NATIONAL NEWS
1.Prime Minister Narendra Modi to inaugurate National War Memorial on February 25:-
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the new National War Memorial on India Gate on February 25 in Delhi.
According to the sources of the Ministry of Defense, before the inauguration of the memorial on February 25, Shri Modi will address a meeting of ex-servicemen at the National Stadium. This memorial has been made in honor of approximately 26,000 soldiers who sacrificed their lives in the defense of the motherland after independence.
2.Aircraft will fly at a height like a drone, help to dispense medicines in inaccessible places:-
The students of IIT Aero Space have created an Unmanned Vehicle (UAV) which will work as drones and aircraft. This vehicle is special because it will fly from the ground like a drone, but will be automatically converted to aircraft at a certain height.
This vehicle of IIT Kanpur has been selected for the performance in the country’s largest Air India show organized in Bangalore. Dr. Abhishek and Mangal Kothari, Associate Professors of the Aero Space Science Engineering Department are treating this as a huge achievement, under which the U.V.V. has been prepared by research student Nidhidraj, Ramakrishna and Animesh Shastri. Now the full attention of the students is on preparations for the student pavilion (Air India show) held on 20-24 February at Yelahanka Air Force Station, Bangalore.IIT students have put a battery of 5000mA power in this UAV. From this, it can fly for one and a half hours in the fixed Arena based on computer programming. This UAV weighing two and a half kilograms is capable of lifting up to a kilogram. It can be used to deliver medicines and light materials to places where vehicles are difficult to reach. Aero India Show, contested between 125 Aero design,is contested between 125 Aero design of 50 colleges across the country. It has 17 designs selected. Among them, four designs of IIT Kanpur were included. After this online tutorial was given about all the designs. Finally, six designs and prototypes were selected. It also includes a drone-airplane.
IIT Kanpur flight will have four rotors in this drone-airplane, which will help it fly like an airplane. After reaching a certain height its rotors will start working, which is capable of turning it in any direction. It can fly up to three thousand meters high.
INTERNATIONA NEWS
3.Kashmir will be the ‘central point’ of talks with India – Hussain:-
Pakistan’s Information Minister Chaudhry Fawad Hussain has called on India to come forward to negotiate a peaceful solution to the ‘Kashmir issue’.
Addressing a special seminar on “Ek Ek-A-Sutra” on Tuesday in Kashmir, he said that Kashmir is a ‘human issue’ rather than a ‘regional issue’. He said that India should consider the struggle of the people of Kashmir.
SPORTS NEWS
4.Ind vs NZ: T-20 cricket can retire from these legendary Indian players:-
Senior Indian women’s cricket team captain and one-day captain Mithali Raj can retire from T-20 format after the domestic one-day series against England.
Whether or not they will be part of the last-11 in the T20 series that starts against New Zealand on Wednesday. If he is also part of the last-11 then it is clear that he will not take part in the three-match T-20 series in Baraspara in Assam from March 4 against England.
A senior BCCI official said that Mithali knows that Harmanpreet Kaur wants to prepare the team for the 2020 T20 World Cup and she will not participate in this tournament, but if the level player needs a fantastic departure, then such a He can be against England. It has been heard that Mithali will not play the series against England and the team’s senior players also have information about this. It is also believed that the Cricket Board wants to allow them to retire at their level.
5.New Zealand Women won by 23 runs in first Twenty-20:-
In Women’s Cricket, New Zealand defeated India by 23 runs in the first Twenty-20 at Wellington today to take a one-nil lead in the three-match series. Put in to bat, the Kiwis had posted 159 for 4, riding on opener Sophie Devine’s 62, and end-of-innings cameos from skipper Amy Satterthwaite and Katey Martin.In reply, Smriti Mandhana’s 58 and Jemimah Rodrigues’ 39 went in vain as the Indian eves were bundled out for 136 in 19.1 overs. Lea Tahuhu bagged the maximum of 3 wickets for the hosts.The second T-20 will be played in Auckland on Friday. Meanwhile, the first T-20 of the 3-match series between the Indian Men’s team and New Zealand will be played at the same ground at Wellington in a short while from now. After winning the five-match ODI series 4-1, the confident Men in Blue will be aiming for another series win.
6.RBI may cut repo rate, loan will be cheaper:-
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will decide on interest rates on Thursday 7th February. According to the SBI Research Report, the central bank may decide to cut interest rates by 0.25 percent. The RBI governor is chairing the meeting of the RBI’s two-month monetary policy committee meeting and this meeting has started in Mumbai on Tuesday. The result of this three-day meeting will come out on Thursday. If the RBI decides to cut interest rates, it would be cheaper to take a loan.
“We are now expecting that the RBI will make changes in its position in February, but it can also maintain the status quo. The first cut may take place in April 2019, but we believe that this is a one There will be a limited cut cycle. If RBI declares 25 basis points cut in interest rates on February 7, then we will not be surprised. “For details, let us know that the central bank has not made any change in interest rates from the last three biennial monetary review meeting. However before that, he had increased the 25 basis points twice in the repo rate. Currently, the repo rate is 6.50 per cent. If RBI decides to cut interest rates, it would be cheaper to take loans from banks. Significantly, the repo rate is the rate at which the RBI lends to the banks. That is, when the banks get cheap loans from the RBI, obviously the banks can also offer cheap loans to the customers.
7.India is the second largest LPG consumer:-
India has become the second largest consumer of LPG by promoting clean fuel for use in kitchens. Oil Secretary MM Kutty said on Tuesday that the demand of LPG in the country is expected to increase 34 percent by the year 2025. In the Asia LPG conference, he said that the number of active LPG consumers has increased at a compounded annual growth rate of 15 per cent. This number was 14.8 million in 2014-15, which increased to 224 million in 2017-18.The oil secretary said that due to the rapid increase in the population and the increase in the number of LPG users, consumption of LPG in the country has increased 8.4 percent to 2.25 million tonnes and India has become the second largest consumer of LPG. According to the oil ministry estimates, consumption of LPG in the country can reach up to 3.03 million tonnes by 2025 and up to 2040 by 4 million tonnes. It is worth mentioning that under the Prime Minister Ujjwala scheme, more than 6.31 crore free LPG connections have been distributed to the poor. The plan was started on May 1, 2016.
