13th Feb Current Affairs- Today's Headlines

13th February Current Affairs 2022

In this article, we will discuss all the 13th Feb Current Affairs Headlines about national, international, banking, finance, sports, awards, and many others. So if you are interested to know about the latest 13th Feb current affairs then read this article till the end.

Current Affairs of 13th Feb – National

1. The governor of J&K has created the first-of-its-kind QR code-based procedure to certify and label J&K’s handmade carpets.

Manoj Sinha, the Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir, has introduced a QR Code-based mechanism for labelling handmade carpets in J&K, which is the first of its type in the country.
Customers can use the QR-based application to examine and verify the authenticity of carpets made in Jammu and Kashmir, as well as other pertinent information.

2. The SMILE scheme was launched by the Department of Social Justice and Empowerment.

The “SMILE: Support for Marginalized Individuals for Livelihood and Enterprise” scheme was introduced in New Delhi by the Department of Social Justice and Empowerment.
The scheme was created to provide assistance to the transgender community and beggars.

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13th Feb Current Affairs –International News

3. India and Australia have signed a memorandum of understanding on tourism cooperation.

In New Delhi, India and Australia signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Tourism Cooperation. It will play a key role in expanding the number of tourists arriving from this vital source market.
Australia is India’s most important source of tourism revenue (ranked 4th in terms of Foreign Tourist Arrivals to the country in 2019).

4. India is ranked 46th in the EIU’s Democracy Index for 2021, whereas Norway is ranked first.

According to The Economist Intelligence Unit, India is placed 46th in the world in the 2021 Democracy Index.
Norway won the Economist Intelligence Democracy Index 2021 with a score of 9.75.

5. India placed fourth in Ease of Starting a Business in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2021/2022 study; Saudi Arabia ranked first.

India is one of the top five easiest nations to establish a new business, according to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) 2021/2022 study, which was revealed at the Dubai Expo.
Different Entrepreneurial Framework Conditions, such as Entrepreneurial Finance, Ease of Access to Finance, Government Policy: Support and Relevance, and Government Support: Taxes and Bureaucracy, have ranked India first among low-income economies (according to GDP per capita), while Government Entrepreneurial Programmes was ranked second.

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6. HDFC Ergo has teamed with Visa to provide insurance coverage on a limited number of bank cards.

HDFC Ergo General Insurance and Visa have formed a first-of-its-kind relationship to provide customised insurance coverage to Visa Platinum cardholders at chosen public sector banks.
All Visa Platinum Credit and Debit Cards issued by participating issuers will be covered by the policy for up to Rs 1 lakh in fraud insurance.

7. According to a Comscore report, Paytm has the highest digital payment penetration.

According to the Comscore research, Paytm has the largest digital payment penetration in Fintech, with over 45 percent penetration.
Paytm comes in second with a 43 percent market share, followed by Google Pay (mobile app) (reach as a percentage of total digital population).

8. Utkarsh SFB and Aditya Birla Health Insurance have struck a bancassurance arrangement.

Aditya Birla Health Insurance Co. Limited has struck a bancassurance agreement with Utkarsh Small Finance Bank to distribute health insurance products through the Bank’s network throughout India.
More than 2.7 million clients of the Bank will be able to acquire ABHICL health insurance products through the partnership, which will be offered across 642 branches in 214 districts throughout 19 states and two Union Territories in India.

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9. Pankaj Tripathi has been named as the Krishi Network’s Brand Ambassador and investor.

Bollywood actor Pankaj Tripathi has been named Brand Ambassador and investor for the Krishi Network, an agritech firm.
Ashish Mishra and Siddhant Bhomia, both alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, co-founded the Krishi Network. Farmers’ doubts are addressed by the start-up, which provides information support at the grassroots level.

10. Munishwar Nath Bhandari has been appointed as the Chief Justice of the Madras High Court.

Acting Chief Justice of the Madras High Court, Justice Munishwar Nath Bhandari, has been named Chief Justice (CJ) of the Madras High Court.
Ram Nath Kovind, India’s President, has given his approval to the nomination. Justice Munishwar Nath Bhandari was appointed as the Madras High Court’s ACJ after Justice Sanjib Banerjee, the Madras High Court’s CJ, was transferred to the Meghalaya High Court in November 2021.

11. Tata Sons Chairman N Chandrasekaran has been reappointed.

Tata Sons Chairman Natarajan Chandrasekaran has been re-appointed for another five years.
In October 2016, he was appointed to the Tata Sons Board of Directors, and in January 2017, he began his first term as Chairman.

Books & Authors News

12. “Atal Bihari Vajpayee” was written by Sagarika Ghose.

Sagarika Ghose has published “Atal Bihari Vajpayee,” a book about Atal Bihari Vajpayee. It’s a biography of India’s former Prime Minister.
She has also written a book titled “Indira: India’s Most Powerful Prime Minister,” which she co-authored with Sagarika Ghose. Interviews with Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s closest confidants and aides were used to compile the book.

Obituary News

13. Rahul Bajaj, the former Chairman of the Bajaj Group and an industrialist, has died.

Bajaj Auto’s former chairman Rahul Bajaj died as a result of age-related illnesses. He was 83 years old when he died.
On April 30, last year, he resigned from his post as a non-executive director and chairman of Bajaj Auto. Rahul Bajaj used to be the CEO of the Bajaj Group. He graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor’s degree in economics, a law degree from Mumbai University, and an MBA.

14. Luc Montagnier, a Nobel laureate in virology and co-discoverer of HIV, has died.

Luc Montagnier, a French virologist who shared the Nobel Prize in medicine with colleague Francoise Barr-Sinoussi in 2008 for finding the virus that causes AIDS, has died.
On January 3, 1983, the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was discovered in Paris. That was the day Dr. Montagnier (pronounced mon-tan-YAY), the director of the Pasteur Institute’s Viral Oncology Unit, received a portion of a lymph node excised from a 33-year-old AIDS patient.

Important Days of 13th Feb 2022

15. World Radio Day is celebrated on February 13th.

Every year on February 13th, World Radio Day honours radio as a powerful medium that brings people from all over the world together to encourage diversity and help build a more peaceful and inclusive world.
The day was declared by UNESCO Member States in 2011 and declared an International Day by the United Nations General Assembly in 2012. February 13 was designated as World Radio Day by the United Nations General Assembly in 2012. (WRD).

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