*CURRENT AFFAIRS (07:02:2014)

*Abhinav Bindra won his second gold medal at the Inter Shoot Tri
Series shooting at The Hague, Netherlands on 7 February 2014. by
scoring 627.7 in the qualification round and then scoring 209 points
in the ...

*President of Israel Shimon Peres set a new Guinness World Record on 6
February 2014. He delivered the largest online civics class in the
world. He delivered the classes using Cisco's advanced technology. The
classes will be conducted from the company ...

*Roy, a spinster, breathed her last at the Ramakrishna Mission Seva
Pratisthan around 11.30 pm Wednesday Legendary bhajan singer Juthika
Roy, who enthralled the likes of Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru
with her enchanting voice, died at a city

*Kumar Sangakkara becomes 4th player to score 400 runs in a Test
match...He scored 424 runs.

*Pakistani school girl Malala Yousafzai, who survived being shot in
the head by the Taliban, was nominated for the World Children's Prize
in Sweden for championing education rights for girls.

*A Kashmiri youth from a remote village of the Valley has won approval
for two of his projects from NASA's Kennedy Space Centre in the United
States.

*The United States signed anti-tax fraud pacts with Canada and Hungary
this week, expanding its drive to combat offshore tax evasion, the
Treasury Department has said.

*India has offered to provide Buyer's Credit of US$ 100 million to
Namibia for taking up infrastructure projects.

*Indian-Americans in USA have honoured US Democratic Congressman Joe
Crowley for his work for the community, particularly his efforts in
getting the FBI to track hate crimes against Sikhs and Hindus

*India's economic growth is likely to accelerate 5.6 percent in
2014-15 from the projected growth of less than five percent in the
current fiscal ending March, according to economic think-tank NCAER.

*India and China will hold talks on the boundary question and discuss
bilateral, regional and international issues of mutual interest during
the 17th round of Special RepresentativesTalks beginning Monday in New
Delhi.

*Five-time world boxing champion and Olympic bronze medalist M C Mary
Kom could soon be donning a new role -- endorsing country's largest
paramilitary force CRPF as its brand ambassador.