1.Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, who also holds the finance portfolio, will travel to India this week to attend the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meetings in Bengaluru. The Department of Finance Canada announced that she will be in India from February 23 to 25. “At these meetings, the Deputy Prime Minister will work with Canada’s international partners to address global challenges, including the economic impacts of Putin’s illegal war, elevated inflation, climate change, international tax fairness, and global sovereign debt challenges,” a release said.-hindustantimes.com
2.Six people were killed in an earthquake which struck the border region of Turkey and Syria, CNN Turk reported on Tuesday, two weeks after a larger quake 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.-hindustantimes.com
3.US President Joe Biden said on Tuesday Ukraine "stands strong" a year after Russia's invasion and that Moscow would never defeat it, speaking hours after the Kremlin suspended a landmark nuclear arms control treaty over the West's support for Kyiv.-ndtv.com
4.A paramedic leaving her 18-month twins behind to serve the call of duty, officials processing hundreds of documents to prepare more than 140 passports overnight and rescuers not being to able to take a bath for 10 days, the NDRF's mission in quake-hit Turkey was full of challenges -- emotional, professional and personal.They returned to India after the difficult mission.-ndtv.com
5.Confirmed cases of bird flu at a state-run poultry farm in Bokaro has forced the Jharkhand government to put all such facilities on high alert and issue directions to set up control rooms in all 24 districts to monitor the situation, officials said on Wednesday. Around 70-80% of the 1,000-odd chickens died over the past week, - hindustantimes.com
6.In a meeting between the Bike-Sharing Taxi Committee and members from auto and taxi unions, the latter vehemently opposed the presence of bike aggregators and claimed that it has drastically impacted their revenues. “Owing to opening up permits for auto-rickshaws and the Covid-19 pandemic, running the auto rickshaws is no longer lucrative for survival. If we compare the earnings from 2017 then it has dropped by nearly 30%,” said Shashank Rao.-hindustantimes.com
7.Braving sub-zero temperatures at 13,000 feet, 75 runners created history by participating in the world's highest frozen lake half marathon at the Pangong Lake in Ladakh.Videos from the event show participants slowly jogging on the frozen lake to avoid slipping on the ice.-ndtv.com
8.Bandra, the heart of Mumbai, is all set to turn into a union of India’s rich and diverse cultural heritage this February 24-26 February with the Mahindra Group’s newest cultural outreach initiative - the Mahindra Roots Festival - unveiling a line-up of over 10 incredible artists across multiple genres, languages and subcultures for its debut edition. Through this, the festival intends to recognise, nurture, as well as reintroduce Indian cultural roots to the new-age contemporary audience.
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