Current Affairs Current Affairs february,2014:- Vice President of India M. Hamid Ansari launched the India-China Year of Friendly Exchanges on 11 February 2014 The South Central Railway (SCR) launched Hyderabad Live Train Enquiry System (HYLITES) on 10 February 2014 Sikkim became the first State in India to achieve 100 percent sanitation coverage President of Israel Shimon Peres set a new Guinness World Record with 6500- student online civics class World’s oldest tigress, Machli Found in the Ranthambhore National Park India and Germany sign two umbrella agreements for financial and technical cooperation India’s Visa-on-arrival facility extended for tourists of 180 Countries, except eight Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved the implementation of the National Mission on Agricultural Extension and Technology World‘s First Paperless public Library of the BiblioTech was opened in the USA on 4 February 2014 First online Global Freshwater Biodiversity Atlas launched Union Ministry of Communications and Information Technology launched the National Cloud on 4 February 2014 Dr. Ali Mohamed Shein, President of Zanzibar, is on an official visit to India from 1 to 9 February 2014 Union Cabinet approved the second phase of Bangalore Metro Rail Project World’s oldest flamingo died at Adelaide Zoo of Australia Personalities Current Affairs february,2014:- R.K.Tiwari appointed new chairman of Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) Jatinder Bir Singh was appointed as Chairman and Managing Director of Punjab and Sind Bank (PSB) Vinod Sawhny appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Reliance Communications Sonia Gandhi named as Chairperson of Congress Campaign Committee Sushil Koirala veteran Nepali Congress (NC) leader elected as the next Prime Minister of Nepal Abhinav Bindra, become the 1st person to win third gold-medal in the Inter-Shoot Tri-series Shooting Yulia Lipnitskaya became the youngest Russian athlete to win gold medal in Winter Olympics N Ramachandran elected as new President of Indian Olympic Association (IOA) Olympian long distance runner Ranjit Bhatia passes away at 77 Legendary bhajan singer Juthika Roy died at the age of 93 Kumar Sangakkara, the became the second person in the history of Cricket to score a triple century and a century in the same test match Narayanswamy Srinivasan, the President of BCCI elected as the new Chairman of the International Cricket Council (ICC) from July 2014 for a period of 2 years Arunima Sinha Honored with Amazing Indian Award 2014 Malala Yousafzai, John Wood and Indira Ranamagar nominated for the World Children’s Prize Union Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas confirmed the appointment of B.N.Talukdar as head of Director General of Hydrocarbon (DGH) John Thompson was appointed as the Chairman of Microsoft Marco Lambertini appointed as director-general (DG) of the WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) International on 6 February 2014 Vishwanath Tripathi, the eminent Hindi writer selected for the prestigious Vyas Samman 2013 Indian-origin professor Sanjeev Kulkarni named dean of Princeton University school Satya Nadella appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of [CEO] of Microsoft Sachin Tendulkar and Prof CNR Rao conferred with Bharat Ratna UN appointed India based Vivek Lall as special advisor on cyber security Former Supreme Court Justice, Ashok Kumar Mathur appointed as the Chairman of the 7th Central Pay Commission Manoj Vaish took charge as the Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd. Poonam Khetrapal Singh took charge as the Regional Director of SEARO on 1 February 2014 Harish Rawat was appointed as the 8th Chief Minister of Uttarakhand Michael Rogers nominated as Director of the National Security Agency [NSA] Oscar-winning American actor, Philip Seymour Hoffman died at the age of 46 Silverine Swer, the First Padma Shri Awardee of Meghalaya passed away Sports Current Affairs february,2014:- Indian boxers Finished Fourth at the 58th Bocskai International Tournament Abhinav Bindra won second gold medal at the Inter Shoot Tri Series shooting at The Hague, Netherlands Joshna Chinappa won the Winnipeg Winter Club Open title Karnataka defeated Maharashtra to win the Ranji Trophy 2014 Virat Kohli slips to fourth in ICC Twenty20 rankings Honours And Awards Current Affairs february,2014:- Bangladesh’s Kamar Ahmad Simon’s documentary ‘Are You Listening‘ won the Golden Conch Award of MIFF 2014 .... SRI SAI STUDY Circle
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