1.Another earthquake struck the border region of Turkey and Syria on Monday, just two weeks after the area was devastated by a larger quake that killed more than 47,000 people and damaged or destroyed hundreds of thousands of homes.Monday’s quake, this time with a magnitude of 6.4, was centred near the southern Turkish city of Antakya and was felt in Syria, Egypt and Lebanon.It struck at a depth of 10 km, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said.-theindianexpress.com
2.President Joe Biden's surprise visit Monday morning to wartime Kyiv began in the dead of night at a military airport hangar outside Washington.At 4:00 am (0900 GMT) Sunday -- unbeknown to the world's media, the Washington political establishment or American voters -- the 80-year-old Democrat boarded an Air Force Boeing 757, known as a C-32.The plane, a smaller version of the one US presidents normally use on international trips, was parked well away from where Biden would usually board. And a telling detail: the shade on every window had been pulled down.- https://www.ndtv.com/
3.Starting tomorrow, residents of Singapore can transfer money to India using the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) of India.Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Singaporean counterpart Lee Hsien Loong will witness the launch and linkage of cross-border connectivity between UPI and PayNow of Singapore on Tuesday.- https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/
4.Amid India’s neighbours facing the most difficult financial challenges, India has decided to invite “friendly” neighbours for one of the critical G20 meetings to be held in March in Hyderabad - ‘Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion’.Sources have told India Today, “There is a side event that we are planning. We want to bring in other countries that can have the benefit of a G20 event. Most of our friends in the neighbourhood would be part of that meeting.” https://www.indiatoday.in/
5.The former Director General (DG) of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), Major General (retd) Athar Abbas, said that a dialogue with India on levels other than that of the military establishment’s is “a need of Pakistan”.-IE
6.The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a plea seeking to equalise the legal age of marriage for men and women.A bench led by Justice DY Chandrachud refused to entertain the petition filed by advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay.The bench said it could not enact law and one should not perceive that the Supreme Court is the exclusive custodian of the Constitution but parliament is also a custodian.-ndtv.com
7.Uttar Pradesh Higher Education minister Yogendra Upadhyay inaugurated the Taj Mahotsav in Agra on Monday and said the event is an amalgamation of art, culture, and cuisines.He said the 10-day event has not only become an attraction for locals but also tourists coming from other nations.Around 300 artisans from various states and UTs such as Jammu and Kashmir, West Bengal, Bihar, and Himachal Pradesh are participating in the event whose theme this year is 'Vishwa Bandhutva'.-ndtvcom
8.Nine states in India, including Punjab, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra, are among the world's top 50 regions at risk of damage to the built environment due to climate change hazards, according to a new report published on Monday.Cross Dependency Initiative (XDI), part of a group of companies committed to quantifying and communicating the costs of climate change, calculated the physical climate risk to the built environment in over 2,600 states and provinces around the world in 2050.- https://www.tribuneindia.com/
9.Mattur is a village in Karnataka where residents speak only Sanskrit. Maachli in Maharashtra is an agrarian homestay surrounded by coconut, betel, and banana plantations. The Bishnoi village in Rajasthan has frequent visits from the endangered Great Indian Bustard. These are destinations where tourists can immerse themselves in the rural tourism experience that the government is now developing.- https://www.thehindu.com/
10.According to TOI, after mahua got ‘heritage liquor’ tag, the Madhya Pradesh government has cleared the decks for it to be served in bars and hotels owned by MP tourism corporation. The move is aimed at empowering the local tribal as mahua will be brewed locally.The state government also plans to take it to other states and even to the foreign lands. Some time back, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan had announced ‘heritage liquor’ tag for mahua.The mahua will be produced in tribal dominated districts of Alirajpur and Dindori by two self-help groups.- https://hospitalitybizindia.com/
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