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• US President Donald Trump has presented his long-awaited Middle East peace plan, promising to keep Jerusalem as Israel's undivided capital.


• He proposed an independent Palestinian state and the recognition of Israeli sovereignty over West Bank settlements.


• Standing alongside Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, Mr. Trump said his proposals "could be the last opportunity" for Palestinians.

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• A powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake has struck in the Caribbean, prompting brief tsunami warnings and office evacuations as far away as Florida.


• The quake hit between Jamaica, the Cayman Islands, and Cuba at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the US Geological Survey (USGS) said.


• Buildings shook and tremors were felt across the Caribbean, but there were no immediate reports of casualties.

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• US President Donald Trump declared that Israel was taking a “big step towards peace” as he unveiled a plan aimed at solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.


• Israel takes a big step towards peace,” Trump said, standing alongside visiting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he revealed details of the plan already emphatically rejected by the Palestinians.</li

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• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that a U.S. peace plan envisages the proposed Palestinian capital be located in Abu Dis, a neighbourhood on the outskirts of Jerusalem.


• After U.S. President Donald Trump presented his peace plan, Netanyahu told reporters the United States recognizes Jerusalem as Israel’s undivided capital, “by which I mean, within its fences,” an apparent reference to municipal boundaries.

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• India and France discussed ways and means to co-produce films and collaborate on audio visual exchanges.


• The two countries also agreed to set up a joint working group towards the implementation of these objectives after wide-ranging discussions between Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar and French Culture Minister Franck Riester in New Delhi.

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• The ministry of home affairs is likely to announce the formation of a trust, set up to decide on the construction of the Ram temple in Ayodhya, within a week, an official familiar with the development said.


• The Supreme Court had paved the way for the construction of a Ram temple at the disputed site in Ayodhya by trust and directed the Centre to allot an alternative five-acre plot to the Sunni Waqf Board for building a new mosque at a “prominent” place in the holy town in Uttar Pradesh.

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• Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be the chief guest at an event to kick-start the year-long centenary celebrations for “Bangabandhu” Sheikh Mujibur Rehman in Dhaka on March 17 in a move that signals the robust bilateral relations between India and its eastern neighbour.


• Officials familiar with the developments told HT that Modi is expected to reach Dhaka the day before the function, and will be the main speaker for 100th birth anniversary of Mujibur Rehman, the founder of Bangladesh. Mujibur Rehman was also the father of incumbent Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

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• Most major railway stations in India will use facial recognition to fight crime by the end of 2020, a senior official said, in a move that digital rights campaigners warned could breach people's privacy in the absence of stringent laws.


• The system is being trialled in the tech hub of Bengaluru where about half a million faces are scanned every day and - using artificial intelligence (AI) - matched against faces stored in a police database of criminals.

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• The Staff Selection Commission (SSC) released the application status for Combined Graduate Level (CGL) Examination 2019 for North Western Region Chandigarh.


• Candidates who have applied from this region can check whether their application has been provisionally accepted or rejected by the commission by visiting the regional website of SSC.


• Here is the direct link to go to the page to regional SSC website to check the application status for North Western Region Chandigarh.

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• Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Limited (UPPCL) has declared the results of the recruitment examination for Junior Engineer (Trainee) – Electrical January 28, 2020. Candidates who have appeared in the recruitment examination can check their results online at upenergy.in.


• Candidates who have qualified Junior Engineer (Trainee) – Electrical examination will be eligible to appear for the Document Verification. The document verification is scheduled to be conducted on February 18 and 19, 2020.

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• The rupee appreciated by 10 paise to 71.21 against the US dollar in early trade on Wednesday tracking gains in the domestic equity markets.


• Forex traders said the rupee is trading in a narrow range amid the fast-spreading coronavirus outbreak in China stoking fears about more trouble for the global economy.


• At the interbank foreign exchange, the rupee opened at 71.23 and then gained to touch a high of 71.21 against the US dollar, registering a rise of 10 paise over its previous close.

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• After recovering from an elbow injury, ace India javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra has qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics with a throw of 87.86m at the Athletics Central North East meeting in South Africa.


• This was the Olympic medal hopeful's first competitive event after recovering from the injury.

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• Simona Halep sent out a warning at the Australian Open, powering into the semi-finals in 53 minutes with a 6-1, 6-1 destruction of Estonia's Anett Kontaveit.


• The red-hot fourth seed meets either former world number one Garbine Muguruza or Russian 30th seed Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the last four in Melbourne.

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• Defence Minister Rajnath Singh distributed the awards for best tableaux which was conducted on January 26, 2020 in Republic Day event.


• There were a total of 22 tableaux including 16 from various states and union territories and remaining 6 from various ministries and departments.

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• Bajaj Housing Finance Limited (BHFL), a 100% subsidiary of Bajaj Finance Limited, had won the ‘BFSI Digital Innovation Award 2020’ for Cloud Solutions.


• The Express BFSI(Banking, Financial Services &Insurance) Technology Conclave and Awards 2020 held in Pune, Maharashtra which is one of the largest meetings of IT-decision makers, senior executives and partners in India.


• The function was organized by the Express Computer, an IT (Information Technology) business magazine from the Indian Express Group.

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• Indian-Americans, the US business and think tank communities have welcomed the appointment of career service diplomat Taranjit Singh Sandhu as India's new ambassador to the United States.


• A 1988-batch Indian Foreign Service Official, Mr Sandhu has had two successful stints at the Indian Embassy in Washington DC, the last one being the Deputy Ambassador from July 2013 to January 2017.

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• Senior Sports Administrator Anil Khanna was unanimously appointed as Life President of Asian Tennis Federation (ATF) during the meeting of its Board of Directors in Melbourne, Australia. He is also named as the Chairman of the ATF Finance Committee.


• Khanna has also been appointed the Chairman of the finance committee as well as the co-chairman of the ATF foundation.