Top 10 Current Affairs – 7 February 2021
Daily Current Affairs 7 February 2021 is the most important area from which a major share of questions come in SSC, Railway, state government recruitment exams, UPSC prelims and mains. We are trying our best to create daily national and international Current Affairs articles from various newspapers, journals, magazines, TV etc.
First India-EU high-level dialogue on trade, investment held
The first High-Level Dialogue (HLD), co-chaired by the Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal and the European Union Executive Vice-President and Trade Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis. Read More
Central Bank of Sri Lanka repays swap line facility with RBI
The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) settled a $ 400 million currency swap facility from the Reserve Bank (RBI) of India last week, meeting the terms that the two countries had agreed upon. Read More
Family booked for draping body in Tricolour after UP farmer died
The mother and brother of a farmer, who died in a road accident near the Ghazipur protest site, have been booked along with another person for allegedly insulting the national flag after a video of his last rites here showed the body draped in the Tricolour. Read More
Museum to pride of Kodagu General Thimayya in Madikeri
It was an ode to the pride of Kodagu as the President of India inaugurated the General Thimayya Museum in Madikeri. The museum has been built at Sunnyside, the former residence of General KS Thimayya. Read More
Akashvani names music festival after Pandit Bhimsen Joshi
The prestigious Akashvani Music Festival has been renamed after Bharat Ratna Pandit Bhimsen Joshi. Union Minister for Information & Broadcasting, Shri Prakash Javadekar made this announcement at a Pandit Bhimsen Joshi Centenary Commemorative function organized in Pune. Read More
Ka-226T utility chopper has 33% indigenous content
The total indigenous content of the Ka-226T utility helicopters, to be jointly manufactured locally by India and Russia with Transfer of Technology (ToT), is between 27%-33%. Read More
Measures to ease norms on setting up one-person companies (OPCs)
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced measures to ease norms on setting up one-person companies (OPCs). As the name suggests, a one-person company is a company that can be formed by just one person as a shareholder. Read More
Government sends notice to Twitter on restoring suspended accounts
The government may take the unprecedented step of filing a first information report (FIR) against Twitter if it doesn’t comply with directions to block accounts and tweets that threaten law and order, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Read More
After oils, FSSAI caps transfats in foods
The FSSAI has amended its rules to put a cap on trans fatty acids (TFAs) in food products just weeks after it tightened the norms for oils and fats. Food products in which edible oils and fats are used as an ingredient shall not contain industrial trans-fatty acids more than 2% by mass of the total oils/fats present in the product, on and from 1st January, 2022. Read More
NITI Aayog study to track economic impact of green verdicts
The NITI Aayog has commissioned a study that seeks to examine the “unintended economic consequences” of judicial decisions that have hindered and stalled big-ticket projects on environmental grounds. Read More