25th February

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• 1994 An Israeli doctor kills 30 unarmed Palestinians in the Mosque of Abraham
• 1964 Muhammad Ali becomes world heavyweight champion
• 1947 The state of Prussia is dissolved

NATIONAL

• India's 1st Aadhaar authenticated farmers' database to be launched in June. This will be used as a master database for implementing any farmer-related government schemes. The database will be a consolidation of all kinds of genuine lists of farmers available with the government.
• Centre gives in-principle nod to Doon-Delhi elevated expressway. An elevated expressway between Dehradun and New Delhi will reduce the distance between the two cities to 180 kms.
• Public libraries in Karnataka to go digital. Karnataka will roll out digital librariesas the government has successfully transformed its legacy public libraries into digital powerhouse of knowledge and e-learning.

ECONOMY 

• Tech Mahindra to acquire US-based Zen3 Infosolutions for $64mn. Zen3 Infosolutions has expertise in artificial intelligence, machine learning, annotations, cloud engineering etc which are high growth areas.

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