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The RBI reduced risk weights on bank lending to rated NBFCs from 125% to 100%, effective April 1, 2025, a move expected to free up to Rs 40,000 crore of capital for banks.
Scientists at the Physical Research Laboratory discovered a dense sub-Saturn exoplanet, TOI-6038A b, using the PARAS-2 spectrograph at Mount Abu. It has about 78.5 times Earth's mass and orbits an F-type star every 5.83 days.
ISRO and IIT Madras developed 'IRIS', an indigenous 64-bit RISC-V based semiconductor chip built on the SHAKTI baseline, fabricated at the Semi-Conductor Laboratory, Chandigarh.
NASA astronaut Sunita Williams logged 62 hours and 6 minutes of total spacewalk time during her ninth spacewalk, surpassing the earlier female record held by Peggy Whitson (60 hours 21 minutes).
NITI Aayog released its first report on State Public Universities, which counted 495 such universities in India, with Karnataka having the most at 43. Bihar spent the most on higher education at 1.56% of GSDP.
Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index 2024 placed India 96th out of 180 countries with a score of 38. Denmark topped the index for the seventh straight year.
Odisha approved the Antyodaya Gruha Yojana with an outlay of Rs 7,550 crore to give Rs 1.2 lakh per beneficiary for building 25 square metre pucca houses, targeting 2.25 lakh houses in three years.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented her 8th straight Union Budget on February 1, 2025. Under the new tax regime, income up to Rs 12 lakh is now tax-free (Rs 12.75 lakh for salaried people with a raised Rs 75,000 standard deduction). The fiscal deficit was pegged at 4.4% of GDP, and new schemes like the PM Dhan-Dhaanya Krishi Yojana, a six-year Pulses Mission, a Makhana Board in Bihar and 10,000 PM Research Fellowships were announced.
US President Donald Trump signed orders imposing 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico and a 10% tariff on China. Canada announced matching 25% tariffs on American goods in response.
India beat South Africa by 9 wickets at the Bayuemas Oval, Kuala Lumpur on February 2, 2025 to win the ICC U19 Women's T20 World Cup for the second straight time. Niki Prasad captained the side and Gongadi Trisha was Player of the Match and of the Series.
R Praggnanandhaa beat world champion D Gukesh in a blitz tiebreaker to win the Tata Steel Chess Masters 2025 at Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands. He is the first Indian to win the title since Viswanathan Anand in 2006.
At the 67th Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, Beyonce won Album of the Year for 'Cowboy Carter', also taking Best Country Album. Kendrick Lamar's 'Not Like Us' won Record and Song of the Year among five awards, and Chappell Roan was Best New Artist.
World Wetlands Day was observed on February 2, 2025 with the theme 'Protecting Wetlands for Our Common Future', marking the Ramsar Convention signed in 1971.
Bart De Wever was sworn in as Belgium's Prime Minister on February 3, 2025, becoming the first Flemish nationalist to hold the post.
Aga Khan IV, the spiritual leader of the Nizari Ismaili Muslims, died at the age of 88. On February 5, his son Rahim al-Hussaini was named Aga Khan V, the 50th hereditary Imam of the community.
The BJP won a two-thirds majority in the Delhi Assembly election held in February 2025. Rekha Gupta was named Chief Minister on February 19, becoming Delhi's fourth woman CM.
In its first policy review under Governor Sanjay Malhotra, the RBI's Monetary Policy Committee cut the repo rate by 25 basis points to 6.25%. The SDF stood at 6.00% and the MSF and Bank Rate at 6.50%.
The first-ever BIMSTEC Youth Summit was held in Gandhinagar, Gujarat from February 7-11, 2025 with the theme 'Youth as a Bridge for Intra-BIMSTEC Exchange'.
Manipur Chief Minister N. Biren Singh resigned on February 9, 2025 amid ethnic violence. The Union government imposed President's rule in the state on February 13, 2025.
Aero India 2025, the 15th edition of Asia's biggest air show, was held from February 10-14 at the Yelahanka Air Force Station, Bengaluru with the theme 'The Runway to a Billion Opportunities'.
The 3rd edition of the India-Egypt joint military exercise Cyclone was held at the Maharajan Field Range, Rajasthan from February 10-23, 2025.
The government announced that India's installed solar power capacity crossed 100 GW, growing about 3,450% in ten years, in support of the 500 GW non-fossil capacity target by 2030.
Konstantinos Tasoulas was elected President of Greece with 160 votes in parliament, taking office on March 13, 2025, succeeding Katerina Sakellaropoulou. In Romania, Senate Speaker Ilie Bolojan became interim President after Klaus Iohannis resigned on February 12, 2025.
World Radio Day was observed on February 13, 2025 with the theme 'Radio and Climate Change'.
The PM Surya Ghar: Muft Bijli Yojana, launched on February 13, 2024, completed one year. The rooftop solar scheme aims to give 1 crore households up to 300 units of free electricity per month by March 2027, with Gujarat leading in installations.
Sukri Bommagowda, the noted folk singer of Karnataka's Halakki Vokkaliga tribe known as 'Sukrajji', died in Bengaluru at the age of 88. She received the Padma Shri in 2017.
Olympian shooter Manu Bhaker won the BBC Indian Sportswoman of the Year award for 2024 at a ceremony in New Delhi. Para-athlete Avani Lekhara was named Para Sportswoman of the Year.
Union Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan launched the NAKSHA scheme for urban land records surveys on February 18, 2025 from Raisen district, Madhya Pradesh. It covers 152 urban local bodies across 26 states and 3 UTs with a budget of Rs 194 crore.
The 2025 Prayag Maha Kumbh Mela, which began on January 13, 2025, concluded on February 26, 2025 at Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh.
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