Current Affairs- Today’s Headlines: February 12, 2022

INDIA

– Chairman of Supreme Court panel on Char Dham project Ravi Chopra resigns

– Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog & UNDP India launch Community Innovator Fellowship

– President inaugurates New Darbar Hall at Raj Bhavan, Mumbai

ECONOMY & CORPORATE

– Union Minister for Road Transport & Highways Nitin Gadkari inaugurates 14.5 km long Rail-cum-Road-bridge over Ganga River approach project on NH 333B in Munger, Bihar at a cost of Rs.696 crore

– IRCTC to resume cooked food service on all trains from Feb 14

WORLD

– One Ocean Summit being held at Brittany, France on Feb 9-11 to mobilise the international community for preserving and supporting a healthy and sustainable ocean

– 4th Quad Foreign Ministers’ Meeting held in Melbourne; Foreign Ministers of Australia, India and Japan and the Secretary of State of US participated

– NASA selects two missions — the Multi-slit Solar Explorer (MUSE) and HelioSwarm — to help better understand earth-sun environment

– Luc Montagnier, who identified virus behind AIDS, dies at 89 in France; won 2008 Nobel Prize in medicine with colleague Francoise Barr-Sinoussi

– Norway tops 2021 Democracy Index of 167 countries released by Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU); India 46th

– International Day of Women and Girls in Science observed by UN on Feb 11

– Burkina Faso; Coup leader Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba declared new President

SPORTS

– India (265 in 50 overs) beat West Indies (169 in 37.1) by 96 runs in 3rd ODI at Ahmedabad; sweep three-match series 3-0