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1 March 2017

1. Three institutes of Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education

(ICFRE), Dehradun have developed 20 high-yielding varieties of plant

species.

2. Senior IAS officer Sumit Mullick appointed as the Chief Secretary of

Maharashtra.

3. Chinese multinational telecommunications equipment company ZTE

made an announcement that it has launched a next generation 5G IT

base-band unit (BBU). ZTE has partnered with Intel Corporation for this

technology.

. I dia i ter atio al ri keter Virat Kohli has a ed as the Captai of the Year at the 10th annual ESPN cricinfo Awards.

5. Gopal Baglay, the 1992-batch officer of the Indian Foreign Service

(IFS), has been appointed as the new spokesperson of the Ministry of

External Affairs (MEA).

. The U io Mi ister of Rail a s Suresh Pra hu has flagged off I dia s first Antyodaya Express between Ernakulam and Howrah.

7. Nand Kumar Sai, the senior tribal BJP leader from Chhattisgarh and

ex parliamentarian, has recently taken charge as new chairman of

National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) in Delhi.

2 March 2017



1. Former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister O Panneerselvam launched a

portal which will be a hub of learning, interaction, opportunity, and

connection..

2. Top seeded Indian shuttler duo Tarun Kona and Alwin Francis won

the Me s Dou le title at the Uga da I ter atio al Series defeating Aatish Lubah and Georges Julien Paul of Mauritius, 21-8, 21-

14 at MTN Arena Lugogo, Kampala.

3. To recognize the contribution of women cricketers, the BCCI for the

first time, has introduced the Lifetime Achievement Award for Women.

4. Sumit Mullick, the 1982 batch IAS officer, has been appointed as new

Chief Secretary of Maharashtra.

5. The 4th edition of India-CLMV (Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar and

Vietnam) Business Conclave was held in Jaipur, Rajasthan.

. The ook The Wro g Tur : Lo e a d Betra al i the Ti e of Netaji has been authored by Sanjay Chopra and Namita Roy Ghose.

3 March 2017

1. The 29th edition of the International Yoga festival has started at

Parmarth Niketan along the banks of holy Ganges River in Rishikesh,

Uttarakhand from March 1, 2017.

2. On 1 March 2017, Bakri Hassan Saleh has been appointed by

President Omar al-Bashir as Suda s first Pri e Mi ister si e the post was abolished in 1989.

3. Robyn Rihanna Fenty, a Barbadian singer and songwriter, has been

conferred with the 2017 Harvard Humanitarian of the Year award.



4. India captain Virat Kohli was nominated for the prestigious Polly

Umrigar award while all-rounder Ravichandran Ashwin named for the

Dilip Sardesai award.

5. The All India Football Federation (AIFF) appointed Portugal's Luis

Norton de Matos as the head coach of the India Under-17 team for the

FIFA Under-17 World Cup.

. Tele o Se retar J S Deepak as a ed I dia s e t A assador to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) from June 2017.

4 March 2017

1. Online travel company Yatra.com has signed an agreement with

Madhya Pradesh government to jointly promote home stays in the

state.

2. The navy successfully test-fired an anti-ship missile for the first time

from an indigenously built Kalvari class submarine.

3. Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has won the annual Visitor's

Award for the 'Best University', 2017.

4. P K Purwar was appointed as the Chairman and Managing Director of

state-run telecom major Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL).

5 March 2017



1. Indian grandmaster Harika Dronavalli has won a bronze medal at the

Wo e s World Chess Cha pio ship in Tehran.

2. China will build its first national underwater observatory in the

disputed South China Sea.

. The a ual tri al festi al Bhagoria ill e held i Jha ua a d four other districts of Madhya Pradesh from March 13, 2017.

4. India will attend the meeting of the Permanent Indus Commission

(PIC), which is scheduled to be held in Lahore, Pakistan on March 2017.

6 March 2017

1. The Assam government has made Sanskrit education compulsory in

all state board schools till Class VIII.

2. The Odisha government has recently signed MoU with Invest India to

support startups in the state. The MoU will also facilitate networking

between Odisha start-ups and global start-up ecosystem.

3. Narendra Singh Tomar, the Union Minister of Rural Development,

Panchayati Raj , Drinking Water and Sanitation, has recently launched

atio ide S a hh Shakti Saptah fro Gurugra , Har a a o Mar h 1, 2017.

. INS Viraat, the orld s oldest air raft arrier i a ti e ser i e ill e decommissioned on 6 March 2017 with a ceremonial send-off in

Mumbai.



7 March 2017

1. Eminent Malayalam author and journalist M P Veerendra Kumar was

today presented the 30th Moortidevi award by Bharatiya Jnanpith

organization.

2. Social networking site Facebook launched a new initiative

'SheLeadsTech', to support women-founded or co-founded startups.

3. North Eastern state Tripura has agreed to supply an additional 60

MW to Bangladesh over the 100 MW of power the north-eastern state

is supplying to the neighbouring country.

4. India ended their campaign in the International Shooting Sports

Federation (ISSF) World Cup (Rifle/Pistol/Shotgun) with five medals,

including one Gold, two Silver and two Bronze medals at the Dr. Karni

Singh Shooting Range, New Delhi.

5. State Bank of India has decided to reintroduce penalty on non-

maintenance of minimum balance in accounts from 1st of April 2017.

6. Sri Lanka won the 'Most Popular Tourism Destination Award' at the

Guangzhou International Travel Fair (GITF) in China.

8 March 2017

1. The Union Cabinet has gi e its appro al for I dia s a essio to the Customs Convention on International Transport of Goods under cover

of TIR Carnets (TIR Convention) and necessary procedures for

ratification.



2. Payments platform PayPal announced an extension of its merchant

partnership with MakeMyTrip, Indian online travel booking company,

to facilitate hotel and holidays booking in addition to airline tickets.

. Kerala s pla a k si ger Vaiko Vija alaksh i reated a e orld record by playing the maximum number of songs in the shortest time

on Gayathri veena during a program in Kochi.

4. Mobile manufacturer OPPO Mobiles India Pvt Ltd has become the

new team sponsor for the Indian cricket team for 5 years.

. The Har a a go er e t has re e tl lau hed Tirtha Darsha scheme for senior citizens.

6. Sam Querrey, an American professional tennis player, has won the

2017 ATP Mexico Open hard court tennis tournament by defeating

Rafael Nadal in the final by 6-3, 7-6 at Acapulco in Mexico.

9 March 2017

1. A two-day North-East Business Summit (NEBS) begins in New Delhi.

2. The actor Aishwarya Rai Bachchan who played the character of

Sara jit Si gh s sister Dal ir Kaur, has o the Best A tress a ard at the International Film Festival and Awards of Australia (IFFAA).

3. GMR group led Rajiv Gandhi Hyderabad International Airport has

secured first position in the world in the prestigious Airports Council

International (ACI) Airport Service Quality (ASQ) survey in the 5-15

million passengers per annum (MPPA) category for the year 2016.



4. The Jammu and Kashmir government will organise a first-of-its-kind

Tulip festi al fro April , i the su er apital of Sri agar.

. Pri e Mi ister Nare dra Modi has re e tl i augurated the I dia s longest cable-bridge over the Narmada River on the Ahmedabad-

Mumbai section of NH-8 (New NH-48) in Bharuch, Guajarat.

10 March 2017

1. RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat was conferred the honorary degree of

Doctor of Science (DSc) by the Nagpur-based Maharashtra Animal and

Fishery Sciences University.

2. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced the 'BCCI

Annual Awards for 2015-16'. The awards were given away at a

ceremony held in Bangaluru March 8, 2017 which also marks the

I ter atio al Wo e s Da .

3. Karur- ased Karur V s a Ba k s Chief Executive K. Venkataraman

has rolled-out of three technology services FASTag, UPI and BBPS.

. IDFC Ba k has e o e the I dia s first a k to lau h the io etri -

ased digital pa e t s ste Aadhaar Pa through its et ork that will allow even those without mobile phones to do cashless

transactions.

. The State Ba k of I dia SBI has re e tl lau hed a e Work fro Ho e fa ilit to e a le its e plo ees to ork hile at ho e using mobile devices to address any urgent requirement they may

have, that prevents their travelling to work.



11 March 2017

1. 1. The 10th edition of the International Conference on Theory and

Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV 2017) was held in New Delhi

from March 7-9, 2017.

2. Tata Power-DDL company has become the first Indian power utility

to successfully deploy tele-protection service using Line-Differential

Relay (LDR) over an IP/MPLS network.

3. Eminent Konkani writer Mahabaleshwar Sail has been honoured with

the Saraswati Samman 2016 for his novel Hawthan.

4. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami launched a housing scheme

estimated at Rs 1,580 crore. The scheme was being implemented by

the state government with Central assistance for the economically

poor.

5. The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras has won the 2017

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Spectrum

Technology in the Service of Society Award for its solar-Direct Current

(DC) inverter system.

12 March 2017

1. Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar has been appointed UNICEF and

Cri ket For Good A assador for the ICC Wo e s World Cup



2. Narendra Kumar, an officer of Central Water Engineering Service

(1979 batch), has recently taken charge as Chairman of Central Water

Commission (CWC).

3. India and Belgium have signed an agreement to amending the

existing Agreement and Protocol between the two countries for

avoidance of double taxation and the prevention of fiscal evasion with

respect to taxes on income in New Delhi.

4. Prof. George A. Olah (89), who won Nobel Prize in chemistry, has

recently passed away in California, United States.

13 March 2017

. A ordi g to the Fi a ial Ti es, Chi a s a ki g s ste has o ertake the eurozo e to e o e the orld s iggest assets.

. The ega ultural festi al I dia the Nile has started i Cairo, Egypt from March 8 and will continue till March 14, 2017.

3. Punjab has won the 71st Santosh Trophy football tournament by

defeating Railways by 2-1 goals.

4. IndusInd Bank has entered into an agreement with Infrastructure

Leasing and Financial Services Ltd (IL& FS) to acquire 100% stake in IL&

FS Securities Services Ltd (ISSL).

5. HDFC Bank launched an instant digital Loan Against Securities (LAS)

facility in collaboration with the National Securities Depository

Ltd.(NSDL).



14 March 2017

1. 1. The Union Urban Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu has

re e tl i augurated I dia s largest aste-to-power plant at Narela-

Bawana in New Delhi.

2. Airtel Payments Bank, offered by telecom major Bharti Airtel,

announced that over one lakh savings accounts were opened in 100

villages across Tamil Nadu.

3. The Chief minister of Odisha, Naveen Patnaik has recently launched a

24X7 toll free helpline number 181 for distressed women in all the 30

districts of the state on the occasion on Internatio al Wo e s Da .

4. B.P. Kanungo has been appointed the new Deputy Governor in the

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for a period of 3 years.

5. The Himachal Pradesh Government has recently launched the mobile

app a d e site Mera Hu ar HP for jo aspira ts..

15 March 2017

. Lee Cho g Wei of Mala sia has o the e s si gles at the All England Open badminton championships in Birmingham, United

Kingdom by defeating Shi Yuqi of China in the final by 21-12, 21-10.

2. The 22nd edition of Asian Athletics Championship will be held in

India at Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar, Odisha from July 2017.



. The ook Aura gze : The Ma a d the M th has ee authored historian Audrey Truschke that retells the complex and contested life of

the sixth Mughal emperor Aura gze .

4. Chinese smartphone company OnePlus has roped in Bollywood star

Amitabh Bachchan as its new brand ambassador for India.

5. The Arunachal Pradesh government has launched a new scheme

'Adarsh Gram Yojana' that is in accordance with the basic philosophy of

the Prime Minister 'Sabka Saath Sabka Vikaas'.

16 March 2017

1. The Union government has launched Mission Fingerling to achieve

Blue Revolution with the holistic development and management of

fisheries in the country.

2. According to the Mer er s 9th a ual Qualit of Li i g sur e released Vienna, the capital of Austria has topped the list of cities

offering the highest quality of life for the eighth year in a row.

3. The United Kingdom (UK) will host the 25th edition of

Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in April 2018

after a gap of over 20 years.

4. The Karnataka government has launched a Rs 10-crore Idea2POC

(Idea to Proof of Concept) fund for women entrepreneurs.

5. The National Thermal Power Corporation Limited (NTPC) has recently

i stalled I dia s largest floati g solar Photo-Voltaic (PV) plant at Rajiv



Ga dhi Co i ed C le Po er Pla t RGCCPP i Kerala s Ka a kula district.

17 March 2017

1. Nirmala Sitharaman, the Union Minister of State for Commerce and

Industry, has re e tl lau hed a e s he e Trade I frastru ture for E port S he e TIES i Ne Delhi for de elopi g e port li ked infrastructure in states with a view to promote outbound shipments.

2. Diphan Sivakumar (47), the noted Malayalam film director, has

recently passed away in Kochi, Kerala. He is known for the Prithviraj

starrer superhit movie Puthiya Mugham.

. State Ba k of I dia a d real estate de elopers od Co federatio of Real Estate Developers' Associations of India) CREDAI have signed a

memorandum of understanding (MoU) to jointly conduct various

initiatives towards development of the realty sector.

4. Power equipment maker BHEL has commenced commercial

operations of its first 800-MW unit, a supercritical thermal plant in

Karnataka.

5. The 2017 National Theatre Festival (NTF) has started at Tagore

Theatre in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala from March 16 and will

continue till March 24.



6. Manhar Valji Bhai, the former BJP legislator from Gujarat, has

become the new Chairman of National Commission for Safai

Karamcharis (NCSK).

7. Chennai Port Trust and the Government of Puducherry has signed

Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for handling EXIM cargo

originating from Puducherry Port hinterland in New Delhi.

18 March 2017

1. Singapore's Changi Airport has been voted the World's Best Airport

by air travellers at the 2017 World Airport Awards for the fifth

consecutive year.

2. The BJP named Trivendra Singh Rawat, a former Rashtriya

Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) pracharak as a new Uttrakahand CM after

replacing of Harish rawat.

3. CASHe, a fin-tech product promoted by Aeries Financial

Technologies, has entered into a strategic partnership with online

marketplace for financial products Rubique.

4. An Indian-American high school student, Indrani Das, 17, of New

Jersey, has won the 2017 Regeneron Science Talent Search bagging the

top award of 250,000 dollars.

5. Sun Pharmaceuticals Managing Director Dilip Shanghvi has been

appointed by the central government as a member of the western area

local board of Reserve Bank of India.



19 March 2017

1. Ashwin Sundar, Former national racing champion and his wife died in

a car mishap. Sundar had won the national title in car racing and two-

wheeler events on several occasions.

2. Trivendra Singh Rawat, the senior BJP leader, has been sworn-in as

the 8th Chief Minister of Uttarakhand. In recent Uttarakhand Assembly

elections 2017, BJP won 57 of the 70 seats.

3. The 3-da I ter atio al Buddhist o fere e o Buddhis i lst Century: Perspectives and Responses to Global Issues has started at Nava Nalanda Mahavihara, Rajgir in Nalanda district, Bihar on March

17, 2017.

. I dia s ost su essful Bad i to Dou les spe ialist J ala Gutta has been appointed a new member of the governing body of Sports

Authority of India (SAI).

20 March 2017



1. Punjab cabinet has decided to provide 33 per cent reservation for

women in all government jobs.

. The th editio of All I dia Meet of State Legal Ser i es Authorities has started at Pra asi Bharati a Ke dra PBK i Ne Delhi from March 18, 2017.

3. Yogi Adityanath, the 32nd Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh now have

two deputies Keshav Prasad Maurya and Dinesh Sharma.

4. The first-ever Haryana Sahitya Sangam has started at Indradhanush

Auditorium in Panchkula in which more than 2,000 scholars, writers and

thinkers from across the country are participating.

5. The World Bank (WB) has recently approved the $175 million loan for

the atio al h drolog proje t to i pro e I dia s a ilit to fore ast floods and reduce vulnerability to recurring floods and droughts.

6. Irfan Kolothum Thodi from India has won the bronze in the 20

kilo etre e s e e t i the Asia Ra e Walk Cha pio ships at No i in Japan.

21 March 2017

1. E-commerce firm Snapdeal announced the appointment of Jason

Kothari as the Chief Executive Officer of its digital payment platform

FreeCharge and a commitment to invest an additional $20 million in the

company.



2. Roger Federer (Switzerland) claimed his fifth BNP PARIBAS OPEN,

ATP Indian Wells Masters title after defeating Stan Wawrinka in

California, USA.

3. The first fully India-made 12- oa h trai Medha has flagged off between Dadar to Borivali at Lokmanya Tilak Terminus in Mumbai,

Maharashtra.

. The th I ter atio al Co e tio o Cha gi g D a i s of Commodities Market has started i Ne Delhi to help the far ers participation in the trading of food grains.

. A ita h Ba h ha has re e tl lau hed the orld s first o ile app o ABC of Breast Health at a e e t orga ized the Ushalaksh i Breast Cancer Foundation in Mumbai, Maharashtra.

6. Shahid Afridi, the former Pakistan captain, has become the new

brand ambassador for the 5th edition of the ODI Blind Cricket World

Cup, which is scheduled to be held in January 2018.

22 March 2017

1. ICICI Bank, India s largest pri ate se tor a k o solidated assets has announced the launch of a mobile banking app 'Mera iMobile' for

rural customers.

2. Vidya Pillai from India has won silver medal in the 2017 Eden World

Women Snooker Championship at Safra Toa Payoh in Singapore.



3. Anshumali Shrivastava, an Indian-American Computer Scientist, has

o the Natio al S ie e Fou datio NSF s prestigious CAREER award for his research on redesigning current machine-learning

processes.

4. India ranked 122nd out of 155 countries in the recently released

World Happiness Report, 2017.

5. The Uttarakhand High Court has given the status of "living human

entities" to the Ganga and Yamuna, two of India's most sacred rivers.

6. Chinu Modi (78), the noted Gujarati poet and ghazal writer, has

recently passed away in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. He has made a great

contribution to Gujarati literature with his poetry, plays, novels and

stories.

23 March 2017

1. Upendra Tripathy, an IAS officer of Karnataka Cadre, has been

appointed as the full-time Interim Director General (IDG) of the

International Solar Alliance (ISA).

2. The 12th edition of Special Olympics World Winter Games has

started at Graz and Schladming in Austria from March 14 and will

continue till March 25, 2017.

3. Ankur Khanna has been appointed as the new Chief Financial Officer

(CFO) of International Cricket Council (ICC) and will join the ICC

headquarters in Dubai at the end of March 2017.



4. The government has announced Madhabi Puri Buch as new whole

time member of Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI).

5. Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) commissioned two major

facilities a Hypersonic Wind Tunnel and Shock Tunnel at the Vikram

Sarabhai Space Centre at Thiruvananthapuram as part of its continuous

and concerted efforts to minimise cost of access to space.

24 March 2017

1. The Assam government has recently signed MoU with State Bank of

India (SBI) to provide Housing and Educational Loan at subsidised

interest rates to the employees of the state government.

2. French mathematician Yves Meyer has won the prestigious 2017

Abel Prize for his pivotal role in the development of the mathematical

theory of wavelets (small waves or ripples).

3. Recently, Indian shooter Ankur Mittal has won Gold medal in the

Me s Double Trap event at the 2017 International Shooting Sport

Federation (ISSF) World Cup in Acapulco, Mexico on March 22, 2017.

4. The 2017 India Sourcing Fair (ISF) will be held at Bandaranaike

Memorial International Conference Hall (BMICH), Colombo, Sri Lanka

from March 24 to 26, 2017.

5. The Government of India (GoI) and the Asian Development Bank

(ADB) has signed the loan agreement for a $350 million loan to upgrade

district roads in the state of Madhya Pradesh.



6. The Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, is the first academic

institution to get a supercomputing facility under the National

Supercomputing Mission (NSM).

25 March 2017

1. Defence Minister Arun Jaitley handed over three naval systems,

developed by premier Defence Research and Development

Organisation (DRDO) to the Indian Navy.

2. Ravish Kumar, the senior executive editor of NDTV India, has been

honoured with the first-ever Kuldip Nayar journalism award at India

International Centre (IIC) in New Delhi on March 19, 2017 in recognition

of his outstanding contribution in the world of Journalism.

3. India has been ranked 87th out of 127 countries in the global Energy

Architecture Performance Index (EAPI) 2017, as per recently released

5th annual edition of the Global Energy Architecture Performance Index

Report 2017.

4. The Kane Wildlife Sanctuary (KWS) is located at the West Siang

District in Arunachal Pradesh. It is spread over an area of 55 sq km.

5. The Bihar government has recently launched an ambitious

programme to provide free WiFi facilities in colleges and universities on

the occasion of Bihar Diwas.

26 March 2017



. I dia s first erti al garde has set up at the Hosur Road Ele tro i s City Flyover in Bengaluru, Karnataka to control the pollution level of the

city.

2. The 3rd edition of World Co fere e o E iro e t has ee organized by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) in New Delhi on March

25, 2017.

3. Prominent Tamil writer and Sahitya Akademi winner Ashokamitran

died at the age of 86. He powerfully portrayed the lives and struggles of

the urban middle-class life in his literary works.

4. Tanushree Pareek became the first woman combat officer to be

commissioned in the 51- ear histor of the BSF, the ou tr s largest border guarding force.

27 March 2017

1.Indian-origin British director Gurinder Chadha has been honoured

with the 2017 Sikh Jewel Award for 2017 for her immense contribution

to British cinema.

2. Dr.Randeep Guleria has been appointed as the new Director of the

All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Delhi for five years from

the date of assumption of charge or till attaining the age of 65 until

further orders.



3. India has become the third largest aviation market in terms of

domestic passenger traffic, beating Japan.

4. Veteran actor Anupam Kher will be honoured with the Kala Ratan

Award by Vice President Hamid Ansari.

5. An Indian para shuttler, Sukant Kadam has recently won the singles

and doubles bronze medals in the 2017 Spanish Para-Badminton

International at Majorca in Spain.

28 March 2017

1. FIFA confirmed that the Salt Lake stadium in Kolkata will be the

venue of the final of the FIFA Under 17 World Cup to be held later in

2017.

2. Gauri Singh (14) from Rajasthan has become the first Indian girl to

explore the route from Sea Link near Worli Koliwada to the Gateway of

India. She took over 6 hours 30 minutes to complete the 36 km long

distance route.

3. The 105th edition of the Indian Science Congress (ISC) will be held at

the Osmania University (OU) in Hyderabad from January 3-7, 2018.

4. The Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI) is a statutory advisory

body under the Union Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate

Change (MoEF) and its headquarters is located at Chennai, Tamil Nadu.



5. The Kinnerasani Wildlife Sanctuary is located in Khammam district of

Telangana. The wildlife sanctuary is spread over an area of 635.40

square kilometers.

6. American financial magazine Barron's has listed the name of HDFC

Ba k Ma agi g Dire tor Adit a Puri s a e i its list of orld s est CEOs.

29 March 2017

1. The National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research (NCAOR) is

the I dia s pre ier R&D i stitutio respo si le for the ou tr s research activities in the polar and Southern Ocean realms.

2. Indian-origin British Director Gurinder Chadha has been honored

with the Sikh Jewel Award for 2017 for her immense contribution to

British cinema.

3. Indian-American Vanita Gupta has been appointed as president and

CEO of The Leadership Co fere e o Ci il a d Hu a Rights , becoming the first woman to head the prestigious organization.

4. The Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) launched Mobile

Clinic Services for the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.

5. Odisha has become the first Indian state to carry financial inclusion

and extend banking services to unbanked areas through Self Help

Groups (SHGs).



6. Tehmtan R. Andhyarujina (84), the senior Advocate and eminent

jurist, has recently passed away. He was the Solicitor General of India

from 1996 to 1998.

30 March 2017

1. The Airports Authority of India (AAI), the Defense Research and

Development Organisation (DRDO) and Government of Jharkhand

signed an MoU for the development of the Deoghar Airport in Deoghar

district of Jharkhand.

2. United Bank Limited (UBL), one of the Pakistan largest banks

appointed Sima Kamil as the new president and chief executive officer

(CEO) of the bank.

3. The Indian cricket team has recently won the 2017 Border Gavaskar

Trophy by beating Australian cricket team by 8 wickets in the fourth

and final Test at Himachal Pradesh.

4. The Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting, M Venkaiah

Naidu has re e tl lau hed the O li e Fil Certifi atio S ste e-

Ci epra aa of the Ce tral Board of Fil Certifi atio CBFC to promote transparency & Ease of Doing Business.

5. Siddhartha Upadhyay, the sports entrepreneur and philanthropist,

has been appointed the new member in the governing body of Sports

Authority of India (SAI).



6. The Insurance Regulatory and Development authority of India (IRDAI)

has imposed a penalty of Rs 20 lakh on ICICI Prudential Life Insurance

Company on various charges.

31 March 2017

1. Bob Dylan, the renowned US musician and poet, will finally accept his

Nobel Literature Prize at a meeting with the Swedish Academy in

Stockholm, Sweden in April 2017.

2. The 3rd G-20 Framework Working Group (FWG) Meeting under the

G-20 German Presidency was held in Varanasi on 28th and 29th of

March, 2017.

3. Anil Ambani, the Chairman of Reliance Group, has been inducted into

the international advisory board of global think-ta k Atla ti Cou il .

4. India and Nepal have renewed the fuel supply agreement between

Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL) and Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC) for

another five years.

5. The 9th World Environmental Education Congress (WEEC) will be

held in Vancouver, Canada between September 9-15 2017. The theme

will be 'Weaving new connections'.

6. Paytm will become the first e-commerce company to take

membership of the Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) in April

2017.



7. The popular tribal festival of nature worshipping – Sarhul has started in all over Jharkhand with enthusiasm. The festival marks the

beginning of New Year by worshiping trees.

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