Daily Current Affairs of 22nd February 2018

• India has been ranked 81st in the Global corruption perception index for 2017, released by Transparency International.
• Last year, India was in the 79th place.
• New Zealand and Denmark were placed the highest in the list. 
• Syria, South Sudan and Somalia were ranked lowest.
• Japan has donated over 10,000 ballot boxes worth $7.5 million (over ₹48 crore) for Cambodia's 2018 general elections.

• Actor Kamal Haasan launched his political party 'Makkal Needhi Maiam' and hoisted a flag carrying the party's symbol in Tamil Nadu's Madurai. 
• The flag of Makkal Needhi Maiam Party depicts 6 hands holding onto each other with a six-pointed star in the middle. 
• The Jharkhand government has banned the Popular Front of India, claiming its members were "internally influenced by the ISIS". 

• Indian Air Force officer Avani Chaturvedi has become the country's first woman to fly a fighter jet solo, as she operated Russian-made MiG-21 aircraft in her first training sortie today.