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Daily Current Affairs- 10th February 2022
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Headlines
1) Atal Tunnel officially recognised as ‘Longest Highway Tunnel above 10,000

feet’ by World Book of Records
2) ‘Innovations in Public Administration’ program of Capacity Building

Commission
3) Railway Protection Force launched Operation to curb trafficking launched
4) “Statue of Equality” World 2nd Tallest Statue in Sitting Posture
5) Google Launches New Chromebook devices for Teachers & Students
6) NASA Plans to Deorbit ISS into Pacific Ocean in 2031
7) NITI Aayog, USAID to collaborate in healthcare
8) Bangladesh Railway Signed Agreement with Hindustan Engineering and

Industries Limited
9) Sri Lanka to launch its own ‘Aadhaar’
10) Karnataka Bank awarded with DX 2021 Award from CII for Digital
Transformation
11) ICICI Bank Raises Stake in India International Clearing Corporation
12) ICICI Lombard Partners with Airtel Payments Bank
13) India Press Freedom Report 2021
14) Ancient Kanchoth festival Celebrated in J&K
15) Recent Change in Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana
16) Sonali Singh Given Additional Charge as the head of Controller General of
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Accounts of India
17) Air Marshal K Anantharaman VSM appointed as Air Officer-in Charge

Administration
18) Bata India appoints Disha Patani as Brand Ambassador
19) India Wins ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup 2022 Title
20) Actor- athlete Praveen Kumar Sobti passed away
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National News
Atal Tunnel officially recognised as ‘Longest Highway Tunnel

above 10,000 feet’ by World Book of Records
• Atal Tunnel has officially been certified
by World Book of Records, as the ‘World’s
Longest Highway Tunnel above 10,000 Feet’.
• Lt Gen Rajeev Chaudhry, Director

General of Border Roads Organisation received
the award for the stupendous achievement of
the Border Roads Organisation in constructing
this engineering marvel connecting Manali to
the Lahaul - Spiti Valley.
• World Book of Records UK, is an

organisation that catalogues and verifies extraordinary records across the world with authentic
certification.
Atal Tunnel
• Atal Tunnel was dedicated to the Nation by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi on October 03, 2020.
• The 9.02 km long Atal Tunnel, that runs under the ‘Rohtang Pass’ was constructed on the Manali - Leh
Highway
• Construction of this tunnel has reduced the distance on Manali - Sarchu road by 46 km and travel time by
four to five hours, providing all-weather connectivity on the Manali - Leh axis.
• The construction of this tunnel, nestled in Pir Panjal Ranges of the Himalayas
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‘Innovations in Public Administration’ program of Capacity

Building Commission
• Dr Jitendra Singh, Union Minister of State
(Independent Charge) Science &
Technology inaugurated ‘Innovations in
Public Administration’ program of
Capacity Building Commission of Mission
Karmayogi to identify successful
innovations in public service pioneered by
civil servants.
• CBC Knowledge Repository will be created

which can be accessed by anyone for
scaling up India’s successful innovations.
• This will serve as case studies for capacity building of present and future civil servants and India can also
become a global repository of case studies of civil servants for successful innovations.
• The event also marked the launch of the web portal https://innovateindia.mygov.in/cbc-inviting-
innovations through which CBC invites all Government Employees to share their successful innovations.
• The Selected Innovators will have the opportunity to showcase their leadership, creativity and initiatives
to enhance governance and public service delivery in the Annual Health of Civil Services Report.
• An Annual Health of Civil Services Report will be released for the 1st time after 75 years of India’s
Independence.
• Mission Karmayogi , a National Programme for Civil Services Capacity Building aims to create competent
civil servants through institutional and process reforms.
• Mission Karmayogi is guided by 8 principles, From Rule to Role, Democratising Opportunities, Continuous
Guided Learning, Citizen Centricity, 70-20-10 Learning Mandate, Accountability, De-Siloisation,
Participative, Responsive and Intelligent Governance
Capacity Building Commission:
• Chairman – Adil Zainulbhai
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Railway Protection Force launched Operation to curb trafficking

launched
• The Railway Protection Force has
launched a nationwide operation to curb human
trafficking. As part of “Operation AAHT”, special
teams will be deployed on all long-distance
trains/routes with focus on rescuing victims,
particularly women and children, from the
clutches of traffickers.
“Statue of Equality” World 2nd Tallest Statue in Sitting Posture

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled
the “Statue of Equality”, 216-foot tall
statue of Ramanujacharya, an 11th-
century Bhakti Saint, at Jeeyar Integrated
Vedic Academy in Muchintal, Hyderabad.
• This is the world’s 2nd tallest statue in a

sitting posture, after the Great Buddha of
Thailand statue (302 feet) in Ang Thong,
Thailand.
• The inauguration of the Statue of Equality,

is a part of the 12-day Ramanuja Sahasrabdi Samaroham, the ongoing 1000th birth anniversary
celebrations of Ramanujacharya.
• This is one of the tallest metallic statues in a sitting position.
• The statue is mounted on a 54-feet high lotus built base building named ‘Bhadra Vedi’, which features 3
floors devoted to a Vedic digital library and research centre, ancient Indian texts, a theatre, an
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educational gallery detailing many works of Sri Ramanujacharya.
• The statue has been conceptualised by Sri Chinna Jeeyar Swamy of Sri Ramanujacharya Ashram.
• The statue was built by Aerosun Corporation, China at a cost of Rs 135 crore and shipped to India in 1600
pieces and installed in 2017-2018.
• The “statue of equality” is made up of Panchaloha, a combination of 5 metals: gold, silver, copper, brass
and zinc
• The temple of Ramanujacharya covers an area of around 300000 square feet also features a 120 Kg gold
idol.
• Ramanujacharya, a Vedic philosopher and social reformer, was born in 1017 in Sriperumbudur in Tamil
Nadu. He came up with the concept of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam, to offer education for the deprived.
Science And Technology
Google Launches New Chromebook devices for Teachers & Students
• Google has introduced a new line of secure

and sustainable Chromebook devices for
education. The devices with updated programmes,
resources and Chrome OS, advances will play a
major role in the classroom and support 50 million
students and teachers to learn and collaborate
from any location. With the same OS as their
students, the teachers can support them to
troubleshoot and navigate the latest updates.
• Chromebooks run on Chrome OS, a Google

operating system based on the Google Chrome browser
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NASA Plans to Deorbit ISS into Pacific Ocean in 2031

• According to The National Aeronautics
and Space Administration the
International Space Station launched in
1998 will deorbit in January 2031 that
drops into the most remotest point in
the Pacific Ocean in 2031. ISS will
continue its operations till 2030.
• NASA has also signed agreements with 3

private companies to launch commercial
space stations for use by both private
companies and government astronauts.
• Once out of orbit, the ISS would descend in Point Nemo before splash-landing, which is about 2,700 km
from any land and has become known as the space cemetery, a final resting place for decommissioned
space stations, old satellites and other human space debris.
• This is also known as the ‘Oceanic Pole of Inaccessibility’ or ‘the South Pacific Ocean Uninhabited
Area(SPOUA)’.
• The NASA has announced a new transition plan for low-Earth orbit science which will be launched by Blue
Origin, Nanoracks LLC and Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation
MOU And Partnership
NITI Aayog, USAID to collaborate in healthcare

• Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog and
the U.S. Agency for International Development
announced a new partnership under the
Sustainable Access to Markets and Resources
for Innovative Delivery of Healthcare
(SAMRIDH) initiative, which will improve access
to affordable and quality healthcare for
vulnerable populations in tier-2 and tier-3 cities,
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and rural and tribal regions.
• This new partnership announced will enhance SAMRIDH’s efforts to reach vulnerable populations,
leveraging AIM’s expertise in innovation and entrepreneurship.
Sustainable Access to Markets and Resources for Innovative Delivery of Healthcare
• Sustainable Access to Markets and Resources for Innovative Delivery of Healthcare (SAMRIDH) is
supported by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Indian Institute of
Technology-Delhi (IIT-D), in technical collaboration with Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of
India, the National Health Authority and NATHEALTH. It combines commercial capital with public and
philanthropic funds to drive greater resources towards improving access to affordable and quality
healthcare services for India’s most vulnerable.
• SAMRIDH aims to mobilize a capital pool of $100+ million from private sector and bilateral organizations.
It leverages this fund to offer both grant and debt financing provision to support the expansion of
market-based health solutions. The initiative is designed to complement Government of India’s efforts to
improve the health infrastructure, strengthen the skills of healthcare providers, expand the availability of
COVID-19 innovations, and support vaccine efforts.
International News
Bangladesh Railway Signed Agreement with Hindustan Engineering and

Industries Limited
• Bangladesh Railway has signed an

agreement with the Hindustan
Engineering and Industries Limited to
procure 420 broad gauge wagons from
India. The total cost of the agreement is
Rs 200 crore
• The wagons are procured under the

“Rolling Stock Operation Improvement
Project” of the Bangladesh Railway,
funded by the Government of Bangladesh
and the Asian Development Bank
• The wagons will have stainless steel bodies and will operate at a maximum speed of 100 kilometres per
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hour with a maximum axle load of 18.5 tonnes.
• With the signing of this purchase agreement, the contracts for all 5 packages of the Rolling Stock
Operation Improvement Project are completed. The total cost of the contracts is Rs 3133 crore.
Sri Lanka to launch its own ‘Aadhaar’

• India has agreed to provide a grant to Sri
Lanka to implement a ‘Unitary Digital Identity
framework’, apparently modelled on the
Aadhaar card.
• “Under the proposed Unitary Digital

Identity Framework, it is expected to introduce a
personal identity verification device based on
biometric data, a digital tool that can represent
the identities of individuals in cyberspace, and the
identification of individual identities that can be
accurately verified in digital and physical environments by combining the two devices,”
• This is not the first time that Sri Lanka is attempting to digitise its citizens’ identities. Just a few years ago,
the predecessor Maithripala Sirisena-Ranil Wickremesinghe administration, in power from 2015 to 2019,
mooted a similar Electronic-National Identity Card — or E-NIC —that privacy advocates opposed on
grounds that the state would have full access to citizens’ personal data in a central database.
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Awards And Recognitions
Karnataka Bank awarded with DX 2021 Award from CII for

Digital Transformation
• Karnataka Bank was awarded with the

Digital Transformation Award (DX 2021 Awards),
in recognition of the “innovative” best practice
‘KBL VIKAAS’, by the Confederation of Indian
Industry for Best Practice in Digital
Transformation.
• The centre is hosting the 3rd Edition of its

flagship event the ‘DX Summit & Awards 2021’.
• KBL VIKAAS, is a digital service launched

by Karnataka Bank in 2017, to provide a better digital experience to customers including Asset & Liability
products & enhanced customer services.
• In 2021, Karnataka Bank also launched the digital transformation journey ‘KBL NxT’ as part of ‘KBL VIKAAS
2.0’, with an objective of taking the digital initiatives more efficiently.
Confederation of Indian Industry:
• President– T. V. Narendran
• Headquarters- New Delhi
Karnataka Bank:
• MD & CEO- M.S. Mahabaleshwara
• Headquarters– Mangalore, Karnataka
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Banking And Financial News
ICICI Bank Raises Stake in India International Clearing Corporation
• ICICI Bank Limited has bought additional

stake in India International Clearing
Corporation at International Financial
Services centre in Gujarat International
Finance Tec-City, Gujarat for Rs 4.43
crore, raising to 9.90 percent.
• After this investment, ICICI Bank’s

shareholding increased from 7.61 percent
to 9.90 percent of the equity share capital
of IICC.
• ICC is the 1st international clearing corporation set up at GIFT IFSC, Gujarat in September 2016.
ICICI Bank Limited:
• MD & CEO – Sandeep Bakhshi
• Headquarters – Mumbai
ICICI Lombard Partners with Airtel Payments Bank

• ICICI Lombard General Insurance
Company has partnered with Airtel Payments
Bank to offer insurance solutions against cyber
crimes and financial frauds to its customers.
• Customers of Airtel Payments Bank can

purchase this insurance policy using the ‘Airtel
Thanks’ app with ZERO wait period and allows
users to make multiple claims during the policy
tenure, within the limits of the insured amount
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opted for.
Airtel Payments Bank:
• Managing Director & CEO – Anubrata Biswas
• Headquarters – New Delhi
ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company:
• MD & CEO – Bhargav Dasgupta
• Headquarters – Mumbai
Reports And Indices
India Press Freedom Report 2021
• India Press Freedom Report 2021 released

by Rights and Risks Analysis Group
• The report also stated that at least 6

journalists were killed, 108 attacked and
13 media houses or newspapers targeted
across India.
• The highest number of journalists or media

organisations targeted was in J&K (25),
followed by UP (23), MP (16), Tripura (15),
Delhi (8), Bihar (6), Assam (5), Haryana and Maharashtra (4 each), Goa and Manipur (3 each), Karnataka,
Tamil Nadu and West Bengal (2 each), and Andhra Pradesh (1), Chhattisgarh (1) and Kerala (1).
• Out of the 17 journalists arrested or detained in India, 5 were from J&K, followed by Delhi (3),
Maharashtra (2), Manipur(2) and Tripura (2), and Assam (1), Chhattisgarh (1) and Haryana (1).
• In 2021, at least 24 journalists were physically attacked, threatened and harassed.
• The FIR has been registered against 44 journalists, 21 of them under Section 153 of the IPC relating to
promoting enmity.
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Festivals
Ancient Kanchoth festival Celebrated in J&K

• The ancient festival of Kanchoth is
annually celebrated, mainly by the Nag
followers, during the Shukla Paksha of Magh
month which usually falls in January or February.
The festival is celebrated with religious fervour
across the Chenab valley region of Jammu and
Kashmir
• The 3-day festival is celebrated by married

women who pray for the long life of their
husbands.
• Kanchoth or Gauri Tritya is widely celebrated in hilly kishtwar, Ramban and Doda of Jammu province. The
locals and Nag followers believe that on this day of Gouri Tritiya, Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvati got
married and Parvati insisted on a throne made of snow as her wedding gift.
Schemes And Portsls
Recent Change in Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana

• The government’s recent announcement
that the maternity benefit programme
which provides ₹5,000 for first child will be
extended to cover the second child only if it
is a girl
• The Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana

Yojana launched in 2017, provides ₹5,000
for the birth of the first child to partially
compensate a woman for loss of wages.
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• The amount is given in three instalments upon meeting certain conditions. It is combined with another
scheme, Janani Suraksha Yojana, under which nearly ₹1,000 is given for an institutional birth, so that a
woman gets a total of ₹6,000.
• “Under the revamped PMMVY under Mission Shakti, the maternity benefit amounting to ₹6000 is also to
be provided for the second child, but only if the second is a girl child
• The first instalment of ₹1,000 is given after ascertaining early registration of pregnancy and the second
instalment of ₹2,000 is given after an ante-natal check after six months of pregnancy and the final
instalment of ₹2,000 is given after the registration of the child birth and vaccinations for the newborn.
• The scheme is clubbed with several other programmes under the Samarthya scheme. The allocation of
₹2,522 crore for the umbrella scheme last fiscal was almost the same as the allocation of ₹2,500 crore for
the PMMVY alone the year before. For financial year 2022-2023, the umbrella scheme has seen a total
increase of ₹100 crore.
Appointments And Resignations
Sonali Singh Given Additional Charge as the head of

Controller General of Accounts of India
• Sonali Singh, Additional Controller General
of Accounts, has been given charge as the
head of the organisation of the Controller
General of Accounts
• Sonali Singh has been appointed as the

CGA following the superannuation of
Deepak Das, who has been serving as CGA
since August 2021.
Roles of CGA:
• Principal Advisor on Accounting matters to the Union Government.
• Responsible for establishing and managing a technically sound Management Accounting System.
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• Responsible for preparation and submission of the accounts of the Union Government.
• Responsible for exchequer control and internal audits.
Air Marshal K Anantharaman VSM appointed as Air Officer-in

Charge Administration
• Air Marshal K Anantharaman VSM

assumed the appointment of Air Officer-in
Charge Administration at Air HQ New Delhi
Brand Ambassadors
Bata India appoints Disha Patani as Brand Ambassador

• Bata India Limited appointed Bollywood
actress Disha Patani as its Brand
Ambassador.
• Previously, Bata has associated with

celebrities including Kriti Sanon, Sushant
Singh Rajput, and cricket player Smriti
Mandhana for promoting various labels
under Bata.
Bata India Limited:
• CEO- Gunjan Shah
• Headquarters- Gurugram
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Sports
India Wins ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup 2022 Title
• Indian Under-19 cricket team lifted a
record-extending fifth International Cricket
Council U19 Cricket World Cup title after
defeating England in the final that was held at the
Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in North Sound,
Antigua and Barbuda.
• During the tournament finals, Raj Bawa

took 5 wickets-haul to be named as the Player of
the Match. Notably, he is the 1st Indian player to
take 5- wickets in the finals of all ICC events.
• Indian U19 team under the captaincy of Yash Dull lifted the Under-19 Cricket World Cup (CWC) 2022
without losing a single match in the entire tournament.
• The match winning team is coached by former Indian Cricketer VVS Laxman
• This is the fourteenth edition of the Under-19 Cricket World Cup, and the first to be held in the West
Indies.
• South Africa’s Dewald Brevis became the highest run-scorer of the tournament with 506 runs in only six
innings, was named Player of the Tournament.
• ICC U19 World Cup tournament is conducted once in every 2-years, since its inaugural edition in 1998.
2022 ICC U19 World Cup Tournament Overview:
• Title Winner – India
• Player of the Match (Finals) – Raj Bawa (India)
• Player of the Tournament – Dewald Brevis (South Africa)
• Host Country – West Indies
• Total Participating Teams – 16
• At the end of the 2022 Tournament, ICC released the list of ‘Most Valuable Team’ of the tournament
consisting of 12-members. Three of the 12 players were from the tournament winning Indian side.
• India’s U19 Captain Yash Dhull was named as the Captain of ICC’s ‘Most Valuable Team’ of the U-19
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World Cup.
• 3 Indian U19 players in the list – Yash Dhull (Captain), Raj Bawa, Vicky Ostwal Selection Panel that chose
the 12-players includes, commentators Samuel Badree, Natalie Germanos, ICC Match Referee Graeme
Labrooy and journalist Sandipan Banerjee.
U19 CWC winning Indian Captains:
• 2000 – Mohammad Kaif
• 2008 – Virat Kohli
• 2012 – Unmukt Chand
• 2018 – Prithvi Shaw
• 2022 – Yash Dhull
• India is the most successful team in ICC U19 World Cup, winning a total of 5 trophies.
Obituary
Actor- athlete Praveen Kumar Sobti passed away
• Actor-athlete Praveen Kumar Sobti best
known for playing Bheem in the TV series
"Mahabharat" and for winning an Asian Games
gold medal, died
• Praveen represented the country across

various athletic events in hammer and discus
throw and even won four medals at the Asian
Games, including two gold medals in 1966 and
1970.
• He also won a silver medal in Hammer

Throw during the 1966 Commonwealth Games.
• The athlete gained further popularity after he began his acting career and featured as Bheem in BR
Chopra's classic "Mahabharat" in 1988.
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Daily Current Affairs- 10th February 2022

1) Atal Tunnel officially recognised as ‘Longest Highway Tunnel above 10,000

2) ‘Innovations in Public Administration’ program of Capacity Building

3) Railway Protection Force launched Operation to curb trafficking launched

4) “Statue of Equality” World 2nd Tallest Statue in Sitting Posture

5) Google Launches New Chromebook devices for Teachers & Students

6) NASA Plans to Deorbit ISS into Pacific Ocean in 2031

7) NITI Aayog, USAID to collaborate in healthcare

8) Bangladesh Railway Signed Agreement with Hindustan Engineering and

9) Sri Lanka to launch its own ‘Aadhaar’

11) ICICI Bank Raises Stake in India International Clearing Corporation

12) ICICI Lombard Partners with Airtel Payments Bank

13) India Press Freedom Report 2021

14) Ancient Kanchoth festival Celebrated in J&K

15) Recent Change in Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana

17) Air Marshal K Anantharaman VSM appointed as Air Officer-in Charge

18) Bata India appoints Disha Patani as Brand Ambassador

20) Actor- athlete Praveen Kumar Sobti passed away

Atal Tunnel officially recognised as ‘Longest Highway Tunnel

• Lt Gen Rajeev Chaudhry, Director

• World Book of Records UK, is an

‘Innovations in Public Administration’ program of Capacity

• CBC Knowledge Repository will be created

Capacity Building Commission:

• Chairman – Adil Zainulbhai

Railway Protection Force launched Operation to curb trafficking

“Statue of Equality” World 2nd Tallest Statue in Sitting Posture

• This is the world’s 2nd tallest statue in a

• The inauguration of the Statue of Equality,

• This is one of the tallest metallic statues in a sitting position.

educational gallery detailing many works of Sri Ramanujacharya.

Science And Technology

Google Launches New Chromebook devices for Teachers & Students

• Google has introduced a new line of secure

• Chromebooks run on Chrome OS, a Google

NASA Plans to Deorbit ISS into Pacific Ocean in 2031

• NASA has also signed agreements with 3

MOU And Partnership

NITI Aayog, USAID to collaborate in healthcare

and rural and tribal regions.

Sustainable Access to Markets and Resources for Innovative Delivery of Healthcare

Bangladesh Railway Signed Agreement with Hindustan Engineering and

• Bangladesh Railway has signed an

• The wagons are procured under the

hour with a maximum axle load of 18.5 tonnes.

Sri Lanka to launch its own ‘Aadhaar’

• “Under the proposed Unitary Digital

Awards And Recognitions

Karnataka Bank awarded with DX 2021 Award from CII for

• Karnataka Bank was awarded with the

• The centre is hosting the 3rd Edition of its

• KBL VIKAAS, is a digital service launched

Confederation of Indian Industry:

• Headquarters- New Delhi

• MD & CEO- M.S. Mahabaleshwara

• Headquarters– Mangalore, Karnataka

Banking And Financial News

ICICI Bank Raises Stake in India International Clearing Corporation

• ICICI Bank Limited has bought additional

• After this investment, ICICI Bank’s

ICICI Bank Limited:

• MD & CEO – Sandeep Bakhshi

ICICI Lombard Partners with Airtel Payments Bank