Top GKToday’s News Headlines-10 February 2020

February 10, 2020

Here are Top GKToday’s News Headlines for February 10, 2020

Reservation in promotions for government jobs is not a fundamental right: Supreme Court
Information and Broadcasting Ministry organising ‘Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat’ campaign across the country from February 10 to 28 to promotes the spirit of national integration
Voter turnout in Delhi Assembly polls held on February 8 was 62.59%: EC
Foreigners who visited China after January 15 will not be allowed to enter India: DGCA
12-year old Kaamya Karthikeyan becomes world’s youngest girl to summit 6926 metre Mt Aconcagua, the highest peak in South America
DRDO developing 200-km strike range tactical ballistic missile ‘Pranash’
Indian Army, private firm develop world’s cheapest gunshot locator named ‘Parth’
Maharashtra govt. to set up “Bharosa centre” in Raigad district to “monitor the impact of social media on youth”
Veteran Hindi writer and Padma Shri awardee Giriraj Kishore dies in Kanpur at 82; known for the novel ‘Pahla Girmitiya’
Veteran RSS ‘pracharak’ P. Parameswaran dies in Kochi at 93
SC appoints retired Kerala High Court judge C.N. Ramachandran Nair to prepare a detailed inventory of the ornaments of the Sabarimala temple deity, Lord Ayyappa
OFB (Ordnance Factory Board) hands over upgraded 155mm Sharang artillery gun to the Indian Army; range expanded to 36 km

Foreign borrowings of Indian companies decline 45% to $2.09 billion in December 2019: RBI
Govt. removes surgical masks and gloves from the list of banned export items; ban was imposed in January amidst outbreak of deadly novel coronavirus in China

Annual African Union summit organised in Addis Ababa; theme: “Silencing the Guns”
Iran unveils Raad-500 short-range ballistic missile powered by “new generation” Zoheir engines

Bangladesh beat India by three wickets to win ICC U-19 World Cup title in Potchefstroom, South Africa
Tata Open Maharashtra tennis tournament in Pune: Jiri Vesely of Czech Republic wins men’s singles title, Christopher Rungkat (Indonesia) & Andre Goransson (Sweden) win men’s doubles title
Armand Duplantis of Sweden sets new world record of 6.17 metres in men’s pole vault
Ladakh Scouts win Khelo India Ice Hockey Championship by defeating ITBP in final at Leh
16-year old Naseem Shah of Pakistan becomes youngest to take a hat-trick in Test cricket; against Bangladesh in Rawalpindi
A new cricket stadium of international standards inaugurated at Salem in Tamil Nadu
Australia presented the ICC Women’s Championship trophy