Top 10 Weekly Current Affairs: 19 February to 24 February 2018

1. Jaipur’s Gandhinagar railway station becomes 1st fully women operated station

• The Gandhi Nagar railway station of Jaipur, Rajasthan became the country’s first major non-suburban railway station to be fully-managed by women.

• It is the second station in the country to be managed solely by women – the first being Matunga in Mumbai.

• Gandhi Nagar is important railway station in Jaipur situated on Jaipur-Delhi rail route. More than 50 trains pass through the station daily out of which 25 halting at it.

2. UNICEF issues Blank Statement on Syria, says it has run out of words

• UNICEF issued a blank statement to Syria on February 20, 2018 to express its outrage at mass casualties among Syrian children in the besieged enclave of Eastern Ghouta and neighboring Damascus.

• There were 10 empty lines with quote marks indicating missing text and an explanatory footnote, indicating its incapability to describe children’s suffering and its outrage.

• Forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad have been besieging almost 400000 civilians trapped inside Eastern Ghouta for years.

• This siege has tightened this year and attacks on the enclave have intensified.

3. ICC Rankings: Virat Kohli crosses 900 points in Tests, ODIs

• India captain Virat Kohli became only the second batsman after South Africa's AB de Villiers, in the history of the game to cross the 900-point mark in Tests and ODIs, as per latest ICC ODI player rankings.

• Pacer Jasprit Bumrah grabbed the joint-top position among bowlers.

• Kohli consolidated his top position with 558 runs in the 5-1 series win over South Africa, during which he slammed three centuries.

• Kohli is now a good 22 points ahead of Sachin Tendulkar, whose ODI career high was 887 points which came against Zimbabwe in January 1998.

4. Students in Bihar asked to wear slippers during board exams

• In a bid to stop cheating, the Bihar School Examination Board on February 18, 2018 ordered students sitting for the board examinations to not wear shoes and socks during the examination.

• The board stated in an official circular that the students will have to wear slippers on the exam day.

• The Bihar School Examination Board's President stated that this rule will also be implemented in the annual Secondary Examinations.

• The instructions have been issued to all district education officers, candidates and parents in this regard.

• The board examinations are scheduled to commence in Bihar from February 21, 2018.

• The new rule comes after 985 students were expelled on February 17 for cheating during the intermediate examination conducted by the Bihar School Examination Board.

• A total of 25 people were caught writing the exam on behalf of another candidate.

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