CURRENT AFFAIRS OF 7th FEBRUARY 2022

CURRENT AFFAIRS OF 7^th  FEBRUARY 2022

1. The drug regulator DCGI (Drugs Controller General of India) has granted emergency use permission to the Single-dose Sputnik Light COVID-19 vaccine in India.
2. The Indian cricket team created history on February 06 by becoming the first side in the world to complete the milestone of 1,000 ODIs.
3. India has become the first country in the world to administer DNA Vaccines against COVID-19 in February 2022.
4. Senegal won its first ‘African Cup of Nations’ title on February 6,2022 by beating Egypt 4-2 in a penalty shootout.
5. NITI Aayog, in collaboration with PhonePe, AWS (Amazon Web Services), and EY (Ernst & Young Global Limited), has organized a three-week-long virtual summit, ‘Fintech Open’, from 7-28 February.
6. The Indian Air Force’s Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) ‘Tejas’ will be showcasing its flying skills at the Singapore Airshow 2022 being held from February 15 to 18.
7. Rohan Bopanna and R. Ramanathan won their second ‘ATP World Tour’ title together after winning the final on the Tata Open Maharashtra in February 2022.
8. Airtel Payments Bank has partnered with ICICI Lombard to offer insurance solutions against cyber crimes and financial frauds to its customers.
9. Actor Akshay Kumar has been appointed as the brand ambassador of Uttarakhand on 7 February 2022.
10. China beat South Korea 3-2 to win the ‘AFC Women’s Asian Cup’ on 6 February 2022.
11. Of the top ten villages selected across the country under the ‘Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana’ (SAGY), 7 belong to old Karimnagar and Nizamabad districts of Telangana.
12. Karnataka government has launched a self-defense training programme ‘Obavva Art of Self Defence Training’ for 50,000 girl students in schools and colleges.
13. The Ministry of Education (MoE) on 7 February 2022 appointed professor Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit as the first woman Vice-Chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi.
14. Former Greek President Christos Sartzetakis has passed away at the age of 92 years due to respiratory failure in Athens, Greece.
15. Rajasthan Chief Minister, Ashok Gehlot and BCCI President Sourav Ganguly laid the foundation stone of the world’s third-largest cricket stadium in Jaipur.