1. Ishan Kishan the highest priced player at the IPL 2022
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Wicket- keeper batsman Ishan Kishan was bought by Mumbai India for Rs 15.25 crores. He became the highest priced player for the 15th Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022. Deepak Chahar was the second highest priced player and he was bought by Chennai Super Kings for Rs 14 Crore.
Fact Files
Chris Morris of South Africa , holds the record for being the highest priced player in IPL when Rajasthan Royals bought him for Rs 16.25 crores in the IPL 2021.
The highest priced Indian player is Yuvraj singh . He was bought by Delhi Daredevils (now Delhi Capitals) for the IPL 2015 season for Rs. 16 crore.
The IPL 2022 will see the participation of ten teams . The two new teams are
Lucknow Super Giants and Gujarat Titans.
The other teams are :Mumbai Indians, Rajasthan Royals, Delhi Capitals, Punjab Kings ,Kolkata Knight Riders ,Chennai Super Kings , Royal Challengers Bangalore ,Sunrisers Hyderabad ,
Indian Premier League (IPL),
IPL is a twenty-twenty overs professional cricket league organized by Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) that was started in India in 2008.
The first season was won by Rajasthan Royals in 2008.
The 14th Season of IPL 2021 was held in the United Arab Emirates which was won by Chennai Super King .
Mumbai Indians is the most successful team in the IPL. It has won the titles 5 times(2013, 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2020) while the second most successful team is Chennai Super King which has won it 4 times(2010, 2011, 2018, and 2021).
2. Ramkumar Ramnathan win Bengaluru Tennis double’s title
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Ramkumar Ramnathan won the third doubles title of the year when he and Saket Mayeni won the Bengaluru Open ATP Challenger tennis title at Bengaluru.
The Indian Tennis player defeated the French pair of Hugo Grenier and Alexandre Muller in straight sets .
Men Singles title
Chun-hsin Tseng of Chinese Taipei (also known as Taiwan ) defeated Croatian Borna Gojo in straight sets.
3. President unveils the Statue of Swarna Ramanujacharya
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President Ramnath Kovind visited Srirama Nagaram in Muchintal ,Hyderabad, Telangana on 13 February 2022. He inaugurated the 120-kg statue of Sri Ramanujacharya made of gold as part of the Sriramanuja Sahastrabdi Samaroh, marking the 1,000 years of the birth of the saint poet at Muchintal in Telangana.
Srirama Nagaram is a place in Muchintal, Hyderabad where 108 Vaishnavite shrines have been set up along with the Statue of Equality.
Statue of Equality was Inaugurated by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 5 February 2022. (For Statue of Equality kindly see 5 February 2022 post)
Important for Exam
Place :
Srirama Nagaram: It is a temple complex in Muchintal, Hyderabad.
4. Debashis Mitra elected as the new President of ICAI
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Chartered Accountant , Dr. Debashis Mitra, has been elected as the President of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) for the year 2022-23.
Sunil Talati was elected as the Vice-President of the ICAI .
ICAI
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) is a statutory body established under the Chartered Accountants Act, 1949.
It was set up on 1 July 1949.
The ICAI is the second largest professional body of Chartered Accountants in the world after the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants(AICPA).
It is the regulator of the Chartered Accountancy profession in India .
It comes under the administrative control of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs ,Government of India .
Headquarters : New Delhi
5. Famous Industrialist Rahul Bajaj no more
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Noted Industrialist and grandson of noted Gandhian Jamna Lal Bajaj died at the age of 83 in Mumbai on 12 February 2022.
He was the former chairman of the Bajaj group which included Bajaj Auto, Bajaj Finserv . and Bajaj Holdings & Investment. Bajaj scooter “Chetak” was once a household name in India.
He was also a member of the Rajya Sabha from 2006 to 2010.
Rahul Bajaj was awarded with the third-highest civilian award, Padma Bhushan in 2001.
6. Trekker R Babu rescued after nearly 48 hours
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- Trekker R.Babu was rescued by the mountaineering team of the Indian Army Southern Command on 9 February 2022, after he was trapped in a cleft on a hill in Kerala’s Palakkad district
- R.Babu who along with his friends went on a trekking trip to climb the Kurumbachi hillock in Malampuzha’s Cherad hill . He slipped off a cliff and was stranded in a steep gorge for around 48 hours before being rescued by the army team.
Terms
Hillocks :
It is also called Knoll .It is a land surface that is smaller than a hill and usually is separated from a large hill.
Hill
According to NCERT , A hill is a land surface that rises higher than the surrounding area having an elevation up to 600 metres.
Mountain
Generally, a steep hill with an elevation of more than 600 metres is termed as a mountain.
Gorge
It is a steep narrow valley between two hills or mountains.
7. Ravi Mittal take charge as the new Chairman of IBBI
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- Ravi Mittal took over the charge as the Chairman of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) on 9 February 2022.
- The post of the Chairman was vacant when the first Chairman of the IBBI, MS Sahoo completed his five year term on 30 September 2021.
IBBI
The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India was set up by the Government of India on 1st October, 2016 under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016.
It is the main body which implements the code related to insolvency of companies ,firms etc in India .
Headquarters of IBBI: New Delhi
Full form for exam
IBBI : Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India
- IBC : Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code
8. Gautam Adani richest person in Asia
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- Gautam Adani, the chairman of the Adani group, has overtaken Reliance Industries Ltd chairman Mukesh Ambani to become the richest man in Asia .
- According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index ,Gautam Adani net worth was $88.5 billion while Mukesh Ambani was $87.9 billion.
- Gautam Adani founded the company in 1968 and started with a commodity trading business. Now the company is engaged in the business of ports, airports, coal mining, power sector, renewable energy, and defence.
9. Manoj Ahuja to be the new Agriculture Secretary
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The Appointment committee of the Cabinet,Government of India headed by the Prime Minister has approved the appointment of Manoj Ahuja as the new Agriculture Secretary .
At present he is the chairman of the Central Board of Secondary Education(CBSE) and he will take over the post in April 2022.
The committee also approved the appointment of
- Mr. S. Kishore is the Chairman of the Staff Selection Commission(SSC).
- Mrs. Arti Ahuja as the new Secretary, Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals.
- Mr. Sanjay Malhotra as the new Secretary, Department of Financial Services.
Important secretary of the Government of India, important for Exam
- Finance Secretary : T.V.Somanathan
- Foreign Secretary : Harsh Vardhan Shringla
- Home Secretary : Ajay Kumar Bhalla
- Defence Secretary : Ajay Kumar
10. Praveen kumar Sobti “Bheem” no more
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Noted athlete and famous TV actor Praveen Kumar Sobti passed away on 8 February 2022 at the age of 74 in Delhi .
Praveen Kumar who started his career as an athlete shot to fame with the portrayal of the character “Bheem” in the B.R Chopra’s Television Serial Mahabharat telecasted in 1988.
Praveen Kumar Sobti became the second Indian athlete after Milkha Singh to win a medal in the Commonwealth games when he won the silver medal in the hammer throw event at the Commonwealth Games held in Kingston, Jamaica 1966.
He also won the gold medal in discus throw and Bronze medal in the hammer throw at the 1966 Asian Games held at Bangkok, Thailand .
Sobti went on to add another gold and silver in discus in successive Asian Games in 1970 Bangkok and 1974 Tehran ,respectively.
He also participated in the 1968 Mexico city Olympics and the Munich 1972 Olympics .
