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12 - 18 Feb 2024 - Weekly Current Affairs for AFCAT CDS NDA Exam

Military-Choice’s Most Important Weekly Current Affairs Notes for UPSC, CDS, NDA, CAPF AC, AFCAT & SSC exam aspirants as well as for those aspirants who are preparing for their SSB Interview. This Weekly Current Affairs article covers all the important National, International, Economy, Appointments, Sports and Defence news of this week.

WEEKLY IMPORTANT CURRENT AFFAIRS FOR UPSC CDS NDA & AFCAT 2024


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  1. The Supreme Court has declared that the electoral bonds scheme infringes on the Right To Information as guaranteed under Article 19(1)(a) of the Constitution. The scheme was first announced in the 2017 Union Budget speech.


  1. PM Surya Ghar Muft Bijli Yojana launched. Under this scheme, up to 300 units of free electricity will be provided to one crore houses.


  1. The Education Ministry signed an agreement with the FIFA to promote the game of football at the school level in the country. Under this, the Education Ministry will distribute 11 lakh footballs across the country in a phased manner.


  1. India has introduced its Unified Payment Interface (UPI) services in Sri Lanka and Mauritius. Additionally, RuPay card services were launched in Mauritius as part of this initiative.


  1. Renowned Urdu poet Gulzar and Sanskrit scholar Jagadguru Rambhadracharya have been conferred the 58th Jnanpith Award. Estd. in 1961, it is the oldest and most prestigious literary award given in India.


  1. Former Prime Minister Alexander Stubb has been elected as the new President of Finland. Finland became a member of NATO in 2023.


  1. Eight Indian navy veterans who had been in Qatari custody since August 30, 2022 were released on Sunday in Doha.


  1. Men’s Marathon world record holder Kelvin Kiptum died in a tragic road accident in Kenya on sunday. The 24-year-old was killed alongside his coach, Gervais Hakizimana.


  1. Dattajirao Gaekwad, the former India Test captain and the country's oldest living Test cricketer at the time of his passing, has died at 95.


  1. Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) became the first Indian company to cross Rs 20 lakh market capitalisation.


  1. Odisha has declared the Gupteswar forest in Koraput district as its fourth Biodiversity Heritage Site (BHS). Other 3 BHS in Odisha - Mandasaru BHS, Mahendragiri BHS, and Gandhamardan BHS.


  1. Renowned litterateur Padma Shri Dr. Usha Kiran Khan passed away. Dr Usha Kiran Khan was a celebrated writer in Hindi and Maithili, who won the Sahitya Akademi Award (2011) for her Maithili novel 'Bhamati: Ek Avismarniya Prem Katha'.


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