Current Affairs : February 2013

1. Australia win Women's World Cup for sixth time
2. SBI’s net profit rises 4% to Rs 3,400 crore
3. British PM arrives on three-day India visit
4. Noted social worker  Ramesh Bhatt was on Monday conferred the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development by President Pranab Mukherjee.
5. India-US Joint Working Group held its 10th Meeting in Washington
6. NACO signed MoU with Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to Highlight Issues related to AIDS
7. Victoria Azarenka Defeats Serena Williams to Win 2013 Qatar Open
9. Serena becomes World Number One Women’s Tennis Player
10. Asoke Kumar Mukerji Appointed As the Next Permanent Representative of India to the UN
11. India and France Signed MoU in Railway Sector
12. SEBI allowed mutual funds to park 20% in gold deposit schemes
13. Tripura records highest ever polling of 93% in India
14. 14th Meet of Environment Ministers of BASIC countries starts at Chennai
15. Pak successfully tests nuclear-capable Hatf-II missile
16. Mohan Parasaran new Solicitor General of India
17. Cabinet approves bill on Indo-Bangla land boundary pact
18. Iran test fired surface-to-surface cruise missile Ghader
19. Justice Yarabati Bhaskar Rao was sworn in as the new Lokayukta of Karnataka.
20. Kalyan Kumar Chakravarty Appointed As the Chairman of Lalit Kala Akademi
21. Parle-G Became the First Indian FMCG Brand to Cross 5000 Crore Rupees Mark
22. Delhi first in country to introduce e-court fee in all district courts
23. Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director of Reliance Industries, has been appointed the Chair of India Advisory Council of British Asian Trust (BAT).
24. Pakistan on 11 February 2013 successfully test fired short range surface-to-surface missile Hatf IX (NASR).
25. The United States launched its latest Earth observation satellite atop an Atlas V rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
26. IOC drops wrestling from 2020 Olympics