Current Affairs Smart-Liners - 20th February 2017

 Current Affairs Smart-Liners - 20th February 2017

❤International Mother Language Day❤ ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ DAYS TO REMEMBER: ·        World Day of Social Justice - February 20th ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ NATIONAL: ·        Nepal offered ₹2,280-crore loans by India for infrastructure development :
·        Extra rake for transporting onions from Nashik to be operated by Central Railways :

·        Delhi-bound Kalindi Express collides with freight train at Tundla :
·        Tamil Nadu CM announces various offers after winning the trust vote :
·        Madhya Pradesh today celebrates Khajuraho Dance Festival :
·        Land for 9 thematic cities alloted by Andhra govt :
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INTERNATIONAL
·        Mohammed Alsheikh of  Palestinian breaks contortion world record :
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BANKING NEWS:
·        RBI has increased weekly withdrawal limit of Savings account to ₹50,000 :
BUSINESS AND ECONOMY NEWS:
·        Purchase of jewellery for more than₹2 lakh by cash will be charged 1% Tax :
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY:
·        Dragon spacecraft of SpaceX successfully launched ISS :
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APPOINTMENTS:
·        Shurhozelie Liezietsu becomes the new CM of Nagaland :
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SPORTS NEWS:
·        Tymal Mills becomes the highest bided bowler in IPL history for ₹12 cr :
·        Rotterdam tennis title won by Tsonga 
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 International Mother Language Day
 Significance: "To promote the preservation and protection of all languages used by people of the world"
 International Mother Language Day (IMLD) is a worldwide annual observance held on 21 February to promote awareness of linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism. First announced by UNESCO on 17 November 1999, it was formally recognized by the United Nations General Assembly in its resolution establishing 2008 as the International Year of Languages.
 International Mother Language Day has been being observed since 2000 to promote peace and multilingualism. The date corresponds to the day in 1952 when students from the University of Dhaka, Jagannath College and Dhaka Medical College, demonstrating for the recognition of Bengali as one of the two national languages of East Pakistan, were brutally shot dead by police (then under Pakistan government) near the Dhaka High Court in the capital of present-day Bangladesh.

·        Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram celebrates Statehood Day today :

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·        IPL 2017 Auction : Ben Stokes the highest bided player of the edition for ₹14.5cr :

·        Announces made by Afridi on his retirement from international cricket :

 It was a social movement built on the spirit to defend the rights to write in one's mother

language.

 Languages are the most powerful instruments of preserving and developing our tangible and intangible heritage. All moves to promote the dissemination of mother tongues will serve not only to encourage linguistic diversity and multilingual education but also to develop fuller awareness of linguistic and cultural traditions throughout the world and to inspire solidarity based on understanding, tolerance and dialogue.