Current Affairs- Today’s Headlines: February 27, 2023

INDIA

• Kerala inks pact with UN Women to empower women in tourism.
• Karnataka to get India’s first Marina to promote coastal tourism.
• Japan to invest ₹7,200 crores in Uttar Pradesh, HMI Group is developing 30 hotels in the state.
• PM Modi to inaugurate Shivamogga airport in Karnataka.
• Rs 16800 to be disbursed to Farmers under Pm Kisan Today
• CBI arrests Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia in excise policy case.
• Exercise Desert Flag VIII: LCA Tejas to take part in its maiden global air exercise.

ECONOMY

• FM Nirmala Sitharaman meets heads of World Bank, IMF; discusses debt restructuring.
• Commerce Ministry: Services exports to cross USD 300 billion this fiscal
• Pakistan govt raises policy interest rate by 200 bps for IMF Bailout.
• Direct benefit transfers reach Rs 5.5 trillion so far in the current financial year.

WORLD

• Elon Musk’s SpaceX set to launch next International Space station crew for NASA.
• UAE to send its second astronaut to space on a long haul mission to ISS
• Thousands of people take to streets in Portugal over cost-of-living crisis due to inflation.

SPORTS

• Tennis: Novak Djokovic breaks Steffi Graf’s record of 377 weeks at Number 1 rank.
• Football: Lionel Messi scores 700th club goal; Mbappe crosses 200^th goal for PSG club.

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