| 1. Malta has legalised same-sex marriage. The island nation's parliament agreed to amend country's marriage act, replacing words like husband and wife with the gender-neutral alternative spouse. It also replaced mother and father with "parent who gave birth" and "parent who did not give birth". |
| 2. Meghalaya CM Mukul Sangma launches LIFE program at Songsak . Livelihood Intervention and Facilitation of Entrepreneurship’ (LIFE) is a program of the State Rural Livelihood Society, which is implementing the Centre's flagship program National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM). NRLM promotes livelihood through women Self Help Groups (SHGs) and their Federations. Under the program, every 10 SHGs (Self-Help Groups) will be motivated to act like a bank and help each other. |
| 3. Rajasthan becomes first State to fix minimum education qualification for cooperative body poll. the Rajasthan Government amended the State Cooperative State Cooperative Societies Rules, 2003. The new rules will benefit around 10,000 cooperative and agricultural credit societies. For contesting the election as members of governing boards of dairy societies, farming societies, consumer societies, weavers' societies, urban banks, housing construction societies, and cooperative unions, the minimum educational qualifications will range from class 5 to class 8. |
| 4. YES BANK has Launched ‘YES GST’ Program to Assist MSMEs. YES Bank, India’s fourth largest private sector bank, along with YES Global Institute has launched ‘YES GST’ program for MSMEs(Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises) under its MSME CSR initiative, ‘Say YES to Sustainable MSMEs in India’. The bank will help MSMEs to understand the impact of the proposed changes and prepare them for migration to the new GST tax system |
| 5. India's first high-speed rail training center will be at Gandhinagar. The center will provide for advanced training modules on cutting edge technologies. While India’s first bullet train is proposed to hit the track in 2023, the training center is supposed to start operating by 2020. |
| 6. A Model United Nations (MUN) Regional Conference has held in Kathmandu. The basic aim of the MUN is to provide a platform to young minds to get full energy and resources to a more prosperous and peaceful world. The event is organised by the United States Embassy in partnership with the Youth Thinker’s Society. The conference simulates four UN committees–United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Economic and Financial Committee (ECOFIN), United Nations Security Council (UNSC) and United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). |
| 7. Delhi Police will be the first state police in India who will get ‘super cop belt' super cop belt is a specially designed belt, widely used by Police in UK, USA, Russia and para-military forces like CRPF, CISF, NSG etc.This belt will help cops to keep things like Gun, Mobile Pouch, Security Batten, Wireless Set Pouch & ammunition pouch. |
| 8. National Green Tribunal declares 100m from edge of Ganga as No-development Zone The National Green Tribunal (NGT) passed a slew of directions, measures, fines, and strict deadlines to rejuvenate River Ganga. It declared ‘No-Development Zone’ along with an area of 100 metres from the edge of the river in the stretch between Haridwar in Uttarakhand and Unnao in Uttar Pradesh. |
| 9.NPCI launches educational videos for BHIM users. National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has developed awareness videos for customers who download their BHIM application for UPI based fund transfer. An SMS based video link will be sent to the customer who downloads the app for seamless customer onboarding. These videos have been created to assist new customers with initial steps of using the app, like verifying their registered SIM card, generating BHIM App’s passcode, selecting their bank, generating UPI PIN for making transactions. |
| 10. India will host 8th edition of Theatre Olympics in 2018. the biggest theatre celebration of the world. The greatest carnival will start from February 17-April 08, 2018. India is hosting this event for the first time. |
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