Current Affairs February 2014
- Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg became the youngest and the most generous philanthropist of America in 2013
- Accenture released a report India ranked 8th in the list of ten countries in terms of digital governance
- Canada announced to open a Consulate General Office in Bangalore on 11 February 2014
- Indian-Origin Ashok Varadhan was appointed as the co-head of the Goldman Sachs’ securities division
- China and Taiwan began their first official-level talks since the end of the brutal Chinese civil war in 1949 on 11 February 2014
- The Vice President of India M. Hamid Ansari launched the India-China Year of Friendly Exchanges on 11 February 2014
- Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Government of India signed a 275 million dollar loan for improving rural road connectivity
- The Bombay Stock Exchange launched an institutional trading platform (ITP) for small and medium enterprises on 12 February 2014
- Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi named as the Chairperson and Co-Chairman respectively of the party’s 50-member Campaign Committee for 2014 elections
- Konsam Himalaya Singh became the first Lieutenant General in the army from Manipur
- Mahindra South Africa has declared 2013 as the year for the annual sales in decade of its being operational in the country
- 103 persons were killed in Algeria when a military aircraft C-130 Hercules crashed in the mountains of Algeria on 12 February 2014
- Former Hollywood child star Shirley Temple passed away on 11 February 2014
