Daily Current Affairs Updates

Arun Jaitley presents his third Budget. See updates as it happened

The Latest on Oscars 2016 (88th annual Academy Awards) being presented at the Dolby Theatre. Priyanka Chopra, who made her debut on the Oscars red carpet, presented the award. Alicia Vikander, Mark Rylance won Best Supporting Actor Oscars.

Former Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) Vinod Rai has been appointed as the first Chairman of Banks Board Bureau (BBB).

• Ex-DRDO DG Dr Avinash Chander awarded Aryabhata Award
• 28 February: National Science Day
• President dedicates India’s first IT co-operative UL Cyber Park in Kozhikode

President Pranab Mukherjee has formally declared Kerala as the country̢۪s first digital state.

President Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated India̢۪s first Gender Park at Kozhikode district of Kerala.

President Pranab Mukherjee dedicated India̢۪s first co-operative society in Information Technology (IT) sector UL CyberPark in Kozhikode, Kerala.

Former DRDO Director-General (DG) Dr Avinash Chander has been awarded prestigious Aryabhata Award of Astronautical Society of India.

Government-constituted expert committee to examine the Possibility of Replacing Multiple Prior Permissions with Pre-Existing Regulatory Mechanism has submitted its recommendations.

Which countries are participating in the naval Exercise IBSAMAR 2016?

• Rich feed off subsidies worth over Rs. 1 lakh crore: Economic Survey
• Govt’s LED drive to save over Rs 45,000 crore says Economic Survey
• Union Cabinet gives nod to India-Maldives double taxation Agreement on airlines

B.K. Garudachar, the legendary pre-independence cricketer and skipper of Mysore (as Karnataka was known then), passed away. He was 99.