February 20 – World Day of Social Justice
2019 theme: If You Want Peace & Development, Work for Social Justice
- Thiruvananthapuram is all prepared to host the Attaukal Ponkala festival which is considered as one of the world’s largest religious gathering of women on a single day.
- Union Minister Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti inaugurated Sikaria Mega Food Park Pvt Ltd in Agartala.
- Union Minister Nitin Gadkari will inaugurate and lay the foundation stones for 510 km length of National Highway in Uttar Pradesh.
- Sri Lanka’s 150 students from all 25 districts were awarded the prestigious Mahatma Gandhi scholarships for study in India.
- Government to infuse Rs 48,239 crore in 12 public sector banks.
- Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) released second edition of Startup Ranking for 2019.
- The President of India inaugurated the International Conference and Exhibition on Energy and Environment: Challenges and Opportunities (ENCO 2019) in New Delhi.
- Union Minister Shri Radha Mohan Singh addressed the 14th Agricultural Science Congress in New Delhi.
- Shri Tarun Shridhar – Additional charge of the post of Secretary in the Department of Fisheries, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
- Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) launched a mega project called NICRA to address the issues of climate change through the Krishi Vigyan Kendras [KVKs].
- HRD Minister Shri Prakash Javadekar launched Operation Digital Board to leverage technology in order to boost quality education in the country.
- MoU signed between Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) and University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada for next 10 years in New Delhi.
- Final Operational Clearance of LCA Tejas MK I
- Defence Minister Smt Nirmala Sitharaman inaugurated the 12th biennial edition of International Aerospace and Defence Exhibition Aero India 2019 in Bengaluru.
Strandja Memorial Tournament
- Nikhat Zareen (51kg category) and Meena Kumari Devi (54kg category) became the first Indian women boxers to win gold medals at the Strandja Memorial Tournament in Bulgaria.
- Manju Rani won silver medal in the (48kg).
- Pwilao Basumatari (64kg), Neeraj (60kg) and Lovlina Borgohain (69kg) had settled for bronze medals.
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