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International News
National News
State News
Banking News
Awards News
Sports News
Obituaries News
Miscellaneous News

International News

Seattle created history and becomes the first city in the US to ban caste discrimination

The Seattle City Council passed an ordinance to add race to the list of protected classes in the city’s municipal code, along with groups such as race, religion, and gender identity.
Seattle made history by becoming the first US city to explicitly ban race-based discrimination.
Caste-oppressed people in the city are allowed to file discrimination complaints under the law, which prohibits caste discrimination in employment, housing, public facilities, and other settings.
Racial prejudice and discrimination may become more widespread in the US, as a result, the South Asian country is one of the fastest-growing immigrant groups.

National News

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Pashupati Kumar Paras Inaugurated India Pavillion Gulfood 2023 in Dubai

The agricultural and Processed Food Export Development Authority (APEDA) is participating in the 28th edition of Gulfood 2023 to be held in UAE.
India has been participating in GULFOOD, a platform that connects food and beverage sectors around the world, providing ample opportunities to Indian exporters.
APEDA is conducting promotions, tasting drives, sampling millet products, and biryani, arranging B2B interactions between start-ups and exporters with identified supermarkets, and conducting awareness cum capacity-building programs.

State News

Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde named Shiv Sena chief

Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde was elected as the Supreme Leader of the Shiv Sena during the party’s National Executive meeting.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) recognized his faction as the original Shiv Sena and gave them the symbol of “bow and arrow” during the first national executive meeting following that recognition.
MLAs, MPs, and other Shiv Sena leaders who joined the party after Shinde broke away from the group led by former Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray were present in the meeting.

Kerala HC publishes judgment in regional language, becomes 1st in the country to do so

On February 21, also known as International Mother Language Day, the Kerala High Court published two of its most recent decisions in Malayalam, making it the first high court in the nation to do so.
On the court’s website, the Malayalam decisions were posted right underneath the English version. On the website, two decisions were made by the division bench, which included Chief Justice S. Manikumar and Justice Shaji P Chaly.
The news comes a day after the Supreme Court began testing a live transcription service to record its hearings and then translate them into text using artificial intelligence (AI) and NLP-based technology.
The facility was used in Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud‘s courtroom when he presided over a Constitution bench hearing the Maharashtra constitutional crisis.

Banking News

Kotak Mahindra Bank takes corporate digital banking portal ‘Kotak fyn’ live

Private sector lender Kotak Mahindra Bank went live with ‘Kotak Fin’, an integrated portal developed to offer comprehensive digital banking and value-added services to its business banking and corporate customers.
The portal will provide services across all products including business and services, account services, payments, and collections, and make banking seamless for the bank’s customers.
This is expected to reduce complexity and friction for customers.

Awards News

Dr. Mahendra Mishra awarded the International Mother Language Award in Dhaka

Dr. Mahendra Kumar Mishra, an Indian educator and social worker for the advancement of indigenous languages in Odisha, received the World Mother Language Award from Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Dr. Mishra has worked for over three decades on the language, culture, and education of the marginalized languages of Odisha.
Inaugurating a four-day program of the International Mother Language Institute and conferring the award, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina stressed the need ‘for research to preserve, revitalize and develop the mother languages of the world as many languages are being lost’.

Sansad Ratna award 2023

13 Members of Parliament (MPs) have been nominated for the Sansad Ratna Award 2023.
The jury committee of eminent parliamentarians and civil society, headed by Arjun Ram Meghwal (Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs) and co-chaired by T S Krishnamurthy (former Chief Election Commissioner of India), nominated eight Lok Sabha MPs and five Rajya Sabha MPs. Sansad Ratna Award 2023.
These nominations are based on the cumulative performance in questions, private members’ bills, and members’ debates from the beginning of the 17th Lok Sabha till the end of the Winter Session 2022.

Sports News

Tilottama Sen Won Bronze Medal in women’s 10m Air Rifle at ISSF World Cup

Indian teenager Tillotama Sen won a bronze medal in women’s 10m air rifle at the ISSF World Cup 2023 in Cairo, Egypt.
14-year-old Tilottama Sen won the second bronze for India after finishing the top eight ranking round with a score of 262, fifth overall.
She missed out on the gold medal match by a narrow possible margin of 0.1. Seonaid McIntosh of Great Britain won the gold and Olympic champion Nina Christen of Switzerland took the silver.
The third day of the event was another profitable day for India, with Rudraksh Patil winning the gold medal in the men’s air rifle.

Obituaries News

Ex-Income Tax Chief Commissioner TCA Ramanujam passes away

Retired Chief Commissioner of Income Tax, lawyer, Sanskrit expert, and BusinessLine columnist TCA Ramanujam passed away.
He was 88 years old. As Chief Commissioner of Income Tax till his retirement in 1992, Shri Ramanujam also spent a year as a member of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal.
In 2002, he resumed his legal career and served as Senior Standing Counsel of the Income Tax Department.

Miscellaneous News

Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Set to Launch Virtual Shopping App

Delhi Metro Rail Corporation will soon launch India’s first virtual shopping app called Momentum 2.0 for metro commuters to purchase products, book services and collect orders at the destination stations.
The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation has revealed that the app will also provide features such as instant recharge of metro smart cards and smart payment options for other utility services.
Momentum 2.0 will provide users direct access to custom-made services such as last-mile connectivity options, e-shopping, and digital lockers for quick and safe deliveries.
The DMRC is in the process of installing digital lockers called smart boxes at select stations to deposit goods ordered through e-shopping.

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