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• IMF chief Christine Lagarde said that the global lender stands ready to support Pakistan as she met the cash-strapped country's Prime Minister Imran Khan in Dubai.


• Khan is paying a day-long trip to the UAE to take part in the 7th edition of the World Government Summit on the invitation of Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE Sheikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum.

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• Swiss voters rejected a proposal to limit urban sprawl by freezing the size of construction zones, rebuffing a plea from environmentalists to protect open spaces from the advance of bulldozers.


• The binding referendum under the Swiss system of direct democracy would have allowed a new building zone only if governments removed another area of at least the same size from land set aside for construction.

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• Hindi is included as the third official language in the Abu Dhabi court system with a motive to improve access to justice for foreign workers.


• Authorities have created bilingual language guides to explain complex legal terms in an effort to help people understand court process.

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• The Pakistan government has rejected former PM Nawaz Sharif, his daughter Maryam Nawaz and son-in-law Mohammad Safdar's requests seeking removal of their names from the Exit Control List (ECL), which prevents them from flying abroad.


• The decision to place the names of the trio on ECL was taken in August last year during a meeting chaired by PM Imran Khan.

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• Aerospace company Boeing announced the arrival of the first four CH-47F (I) Chinooks for the Indian Air Force (IAF) at the Mundra Port in Gujarat.


• India has procured 15 of these helicopters from the United States. These helicopters will be ferried to Chandigarh, where they will be formally inducted in the IAF later this year.

• In a proposal to modulate diagnostic and medical device in India, the Health Ministry has notified 8 medical equipment, comprising of all implantable devices, as “Drugs” under section 3 of the ‘Drugs and Cosmetics Act’ with effect from April 1, 2020.


• The Equipments comprise of CT scan, MRI equipment, defibrillators, dialysis machine, PET equipment, X-ray machine, bone marrow cell separator and all implantable medical devices.


• This step is important for safety of patients as all these equipment will come under regulatory framework.


• Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO), a national medical device regulator is meanwhile working to make way to regulate the sale and use of medical devices.

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• Lions, identified as one of the endangered species by the government, the Ministry of Environment launched a three-year Asiatic Lion Conservation Project in collaboration with the state of Gujarat.


• The Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC) allocated Rs 59 crores, which will focus on better management of the lion habitat, disease control and veterinary care for them.


• Gujarat government also implemented Rs 80 crore that will be spent on specialised veterinary hospitals and full fledged ambulances for lions.

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• The Jammu & Kashmir Government declared Ladakh as the third administrative division of the state. An order issued by Governor Satya Pal Malik‘s administration said, “The Government has approved the creation of a separated administrative/revenue division of Ladakh”.


• The division will comprise Leh and Kargil districts, with Leh as the division’s headquarters.


• The creation of two posts of Divisional Commissioner and Inspector General of Police (IGP) has been sanctioned for the new division.

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• Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said his government brought the 10% reservation bill for Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) of the general category without altering the existing reservation system.


• Addressing a Tamil Nadu rally, he dared the Opposition to give him "one instance" where the BJP had altered the social justice system. He also unveiled several development projects in the state.

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• A Bank of Baroda official named Niket Kumar has been arrested for allegedly stealing ₹29.5 lakh from customers' 18 fixed and recurring deposits at Colaba branch of the bank in Mumbai.


• Kumar transferred the amount to his friend's account between 2015-17. The embezzlement was discovered when a customer claimed his fixed deposit and found the amount was missing.

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• According to RBI’s report, country’s foreign exchange reserves increased by USD 2.063 billion to USD 400.24 billion.


• The data reveals that country’s reserve position with the IMF also increased by USD 11.2 million to USD 2.654 billion.

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• The Finance Ministry has said The total amount of deposits in Jan Dhan accounts is set to cross ₹90,000 crore.


• The deposits, which have been steadily rising since March 2017, it stated that already reached nearly ₹89, 258 crore as on January 30. Over 34 crore accounts have been opened under the scheme so far, with an average deposit of ₹2,615.

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• Former India captain MS Dhoni has become the first Indian cricketer to play 300 T20 matches, reaching the milestone by featuring in the third T20I against New Zealand at Hamilton.


• Overall, Dhoni is the 13th cricketer to make 300 appearances in T20 cricket. Windies all-rounder Kieron Pollard holds the record of featuring in most T20 matches (446).

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• New Zealand defeated India by four runs in the third T20I at Hamilton to win the three-match T20I series 2-1.


• With this, India suffered their first series defeat in T20I cricket after 30 months. Before the New Zealand series, India were unbeaten in 10 consecutive T20I series (of two or more matches) dating back to January 2017.

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• New Zealand Women defeated India Women in the third T20I at Hamilton to register a 3-0 series whitewash. Chasing 162, India needed 16 runs from the final over for a win but fell short of two runs.


• India Women opener Smriti Mandhana slammed 86 runs, the highest individual score in an unsuccessful run-chase in women's T20I cricket.

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• Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani and also richest person in Asia, topped the Hurun India Philanthropy list with donation amount of 437 crores.


• Mukesh Ambani is followed by the chairman of the Piramal Group, Ajay Piramal who donated 200 crores.

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• Acclaimed Indo-Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta will be given the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television. Mehta, best known for her Elements Trilogy – “Fire”, “Earth” and “Water”.


• The Canadian Screen Awards are awards given annually by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television recognising excellence in Canadian film, English-language television, and digital media productions.

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• Shri Sanjay Kumar Verma (IFS: 1998), presently Ambassador of India to Japan, has been concurrently accredited as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Marshall Islands, with residence in Tokyo.


• He is expected to take up the assignment shortly.

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• Madhya Pradesh cadre IAS officer Radheyshyam Julaniya will replace Rahul Bhatnagar as the Union Sports Secretary. Julaniya is a 1985 batch officer and was working with his home cadre till now.


• Bhatnagar, an officer of the 1983 batch from Uttar Pradesh, has been released by the Sports Ministry and is set to join the Ministry of Panchayati Raj.

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• The second indigenously developed ‘Solid Fuel Ducted Ramjet’ (SFDR), propulsion-based missile system was successfully flight tested from ITR, Chandipur, Odisha, by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).


• Unlike conventional rockets that carry propellant and oxidizer, Ramjet uses the air as an oxidizer just like a jet engine, and hence, the weight of the fuel required is eliminated.


• SFDR propulsion is designed in such a way that it allows for an up and down throttling which further lets the missile to amplify its speed until it reached the terminal phase of flight. The speed increases until the point when sharp turns are required to search for highly manoeuvring targets.


• Defence Minister Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman congratulated DRDO and associated team members for the stupendous mission.

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• Hindi film actor Mahesh Anand passed away at age of 57 in Mumbai.


• Mahesh Anand, was best known for negative roles in the movies of 80s and 90s.


• The villainous actor was last found in the Govinda’s film ‘Rangeela Raja’.

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