Current Affairs- Today’s Headlines: February 2, 2023.

Here are Today’s News Headlines by GK Today for February 2, 2023.

INDIA

  • First G20 Employment Working Group meeting under India’s Presidency to commence at Jodhpur in Rajasthan
  • India, US set to constitute task force to boost cooperation in semiconductor industry
  • First G20 Sustainable Financial Working Group meeting to begin in Guwahati
  • India’s first hydrogen train will come by December 2023 on heritage routes
  • Finance Minister announced an initiative called MISHTI ‘Mangrove Initiative for Shoreline Habitats and Tangible Incomes’.
  • Central assistance of ₹5,300 crores will be given to Upper Bhadra Project of Karnataka, to provide micro irrigation and filling up of surface tanks for drinking water.

ECONOMY

  • Budget 2023: 66 percent increase announced in Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana outlay to over Rs 79,000 crore.
  • Budget 2023: Highest-ever capital outlay of Rs 2.4 lakh crore allotted for Railways.
  • Reliance Consumer Products announces strategic partnership with Sri Lanka’s Maliban Biscuit Manufactories.
  • Digital payments record 24% annual growth at end of Sept 2022: RBI data

WORLD

  • The biggest book fair of Bangladesh ‘Ekushey Boi Mela’ was inaugurated in Dhaka by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
  • Equatorial Guinea has appointed Manuela Roka Botey as first female Prime Minister.
  • Western Australia found tiny radioactive capsule that went missing in January.
  • The first seven days of February is observed as World Interfaith Harmony Week.

SPORTS

  • Shubman Gill scores 126 runs in 63balls; India records its largest T20I win as it defeats New Zealand by 168 runs in third and final T20I to clinch series 2-1.
  • Khelo India receives more than 50 per cent of the increased allocation of ₹723.97 crore in the latest Union budget.

 


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