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Daily GK Updates - 21st February 2015
1. PDP, BJP finalise deal on J&K government
formation
i. BJP and PDP agreed on forming the government in
Jammu and Kashmir, both the parties confirmed that the
two have finalized the deal.
ii. Sources said the status quo is likely to continue on
Article 370 and there will be no re-looking on the
controverial Armed Forces Special Powers Act as of
now.
iii. PDP will have chief minister's post for full term and
BJP deputy chief minister's post which is expected to be
given to state BJP leader Nirmal Singh.
iv. PDP, has 28 MLAs and BJP has 25 MLAs after
results for the state Assembly were declared on
December 23.
2. Tributes paid to senior CPI leader Govind
Pansare
i. Tributes poured in for veteran Communist leader
Govind Pansare who succumbed to bullet injuries.
ii. All the leaders from around the country condemned
this cowardly act and shown condolences to the social
worker.
3. In a first, women join Sarang team
i. For the first time, two women are part of the Sarang
team of the Indian Air Force, a show-stopping helicopter-
formation team that is performing at the Aero India show.
ii. In a major policy shift in 2010, the IAF allowed women
pilots to fly twin-engine medium to heavy-lift helicopters.
iii. Deepika Misra is the Squadron Leader and Sandeep
Singh an engineering officer, is the Flight Lieutenant.
4. State Bank of India to finance small tea growers in
NE
i. State Bank of India(SBI) will provide finance totaling
Rs 100 crore benefiting 3,000 small tea growers in the
North East.
ii. Finance will be provided to tea growers who have
proper basic documents of their existing garden as per
Tea Board of India norms.
iii. The benefit is not only for Assam, but also for new tea
garden growing states such as Arunachal Pradesh,
Nagaland and Meghalaya which will also be covered
under a similar scheme .
5. Tapan Misra appointed as Chief of ISRO’s Space
Application Centre
i. Eminent scientist Tapan Misra has been appointed the
Chief of ISRO’s Space Applications Centre (SAC),
Ahmedabad Gujarat.
ii. He will succeed A S Kiran Kumar, who was appointed
as the Chairman of the Indian Space Research
Organization (ISRO) in January 2015.
iii. He was awarded Hari Om Ashram Prerit Vikram
Sarabhai research Award (2004), ISRO Merit award
(2008), Sir JC Bose National Talent Search (JBNSTS)
Scholarship (1981).
iv. He has 2 granted patents, 6 pending patents, 5
copyrights and many research papers to his credit.
6. India signs loan agreement with ADB to boost
power generation capacity in Assam
i. India has signed loan agreement with Asian
Development Bank (ADB) for 50 Million dollars to boost
power generation capacity in Assam.
ii. The loan agreement was signed for the second
Assam power sector investment programme.
iii. This programme aims to build up the capacity of
power generation and distribution systems in state to
meet the growing energy demand.
iv. This programme is expected to be completed by 31
December 2018.