Current Affairs of February 13th 2017 for IBPS CLERK,PO/MT,SO,SBI PO,SSC CGL,CHSL,MTS EXAMS

• The Government of India is keen on appointing a single-point military adviser to promote synergy(cooperation) among the armed forces(Army,Navy,Airforce).
• A proposal to increase the salary of the President from the current 1.5 lakh INR to 5 lakh INR per month has been gathering dust(remain unmoved) in the Prime Minister's Office(PMO).The Home Ministry had also proposed to increase the salary of the Vice-President from 1.1 lakh INR to 3.5 lakh INR per month.
• Post offices in Telangana will now aid pensioners avail life certificates and the unemployed find jobs through tie-ups with the Ministry of Labour.Union Minister of State for Labour Bandaru Dattatreya launched the intitiative in Hyderabad on sunday.
•  The three-day(February 10th-12th 2017) National Women's Parliament(NWP) comes to an end in Amaravati(Andhra Pradesh).The patron of NWP is Ela Bhatt,Founder of Self-Employed Women's Association of India(SEWA).
• Hindustan Aeronautics Limited(HAL) will reveal IAF Surya Kiran,India's first indigenous multi-role helicopter Aero India expo,beginning in Bengaluru next week.
• Frank-Walter Steinmeier(61) elected as the 12th president of the Federal Republic of Germany.Mr Steinmeier succeeded Joachim Gauck.
• Pakistan's Senate Deputy-chairman,Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri denied a U.s.visa to attend a meeting of the Inter-Parliamentary Union at the UN headquarters(New York).
• The Centre is planning to invest about 2,200 crore INR by 2019 in start-ups working on new technologies in electronic sector under the Electronics Development Fund(EDF).
• Jiro Taniguchi(69),a legend in Japan's comic art of Manga died in Tokyo.Mr Jiro had an international following for his exquisite line drawing of scenes from everyday life.
• Ace Indian spinner Ravichandran Ashwin became the quickest to bag 250 wickets in test cricket.Ashwin surpassed Dennis Lillee,
• India retains the T20 World Cup for blind with an emphatic 9 wicket win over Pakistan at the final in Bengaluru.