february 2014
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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
• 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
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
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
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
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