Current Affairs February 2015 – World
- Boris Nemtsov, the Russian opposition politician, shot dead in Moscow.
- Jamaica passed a law in Jamaican Parliament to decriminalise marijuana for personal use.
- 3 million US dollar award announced by FBI for information on Evgeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev.
- Evgeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev was allegedly involved in a major Cyber- crime in which he played a role of administrator for the GameOver Zeus botnet.
- Forbes recently released Asia’s 50 most Powerful Businesswomen 2015 list:
- Six Indians included in the list.
- Arundhati Bhattacharya, CMD, SBI
- Chanda Kochchar, CEO, ICICI Bank
- Akhila Srinivasan, MD/Non-Executive Director, Shriram Life Insurance
- Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, Founder, Chairman and MD, Biocon
- Shikha Sharma, CEO and MD, Axis Bank
- Usha Sangwan, MD, Life Insurance Corp. of India
- Abdul Jabbar sentenced to life imprisonment for war crimes in Bangladesh.
- UK passed a legislation allowing creation of babies using DNA of three people.
- United Kingdom has become the first country to legalise the creation of 3-parent IVF designer babies using Mitochondrial Donation Technique.
- Former President of Maldives Mohamed Nasheed arrested in capital Male under anti-terror law.
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