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• North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrived in Vietnam on [latex]26^{th}[/latex] February for a summit with U.S. President Donald Trump where they will try to reach an agreement on a North`s Korean pledge to give up its nuclear weapons programme.


• Trump will meet Kim for a brief one-on-one conversation on [latex]27^{th}[/latex] February evening, followed by a social dinner, at which they will each be accompanied by two guests and interpreters.

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• A slowing economy is unlikely to crimp China`s 2019 defence budget rise, as Beijing earmarks more spending for modernisation and big-ticket items like stealth jets, and focuses on Taiwan after a stern new year`s speech from President Xi Jinping.


• The defence spending figure is closely watched world wide for clues to China`s strategic intentions as it develops new military capabilities, including aircraft carriers and anti-satellite missiles.

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• With India and the international community piling on the pressure, an unrepentant Pakistan is busy shifting terrorists to safe zones. Souces in the Indian intelligence agencies have said that Jaish chief Masood Azhar has also been moved.


• According to sources, Azhar was moved from Rawalpindi to Kothgani near Bhawalpur on either February 17 or February 18 - days after his Jaish-e-Mohammed claimed responsibility for the Pulwama attack on a CRPF convoy. 40 troopers were martyred in the dastardly attack, prompting India to come down heavily on Pakistan.

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• A court in Pakistan rejected the bail application of deposed prime minister Nawaz Sharif, refusing to grant him relief on medical grounds in a corruption case.


• The reasons will be given in a detailed judgment to be issued later. Sharif, 69, has been serving a seven-year jail term in Lahore's Kot Lakhpat jail in the Al-Azizia Steel Mills corruption case.


• The Islamabad High Court's two-member bench comprising Justice Aamer Farooq and Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani announced that the bail application was "dismissed".

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• Prime Minister Narendra Modi had cleared the decision to strike back at terror camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir within 24 hours of the Pulwama attack which claimed the lives of over 40 CRPF personnel.


• A group of Indian fighter jets dropped 1000 kilogram bombs on terror camps across the Line of Control (LoC)


• A plan to target the camps of Jaish-e-Mohammad across the Line of Control (LoC) was hatched within 24 hours of the Pulwama terror attack.

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• External Affairs Minister (EAM) Sushma Swaraj will be leaving for China for the 16th Russia, India, China or RIC foreign minister meet on [latex]26^{th}[/latex] February. The meet will take place on [latex]26^{th}[/latex] February in Wuzhen, Zhejiang.


• The meet will be chaired by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and will be attended by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and EAM Sushma Swaraj.


• The Ministers are expected to exchange views on the global situation, regional developments of common concern, address global challenges such as terrorism and discuss trilateral exchanges and activities.

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• The Supreme Court will hear the Babri Masjid-Ram Janmabhoomi title dispute case on [latex]26^{th}[/latex] February.


• A five-judge constitution bench comprising of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justices S A Bobde, D Y Chandrachud, Ashok Bhushan and S Abdul Nazeer will take up the case.


• The SC bench will hear the appeals against the 2010 Allahabad High Court judgment in which the 2.77-acre land in Ayodhya was divided equally among three parties – the Sunni Waqf Board, the Nirmohi Akhara and Ram Lalla by the court. The Allahabad HC had delivered the verdict after hearing four civil suits.

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• A Retired Indian Police Service (IPS) officer from the West Bengal cadre, who committed suicide on February [latex]19^{th}[/latex], held Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee "directly responsible" for abetting his suicide. The TMC, however, rejected the charge claiming that it has "no basis."


• The 1986 batch IPS officer, identified as Gaurav Dutt, was found dead with a slit wrist at his home. Dutt had taken voluntary retirement last year. In his suicide note, the IPS officer said that West Bengal Chief Minister was "directly responsible" for forcing him to commit suicide by "victimising" him for a decade.

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• In a big push to the Centre’s ambitious plan to switch to electric vehicles by 2030, the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) has initiated a process to establish electric vehicle charging stations for the public.


• The civic agency has already installed 25 charging stations at multiple locations across Lutyens’ Delhi, including CP, Gole Market, Jor Bagh, Sarojini Nagar Market and Yashwant Place.


• These will be open to the public by the first week of March. “This is the first time in the country that a civic agency has established e-vehicle charging stations for the public.

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• The online retail giant has said PepsiCo's India-born former chief executive Indra Nooyi has joined Amazon's board of directors.


• Nooyi, who stepped down as CEO of Pepsico in October last year, is the second women of colour to be added on the Amazon's board of directors.


• Early this month, Starbucks executive Rosalind Brewer joined the Amazon board.

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• In a major relief to consumers as well as mobile wallet companies, the RBI has extended the deadline for full know-your-customer (KYC) compliance by six months. The deadline was supposed to end on [latex]28^{th}[/latex] February .


• The extension comes after intense lobbying by mobile wallet players and domestic internet groups with the central bank over the past few months.


• As much as 70-80% of the user base of most e-wallet companies was yet to comply with full KYC norms.

• Tech companies Wipro, Tech Mahindra and Cognizant are doling out retention bonuses to hold on to their limited pool of talent with expertise in robotics, machine learning, cognitive tools, artificial intelligence, block chain, augmented reality and other automation technologies.


• Emerging tech talent is currently at a premium due to short supply. We have given retention bonuses this year to this talent pool and would continue to do so till the pool is abundant,” Saurabh Govil, chief human resources officer at Wipro, told ET.

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• Afghanistan cricket team’s leg spinner, Rashid Khan, became the first bowler to take out 4 wickets in 4 balls in Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) in the third and final T20I against Ireland in Dehradun.


• He also became the seventh bowler to pick up a hat-trick in T20Is.


• Afghanistan won T20I series by a margin of 3-0 against Ireland.

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• India fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah has defended wicket keeper-batsman MS Dhoni for refusing singles while batting with the tail against Australia in the first T20I at Visakhapatnam.


• "He was trying to take the game deep and get us to a safe total. I think we fell short by 15-20 runs but he still gave us a fighting total".

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• President of India Ram Nath Kovind today ([latex]26^{th}[/latex] February) will be presenting the Gandhi Peace Prize for the years 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 at Rashtrapati Bhawan.


• Prime Minister Narendra Modi will also be present at the ceremony to felicitate the awardees.


• The ceremony is scheduled to take place at 10 am today at Rashtrapati Bhawan's Darbar Hall.

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• The 91st Academy Awards (commonly known as Oscars), presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2018, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.


• It was the first ceremony in three decades, since the 61st Academy Awards in 1989, to be conducted with no host.


• Bohemian Rhapsody won the most awards in total with 4, while Roma, Green Book, and Black Panther won 3 awards each.


• India-set short film, “Period. End of Sentence.”, a short documentary film based on mensuration won the Oscar for “Best Documentary Short” category. It is directed by Iranian-American film director, Rayka Zehtabchi.


• ”Black Panther” became the first superhero film to win “Best Original Score”.


• ”Roma” created history by becoming the first Mexican feature to win “Best Foreign Film” Oscar.


• Hannah Beachler and Jay Hart became the first African-Americans to win Oscar in Product Design category for Black Panther.

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• Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev appointed Askar Mamin as prime minister, after ordering the cabinet to resign last week.


• Mamin, 53, has previously served as first deputy prime minister of the oil-exporting Central Asian nation and also worked as the mayor of capital Astana and chief executive of the state railways.

• A Team of Scientists from Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics had discovered a exo planet named ‘hot Earth’ that orbit’s its dwarf star in eleven hours by using the data of NASA’s planet-hunting satellite Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS).


• Exoplanet ‘hot Earth’ is rocky in composition and only about fifty light-years away from its star.The planet has a radius of about 1.3 Earth-radii.

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