# GST

• Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday announced the release of ₹33500 crores to states towards GST Compensation, which includes over ₹16500 crore to six states that have completed the paperwork to get their entire claim settled.
• Almost, ₹17000 crore will go to states as the remaining compensation for June 2022, when the five year compensation period ended.
• The money will flow to the states and two union territories, Delhi and Puducherry, from the centre.
• During the first five years of the GST, the centre had promised to compensate states in case revenue growth was under 14% on an annual basis, by transferring money collected as cess on soft drinks, tobacco, cars and some other products.

# Kuno national park

• Twelve South African cheetahs were released in the enclosures inside Kuno national park of Sheopur district in Madhya pradesh by Environment minister Bhupendra Yadav.
• Kuno is now home to 20 cheetahs including eight that were brought from Namibia and released by Modi in September last year.
• An Indian Airforce C-17 globe master plane flew the South African cheetahs from South Africa.

# Quad

• The G20 foreign minister’s meeting next month will be followed by a meeting of the foreign ministers of Quad countries.
• The three ministers will participate in the G20 meeting on March 1-2, which will be attended by their Russian and Chinese counterparts.
• Australian PM Anthony Albanese will arrive in India on March 8 for a meeting with Narendra Modi.

# North Korea

• North Korea fired an inter continental ballistic missile on Saturday which landed in Japan’s Exclusive economic zone.
• Experts said demonstrated potential to reach the US mainland if fired as the normal trajectory.