Current Affairs February 2014
- Sikkim won the National Tourism Award 2012-13. The award was handed over by Shashi Tharoor to Bhim Dhungel, Sikkim’s Tourism Minister in New Delhi
- Taj Mahotsav, the ten day annual festival began in Agra, Uttar Pradesh
- AP Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy resigned from the CM Post
- Supreme Court has commuted the death sentence of three convicts in Rajiv Gandhi assassination case to life imprisonment
- Largest telecom operator of India Bharti Airtel signed a strategic agreement with Loop Mobile on 18 February 2014
- A new system Email Miles using Global Positioning System (GPS) technology to calculate the number of miles an email has travelled was developed
- RPG Life Sciences, a pharma company from India, lost the battle against the owner of domain name rpglife.com on 17 February 2014
- The gross non-performing assets (NPAs) of listed banks rose 35.2 per cent to 2.43 trillion rupees during the first three quarters of the 2013-14
- A new category of four-wheelers – Quadricycle – will be allowed to run in cities across the country from 1 October 2014
- Indira Gandhi Zoological Park has been selected for creation of first zoo in the country to have a conservation breeding centre for endangered Dholes
- Edward Snowden, former National Security Agency contractor, was elected as the new Rector of the University of Glasgow on 18 February 2014
- 3000 Americans have renounced their citizenship in 2013 owing to become tired of dealing with intrusive US tax laws and complicated tax filings
- Connaught Place in Delhi is the world’s eighth most expensive office location
- Sid Caesar a great TV comedian died at 91 on 14 February 2014
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