15 exam-relevant headlines, written simply. Read the bold fact in each — that's what exams ask.
Five Bharat Ratnas were announced in February 2024 - Karpoori Thakur, L.K. Advani, P.V. Narasimha Rao, Chaudhary Charan Singh and M.S. Swaminathan - four of them posthumous, taking the total recipients to 53.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the interim Budget for 2024-25 on February 1, 2024 in the 17th Lok Sabha, ahead of the general election. Announcements included rooftop solar targeting 300 units of free electricity a month, three major railway corridors, and support for coal gasification and the EV ecosystem.
Twenty-two-year-old Yashasvi Jaiswal hit 209 - his first Test double century - in the second Test against England at Visakhapatnam, helping India win by 106 runs. Jasprit Bumrah reached 150 Test wickets in the same match.
At the 66th Grammy Awards on February 4, 2024, Taylor Swift's 'Midnights' won Album of the Year, making her the first artist to win the category four times. Miley Cyrus' 'Flowers' took Record of the Year and Billie Eilish's 'What Was I Made For?' Song of the Year.
Australia beat defending champions India by 79 runs in the final in South Africa on February 11, 2024 to win their fourth ICC U-19 World Cup. South Africa's Kwena Maphaka was Player of the Tournament with 21 wickets.
Former PM Alexander Stubb won Finland's presidential runoff on February 11, 2024 with 51.6% against Pekka Haavisto - the narrowest margin in a Finnish runoff - and took office on March 1 for a six-year term.
A five-judge Constitution bench led by CJI D.Y. Chandrachud unanimously held the electoral bonds scheme unconstitutional on February 15, 2024, saying it violated voters' right to information under Article 19(1)(a). SBI was ordered to disclose donor-recipient data, which the Election Commission released in March.
OpenAI previewed Sora on February 15, 2024, an artificial intelligence model that can generate videos up to a minute long from text prompts. It was named after the Japanese word for sky.
Ravichandran Ashwin became the fastest Indian bowler to reach 500 Test wickets, taking the milestone on day two of the Rajkot Test against England and going past Anil Kumble's tally at the time.
Alexei Navalny, Russia's leading opposition figure and anti-corruption campaigner, died at the age of 47 in the IK-3 Arctic prison colony at Kharp weeks before Russia's presidential election.
ISRO launched the INSAT-3DS weather satellite on the GSLV-F14 rocket on February 17, 2024 - the first flight with the extended CUS-15 cryogenic upper stage. The 2,275 kg satellite will serve for 10 years under the Ministry of Earth Sciences.
India beat England by 434 runs in the third Test at Rajkot - India's largest Test win by runs and England's heaviest defeat since 1934. Yashasvi Jaiswal hit an unbeaten 214 with 12 sixes, equalling Wasim Akram's record for sixes in a Test innings.
Intuitive Machines' Odysseus lander touched down near Malapert A crater, about 300 km from the lunar south pole, on February 22, 2024 - the first commercial spacecraft to soft-land on the Moon and the first US lunar landing since Apollo 17 in 1972. The lander tipped over to a 30-degree angle after touchdown.
Mati Diop's documentary 'Dahomey' won the Golden Bear at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival (February 15-25, 2024) - the second straight year a documentary took the top prize.
India won the Ranchi Test by 5 wickets on February 26, 2024 to take an unassailable 3-1 lead, completing a 4-1 series win after losing the opening Test - the first such five-Test comeback in 112 years.
From exactly the headlines above. If you read the month, you should score 8+.
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