Important One Liners Current Affairs – 20 February 2019

By | February 20, 2019

Current Affairs OneLiners, Feb 20 2019

1) Dr. Harsh Vardhan inaugurated the One Health India Conference 2019 in New Delhi

2) Union Home Minister launched various women safety initiatives

3) Smriti Irani laid the foundation stone of a Hastshilp Complex in New Delhi

4) RAIC signed trilateral agreement with Friendship Society of India and the India-Russia Foundation

5) GoM headed Nitin Patel submitted recommendations on GST on Housing to Council

6) Report on “Magnitude of Substance Use in India” sponsored by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment submitted by NDDTC of AIIMS, New Delhi

7) Unemployment among educated citizens rose sharply in 2017-18: NSSO

8) ‘Eco Circuit: Pathanamthitta – Gavi – Vagamon – Thekkady’ project launched by K. J. Alphons in Kerala

9) Himachal Pradesh Assembly passed a Bill to make Sanskrit as the second official language of the state

10) Finance Minister of Uttarakhand Prakash Pant presented Rs 48,663.90 crore State budget for financial year 2019-20

11) Punjab FM Manpreet Singh Badal presented theRs 1,58,493 crore state budget for FY 2019-20

12) HDFC ERGO launches the first-of-its-kind ‘Trip Protector’ policy

13) Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) launched a new micro insurance plan ‘Micro Bachat’

14) RBI approved transfer of Rs 28,000 crore as interim dividend to the Government of India

15) A deal of USD 1.5 billion signed by IOC to buy US crude oil

16) Government relaxes Angel Tax norms for start-ups from 7 years to 10 years

17) Sunil Chhetri awarded the India’s first-ever “Football Ratna”

18) Overview of the Laureus Sports Awards 2019

19) GC Anupama becomes first woman president of Astronomical Society of India

20) The Government reappointed A.K.Sharma as IOC Finance Director for 3 months

21) Lt Gen Depinder Singh Ahuja became the Chief of Staff of Southern Command

22) Drainage-cleaning robot, Bandicoot, introduced in Chennai

23) Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated India’s first hi-tech forensic lab NCFL and CyPAD in Dwarka, New Delhi

24) Squash queen Nicol David to retire at end of 2018-19 PSA season

25) ‘Badge of Honor’ military novelist,W.E.B. Griffin, dead at age 89

26) Scientist Wallace Smith Broecker who popularized the term “global warming” passed away at the age of 87 in New York

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