New Development Bank (NDB) will become the first multilateral agency to open an office in the Gujarat International Finance Tech City (Gift).

Assam Govt Launches India’s First Night Navigation Mobile App In Rivers. Chief Minister of Assam, Himanta Biswa Sarma has launched India’s first Night Navigation mobile application for ferry services on the Brahmaputra River in Guwahati, Assam

Digital India CEO Abhishek Singh named National e-Governance Division chief, Government News, ET Government.

Bharti Airtel to buy an additional 4.7% stake in Indus Towers from Vodafone. Bharti Airtel has decided to acquire an additional 4.7 percent stake in Indus Towers from Vodafone Group, the company announced on Friday

Union Ministry of Education recently launched a campaign ‘Bhasha Certificate Selfie’ to encourage cultural diversity and promote Multilingualism.
The initiative aims to promote the Bhasha Sangam mobile app, developed by the Ministry of Education and MyGov India. Using the app, people can learn over 100 sentences of daily use in as many as 22 scheduled Indian languages. It encourages people to upload their selfies with the certificate.

Madagascar is witnessing its fourth cyclone in five weeks as Emnati makes a severe landfall. Madagascar is hit by numerous cyclones between November and April every year.
The island nation is still recovering from the impact of another storm earlier this month named Cyclone Batsirai, which killed more than 120 people.

The Centre has approved the continuation of the Immigration Visa Foreigners Registration Tracking (IVFRT) Scheme for a period of five years from 2021 to 2026.
The scheme was approved with an outlay of Rs 1,364.88 crore. The average visa processing time, which was earlier at 15-30 days, has been reduced to 72 hours, in e-visas.

Indian Navy’s multilateral exercise MILAN 2022 kicked off on February 25, 2022, in  Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh.  The theme of the MILAN 2022 exercise is ‘Camaraderie – Cohesion – Collaboration’

Dish TV India, has announced the appointment of Indian cricketer Rishabh Pant as brand ambassador. Pant will feature in the brand’s 360-degree communication for the next two years

Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) of Ministry of Culture, Government of India is organizing a two-day international conference ‘Devayatanam – An odyssey of Indian temple architecture on 25th – 26th February 2022 at Hampi, Karnataka.

In a bid to boost tourism, the Delhi government has decided to build India’s first-ever e-waste eco-park. The announcement was made on Thursday by Delhi’s Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia. He said that soon Delhi will be home to the “country’s first” e-waste eco-park which will take care of rising e-waste.

China’s Yutu-2 rover has recently spotted two strange glass spheres on the far side of the Moon. The lunar ‘spherules’ are the first of their kind to be found on the lunar surface.
As per researchers, they are formed fairly recently. Though Glass has been spotted on the moon before, by both the Yutu-2 rover and NASA’s Apollo 16 mission, this is the first sight of Glass spheres.

The World Economic Forum and the National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on the ‘Sustainable Cities India program’.
It is a jointly designed project, which aims to create an enabling environment for cities to generate decarbonization solutions across energy, transport, and the built environment sectors. They will adapt the WEF’s ‘City Sprint process and Toolbox of Solutions for decarbonization’

Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter has detected solar proton events, via its Large Area Soft X-ray Spectrometer (CLASS).
The proton events are said to increase the radiation exposure to humans in space. Earlier, the instrument also recorded coronal mass ejections (CMEs), a stream of ionized material and magnetic fields, leading to geomagnetic storms.

In yet another shot in the arm, the Ministry of Defence inked a contract of Rs 1,075 crore with Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) for retro-modification of commander sight in 957 T-90 battle tanks.

The Indian Navy has received the 12th anti-submarine warfare aircraft P-8I from the U.S.-based aerospace company Boeing, according to a statement issued on Thursday.

Leading FMCG firm Hindustan Unilever Ltd (HUL) on Thursday announced the separation of the position of Chairman of the Board and the CEO & Managing Director, and has appointed Nitin Paranjpe as a Non-Executive Chairman of the company.

IBM on Wednesday announced a new cybersecurity hub that will train companies in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region to manage the growing threat of cyberattacks. Located in Bengaluru, the new IBM Security Command Centre is highly realistic and offers immersive training simulations.

The IIT Roorkee has organized a regional farmers’ awareness program as part of the ‘Gramin Krishi Mausam Sewa’ project and launched KISAN mobile application.

The Indian Institute of Technology will establish its first branch outside India in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as part of the India-UAE trade deal signed. The Indian Institute of Technology will establish its first branch outside India in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as part of the India-UAE trade deal signed.