current affairs 19 february 2022

Government approves "New India Literacy Programme" for Education of adults.

Ministry of Education has approved a new scheme named New India Literacy Programme for the period FYs 2022-2027 to cover all the aspects of Adult Education.
The objective of this scheme is to link adult education with all aspects of National Education Policy 2020 and budget announcement 2021-22.
The government has now changed the term adult education to education for all in the country.

The air forces of Bangladesh and the United States will conduct a joint tactical airlift exercise Cope South 22 from February 20, 2022.
The six days exercise has been sponsored by Pacific Air Forces (PACAF).
The bilateral exercise will be held at Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) Kurmitola Cantonment, Dhaka; and Operating Location-Alpha, Sylhet, Bangladesh.
The goal of the exercise is bolstering bilateral ties between the two countries through tactical airlift sorties and subject-matter expert exchanges.

English club, Chelsea defeated Brazilian club Palmeiras 2-1 to win the 2021 FIFA Club World Cup final.
Chelsea have won the FIFA Club World Cup for the first time.
The deciding goal was scored by Kai Havertz with 3 minutes of extra time.
Kai Havertz's non-stop penalty in the 117th minute secured a place in the final of the Club World Cup.
The final was held at the Mohamed bin Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi.

Twitter Inc has partnered with Paytm’s payment gateway to improve the support for its Tips feature in India.
With this partnership, Twitter users will be able to use Paytm's payment facility, which includes Paytm Digital Wallet, Paytm Postpaid (Buy-Now-Pay-Later Service), Debit and Credit Cards and Net Banking.
The feature was announced last year and is one of the company's many efforts to introduce monetization on the platform.
Using the Tips feature, users can send payments to their favourite content creators on Twitter.
Tips is available since November to all Twitter users above 18 years of age in India.
It is available in Indian languages including Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi and Tamil.

NPCI International Payments Limited (NIPL) has partnered with Gateway Payments Service Pvt Ltd and Manam Infotech Private Limited to deploy Unified Payments Interface(UPI) in Nepal.
Gateway Payments Service Pvt Ltd is an authorized Payment System Operators in Nepal.
The partnership aims to support interoperable real-time Person to person (P2P) and Merchant payment transactions (P2M) in Nepal.
Nepal shall be the first country outside of India to adopt UPI as the payments platform driving the digitalization of cash transactions.