Current Affairs Quiz: February 3, 2022

The traditional Torgya Festival of the Monpa community in Arunachal Pradesh has held.

India and Nepal signed an Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the construction of a motorable Bridge over the Mahakali River connecting Dharchula (India) with Darchula (Nepal), under Indian grant assistance.

Worlds first hydrogen-powered flying boat is all set to be manufactured and launched in Dubai.Swiss startup THE JET ZeroEmission has signed an agreement with UAE-based Zenith Marine Services and US-based DWYN to manufacture and operate The Jet.

Lenders are set to transfer 15 large-ticket stressed accounts worth Rs 50,000 crore to the National Asset Reconstruction Company Limited (NARCL) in the first tranche by the end of the current financial year.

State Bank of India (SBI) said it has entered into an agreement with Tata Power Solar Systems for financing of solar projects. The lender has also set up a dedicated centralized processing cell – Surya Shakti Cell, at the Ballard Estate in Mumbai.

Indian economy contracted by 6.6 per cent in 2020-21 as against the earlier estimate of 7.3 per cent decline, showing that the COVID-19 pandemic hit economy did not perform as badly as was initially worked out.

Tata Sky has rebranded itself as Tata Play as it looks to expand its television-cum-OTT (over-the-top) offerings in combined packages.

South Korean electronics manufacturing giant Samsung Electronics surpassed U.S chipmaker Intel to become the worlds leading chipmaker by revenue in 2021, according to a report released by research firm Counterpoint Technology Market Research.

Manika Batra has jumped six places to enter the top-50 of the womens singles world rankings for the first time.Batra has reached a career high 50th in the latest ITTF rankings.

Mithali Raj has reached the no. 2 spot in the latest Womens ODI Batting Rankings released by ICC, ahead of the upcoming ICC Womens Cricket World Cup 2022. Mithali Raj has a total of 738 points to her credit and sits second to Australian player Alyssa Healy with 750 points.

The 2022 Asian Games will take place from September 10 to September 25, 2022, in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China and there will be five co-host cities.

Netherlands batter Ben Cooper announced his retirement from international cricket at the age of 29.

The government has extended the LIC chairmans term by one year. The current term of M R Kumar, chairman of LIC, was to end on March 13, 2022.

Dhiraj Malhotra, BCCIs General Manager for Game Development, has resigned from the post and is likely to head back to IPL franchise Delhi Capitals.

Italys current president Sergio Mattarella has been re-elected for a second mandate, speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, Robert Fico, announced.

North Korea confirmed it had fired a Hwasong-12 “mid-range ballistic missile”, state media reported, the first time it has tested a weapon that powerful since 2017.

Senior advocate and Additional Solicitor General (ASG) Rupinder Singh Suri died.

Actor and filmmaker Amitabh Dayal has died due to a massive heart attack,at the age of 51.