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Current Affairs 23 February 2020

Madhya Pradesh CM Kamal Nath Inaugurates Indian Forest Service Officers Meet in Bhopal

• The Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh Shri Kamal Nath inaugurated the Forestry Conference of Indian Forest Service (IFS) officers at Noronha Academy of Administration in Bhopal on 22 February 2020.
• The event is being held in Bhopal for the first time.
• The main purpose of the conference is to deliberate on the usage of forest produce and the role of forests in economic growth.

PM-led Panel Selects Sanjay Kothari as Central Vigilance Commissioner

• Sanjay Kothari, the Secretary to the President, has been selected as the new Central Vigilance Commissioner by the high-powered committee headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
• The three-member panel has also selected former Information and Broadcasting Secretary, Bimal Julka, as the new Chief Information Commissioner in the Central Information Commission. He currently serves as an Information Commissioner.
• Apart from this, Suresh Patel has been named as Vigilance Commissioner and Anita Pandove as Information Commissioner.

Rajalaxmi Deo re-elected as Rowing Federation of India President

• Mrs Rajlaxmi Singh Deo has been re-elected as the president of the Rowing Federation of India (RFI) on 22nd February 2020.
• Apart from this other RFI appointments include:
  • M V Sriram – Secretary General
  • Rajpal Singh, G Bhasker, Souvik Ghose and Sreekunara Kurup – Vice-presidents (4)
  • Nababudin Ahmed – Treasurer
  • Krishna Kumar Singh and Chirajit Phukan – Joint Secretaries (2)
  • Jasbir Singh, Venkateswara Rao, Ismail Baig, Jacob and Manjunatha – Executive Members (5).
• All of the above will take the office from 1st April 2020 and remain at the post for a period of 4 years till 31st March 2024.
• Rowing Federation of India headquarter – Mumbai

Sweden Creates Food Planet Prizes worth USD 1 Million for Sustainable Food Solutions

• Sweden has created two new prizes named ‘Food Planet Prizes’, to be awarded for solutions to feed billions of people, as climate change threatens the world’s food supply and a growing population requires sustainable food systems.
• Food Planet Prizes will be worth USD 1 million each, and will encourage people to work towards sustainable food production..
• The prizes will be awarded annually in two categories:
  1. an existing scalable solution for sustainable foods
  2. innovative initiatives that could transform the global food sector
• The first edition of prizes is scheduled to be awarded in 2020 ending.

India Finishes Third with 20 Medals at 2020 Asian Wrestling Championships

• The 2020 Asian Wrestling Championships was held at the KD Jadhav Indoor Stadium, Indira Gandhi Arena, New Delhi from February 18 to February 23.
• China was not allowed to participate in the competition due to coronavirus outbreak.
• India won total 20 medals including 5 Gold, 6 Silver and 9 Bronze to be placed at third spot in the medal table.
• Japan stood first with 16 medals (8-4-4) while Iran was second with 17 medals (7-3-7).
• The Championship was held in three categories:
  1. Men’s freestyle
  2. Men’s Greco-Roman
  3. Women’s freestyle

List of Medals from Indian Wrestlers include:

Gold Medal

1. Ravi Kumar Dahiya- 57 kg – Men’s freestyle
2. Sunil Kumar- 87 kg – Men’s Greco-Roman
3. Pinki- 55 kg – Women’s freestyle
4. Sarita Mor – 59 kg- Women’s freestyle
5. Divya Kakran – 68 kg – Women’s freestyle

Silver Medal

1. Bajrang Punia- 65 kg- Men’s freestyle
2. Jitender Kumar- 74 kg- Men’s freestyle
3. Gourav Baliyan- 79 kg- Men’s freestyle
4. Satyawart Kadian- 97 kg- Men’s freestyle
5. Nirmala Devi- 50 kg- Women’s freestyle
6. Sakshi Malik- 65 kg- Women’s freestyle

Bronze Medal

1. Rahul Aware- 61 kg- Men’s freestyle
2. Deepak Punia- 86 kg- Men’s freestyle
3. Arjun Halakurki- 55 kg- Men’s Greco-Roman
4. Ashu- 67 kg- Men’s Greco-Roman
5. Aditya Kundu- 72 kg- Men’s Greco-Roman
6. Hardeep Singh- 97 kg- Men’s Greco-Roman
7. Vinesh Phogat – 53 kg- Women’s freestyle
8. Anshu Malik- 57 kg- Women’s freestyle
9. Gursharan Preet Kaur – 72 kg- Women’s freestyle

Former India Footballer Ashok Chatterjee Passes Away at 78

• Former India footballer Ashok Chatterjee, who played for the club Mohun Bagan, has passed away. He was 78.
• Chatterjee has made 30 appearances for the senior national team.
• He was part of the Indian team’s bronze-medal winning squad in the Merdeka Cup in 1965 and 1966.
• He was honoured with the Mohun Bagan Lifetime Achievement Award by the club in 2019.

Creator of LEGO Minifigure, Jens Nygaard Knudsen Passed Away at 78

• Jens Nygaard Knudsen, the chief designer of the iconic Lego minifigure with interchangeable legs and torsos has passed away. He was 78-year old.
• Nygaard Knudsen was also responsible for developing some of Lego’s classic themes, such as Lego Space and Lego Pirates.
• The LEGO Group is a Danish toy production company located in Billund, Denmark.

Veteran Academician And Former Trinamool MP, Krishna Bose, Passes Away At 89

• Noted educationist and academic-turned-politician, Krishna Bose has passed away due to age-related ailments. She was 89.
• She was married to Sisir Kumar Bose, nephew of Subhas Chandra Bose.
• Krishna Bose was the former Trinamool Congress (TMC) Member of Parliament (MP) from the Jadavpur constituency in West Bengal.

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