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Wednesday 9 March 2016

CURRENT AFFAIRS - 1ST MARCH TO 9TH MARCH

1)US actor George Kennedy passes away

2) Former CJI HL Dattu takes over as Chairman of NHRC

3) Slovenian high-jumper Rozle Prezelj (36) has been elected the new chairman of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Athletes’ Commission.

4) The MS Swaminathan Research Foundation has signed a MOU with Bhubaneswar-based Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) to establish a Research Chair.

5) Indira Gandhi International Airport wins three international awards

6) Mahesh Kumar Singla committee constituted to consider ST status to 6 communities of Assam

7) The 7th edition of India, Seychelles joint military exercise LAMITYE 2016 concluded in Victoria, Mahe Island, Seychelles.

8) Rahul Sachdev wins 1st All India Open Invitational Snooker Championship 2016

9) Haryana Government renames Mustafabad Village as Saraswati Nagar

10) Hashim Thaci elected as President of Kosovo

11) Vice Admiral Atul Kumar Jain appointed as Chief of Staff of Eastern Naval Command

12) Peru declares emergency after oil spill in two Rivers

13) Three British scientists win 2016 Brain Prize Timothy Bliss, Graham Collingridge, Richard Morris

14) Military Exercise Force Eighteen begins in Pune ASEAN countries along with ASEAN Plus nations viz. India, Australia, Japan, New Zealand, China, South Korea, Russia and US .

15) IFC launches Uridashi Masala Bonds

16) South African spinner Aaron Phangiso suspended over illegal bowling action

17) Poet Dr Bhagwati Lal Vyas selected for 2015 Bihari Puraskar

18) Union Government gives nod for issuance of UDAY bonds to four states Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Jharkhand and Chattisgarh.

19) India ranks 90th in terms of energy security, access: WEF Report

20) The Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) has cleared a proposal to purchase two Phalcon Airborne Warning and Control Systems (AWACS), surveillance aircrafts from Israel.

21) Former NZ cricket captain Martin Crowe passes away

22) Forbes’s 2016 billionaires list: Bill Gates retains title as World’s Richest Person

Total number of billionaires in the world: 1,810 billionaires (of them 190 are women) with their aggregate net worth of $6.48 trillion.

World’s youngest billionaire: 19 year old  Alexandra Andresen (Norway)was ranked 1,476th with fortune of $1.2 billion.

23) 3rd March: World Wildlife Day

24) Union Government approves winding up of National Manufacturing Competitiveness Council

25) Mumbai U-23 team wins CK Nayudu Trophy 2015-16 by defeating M.P

26) Mrugank Paranjape has been appointed as managing director (MD) and chief executive officer (CEO) of Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX), country’s largest commodity exchange.

27) Theatre guru Ratan Thiyam selected for 11th META Lifetime Achievement Award

28) Union Government, Madhya Pradesh government and the World Bank have signed $300 million credit agreement for Madhya Pradesh Higher Education Quality Improvement Project (MPHEQIP).

29) South Korea passes first Anti-terror Bill

30) The world’s most expensive train station opened at the 9/11 site in New York, United States. It has been named World Trade Center Transportation Hub.

31) UNSC imposes tough sanctions against North Korea over nuclear test

32) Delhi launches country’s first HPV vaccine as public health programme in schools

33) Former Lok Sabha Speaker PA Sangma(Meghalaya) passes away. In January 2013, he had formed the National People’s Party.

34) Jitu Rai wins Gold medal in 50m pistol event at ISSF World Cup

35) Indian-American Sunil Sabharwal took charge as Alternate Executive Director at IMF

36) Film scholar P K Nair passes away

37) FIH promotes Napoleon Singh as international Umpire

38) PM Narendra Modi launches Setu Bharatam Project to make all national highways free of railway crossings by 2019.

39) Manoj Kumar to be conferred Dadasaheb Phalke Award

40) Traditional Chapchar Kut festival celebrated across Mizoram

41) Raisina Dialogue 2016 kicks off at New Delhi . The three day conference is joint initiative of Union Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) and Observer Research Foundation (ORF),

42) India moves to WTO against US on temporary working visa issue

43) President Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated a National conference on ‘Women Legislators: Building Resurgent India’ in New Delhi

44) Popular Malayalam actor Kalabhavan Mani passes away

45) SBI granted operating licence by Myanmar

46) PM adopted Nagepur village in his Varanasi Constituency under SAGY

47) Patna Pirates has won the third season of Star Sports Pro Kabaddi League (PKL) by defeating U Mumbai.

48) Jalandhar based Capital Local Area Bank (CLAB) Limited became the first financial entity in India to get Small Financial Bank Licence by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).

49) E-mail inventor Ray Tomlinson passes away

50) Dogri poetess Padma Sachdev awarded 2015 Krutitava Smagra Samman

51) The Union Government has launched an online marketing platform Mahila E-HAAT to facilitate women entrepreneurs to sell their products to buyers.

52) Indian scientists develop Herbal Medicine for Dengue

53) MoEFCC releases Four Colour Classification Scheme for industries based on Pollution Index
Red:- PI score of 60 and above
Orange:- PI score of 41 to 59
Green:- PI score of 21 to 40
White:- PI score of below and upto 20

53) Maria Sharapova provisionally suspended after failing drugs test at Australian Open

54) Former NDDB chief Amrita Patel gets Mahindra lifetime achievement award

55) Germany to develop Bhubaneswar, Kochi, Coimbatore as Smart Cities

56) Telangana, Maharashtra ink MoU for five irrigation projects

57) Gender gap in jobs, wages remain unchanged in 20 years: ILO report

58) 8 March: International Women’s Day , theme:- “Planet 50-50 by 2030: Step It Up for Gender Equality” , The campaign theme for the day is #PledgeForParity.

59) National carrier Air India successfully flew the World’s longest all-woman operated and supported flight from the national capital New Delhi to San Francisco (United States).

60) Indian Railways forms SPV to execute Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project

61) India is going to host BRICS Friendship Cities Conclave in Mumbai (Maharashtra), financial capital of India from April 14 to 16, 2016.

62) Fitch, the global rating agency  has maintained India's growth forecast for India at 7.5 % for this fiscal ( 2015-2016 ) and also sees higher growth around 7.7 %  & 7.9 % over the next two financial years.
63) Union Government announced to withdraw tax proposal on Employee Provident Fund

64) Bajaj Power Generation Company has signed an agreement with the Indian Railways for electrification of the Lalitpur-Udaipura rail section under the public private partnership (PPP). 

65) Banks disburse over Rs 1.15 lakh cr under PM Mudra Yojana

66) SoftBank(japan) Splits Into Two Subsidiaries

67) Countdown for launch of India’s 6th navigational satellite IRNSS-1F(PSLV-32) begins in Sriharikota

68) South Korea, US began largest ever military exercises

69) France Highest Honour "Legion d'Honneur" To Saudi Prince  Mohammed bin Nayef.

70) Gyan Sangam: 3rd Phase of Bank Reforms to Focus on Bad Loan held in Gurgaon

71) Oil Minister Lays Foundation Stone Of Octomax Unit At Mathura (UP)

72) Myanmar grants operating licenses to four more Asian banks including SBI

73) Amazon Is India's Most Trusted Online Shopping Brand

74)  Investors' summit Begins in Gurgaon

75) American Actress Nancy Reagan died At 94

76) 15 States have Joined UDAY Scheme

77) A Memorandum of Understanding was signed between Indian Army and Hinduja Grouped Induslnd Bank on the Defence Salary package.

78) PepsiCo Named As New Associate Sponsor Of BCCI

79) TCS chief N Chandrasekaran appointed to board of Reserve Bank , Mr Mankad was Chief Secretary of Gujarat , Bharat Narotam Doshi, non-executive chairman of Mahindra & Mahindra,

80) Election Commission Announces Assembly Election In 4 States & 1 Union Territory

81) Pat Conroy, Prince of Tides And Great Santini Author, Dies At 70

82) Telangana Cngress MLA R. Venkat Reddy Passes Away

83) Kerala Government has taken first of its kind initiative by launching the Air Ambulance

84) Alappuzha Backwaters To Get India’s First Solar Ferry

85)  Government Proposes 10 Member Kashmiri Pandit Panel

86) Ratan Thiyam Selected For 11th META Lifetime Achievement Award

87) Leading e-commerce company Flipkart launched its own advertisement platform, Brand Story Ads, with over 50 leading brands on board.

88) Veteran All India Forward Bloc (AIFB) leader and senior-most leader of the Left Front in West Bengal, Ashok Ghosh passed away recently. He was 94.

89) Veteran singer Stevie Wonder was honoured with Global Green Hero award.
90) NHAI ties up with ISB,hyderabad for skill development

91) To meet the need of the country, the Government of India plans to set up nuclear power plants in Haryana, Bihar and Punjab.

92) Chennai Gets India’s First Self Cleaning Smart Toilets

93) Historic Old War Office In London Acquired By Hinduja Group

94) 1st Raisina Dialogue Inaugurated By Sushma Swaraj In New Delhi

95)  UltraTech acquired cement units of Jaiprakash Associates

96) Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a leading IT services company has been recognized as a Global Top Employer by the Top Employers Institute

97) Sanjiv Kapoor has been appointed as the Chief Strategy and Commercial Officer of Vistara Airlines.

98) RBI unlocks Rs.40000 crore additional capital for banks

99) Scott Kelly, American Astronaut, Returns to Earth After 340 Days in Space
100) George Kennedy The Oscar Winning Actor Passed Away

101) . India Inks $3.1 Billion Deals For Apache And Chinook Helicopters With US
102) SIDBI To Raise Rs 10,000 Cr. For Stand Up India Fund

103) Japan to stipulate 80% emission cut goal by 2050

104)  NASA Invites India To Jointly Explore Mars

105) Zee Media to acquire 80% stake in India Today companies

106) Armaan Ebrahim won FMSCI Motorsports Man of the Year Trophy

107) Bahadur Singh Rana Won Gold In 50 Km Race Walk In National Championship

108) The country’s largest mobile wallet provider Paytm has got into a strategic tie-up with Florida-based global provider dedicated to banking and payments technologies FIS Global.

109) Government Karnataka has launched Mukhyamantri Santwana Harish Yojana to provide free medical treatment to road accident victims for the first 48 hours (2 days) in the nearest government or private hospital.

110) NTPC Bags Poll Based Investor Communication Award

111) Sun Pharma Signs MS Dhoni As Brand Ambassador For Revital H

112) Reliance Jio To Offer free Wi-Fi at 6 stadiums For T20 World Cup

113) Telangana, Maharashtra CMs ink pact on Godavari water projects

114) 108—feet tall idol of Lord Rishabhdeva,in Maharashtra,  the first Teerthankar of Jains, carved out of a single rock, has entered the “Guinness World Records” as the world’s tallest Jain statue.

115) India’s leading Integrated Travel Thomas Cook Signs Strategic Alliance With Western Union Business Solutions And DCB Bank

116) Freecharge partners with Mexico-based movie theatre chain Cinepolis

117) President Pranab Mukherjee on 8 March 2016 presented Nari Shakti Puraskar for the year 2015 to 15
women, 5 organisations, one state and panchayat.

118) 57 countries to take part in first-ever Maritime India Summit 2016

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