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FEBRUARY 2014 Name the programme that has planned to release 25 vultures in safe-zone by 2016 following decrease in populations due to use of Diclofenac to vet cattle - Programme SAVE Union Government of India on 31 January 2014 announced that economy might have expanded by 4.5 percent in fiscal year 2012-13 - as compared to previous estimate of 5 percent US on 31 January 2014 warned China against any move to declare a new Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ) over the - South China Sea Name the state that on 1 February 2014 scrapped its approval for the foreign direct investment in multi-brand retailing - Rajasthan Special Investigation Team (SIT) has been constituted by the Delhi Police to investigate the death of the student from Arunachal Pradesh, who died after being allegedly beaten - Nido Tania World Cancer Day 2014 observed on 4 February with the release of the World Cancer Report 2014 with the World Cancer Day theme - Debunk the myths

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FEBRUARY 2014

•    Name the programme that has planned to release 25 vultures in safe-zone by 2016 following decrease in populations due to use of Diclofenac to vet cattle - Programme SAVE

•    Union Government of India on 31 January 2014 announced that economy might have expanded by 4.5 percent in fiscal year 2012-13 - as compared to previous estimate of 5 percent

•    US on 31 January 2014 warned China against any move to declare a new Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ) over the - South China Sea

•    Name the state that on 1 February 2014 scrapped its approval for the foreign direct investment in multi-brand retailing - Rajasthan

•    Special Investigation Team (SIT) has been constituted by the Delhi Police to investigate the death of the student from Arunachal Pradesh, who died after being allegedly beaten - Nido Tania

•    World Cancer Day 2014 observed on 4 February with the release of the World Cancer Report 2014 with the World Cancer Day theme - Debunk the myths

•    Manoj Vaish took charge as the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of - Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd. (MCX)

•    President of Zanzibar, was on an official visit to India from 1 to 9 February 2014 - Dr. Ali Mohamed Shein

•    Who has been appointed as the Chairman of the 7th Pay Commission - Former Supreme Court Justice Ashok Kumar Mathur

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•    Name the King of Saudi Arabia, who on 4 February 2014 ordered jail terms ranging from three to thirty years for the Saudi citizens, who are fighting outside the country - Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud

•    Aabo the person who became the first person to receive a bionic hand, which allows life-like sensation to be felt from the device’s artificial fingers– is a Dennis Amputee

•    The work on the project of widening the shipping route of Panama Canal was suspended by the - Panama Canal Authority on 5 February 2014 following dispute over rising costs.

•    The first European to navigate through the Strait of Magellan in 1520 by in the service of Charles I of Spain during his global circumnavigation voyage - Portuguese sailor, Ferdinand Magellan

•    Olympic flame on 5 February 2014 reached Sochi in Russia after traveling the longest route in the history of the games of - 65000 kilometers.

•    India on 5 February 2014 extended the facility of visa-on-arrival for the tourists of 180 nations after - barring tourists of eight nations.

•    The state government of which state on 5 February 2014 declared 10225 villages of the state as scarcity-hit - of Rajasthan

•    People who have been nominated for World Children's Prize in Sweden are - Malala, John Wood, Indira Ranamagar

•    India & Germany signed 2 umbrella agreements for financial & technical co-operation under - Indo German bilateral Development Cooperation.

•    A Parliamentary Panel on 6 February 2014 submitted its report on the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) of India Bill, 2013 to Parliament and asked the 

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government to come out with a comprehensive Bill after revisiting - the Aircraft Act 1934.

•    The eminent Hindi writer has been selected for the prestigious Vyas Samman for the year 2013 - Vishwanath Tripathi

•    WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) on 6 February 2014 appointed a person as director-general (DG) of the WWF International - Marco Lambertini

•    Ministry of Culture and Tate has signed a MoU to develop collaborations focused on - modern and contemporary art.

•    Supreme Court has ordered to implement recommendations of a board for journalists and non-journalists in newspapers and agencies - Majithia Wage Board

•    Union Cabinet on 7 February 2014 cleared the Telangana Bill with minimum changes in it and decided that Hyderabad will not get the status of - a Union Territory

•    Abhinav Bindra won two gold medals at Inter Shoot Tri Series shooting at - The Hague, Netherlands

•    Maruti Suzuki India Limited (MSIL) on 7 February 2014 announced that it has stopped the production of the iconic car brand - Maruti 800

•    Kumar Sangakkara became the second person in Cricket history to score a triple century and a century in the same test match after - Graham Gooch

•    Police of which country in February 2014 successfully dismantled the largest ever World War II bomb found in the city at the construction site - Hong Kong

•    DRDO is in the process of developing a device to track down Maoists in naxal 

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hit states that will be used by CRPF - UAVs

•    Maruti Suzuki India has stopped production of - Maruti 800

•    Kumar Sangakkara, on 7 February 2014 became the second person in the history of Cricket to score a triple century and a century in the same test match after - Graham Gooch

•    Draft technical report on making payment system effective was released by - Reserve Bank of India

•    A body on 7 February 2014 issued a ban on the process of burning of tyres at public places like roads and areas surrounded by residential buildings - National Green Tribunal (NGT)

•    Person selected as the new Chairman of ICC for a period of 2 years to succeed Alan Raymond Isaac - Narayanswamy Srinivasan

•    Person who became became 1st person to win three gold medals in Tri-series shooting - Abhinav Bindra

•    Requirement of India's solar mission on 10 February 2014 was challenged by United States alleging as discriminatory and against international norms including the laws of WTO - Domestic Content

•    The Committee on Public Undertakings headed by who placed its report in Parliament on the share of procurement by Food Corporation of India (FCI) - Jagdambika Pal

•    Cancer foundation YouWeCan of Yuvraj Singh joined hand with an NGO Navbharat Sewa Samiti to roll out a campaign named - Cancer Mukt Purvi Dilli

•    Scientists discovered a new species of dolphin in Amazon River system which 

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is a first discovery of a species in almost in 100 years - Araguaian Boto

•    Popular Indian film Black was screened at - Fakel Theatre in Moscow

•    IOC has revoked the ban imposed on IOA paving the way for India’s return to the Olympic fold after - IOA held elections as per IOC directives

•    Penguin India, the publisher of a book on 11 February 2014 agreed to withdraw the book from the Indian market - The Hindus: An Alternative History

•    Largest tribal religious congregation of the world began at Medaram in Warangal district of the Telangana region - Sammakkaa Saarakka Fair

•    Person resigned from cabinet over the failure of government to fulfill its promises to protect rights of minority groups in Malaysia - P Waythamoorthy

•    Volcano of a mountain in the main island of Java of Indonesia erupted on 13 February 2014 after rumbling for several weeks - Mount Kelup of Kediri district

•    US have been blanketed with a huge snow storm has been dubbed as -Snowmaggedon

•    Union Cabinet on 20 February 2014 gave its nod for classifying a language as a classical language to give impetus to scholarships in the language - Odia

•    International Mother Language Day (Bhasha Divas) was observed across the world, with Bangladesh leading on - 21 February 2014

•    The middle order batsman of Indian cricket team on 20 February 2014 was appointed as the brand ambassador of the Gujarat State Election Commission - Cheteshwar Pujara

•    The Speaker of Ukraine was named as the interim President of the country on 

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23 February 2014 - Oleksandr Turchynov

•    NTPC signed MoU with BSPGCL and LBCPL to develop a 1320 MW Thermal Power Project at -Kajra in Lakhisarai district of Bihar

•    Somdev Devvarman, the India’s top singles star on 23 February 2014 lifted his third ATP Challenge Tennis title after defeating -Aleksandr Nedovyesov 

•    Sri Lanka rejected draft report that calls for an international inquiry into alleged human rights violations – of Navi Pillai

•    Engineers of US firm Hennessey have developed the world’s fastest car with a top speed of a speed of 435 kilometers per hour named - Venom GT

•    Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh on 25 February 2014 passed the - UP Water Management and Regulatory Commission Bill 2014

•    Israeli President Shimon Peres awarded Angela Merkel with Israel’s highest civilian honour - Israeli Presidential Medal of Distinction

•    Hamid Ansari released a commemorative postage stamp in the honour of - Maulana Hasrat Mohani

•    Government of India (Union Home Ministry) on 27 February 2014 constituted one-man expert committee to study and examine - the demand of a separate Bodoland state

•    India on 28 February 2014 observed National Science Day to mark the discovery of - the Raman Effect by Indian physicist Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman

•    Music album based on the songs composed by music maestro AR Rahman and written by Kapil Sibal is - Raunaq