Economy
- India’s first and world’s largest payment service that enables neighbourhood stores to act as Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) for users - PhonePe.
- New Index of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) which will indicate the level of digitalization prevailing in the country - Digital Payments Index (DPI).
- The Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) has doubled the minimum net worth criterion for pension fund managers to - Rs 50 crore (from Rs 25 crore).
Environment
- Tropical cyclone that lashed north-western Australia's resource-rich Pilbara region on 8 February 2020 - Cyclone Damien.
International
- To deliberate on a proposed MoU for implementation of the Motor Vehicles Agreement (MVA) which signed on 15 June 2015, a meeting of the BBIN nations (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal) was held on 8 February 2020 in - New Delhi.
- This India’s neighbouring country will count the third gender in its next population census for the first time counting LGBT people as a minority group - Nepal.
Person in news
- Nominee director on the board of Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL) - Mahmood Ahmed (Deputy Director General of the Licensing Finance Assessment, Department of Telecom).
- Youngest girl in the world to summit Mt Aconcagua (6962 metres) - Kaamya Karthikeyan (class seven student of Navy Children School in Mumbai).
- World Bank chief economist who will step down from her post on 1 March 2020 - Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg.
Sports
- Indian badminton coach who has received an honourable mention in the male category of the prestigious 2019 International Olympic Committee's Coaches Lifetime Achievement Award - Pullela Gopichand.
- Winner of the women's doubles event at the 2020 Nonthaburi ITF tournament in Thailand - Ankita Raina and Bibiane Schoofs.
- The National Skiing and Snowboarding Championship organised at - Auli, Chamoli district, Uttarakhand.
State Current Affairs
- The Census to find out the number of crocodiles in Vishwamitri river and other water bodies began in - Vadodara district, Gujarat.
- This UT government has initiated steps to get the UNESCO World heritage status - Puducherry.
- This state has been ranked first among eighteen large and mid-sized states on the capacity of justice delivery system, as per the India Justice Report-2019 prepared by Tata Trusts - Maharashtra (followed by Kerala, Tamil Nadu).
- This state government has announced an internship scheme for the 10th, 12th and graduating students which will provide the internship of a period of six months or a year with 2500 rupees per month - Uttar Pradesh.
- Andhra Pradesh government inaugurated Disha police station in – Rajamahendravaram.
Science
- According to researchers of china, Host of the Coronavirus – Pangolin.
General knowledge
- Highest peak in South America - Mt Aconcagua (6962 metres).
- Highest peak outside Asia - Mt. Aconcagua.
- Indian Olympic Association was founded in – 1924.
- Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) –Founded: 1984; Headquarters: New Delhi.
- Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL) - Founded: 01 April 1986; Headquarters: New Delhi.
- World Bank - Founded: 1944; Headquarters: Washington, D.C., United States.
