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Success Preamble March.Pdf CTRRENS AFFAIRS DIGESS. Most Important current affairs collected for school students from The HINDU / The Indian Express / Press Information Bureau etc.. synergies in creative thinking and 2019‟ held between BSF and BGB 2 in Tripura technology-based learning. Border Security Force (BSF) and Border Guards Bangladesh (BGB) concluded a 6. April 2019 to March 2020 declared three-day „Mainamati Maitree Exercise 2019‟ as a part of „Confidence Building as Construction Technology year Measures‟ between the two border guards. The exercise was named after a hill range P situated 8 km west of Comilla Township in r Bangladesh, which is home to an ancient i Buddhist archaeological site in the m region. e The main objective of this exercise was to plan and conduct anti-smuggling and anti- M criminal activity related operations with i ultimate aim of achieving better joint n operational efficiency and border i management in the area of responsibility s of respective BSF and BGB Battalions t participating in the joint exercise. er Narendra Modi declared April 2019- 5. NITI Aayog‟s Atal Innovation March 2020 as Construction-Technology year at the Construction Technology India- Mission partners with Adobe to 2019 Expo-cum-conference in New Delhi. enhance creativity in ATL Schools Construction-Technology year emphasizes the role of advanced technology to meet the increasing demand for housing in the country. The declaration of Construction year aims to give the housing sector a new pace by using the latest technologies available in the world. India has even launched the Global Housing Technology Challenge to fast-track the construction of affordable housing and meet Government think tank NITI Aayog the target of constructing 1.2 crore houses partnered with software major Adobeto by 2022. develop creative skills and spread digital 7. Usha Thorat-led task force to literacy among school children in India. The Statement of Intent (SOI) signed by ensure stability of external value NITI Aayog and Adobe as part of the Atal of rupee Innovation Mission will open Digital Disha Programme across 100 schools under the Atal Tinkering Labs (ATL). The Digital Disha Programme, which is expected to touch the lives of 1 million students by 2020, is aimed at driving MARCH 2019 based MMAD communications (IRCTC‟s The Reserve Bank of India constituted an technology partner). 3 eight-member task force on offshore rupee markets, headed by Usha Thorat former 9. The Centre bans Jamat-e-Islami Deputy Governor, to look into issues J&K for 5 years related to the markets and recommend appropriate policy measures to ensure the stability of the external value of the rupee. The Centre has banned the Jamat-e-Islami The terms of reference of the task force Jammu and Kashmir (JIJK) for five years. include assessing the causes behind the The Jamaat is in close touch with terror development of the offshore rupee outfits and is supporting extremism and market; study the effects of the offshore terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir and elsewhere. markets on the rupee exchange rate and The notification comes barely a few days market liquidity in the domestic market; and after the Jammu and Kashmir Police recommend measures to address concerns, arrested around 100 cadres of the group in if any, that may arise out of offshore rupee the state. trading. The Jamaat-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir (JIJK) is a cadre-based religious -political 8. IRCTC launches Its Own Digital organisation in Jammu and Kashmir (J & K), Payment Gateway „IRCTC iPay‟ distinct from the Jamaat-e-Islami Hind. Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) has launched its own digital payment aggregator called „IRCTC iPay‟. IRCTC iPay will provide payment options 10. ISRO launches 'Yuva Vigyani like credit card, debit card, unified Karyakram' for school children payment interface and international card. This will help reduce the gap between IRCTC and banks which will eventually lead to a substantial reduction in payment failures. ISRO Scientists will impart basic knowledge on Space Technology, Space Science and Space Applications to the young ones with the intent of arousing their The back-end support will be provided by interest in the emerging areas of Space D activities. e Two weeks “Catch them young” l residential training programme will be held h during summer holidays to select 3 students i MARCH 2019 from each State and Union Territory, Classes covering CBSE, ICSE and State syllabus. 4 The government has asked scientific institutions in the country to mentor young minds in the area of basic science. President Ram Nath Kovind has appointed Bhagwan Lal Sahni as the 11. Karnataka launches chairman of the newly „Jalamrutha‟ scheme for water constituted National Commission for conservation Backward Classes (NCBC). Kaushalendra Singh Patel, Sudha Yadav and Achary Talloju have been appointed as members of the commission. The National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC) was given constitutional status by Parliament in 2018, after repealing the National Commission for Backward Classes Act, 1993. 13. Indore awarded the cleanest city in Swachh Survekshan 2019 Karnataka chief minister „H D awards Kumaraswamy‟ has initiated the „Jalamrutha‟ initiative which is a water conservation scheme. The objective of the initiative to create awareness among the people of the state about the invaluable nature of water and the need to conserve it at any cost. The state of Karnataka has announced the year 2019 as „Jalavarsha (year of Indore has been awarded India's cleanest water)‟ city for the third straight year in the central government's cleanliness Swachh 12. Bhagwan Lal Sahni appointed Survekshan 2019 (SS 2019) awards. Chairman of the National The second and third positions in the category were grabbed Commission for Backward by Ambikapur (Chhattisgarh) and Mysore (Karnataka). The New Delhi Municipal Council area was given the 'Cleanest Small City' award, Gauchar (Uttarakhand) was adjudged the 'Best Ganga Town' in the central government survey. The 'Cleanest Big City' award has been bagged by Ahmedabad, while Raipur is the 'Fastest Moving Big City'. Ujjain has been the adjudged the 'Cleanest Medium City' and Mathura- MARCH 2019 Vrindavan bagged the tag of the 'Fastest Tech giant Google unveiled a new free Moving Medium Cities'. app 'Bolo' that aims to help children in 5 Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) has been primary school learn to read in Hindi and declared as the cleanest capital. English. PM releases new series of coins for Divyang The free app uses Google's speech kids recognition and text-to-speech technology. The app features an animated character 14. Prime Minister Narendra 'Diya', who encourages children to read Modi has released the new series stories aloud and helps if the child is unable of visually-impaired friendly to pronounce a word. It also lauds the reader when she completes circulation coins in the the reading. denomination of Rs 1, Rs 2, Rs 5, Rs The users are a not asked for details like 10 and Rs 20. email ID and gender for logging into the app. 16. Janaushadhi Diwas is being celebrated across the country Various new features have been incorporated in the new series of circulation coins to make it easy for the visually impaired to use them. The coins are characterised by the Janaushadhi Diwas has been celebrated increasing size and weight from lower to across the country on March 7th higher denominations. Prime The newly-included coin of Rs 20, will be a Minist 12-sided coin with no serrations (rest round er shape). Naren The rest of the denominations would be of dra the round shape. Modi addre 15. Google launches 'Bolo' app to ssed f tutor children to read in Hindi, ive English thous and Janaushadhi stores across the country through video-conferencing on the occasion. More than five thousand 50 Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Pariyojana Kendras (PMBJP) are functional in 652 districts. The Janaushadhi Kendras are providing quality medicine at an affordable price. MARCH 2019 17. Ajit Kumar Mohanty appointed 19. Union Government announces 6 Bhabha Atomic Research Centre chief Scientist Ajit Kumar Mohanty has been appointed Director of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre(BARC), the country's new Rs 20 coin premier multi-disciplinary nuclear research facility for a period of three years. He is at present Director, Physics Group in BARC and Director, Saha Institute of Nuclear The union Government has announced a Physics. new Rs 20 coin, come in 12-edged polygon The BARC is India's premier nuclear (dodecagon) shape. research facility based in Mumbai. According to the Finance Ministry, the new It is a multi-disciplinary research centre Rs 20 coin will be made in copper (65%), with extensive infrastructure for advanced zinc (15%) and nickel (20%) for the outer research and development covering the ring. entire spectrum of nuclear science, While the inner ring (centre piece) will be engineering and related areas. 75% copper, 20% zinc and 5% nickel. It will be 27mm (milli meters) and weigh 18. President Kovind presents Nari 8.54 grams. Shakti Puraskar 2018 The Lion Capitol symbol of Ashoka Pillar with the legend “Satyamev Jayate” below it President Ram Nath Kovind presented the will be inscribed on its front side. Nari Shakti Puraskar 2018 in New Delhi. The words “Bharat” in Hindi and Nari Shakti Puraskar is the highest civilian “INDIA” in English will be there on the honour for women in India. right and left-hand side of the symbol This year, 44 awardees have been selected respectively. for these Puraskar. Ministry confers Nari Shakti Puraskar to 20. India‟s first oil museum to women and institutions in recognition of come up in Guwahati their relentless service towards the cause of women empowerment and social welfare. This year, the Nari Shakti Puraskar has also been awarded to a One Stop Centre and to a state which has shown exceptional progress in improving child sex ratio at birth under the Beti Bachao Beti Padhao scheme.
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