1. Under the ‘Mission 500’ plan, the two countries have decided to double bilateral trade between India and the US to Rs 43.31 lakh crore (500 billion dollars) by 2030.
2. The US has offered to provide
the state-of-the-art F-35 fighter jet to India.
3. It was decided in the talks
between Prime Minister Modi and US President Trump to take the ‘123’ nuclear
deal between India and the US, which was signed 16 years ago during the
previous Congress regime, to the next level.
4. ‘Kashi Tamil Sangam 2025’ will
begin on Feb. 15 in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh.
5. The Union Home Ministry has
ordered ‘Y’ category security to be provided to Tamil Nadu Vetri Kalam leader
Vijay.
6. The central theme of Kashi Tamil
Sangam 3.0 is ‘Agathiyar’.
7. To ease traffic congestion in
Chennai, the new bus terminal being built at Kuthambakkam will be inaugurated
soon, Chief Minister M.K. Dallin said.
8. The US and India have agreed to
launch a program called ‘Trust’ to enhance cooperation between governments,
academic institutions and the private sector in key and emerging technology
development and research in sectors including defense, artificial intelligence,
biotechnology, semiconductors, and the space sector.
9. Prime Minister Modi, Union Home
Minister Amit Shah and others paid tribute to the CRPF soldiers who were
martyred in the attack carried out by terrorists in the Pulwama town of Jammu
and Kashmir on February 14, 2019.
10. Britain conferred an honorary
knighthood on Tata Group Chairman N. Chandrasekaran.