Current Affairs One liner of the day: 1 February 2017

1 February 2017: The one liner for 1 February 2017 covers important current affairs happenings that us relevant competitive exams. The day’s one liner’s cover important happenings like Operation Clean Money, eGov awards 2017 and Union Budget 2017 among others.

• Total expenditure predicted in the Union Budget 2017 - Rs 21.47 lakh crore

• India’s largest start-up incubator will be set up in - Karnataka

• State that tied up with MakeMyTrip to promote its home-stay scheme - Madhya Pradesh

• Operation launched by the Income Tax Department to track deposits post demonetisation - Operation Clean Money

• India Post recently became the third entity to receive a final license to start payments bank in India. The other two are - Paytm and Bharti Airtel

• States that bagged the Winners of Excellence eGov awards 2017 recently - Rajasthan and Telangana

• Country that was invited as a Guest Country at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2017 - India

• Person appointed as the DGP of Karnataka recently - Rupak Kumar Dutta

• This former Delhi Police Commissioner has been appointed as the new CBI Director- Alok Verma

• This country is set to launch the world’s first and largest nuclear icebreaker fleet - Russia

• This country is the focus nation in the 31st Surajkund International Crafts Mela – Egypt

• India recently held high-level consultations on countering terrorism with this country - Russia

• This state is hosting the 31st Surajkund International Crafts Mela – Haryana

• This former Union Minister passed away on 1 February 2017 after suffering from a heart attack - E Ahamed

• The Survey of India is planning to remeasure the height of this mountain peak – Mount Everest

• Researchers have found new species of songbird in this Indian mountain range – Western Ghats