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India to buy guns worth Rs 3,547 crore for border troops on the fast-track basis.

• The defence ministry said India will buy more than 160,000 guns worth Rs 3,547 crore for troops on its high-altitude borders on a fast track basis.
• The defence acquisition council cleared the purchase of 72,400 assault rifles and 93,895 carbines in a meeting chaired by defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman.
• The procurement is expected to address the shortage of small arms for the armed forces.

PM Modi and Israel PM Netanyahu to visit Vadrad in Prantij.

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu during their Gujarat visit will meet at the Centre of Excellence for Vegetables at Vadrad.
• During their visit, PM Modi and Netanyahu will visit an iconic monument, go to the plug nursery and poly house, and interact with the progressive farmers.
• The only centre of its kind in the state is jointly built by National Horticulture Mission Horticulture Department at a cost of Rs.12-crore as a joint enterprise between India and Israel.

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India attends its first Shanghai Cooperation organisation military cooperation meeting.

• India for the first time took part in a meeting of the international military cooperation departments of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) since joining the bloc last year.
• This is the first meeting attended by India in the field of defence cooperation under the SCO framework.
• India and Pakistan were admitted last year into the grouping in which China plays an influential role.
• The SCO is comprised of China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, India and Pakistan.

Odisha government appoints new collectors in eight districts.

• Eight districts get new collectors as part of a bureaucrat reshuffle by the state government of Odisha.
• New district collectors takes the appointment in Dhenkanal, Balangir, Koraput, Keonjhar, Gajapati, Malkangiri, Balasore and Nabarangapur.
• With the appointment of new collectors, the ruling party has started preparation for the forthcoming general and assembly elections scheduled in April 2019.

International Affairs

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Uber limits driver hours in Britain to 10.

• US ride-hailing app Uber said it would cap the number of hours its drivers can work in Britain from next week in a bid to increase safety after heavy criticism of its business practices.
• The new policy means that drivers must take an uninterrupted six-hour break after 10 hours, and will not be able to log on to the app during that time.
• The company had already been messaging drivers who were working too long to switch off its app.

The US withholds $65 million from Palestinian aid programs.

• The US donated $355 million to UNWRA in 2016 and was set to make a similar contribution in this year, with the first instalment to have been sent this month.
• In a letter, the State Department notified the UN Relief and Works Agency that the US is withholding $65 million of a planned $125 million funding instalment.
• The US is UNWRA’s largest donor, supplying nearly 30 percent of its budget.

Muhajirs in US launch ‘Free Karachi’ campaign.

• A group of Muhajirs in the US have launched a ‘Free Karachi’ campaign to highlight the alleged state-sponsored atrocities against their community in
  the port city of Pakistan.
• There were slogans like we want Karachi free from the control of Islamabad. We want Karachi to be free from atrocities of the security forces.
• The protesters said they would approach Congressmen, policymakers and even President Donald Trump to raise their issue.
• The term ‘Muhajir’ is used to describe the Urdu-speaking immigrants who left India in 1947 and came to Pakistan.

Business News

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TCS wins $6 billion in contracts in a month.

• For several years under its previous CEO N Chandrasekaran, TCS achieved growth rates of 15%-16% even when it had hit $10 billion in revenues.
• In less than a month, TCS has announced deal wins of nearly $6 billion, including a $690-million contract with Europe’s M&G Prudential.
• TCS appears to have pulled way ahead of rivals Cognizant, Infosys, Wipro, and HCL in the deal win.

RCom to lay $600 million submarine cable to carry data across Europe, Asia.

• Embattled Reliance Communications is laying a 68,000-km undersea cable to carry data across Europe and Asia, to be built at a cost of USD 600 million.
• It is expected to be operational by the third quarter of 2020 and will have a revenue potential of USD 1 billion per year.
• RCom’s chief executive Bill Barney said the new cable will increase its total capacity by ten times as against the current capacity.

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Patanjali to launch textile portfolio comprising clothing line, footwear around Nov.

• Baba Ramdev-promoted Patanjali Group is planning to roll out its textile portfolio in the Indian market by November 2018 around Diwali.
• Ramdev said we have started working on the textile front Patanjali Paridhan on a larger scale. We will launch the products either this year around Diwali.
• Ramdev said the textile portfolio will have around 3,000 products ranging from kidswear to yoga wear and sportswear.

Nestle sells US candy business to Ferrero for $2.8 billion amid health push.

• Swiss food group Nestle has agreed to sell its US confectionery business to Italy’s Ferrero for $2.8 billion.
• Nestle, the world’s biggest packaged-food company, has cited its weak position in the United States, where it trails Hershey, Mars Inc and Lindt, as the rationale for a sale.
• Though Nestle is hanging on to non-US confectionery operations, bankers and analysts have said it might wind down its interest further.

 Science and Technology News

Isro releases the first image captured by Cartosat-2 series.

• The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) released the first image captured by Cartosat-2 series satellite, four days after it was placed in orbit by PSLV-C40.
• The satellite is seventh in the remote sensing Cartosat series.
• Isro released an image of a part of Indore with Holkar Cricket Stadium in the centre.
• Cartosat-2 series is the primary satellite carried by PSLV-C40, which lifted off from Sriharikota on January 12.
• The rocket carried 30 other satellites including 28 from six foreign countries.

Sports Updates

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Roger Federer receives twin nominations for 2018 Laureus Awards.

• Roger Federer receives the double nomination for the 2018 Laureus World Sports Awards which will take place on February 27.
• Regarded as the Oscar of sports, the nominations for 2018 Laureus World Sports Awards were finalised following a ballot by the world’s sports media.
• Federer, who is currently a four-time Award winner could become the most decorated Laureus Award winner at the 2018 ceremony in Monaco on February 27.

India to host Afghanistan for the historic one-off Test match in Bengaluru from June 14.

• The BCCI confirmed that India will host Afghanistan for a one-off Test match in Bengaluru starting on June 14, 2018.
• This is the first time that Afghanistan plays a Test match after they got Full-Member status by the ICC in June 2017.
• Afghanistan and Ireland made full members of the ICC in June 2017, thus making them eligible to play Test cricket.

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