Current Affairs of February 20th 2017 for SBI PO/MT,SSC MTS,CHSL,CGL,IBPS CLERK,PO/MT,SO EXAMS

• The Anthropological Survey of India(AnSI) sets up a new museum in Kolkata which tells the tale of how modern humans in the Indian subcontinent evolved from ancestors who arrived about 12.3 million years ago from africa.
• The four day(February 16th-19th 2017) World Congress of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy(ENDO 2017) comes to an end in Hyderabad(Telangana State).This is the First World Congress of GI Endoscopy by the World Endoscopy Organization(WEO).
• Telangana State Public Service Commission(TSPSC) Chairman Ghanta Chakrapani was elected chairman of standing committee of national conference of state public service commissions on the second day of the conference at Kutch(Gujarat).
• The Kacheguda railway station becomes the first to be completely Digital Payments(Digi-Pay) enabled station in the entire South Central Railways(SCR) zone.
• Sudha Murthy,Infosys Foundation Chairperson was sworn in as a member of the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams(TTD) Trust Board which governs the famous Lord Venkateswara temple.
• Former Chief Justice of India(CJI) Altamas kabir(68) passes away in Kolkata.Mr Kabir was the 39th CJI.
• Nagaland Chief Minister T.R.Zeliang(INC) resigns against the backdrop of widespread protests in the state against government decision to reserve 33 percent of the seats in urban local bodies for women.
• The U.K.'s Vodafone and Aditya Birla group firm Idea Cellular are likely to merge and the merger will create India's largest telecom firm.The merger will create a revenue of about 77,500-80,000 crore INR.
• Mobile wallet firm and e-commerce platform Paytm will be investing 600 crore INR in 2017 to expand the network of its QR code-based payment solution.
• Capgemini India's chief executive Srinivas Kandula said that 60-65% of the IT staff are not retrainable.
• Australian Test skipper Steve Smith to lead Rising Pune Supergiants(RPS) in the 10th season of Indian Premier League(IPL).Former Indian captain M.S.Dhoni led the team in the 9th season of IPL.
• A rare,black and white photograph of the Titanic,which sank during its maiden voyage in 1912,has been sold for 360 Pound Sterling at an auction in the U.K.
• A Mexican woman,born without arms,sets a new Guinness World Record for lighting 11 candles without her feet in just one minute.