Latest News for 17th February 2014 1. Rudra Krishna Srikantan, Carnatic Music Vocalist, Passes Away at the age of 94. He died due to chest congestion. In the month of January 2014, his biography was released in the name of Voice of Generation. It was released on the occasion of his birth day. 2. High commissioner of Pakistan to India is Abdul Basit. Pakistan Government appointed him. He will take charge from 28th February 2014. Currently Salman Bashir is working in this place. 3. First Tamilnadu Pro Hindi Political Party Launched. This party includes large number of advocates. 4. New CEO of Hinduja Global Solutions for Europe is Mathew Vallance. 5. Sanjay Agarwal CEO of Kingfisher Airlines quits the company. Earlier he worked in Spice Jet Airlines Limited. He joined in Kingfisher in 2010 on 30th September. 6. Readers Digest sold to Mike Leckwell for the amount of 1 Pound. 7. For the first time India is going to host to World Bridge Championship for Venice Cup for women and Bermuda Bowl for Men. These matches will held in October 2015. Information regarding this was announced by WBF (World Bridge Federation) on 17th February 2014. To host this championship matches Panaji in Goa and Chennai in Tamilnadu were shortlisted. 66 countries will participate in this championship matches and 550 players will participate. 8. Sehwag and Sachin were among the nominees of Generation Awards. These awards would be given by ESPNcricinfo@20. Award ceremony will conducted on 14th March 2014 in Mumbai. Other nominated people for this award were Jacques Kallis, Muttiah Muralitharan, Braine Lara, and Shane Warne. 9. First Chinese player to place at first position in WTA Rakings is Peng Shuai. WTA double rankings were released on 17th February 2014. World number 2 rank attained by Hsieh Su-wei. She also belongs to china. 10. Union Finance Minister, Chidambaram had presented interim Union Budget in Lok Sabha. As a Finance Minister it is 9th budget for Chidambaram. Actual this is 83rd budget of the union Government. 11. Rs.80 million sanctioned for restoration of Bhagat Singh’s ancestral house, village and school. He is a great freedom fighter. His village and house were located in Faisalabad district of Punjab provision in Pakistan. 12. At 64th International Berlin Film Festival, Killa Film won Crystal bear Award. This is the Marati film. Killa won this award in Generation Kplus section. Avinash Arun is the director of the film. 13. Nirbhaya Fund will get Rs.1000 crores in addition in the budget 2014-15. This fund is for empowerment and safety of the women. 14. Blood donation camp of TN transport department created world Record and entered into Guinness book. It has organised mega blood donation camp at different venues. 53129 people involved in this camp. This camp was done to mark the birthday of Chief Minister Jayalalitha. 15. 67th BAFTA Awards were given in a star studded ceremony held at the Royal Opera House in London. “12 Years A Slave” won the best movie award while “Gravity” won Best British film award. 16. Global internet giant Google has acquired SlickLogin, an Israeli start-up company which offers an alternative process for login confirmation by using sound based passwords. Post this acquisition, Google might use this type of authentication method to replace its 2-step verification method in Gmail which is being currently used. 17. Pranab Mukherjee, the President of India presented the International Gandhi Award for the year 2013 to Dr. Vijaykumar Vinayak Dongre (VV Dongre) and Prof. Guocheng Zhang at Rashtrapati Bhawan, New Delhi. They were awarded for making outstanding contributions in the field of leprosy to eradicate the disease through treatment, training and research. 18. Erlan Abdyldaev, the Foreign Minister of Kyrgyz Republic was on an official visit to India from 13 to 15 February 2014. During this India visit of Abdyldaev, the two sides also exchanged documents to make functional a bilateral treaty on mutual legal assistance and an agreement on visa free travel for diplomatic, official and service passport holders. 19. Italy has agreed to develop biggest cargo airport in Afghanistan on Herat airport that is located in Western part of the country. To help Afghanistan, Italy will provide a financial assistance of 200 million dollar to Afghanistan. To this effect an agreement was signed between Italy and Afghanistan in Kabul. 20. Shot putter Om Prakash Singh Karhana won the gold in the 6th Asian Indoor Athletics Championships at Hangzhou, China.
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