Important Current Affairs February 01 One liner
Important Current Affairs February 01 One liner
- Gujarat government has announced an increase in Dearness allowance of more than 9.61 lakh employees and pensioners by 2 per cent.
- US imposed visa restrictions on Ghana.
- Celebrations for 40th anniversary of Iranian revolution.
- The United Nations Security Council has adopted a resolution to extend sanctions against the Central African Republic (CAR) for another year.
- Sri Lanka brings resolution in parliament for formation of national government.
- Germany, France and the UK have set up a payment channel with Iran called INSTEX, to help continue trade and circumvent US sanctions.
- The GST collections in January this year has crossed one lakh crore rupees mark.
- Fianance Minister Piyush Goyal presented Interim Budget 2019-20 in Parliament.
- 6,000 rupees yearly direct support to farmers through PM-KISAN Programme.
- 3,000 rupees pension for unorganised sector workers earning upto 15,000 rupees through a mega Pension Scheme – Pradhan Mantri Shram- Yogi Maandhan.
- Present Income Tax rates to continue; Full tax rebate upto income of 5 lakh rupees for individual tax payers; Standard deduction raised to 50,000, a hike of 10,000 for salaried class.
- A prgoramme for genetic upgradation of cow – Rashtriya Kamdhenu Aayog.
- A separate Department of Fisheries.
- Allocations to Defence budget crosses three lakh crore rupees for the first time.
- Government e-Market place – GeM to be extended to all Central Public Sector Enterprises.
- An All India Institute of Medical Sciences – AIIMS for Haryana.
- One lakh more villages to get digital connectivity; A National Centre on Artificial Intelligence Centre;
- Indigenous development of semi-high speed Vande Bharat Express train.
- The fiscal deficit pegged at 3.4 percent of GDP is the highlight of the Interim Budget for 2019-20.
- Gupteshwar Pandey – Bihar’s New Director General of Police (DGP)
- To provide an assured income support to small and marginal farmers Govt. is launching Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN).
- Defence Acquisitions Council, DAC chaired by Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman approved indigenous construction of six submarines.
- India captain Mithali Raj became the first female cricketer to play 200 ODIs.
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