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NATIONAL NEWS: The unified smart cards for driving license New Zealand Deputy Prime minister and and vehicle registration will each have a QR Foreign Affairs Minister arrive on four- code that will help in verifying authenticity of day India visit: the data printed on the cards. Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Affairs MoSHRDShri Sanjay Dhotre inaugurates Minister of New ZealandWinston Peters the exhibition on clean air technologies arrived in New Delhi on a four-day visit to at IIT Delhi: India. Union Minister of State for Human Resource He will attend the inaugural ceremony of New DevelopmentShri Sanjay Dhotre Zealand Centre at IIT Delhi and will give a inaugurated the exhibition organised by speech on Indo Pacific at the Indian Council of Centre of Excellence for Research on Clean Air World Affairs. technologies at the Indian Institute of The Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Affairs Technology Delhi. Minister of New Zealand will reach Mumbai to Exhibition showcases clean air technologies attend an event at Bombay Stock developed by IIT Bombay, IIT Ropar, IIT Exchange. (ISM) Dhanbadand IIT Delhi. IIT Delhi Shri Nityanand Rai presides over the showcased the work it had carried out in the Valedictory Session of 1st ‘National area of clean air through start-ups incubated Conference on Coastal Disaster Risk at IIT Delhi namely Aerogram and Kriya Reduction and Resilience (CDRR&R) – Labs. 2020’: 16th Session of the Joint Ministerial Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, Shri Commission between India and Nityanand Rai presided over the valedictory Australia: session of the 1st ‘National Conference on 16th Session of the Joint Ministerial Coastal Disaster Risk Reduction and Commission (JMC) between India and Resilience (CDRR&R) – 2020’, organised by Australia was convened in New Delhi on 24th the National Institute of Disaster February 2020.The Session was co-chaired Management (NIDM), in New Delhi. by, Minister of Railways and Commerce & Madhya Pradesh becomes first state to IndustryShri Piyush Goyal. launch unified vehicle registration card: India and Australia agree to enhancing Madhya Pradesh has become the first state bilateral trade and investment through revival in the country to introduce the unified of the bilateral CECA negotiations and registration card and the second state to harmonise standards and regulations on launch the unified driving license after important products. Uttar Pradesh. Work on mutual recognition of educational Chief Minister Kamal Nath distributed the qualifications of the two countries. unified cards, including vehicle registration Goa 'Carnival 2020' kicks off in Panaji: and driving license in a function held in Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant flagged Bhopal. off the Carnival 2020 float parade in Panaji.

Large number of locals and tourist throng the to students from less developed coastal areas annual Goa Carnival, which is the major using the Lifology.com platform. traditional Catholic festival celebrated in Goa. Ministry of Corporate Affairs Secretary Govt aims to make Chhattisgarh a steel launches “SPICe+” to improve Ease of hub of the country: Doing Business in the country: Union Minister for Petroleum, Natural Gas and Injeti Srinivas inaugurated the SPICe+ Web Steel Dharmendra Pradhan has said that the Form as part of govt’s Ease of Doing Business government aims to make Chhattisgarh a initiatives. It would offer 10 services by 3 steel hub of the country. Steel industry has an Central Govt Ministries-Ministry of Corporate important role to play in making India a five Affairs, Ministry of Labour & Dept of Revenue trillion-dollar economy by 2024. in the Ministry of Finance. He said this in the visit to Bhilai Steel Plant, It also includes Maharashtra State Chhattisgarh. Government. Dolphin population in Odisha's Shri Pralhad Joshi lays foundation stone Gahirmatha halves: of Crusher and Conveyor System at The Forest Department of the Odisha State NALCO, Odisha: Government conducted a census at Chilika Union Minister of Coal and Mines, Shri Pralhad lake to count the number of dolphins at the Joshi laid foundation stone of Crusher and Gahirmatha Marine Sanctuary in Odisha. Conveyor System at NALCO’s Mining & According to the report, the dolphin count Refinery (M&R) Complex in Damanjodi, came down to 233 in 2020 from 259 in 2019. Odisha. The Sanctuary is a part of Bhitarkanika The project is expected to be completed by National Park of Odisha. April 2022 and would cost around Rs. 483 Haryana, Uttarakhand lead in Direct crores. Benefit Transfer payouts: Government aim to reach a $5 trillion West Bengal emerged as the worst in ratings economy by 2024. prepared for the first time by Centre NTPC's acquisition of entire stake in regarding Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) NEEPCO, THDC India gets CCI nod: pay-outs. Haryana & Uttarakhand emerged as CCI gave nod to acquisition of government's the best states at 1st and second positions, entire stake in THDC India and North Eastern respectively Electric Power Corporation Ltd (NEEPCO) by Central DBT covers as many as 439 schemes NTPC Ltd. NTPC will acquire 100% of the run by 56 ministries. issued & paid-up share capital of the NEEPCO CSR: Adani Foundation ties up with and 74.5% stake in THDC India. Lifology: Competition Commission of India (CCI) Adani Foundation launched a unique CSR chairman-Ashok Kumar Gupta activity among Kerala’s coastal communities Union FPI Minister launches Market in association with Lifology.com. The project Intelligence and Early Warning System aims to provide career-building opportunities

(MIEWS) Portal for Monitoring prices of The 24th meeting of the Eastern Zonal TOP Crops: Council, comprising of the States of Bihar, Union FPI Minister launched the– Market Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal, is Intelligence & Early Warning System scheduled to be held on 28th February 2020 (MIEWS) Web Portal. Portal can be accessed at Bhubaneswar. at http://miews.nafed-india.com. Government of India announces Maiden It is a ‘first-of-its-kind’ platform for ‘real Summit on Artificial Intelligence: time monitoring’ of prices of tomato, onion Government of India announced the mega and potato. event,RAISE 2020- ‘Responsible AI for Social Harsimrat Kaur Badal is Union Minister of Empowerment 2020,’ to be held in New Food Processing Industries (FPI). Delhi. 3-day international conference on RAISE 2020 is India's first Artificial “EMMDA 2020” held in Noida, Uttar Intelligence summit to be organized by the Pradesh: Govt. in partnership with Industry & National Centre for Medium-Range Weather Academia. Forecasting (NCMRWF), functions under the Ajay Prakash Sawhneyis the Secretary Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), has Ministry of Electronics and Information organized a 3-day international conference on Technology. “Ensemble Methods in Modelling and National cyber research and Innovation Data Assimilation (EMMDA) 2020” in centre, inaugurated by MoSG.K.Reddy in Noida, Uttar Pradesh. Hyderabad, Telangana: It was inaugurated by Dr.Harsh Minister of State (MOS) for Home Affairs Vardhan,Union Minister for Health and Ministry, Mr. GangapuramKishan Reddy Family Welfare, Science and Technology, has Inaugurated National Cyber Research, Earth Sciences. Innovation and capacity centre at Central CCEA approves Creation of National Detective Training Institute (CDTI) in Technical Textiles Mission: Hyderabad, Telangana. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs The objective of the centre is to help the (CCEA) approved setting up a national nation to combat cyber threats. technical textiles mission with a total outlay International Conference on of Rs 1,480 crore. Standardisation of AYUSH Terminologies The mission will have a four-year concludes in Delhi: implementation period from FY 2020-21 to 2-day International Conference on 2023-24. Standardisation of Diagnosis & Terminologies Indian technical textiles segment is estimated in AYUSH Systems of Medicine concluded in at 16 billion dollars. New Delhi with adopting the “New Delhi 24th Meeting of the Eastern Zonal Declaration on Collection & Classification of Council at Bhubaneswar : Traditional Medicine Diagnostic Data.

Ayurveda,Yoga&Naturopathy,Unani,Siddha, Narendra Singh Tomar said budgetary Sowa Rigpa& Homoeopathy provision has been made to provide each FPO PepsicoTo Invest Rs 400 Crore In Assam a sum of Rs. 15 lakhs for all farming related To Set Up Manufacturing Unit: activities ranging from sowing, harvesting to Assam's Industry Minister Chandra Mohan distribution & marketing. Patowary on Wednesday said PepsiCo India 8-day Vasantotsav begins in has proposed to invest Rs 400 crore in the Gandhinagar: state to set up a greenfield project for Eight-day cultural fair called Vasantotsav was manufacturing snacking products. inaugurated at Sanskruti Kunj in India & Myanmar signed 10 agreements Gandhinagar, Gujarat. in various fields: The annual festival is organised by the India & Myanmar agreed to strengthen the department of Youth & cultural Affairs of bilateral relations by signing 10 agreements Government to celebrate the rich diverse in various fields including infrastructure, heritage of the country. energy, communication & health. This year’s theme of the festival is The agreements were exchanged following EkBhaartShreshth Bharat. talks between PM Modi & Myanmar President Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad U Win Myint. inaugurates BSNL FTTH in Dehradun: Myanmar: Capital- NaypyidawCurrency- Union Minister of Law and Justice, Burmese Kyat. Communications, Electronics and Information VAJRA: The Offshore Patrol Vessel-6 Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad in launched at Chennai: Dehradun. inaugurated BSNL FTTH(Fiber The 6th Coast Guard Offshore Patrol Vessel-6 To the Home) and wifi service. “VAJRA” was launched in Chennai. Govt approves 32 projects in food The ship would be utilized for day & night processing sector under PMKSY: surveillance along with anti-terrorist anti- Government has sanctioned 32 projects in the smuggling operations in the Exclusive food processing sector under Pradhan Economic Zone (EEZ) as well as Coastal Mantri KisanSampada Yojana. Security. The projects are spread across around 17 The OPV have two Navigation Radars with states leveraging an investment worth 406 ultra-modern technology. Crore. Delhi hosts 91st Annual General Meeting SAMPADA scheme approved on 2017 was of the ICAR Society: later named as PMKSY. 91st Annual General Meeting of the Indian Union Food Processing Minister-Harsimrat Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) Kaur Badal. Society was held in Delhi. Arjun Munda launches ‘Capacity Building The Annual General Meeting was chaired by Programme for ST Representatives’ & the Union Minister for Agriculture & Farmers’ ‘1000 Springs Initiatives’: Welfare, Shri Narendra Singh Tomar.

Minister Arjun Munda launched ‘Programme Technology- Major Microsoft hosted its for capacity building of ST representatives in “Microsoft Future Decoded – CEO Summit” in local self-governments’, ‘1000 Spring Mumbai. Initiatives’& an online portal on GIS-based The summit was attended by leaders of Spring Atlas with hydrological & chemical different fields. The gathering was addressed properties of the Springs in Bhubaneswar. by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, during his Arjun Munda is the Union Tribal Affairs three-day visit to India. Nadella also attended Minister. the ‘Microsoft Future Decoded – Tech Ordnance factory boards becomes the Summit’ held at Bengaluru. 1st govt entity to adopt centralised NTPC signs MoU with CPCB to set up air invoicing platform: quality monitoring stations: Ordnance Factory Board (OFB)an NTPC Ltd has signed an agreement with the industrial organisation, functioning under the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB). Department of Defence Production of Ministry According to an agreement, NTPC Ltd will of Defence, Government of India (GoI), has provide financial support of Rs 80 Crore for become the 1st government entity to adopt installation and commissioning of centralised invoicing platform ,TreDS (Trade Continuous Ambient Air Quality Receivables electronic Discount Monitoring Stations (CAAQMS). System),under which a total of 41 OFBs A total of 25 Air Quality Monitoring adopted this platform,which would help Stations will be installed across six states smaller MSME (Micro, Small and Medium and three Union Territories. Enterprises) vendors access working capital The states include Jharkhand, Uttar easily. Pradesh, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, ONGC, HPCL buy out bankers in Petronet Bihar and Tamil Nadu. MHB for Rs 371 crore: Prime Minister to launch 10,000 Farmer State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp Producer Organisations (FPOs) all over (ONGC) and its subsidiary Hindustan the country: Petroleum Corp Ltd (HPCL) have bought Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch 10 out lenders in Petronet MHB Ltd, the firm thousand Farmer Producer Organizations, that owns a petroleum product pipeline in FPOs all over the country from Chitrakoot in Mangalore, for about Rs 371 crore. Uttar Pradesh. A consortium of eight public sector banks held Nearly 86% of farmers are small and 34.56 per cent stake in Petronet MHB Ltd, marginal with average land holdings in the where ONGC and HPCL held 32.72 per cent country being less than 1.1 hectare. apiece. FPOs will help in collectivization of small, “Microsoft Future Decoded – CEO marginal and landless farmers to give Summit” held in Mumbai: them strength to deal with issues like lack of access to technology, quality seed, fertilizers and pesticides including requisite finances.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will also lay Waiver of penalties & interests will cost 600 the foundation stone for the Bundelkhand Cr to the govt. Expressway at Chitrakoot. Atal Innovation Mission partnered with The Uttar Pradesh Government is Nasscom to launch AI-based module in constructing 296-kilometre long 5000 ATLs: Bundelkhand Expressway will pass through NITI (National Institution for Transforming the districts of Chitrakoot, Banda, India)) Aayog’s Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) Hamirpur and Jalaun. has collaborated with NASSCOM (National Shri Narendra Singh Tomar inaugurates Association of Software and Services the 11th National Krishi Vigyan Kendra Companies) to launch the artificial (KVK) Conference: intelligence (AI) based module including AI Union Minister for Agriculture & Farmers’ kits across 5000 Atal Tinkering Labs in the Welfare, Rural Development & Panchayati country 2020. Raj, Narendra Singh Tomar inaugurated Two-day unique Chilli Festival begins at the 11th National Krishi Vigyan Kendra Kasrawad in Madhya Pradesh: Conference in New Delhi. He & other The two-day unique Chilli Festival begins at dignitaries released various products Kasrawad in in Khargone district of developed by the KVKs. Madhya Pradesh. It will help in fulfilling the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi of doubling Central Government's goal of doubling the farmers income by 2022. income of farmers. NITI Aayog selects J&K for first pilot Chilli Festival is a business opportunity for project among all States and UTs on traders, investors & exporters. SDGs: Gujarat Assembly to start ‘Best MLA’ NITI Aayog has selected UT of J&K for first award from year 2019: pilot project among all States and UTs on Speaker Rajendra Trivedi said that Gujarat Sustainable Developmental Goals. It would Assembly will start giving ‘Best MLA’ award get a chance to work with UN Development for MLAs starting from the year 2019. Programme (UNDP). The programmes The award will be in the lines of Outstanding would work like that of district indicator Parliamentarian Award given to MPs & Best framework. MLA awards given in some other states. Government announces amnesty scheme Madhya Pradesh tops in land records for power consumers across UT of J&K: digitisation: Government has announced amnesty scheme 1st edition of NCAER Land Records and for power consumers across UT of Jammu & Services Index (N-LRSI 2019-20) released by Kashmir. The Administrative Council headed the National Council of Applied Economic by the Lieutenant Governor G.C. Murmu Research (NCAER). approved the scheme for power consumers Madhya Pradesh (MP) emerged as the best which will come into effect from March 1, performing state in terms of digitising land 2020. records with the score of 74.9.It was followed

by Odisha (67.5points) and Maharashtra 19th World Productivity Congress to be (65.3 points). held in Bangalore: While Union Territory (UT) of Ladakh ranked WorldProductivity Congress, the world’s at bottom at 33rd position with a score of 2.0. largest convention for productivity Defence Minister inaugurates new Light development, is back in India after a gap of Combat Helicopter Production Hangar at 45 years. HAL Complex in Bengaluru: 19th edition of WPC will be held on May 6 to Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh inaugurated May 8, 2020 at the Bangalore International the new Light Combat Helicopter Production Exhibition Centre, Bangalore. Hangar at Helicopter Division in Hindustan Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla launches Aeronautics Limited Complex at 'SuposhitMaaAbhiyaan' in Kota: Bengaluru, Karnataka. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has said that LCH is a 5.5-tonne class combat helicopter society should also come forward to remove designed and developed by HAL. malnutrition problems in the country. Mr. Mansukh Mandaviya commissions Indian Birla was addressing the program after Coast Guard’s Offshore Patrol Vessel launching the 'SuposhitMaaAbhiyaan' in ICGS Varad: his constituency Kota, Rajasthan. Union Minister of State for Shipping (I/C) and Union Minister for Women and Child Chemicals and Fertilizers Mansukh Development Smriti Irani was also present Mandaviya commissioned Indian Coast in the program. Guard’s OPV ICGS Varad in Chennai. Varad Newbornand pregnant women healthy is will enhance Coast Guard’s capability to the main objective of the monitor & maintain vigil of Indian maritime 'SuposhitMaaAbhiyaan '. borders. Maharashtra to be single use plastic free Varad is propelled by 2 diesel driven engines by May 1: of 9000 KW each. Maharashtra State government is set to Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh become single-use plastic-free by 1 May inaugurates ‘Pension Adalat’ in Jammu: 2020. The announcement was made by the Union Minister of State PMO, Personnel, Public Maharashtra environment minister Aaditya Grievances & Pensions, DrJitendra Singh Thackeray. inaugurated the ‘Pension Adalat’ and He said self-help groups (SHGs) will be National Pension System (NPS) Awareness given Rs 5 crore to procure cloth bags. and Grievance Redressal Programme in Anand Mahindra's M&M launch a cab Jammu. aggregator service named “Alyte”: Inaugurating the Pension Adalat, Dr. Auto manufacturer Mahindra & Mahindra Jitendra Singh said that this is the first time plans to enter the shared mobility services that Pension Adalat is being conducted segment with the launch of a cab aggregator, outside Delhi. called Alyte, for corporates.

The introduction of the service will put M&M Social Justice & Empowerment minister in direct competition with Ola and Uber. The Thaawarchand Gehlot will inaugurate the company claims a quarter of Alyte's fleet will Exhibition-cum-Fair ‘EKAM Fest’ organised be Electric vehiclesin the next two-three by National Handicapped Finance years. Development Corporation (NHFDC) to Products Worth Rs 22 Lakh Sold in State promote craftsmanship & products of Divyang Level KVIC Exhibition Under P.M.E.G.P: Artisans & Entrepreneurs. A sale of worth Rs 22 lakhs was recorded in “Ekam”-Entrepreneurship, Knowledge, an exhibition organised by Khadi & Village Awareness, Marketing. Industries Commission (KVIC) New Delhi ‘Chintan Baithak’ - ports review meeting state office under Prime Minister with Chairpersons of All Major Ports of Employment Generation India concludes: Programme(PMEGP) Minister of State for Shipping (I/C)-Mansukh GST collection crosses Rs one lakh crore Mandaviya chaired 3-day Ports Review mark in February: Meeting Chintan Baithak in Mamallapuram, Government has collected over one lakh five Tamil Nadu which concluded on 1 March thousand crore rupees as Goods and 2020. Services Tax in February this year which is Government has “Vision-2030” for Maritime eight percent more than the GST collected in Sector. the same month of last year. New explosive detection device, Out of the total revenue, Central Goods and developed by DRDO & IISc Bangalore, Service Tax (CGST) is over 20 thousand unveiled in Pune: crore rupees, State Goods and Service Tax RaIDer-X, a new explosive detection device, (SGST) is over 27 thousand crore and was unveiled at the National Workshop on Integrated Goods and Service Tax (IGST) is Explosive Detection (NWED-2020) in Pune. over 48 thousand crore rupees. RaIDer-X has the capability to detect Haryana's Rakhigarhi to soon emerge as explosives from a stand-off distance. a major tourist destination: Bulk explosive in concealed condition can also Rakhigarhi, Haryana will soon emerge as a be detected by the device.RaIDer-X has been major tourist destination on the map of India. co-developed by High Energy Materials Rakhigarhi hit headlines after FM Nirmala Research Laboratory (HEMRL) Puneand Sitharaman in her budget speech placed it Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. among 5 archaeological sites that the Tamil Nadu to set up technical textiles Centre proposes to develop as an iconic site. park in Salem: It is the largest sites of the Harappan Tamil Nadu state’s Chief SecretaryK civilisation. Shanmugam, said that govt has planned 2 “Ekam Fest” to begin to promote textile parks, in Tuticorin & Salem. One in craftsmanship & products of Divyang Salem would be for technical textiles, which Artisans & Entrepreneurs: are textile material/products used for their

technical performance rather than as personal The next HunarHaat will be organized in clothing Chandigarh. Govt approved a Rs 1,480-cr National Indian Railways launched its First Technical Textiles Mission “Restaurant on Wheels” at Asansol Prahlad Singh Patel to launch Station, West Bengal: multilingual Incredible India website: Indian railways launched its First Prahlad Singh Patel will launch the “Restaurant on Wheels” at Asansol multilingual Incredible India website in New Station (division of Eastern railway), West Delhi. The website which was hosted in Bengal, for railway passengers and citizens of English & Hindi is now being launched in the city. Chinese, Arabic & Spanish to project India Shri Babul Supriyo, Minister of State for as a ‘must-visit’ destination across the globe. Environment, Forest & Climate Change Prahlad Singh Patel is the Union Tourism (MoSEFCC) inaugurated the 1st “Restaurant Minister. on Wheels” at Asansol station, West Memorandum of Understanding Between Bengal. Indian Air Force and Savitribai Phule SPMCIL contributes Rs 1 crore to Pune University: National Sports Development Fund: Indian Air Forceand Savitribai Phule Pune Under the CSR initiatives, Security Printing & University entered into an academic Minting Corporation of India contributed Rs 1 collaboration by signing a Memorandum of Crore towards National Sports Development Understanding to establish a 'Chair of Fund under the Target Olympic Podium Excellence' at Department of Defence & Scheme for the top athletes of the Country Strategic Studies. selected for Tokyo Olympics & beyond. To pay tribute to the legend and Chairman & Managing Director of SPMCIL- commemorate the centenary birth year of the Tripti Patra Ghosh. MIAF, the IAF has named it as "Marshal of Shri Amit Shah inaugurates the campus the Air Force Arjan Singh Chair of of NSG Regional Hub at Kolkata: Excellence". National Security Guard (NSG) Regional The Chair will enable IAF officers to pursue Hub campus at Kolkata, Union Minister for Doctoral Research and higher studies in Home Affairs, Shri Amit Shah termed this as Defence & Strategic Studies and allied fields. an important step in the direction of giving Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi inaugurates adequate facilities to the brave NSG jawans, “HunarHaat” in Ranchi, Jharkhand: which are important for them to function Union Minister for Minority Affairs Mukhtar unhindered in ensuring the security of the Abbas Naqvi inaugurated “HunarHaat” in Nation. Ranchi, Jharkhand. This is for the first time Home Minister presided over the inauguration that “HunarHaat” is being organised in and founding stone laying ceremony of Jharkhand. This is the 21st “HunarHaat” of various welfare projects for NSG, amounting the Union Minority Affairs Ministry.

to over Rs. 245 croresacross Kolkata, The building will have proper counselling and Manesar, Chennai and Mumbai. training centre for the youth and different NABARD, IIT Mandi sign MoU to develop agencies like Jammu & Kashmir farmer friendly tech: Entrepreneurship Development Institute IIT Mandi along with the Enabling Women of (JKEDI) and others will also train youth Kamand (EWOK) Society signed a MoU with under different schemes and programmes. NABARD (National Bank for Agriculture and Pune to host 108th Indian Science Rural Development). Congress annual session in 2021: IIT Mandi will get Rs 35 lakh under the MoU Indian Science Congress association with NABARD for collaboration on setting up (ISCA) announced that Pune will host the Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs) in annual session of 108th Indian Science Mandi district of Himachal Pradesh. Congress on January 3-7, 2021 at Symbiosis President of India to confer National Lalit International University’s Lavale campus. Kala Akademi Awards to 15 artists in Theme:” Science and Technology for New Delhi: Sustainable Development with Women Lalit Kala Akademi's 61st annual awards Empowerment”. will be conferred by President Ram Nath Airport Authority of India & Tripura Govt Kovind to 15 artistes at the Rashtrapati sign MoU for construction of equipment Bhavan. Minister of Culture Prahlad Singh hiring centers: Patel and Akademi chairman UttamPacharne Airport Authority of India & Tripura State will also be present at the ceremony. Government has signed a memorandum of Lalit Kala Akademi awards are given to understanding for the construction of 6 recognise the outstanding work in the field of equipment hiring centres in Manu Block under art. the Dhalai District, Tripura. National Academy of Art, New Delhi was set The project has been taken by the Airport up as an autonomous body, on 5th August Authority as part of its Corporate Social 1954. Responsibility scheme. The equipment Advisor Farooq Khan lays foundation hiring centres, equipment related to stone of Mini Secretariat,Employment agriculture, animal husbandry and fisheries Complex in Jammu: will be kept. Jammu and Kashmir Lt. Governor Farooq The types of equipment will be rented out to Khan laid the foundation stone for Mini the needy farmers, Self Help Groups and to Secretariat, Employment Complex, at any other needy at a minimal cost. The TophSherkhaniya, Jammu. project will be benefited to 6000 families. He said that this complex will be beneficial for National Chambal sanctuary declared as the unemployed youth of J&K who will get eco-sensitive zone: proper counselling regarding different National Chambal sanctuary in Madhya avenues of employment. Pradeshhas been declared as an eco- sensitive zone by the central government. The

decision to declare the area as an eco- gone up to 1 lakh 53 thousand from 74 sensitive zone will prohibit the construction of thousand. hotels or resorts within an area of 0-2 km Mr Modi said, youngsters, showing such from the sanctuary. interest in science, innovation and space The Project is managed by the Wildlife wing technology is an encouraging sign. of UP Forest Dept. SetuBharatam scheme: All level Rs. 4,807 Cr deposited into bank crossings on National Highways to be accounts of 7.65 lakh farmers under farm replaced by Over Bridges or Road Under loan waiver scheme: Bridges: Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray has Government has envisaged replacement of all informed that Rs. 4,807 Cr have been the level crossings on National Highways by deposited into the bank accounts of 7.65 Road Over Bridges/ Road Under Bridges lakh farmers under the Mahatma Phule farm under the SetuBharatam scheme. loan waiver scheme. Over 35 lakh farmers Road Transport & Highways Ministry is have uploaded their information on the implementing the scheme to ensure safe & scheme portal. smooth flow of traffic. Accounts are to be linked with Aadhar for the Scheme also aimed at reducing road fatalities waive off. by 50% by 2020. 35th edition of AAHAR, Food and Uttar Pradesh Government provides Rs Hospitality fair, begins in New Delhi: 900 per month to farmers willing to keep 35th edition of AAHAR - the Food and stray cattle: Hospitality fair began in New Delhi. This five- Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi day-long fair is being organized by India Adityanath announced that his government Trade Promotion Organisation (ITPO), will pay Rs 900 per month to farmers willing with support of the Ministry of Food to keep stray cattle. Processing Industries, Agriculture and The Issue Earlier in 2019, the farmer protests Processed Food Products Development in Uttar Pradesh had gone up over stray Authority and several apex industry cattle destroying their fields. The population associations. of stray cattle in the state increased as the India Trade Promotion Organisation (ITPO) UP Government had banned illegal animal Chairman- LC Goyal. slaughtering in the state. Prime Minister expresses happiness Centre has approved highways projects about increased registration in ISRO's worth Rs 2,185 Cr for Puducherry: YUVIKA 2020: Centre has approved road & highways Prime Minister Narendra Modi has expressed development projects worth Rs 2,185 Crore happiness that Indian Space Research for Puducherry. Centre has approved Organisation, ISRO's Young Scientist development of highways & introduction of Programme YUVIKA 2020's registration has four-way lanes linking the UT with important segments.

Puducherry Chief Minister- V Women account for over 81 per cent of the Narayanasamy. total beneficiaries under the 'Stand Up Minister of State Gangwar launches India' scheme with loans worth Rs 16,712 Humsafar mobile app for doorstep diesel crore sanctioned for them in nearly 4 years’ delivery: time, the finance ministry said. The Stand-Up Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar, Minister of India scheme was launched on 5 April 2016. State (MoS- Independent charge) for Labour International Women's Day is on March 8. & Employment, launched ‘Humsafar’ mobile Rs 33 Crore for Kaziranga under Project application in New Delhi, which delivers diesel Tiger scheme: to doorstep of bulk users. Financial assistance to the tune of Rs 1.51 The app will be used for the fuel delivery crore has been sanctioned to Kaziranga services to housing societies, hotels, National Park during the financial years 2018- hospitals, malls, construction sites, 19 and 2019-2020 under Compensatory industries, banquets & other bulk buyers of Afforestation Fund Management and the diesel in various cities, including Planning Authority (CAMPA), Change Gurugram, Ghaziabad, Noida, Faridabad, Babul Supriyo said. Hapur, Kundli, Manesar & Bahadurgarh. Babul Supriyo is the Minister of Assam for Tamil Nadu CM Palaniswami launches Environment, Forest & Climate. Tamil Nadu Health System Reform ThinlasChorol sets up first women's Programme: travel company in Ladakh: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K. International Women's Day will be Palaniswami launched the Tamil Nadu Health celebrated on 8th of this month. Government System Reform Programme (TNHSRP) in has taken series of initiatives to empower Chennai. The Programme will be women. People are using the #IWD 2020 and implemented with funding support from the BetiPadhaoDeshBadhao to share uplifting World Bank. stories in the run up to International Women's The Programme aims at achieving result- Day. oriented outcomes in healthcare delivery and In Ladakh, a young woman ThinlasChorol has over a Five-Year Period, aims to improve introduced woman trekking guide in the the quality of care, strengthen the male dominated trekking industry. To train management of non-communicable the other women as trekking guide, she setup diseases (NCD) and injuries, and reduce the the first women's travel company fully inequities in reproductive and child health operated by Women Only. services in the State. India Pharma 2020 & India Medical The total cost of the programme is Device 2020 Conference to be held in 2,857.003 crore, of which 1,999.902 crore Gujarat: is being funded by the World Bank. India Pharma 2020 and India Medical Device Rs 16,712 Cr loan sanctioned to women 2020 Conference and Exhibition has been under 'Stand Up India' scheme:

scheduled to be held at Gandhi Nagar, NEDFI (North Eastern Development Gujarat from 5-7 of March 2020. Finance Corporation Ltd) through its The conference will be inaugurated by the Microfinance Scheme has facilitated Chemicals & Fertilizers Minister Shri generation of indirect employment to about Sadananda Gowda. 7.97 lakh women. Phase II of Swachh Bharat Mission Number of women beneficiaries in livelihood (Grameen) launched: project of North Eastern Region Community The 2nd phase of the Swachh Bharat Mission Resources Management Project (Grameen), which has an outlay of Rs (NERCORMP) is 3,45,489. 1,40,881 Cr, was launched by Union Jal Microsoft & Accenture team up to help Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh entrepreneurs amplify reach: Shekhawat. SBM (G) Phase-II will focus on Microsoft & Accenture said that they were sustaining the gains made in the 1st phase of teaming up to help deepen the reach of the programme. entrepreneurs and start-ups that are focused Swachh Bharat Mission was launched on on social impact and sustainability. The October 2, 2014. joint initiative will provide hands-on support Cabinet approved MoU between India & and technologies to social enterprises. Cote dlvoire for cooperation in the field Govt sanctions projects worth over Rs of health: 301 crore in food processing sector: Cabinet nod the MoU between India and Union Government has sanctioned ten Cote d'lvoire in field of health. MoU was projects worth over 301 crore rupees in food signed between the Ministry of Health & processing sector. These projects are likely Family Welfare of India & the Ministry of to generate employment for ten thousand Health & Public Hygiene of Cote d'Ivoire. The people and benefit nearly forty thousand MoU will regulate drugs & pharmaceutical farmers. products. The projects were sanctioned at a meeting of APEDA signs MoUs with various the Inter-Ministerial Approval Committee organisations for implementation of Agri under the Chairpersonship of Food Processing Export Policy: Industries MinisterHarsimrat Kaur Badal. APEDA(Agricultural and Processed Food The projects were sanctioned under the Agro Export Development Authority) signed MoUs Processing Cluster Scheme of with various organisations for implementation KisanSampada Yojana. of Agri Export Policy. Indian Institute of Prime Minister to address inaugural Technology Delhi (IITD), Quality Council of session of the Economic Times Global India (QCI) and Pearl Academy are among Business Summit: this. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address NEDFI through its Microfinance Scheme inaugural session of the Economic Times has facilitated generation of indirect Global Business Summit held in New employment to about 7.97 lakh women:

Delhi. He will be addressing delegates from In Mizoram, the biggest and most joyful across the world. festival of Mizos, ChapcharKut is being Theme of Global Business Summit-2020 is celebrated across the state on 6 March. It is “Collaborate to Create: Sustainable also regarded as the most popular spring Growth in a Fractured World”. festival to the people of the state. Global Ayurveda Festival curtain raiser is Mizoram Chief Minister- Zoramthanga. a perfect tribute to late Sushma Swaraj: Workshop-cum-Awareness Programme Fourth Global Ayurveda Festival (GAF) will be on Skill Development for Unorganized held at Kochi in Kerala from 16th to 20th Workers concludes at Kulgam May. A curtain raiser event was organized in A 2-day Workshop-cum-Awareness New Delhi. Programme on the Skill Development for The theme for the five-day event is Unorganized Workers under Pradhan Mantri “Ayurveda Medical Tourism: Actualizing Shram Yogi Maandhan Scheme concluded at India's credibility”. Kulgam, Jammu & Kashmir. 3-day Namaste Orchha festival begins in The programme was organized by District Madhya Pradesh: Employment &Counseling Centre, Kulgam. Madhya Pradesh, 'Namaste Orchha' festival Monthly contribution for the scheme is 55 to is starting from today in Orchha, a famous 200 Rs. tourist destination of the state. Orchha is CCI organises 5th edition of National famous for its Ramaraja temple as well as Conference on Economics of Competition other historical buildings. Law Poetry Festival begins in Kolkata: Competition Commission of India organised Four-day Poetry Festival has begun in the 5th National Conference on Economics of Kolkata. Noted Painter Jogen Chowdhury Competition Law in New Delhi. inaugurated the festival at Rabindra Sandan The Conference, in addition to the Inaugural Complex in the city. Session, included two technical sessions Poetry Festival has become relevant to where researchers presented papers on encourage the reading habits of the younger economic issues. generation. Ashok Kumar Gupta is the current Gairsain will be the summer capital of Chairperson of the CCI. Uttarakhand: New Delhi hosts India Smart Utility Week Chief Ministerof Uttarakhand Trivendra Singh 2020 (ISUW): Rawat announced ‘Gairsain’ as the summer New Delhi based Smart Grid Forum capital of the state, on the 3rd day of the (ISGF) has been organizing India Smart budget session held in Gairsain, Utility Week 2020 (ISUW) as an International Uttarakhand. Conference and Exhibition on Smart Energy ChapcharKut: The biggest and most and Water for Smarter Cities India in New joyful festival of Mizoram begins Delhi.

India and European Union (EU) called Ranchi University launched its own upon the Integrated Local Energy System, in Community Radio Station RADIO KHANCHI which they will jointly work upon clean 90.4 FM AapSabka Radio on International energy. Women's Day, inaugurated by Governor cum Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana signs MoU Chancellor Draupadi Murmu. with Amazon to e-market: 1st University in the East Zone to be gifted Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana - National with a CRS by Ministry of I&B Urban Livelihoods Mission signed a MoU Union I&B Minister: Prakash Javadekar with Amazon for e marketing of products Indian Coast Guard conducts 9th edition made by SHGs across the country in urban of rescue exercise ‘SAREX-2020’ in Goa: areas. MoU aims to strengthen the mission of Indian Coast Guard (ICG),an armed force that creating sustainable livelihoods in urban protects India’s maritime interests,has areas. conducted a 2-day 9th edition of national level DAY-NULM is under the Ministry of Housing search and rescue exercise ‘SAREX-2020’ and Urban Affairs. Based on the theme ‘Harmonization of Pragyan Conclave 2020: Indian Army’s Maritime and Aeronautical Search and Rescue International Seminar Crystal Gazes On (HAMSAR)’ in the sea at Vasco,South Goa The ‘New Age’ Warfare: district from March 5-7,2020. “Pragyan Conclave 2020”, a two-day Government to make sanitary napkin Indian Army International Seminar was disposal bags mandatory from January organised by Centre for Land Warfare Studies 2021: (CLAWS) at New Delhi. Union Environment Minister Prakash The event brings together cross-domain Javadekar has said that Sanitary napkin national and international experts to makers will be asked to supply a deliberate on the complex subject of biodegradable bag with each napkin from ‘Changing Characteristics of Land January 2021. Warfare and its Impact on the Military’. Mr. Prakash Javadekar interacted with the Google to now launch Delhi cloud region members of the women garbage collector’s After Mumbai: organization in Pune. Google will open a Delhi cloud region making NITI Aayog organizes the Fourth Edition it as the company’s 2nd cloud region in India of the Women Transforming India since the launch of the Mumbai region in Awards: 2017. NITI Aayog organized the fourth edition of the Google’s existing network has 8 cloud regions WTI Awards. Since 2018, the Awards have in Asia-Pacific & 22 regions globally. It will been hosted under the aegis of NITI Aayog’s also open data centers. Women Entrepreneurship platform. 2019 WTI Ranchi University launches its own Awards received over 2,300 applications of Community Radio Station KHANCHI 90.4 which the Top 30 were shortlisted. FM:

Rajnath Singh felicitates 15 winners on leveraging technology, a targeted approach Women’s Day. and convergence. Smriti Irani inaugurates a National CBDT names nodal officers to bring PSUs Conference on Women in Police & CAPFs on board ‘Vivad se Vishwas’ scheme: in New Delhi: Central Board of Direct Taxes has named 3 Union WCD Minister Mrs Smriti Irani members Seema Patra, PK Dash inaugurated a National Conference on Women andPrabhash Shankar as ‘Nodal Officers’ in Police & CAPFs organized by the Bureau of to work with various ministries & ensure that Police Research and Development, the BPR&D central and state public-sector undertakings and released a hand-out BPR&D Mirror – come on board Vivad se Vishwas tax amnesty Gender Bender as well scheme Minister of State WCD Ministry: Debasree CBDT functions under the Central Board of Chaudhuri. Revenue Act, 1963. MSDE launches Mahatma Gandhi Ladakh: KVIC adopts 4 villages for rural National Fellowship programme in employment generation: Bengaluru: Khadi & Village Industry Commission in Union Minister for Skill Development and consultations with the Hill Council has Entrepreneurship Dr.Mahendra Nath adopted 4 villages in newly carved Ladakh Pandey launched the Mahatma Gandhi Union Territory for rural employment National Fellowship programme in the Indian generation. Institute of Management in Bengaluru. Likir is the only supplier to fulfil the demand It is launched as part of the SANKALP of pottery, in entire old Ladakh. Likir was programme of the MSDE ministry to provide adopted by KVIC in 2018 skilled manpower. President of India Confers Nari Shakti Shriram Transport signed a MOU with Puraskar for 2019 IOCL to offer fuel credit to its customers The President of India, Ram Nath Kovind digitally: presented Nari Shakti Puraskar 2019 at a Shriram Transport Finance Company signed special ceremony held in Rashtrapati Bhavan, an MOU with Indian Oil Corporation Ltd New Delhi on International Women’s Day. through which the STFC customers will be Nari Shakti Puraskar is an initiative of the offered credit limit to purchase fuel from the Ministry of Women and Child pan India outlets of IOCL. Development. Tamil Nadu tops in Poshan Abhiyan's The 2019 awards were conferred on 15 participants list: eminent women. Union Government is implementing the World's largest religious congregation of flagship programme Poshan Abhiyan for women to be held in improving the nutritional status of Indian Thiruvananthapuram: citizens. It helps children, adolescents, Famous AttukalPongala, one of the largest pregnant women and lactating mothers by all-women religious congregations in the

world is to be held in Thiruvananthapuram. Telangana State government has decided to The Guinness record holder of the largest rechristen the RythuSamanvaya Samitis women gathering in the world. (farmers’ coordination committees), MoST launches helpline for women constituted to organize farmers into a united scientists, students, researchers and strong force as RythuBandhu Samitis. On March 8th- International Women’s Day, Govt reconstitutes National Platform for Union Science and Technology Minister Harsh Disaster Risk Reduction (NPDRR)with Vardhan launched a helpline number for Amit Shah as Chairman: women students, researchers, entrepreneurs Government reconstructs the National and scientists to get their queries related to Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction the S&T ministry’s programmes answered. (NPDRR) a multi- stakeholder & Helpline number is 011-26565285. multisectoral decision making body on “She inspires Us” Indian Army conducts disaster management & appoints Union Home self-defence training for women Minister Amit Shah as chairman. As a conscious to the increasing danger to the Defence Minister Rajnath Singh & Finance safety of women in society, a unit of Indian Minister Nirmala Sitharaman are named as Army organized a demonstration on Self members among others Defence themed ‘Stronger You Stronger Paytm, Hyderabad Metro tie up for QR- Society’ for the local womenfolk at based tickets DhamdhamaAnchlik College in Nalbari Hyderabad Metro Rail Limited (HMRL) in District. partnership with Paytm has launched a QR- Government reconstructs The National code-based metro ticketing system at Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction appoints Rasoolpurametro station Hyderabad. Amit Shah as chairman. This system will help people book digital Kerala to launch total digital literacy tickets easily and it also reduces the ticket campaign: congestion at the ticket counters. Kerala proposes to launch a total digital UAHS develops Sahyadri Megha, a new literacy campaign with a view to ensuring that red variety of paddy: the gains made by it through its University of Agricultural and transformation as an inclusive knowledge- Horticultural Sciences based society, percolate down to the grass (UAHS),Shivamogga developed Sahyadri roots level. Megha, a new red variety of paddy, as a part Titled ‘I am also digital,’ the campaign is of its initiative to prevent a decline in the area being powered by the Kerala State IT Mission under paddy cultivation. under the Department of Information New Paddy is resistant to blast Technology, and the Kerala Literacy Mission. disease.Sahyadri Megha is rich in nutrients. RythuSamanvaya Samitis to be renamed Andhra Pradesh ranked 1st in country for RythuBandhu Samitis: overall implementation of Poshan Abhiyan:

State of Andhra Pradesh ranked 1st in the UNGCNI organizes 3rd Gender equality country for overall implementation of Poshan summit 2020 in New Delhi: Abhiyan as per the recent report shared by UNGCNI (United Nations Global Compact NITI Aayog. Network India), a country level platform for As part of the programme the State has public & private sector, businesses to align trained all Angan Wadi Workers on modules stakeholders’ responsible practices towards created based on lifecycle approach, i.e first Sustainable Development Goals 1000 days of life, with the support of (SDGs),has organized the 3rd edition of its Incremental Learning Approach (ILA) Gender Equality Summit 2020 at The Park in Government is implementing Poshan Abhiyan New Delhi. earlier known as National Nutrition SampushtaKeralam: PoshanAbhiyaan in Mission, since 18th December 2017 to Kerala address the problem of malnutrition in the PoshanAbhiyaan is a multi-ministerial country. convergence mission with the vision to The goals of Poshan Abhiyan are to achieve address malnutrition with a targeted improvement in Nutritional status of children approach by 2022.Under this scheme various from 0-6 years, adolescent girls, activities are being organised in Kerala and pregnant women and lactating mothers in are remodelled under the banner a time bound manner. ‘SambushtaKerlam’. HAL to set up logistics bases in Vietnam, Anganawadis, SHGs, kudumbasree are flag Malaysia, Indonesia and Sri Lanka: bearers of the mission. State-run aerospace Hindustan Odisha becomes the 1st state to Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) is looking at setting introduce department for SHGs: “Mission up logistics bases in Malaysia, Vietnam, Shakti” Indonesia & Sri Lanka as part of initiatives to On March 8, 2020 Chief Minister Naveen woo the countries to buy India's light combat Patnaik announced that Odisha is the 1st aircraft Tejas& military helicopters. state to own a separate department for Self Chairman and Managing Director of HAL- R Help Groupsnamed as” Mission Shakti”. Madhavan. It is created for the development of women & Gujarat tops in domestic solar rooftop is dedicated to all the women of Odisha. installations: Mission Shakti and Mamata Scheme To achieve renewable power generation combinedly benefits 70 lakh women goals, Gujarat has topped the list in the GMR-led Hyderabad International installations of solar rooftop plants across Airport-Best Airport by size and region: the country with about 50,915 systems being GMR-led Hyderabad International Airport has fixed on domestic rooftops in the State as on emerged as the winner of the coveted March 2, 2020. Airports Council International (ACI) Maharashtra follows with 5,513 installations Airport Service Quality (ASQ) Departures as on the same date. Awards for the Asia-Pacific region for 2019. It

was adjudged the Best Airport by Size & Telangana State Agricultural University Region. Vice Chancellor Praveen Rao wins Dr MS Award will be given in ACICustomer Swaminathan Award: Experience Global Summit. V Praveen Rao, Vice-Chancellor of Professor FDI inflows recorded highest ever for JayaShankarTelangana State Agricultural fiscal year 2018-19: University (PJTSAU), won the 7th edition of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflow was Dr MS Swaminathan Award for the period over 318 billion US dollars between 2014 2017- 2019. and September 2019 representing nearly 50 The award will be conferred on him in June percent of the cumulative FDI in India since 2020. The award was constituted by Retired April 2000. Indian Council of Agricultural Research In 2018-19, the FDI inflow stood at a record Employees Association (RICAREA) and 62 billion US dollars, highest ever recorded Nuziveedu Seeds Limited (NSL). for a fiscal year.FDI can be one measure to 32 lakh saplings planted so far under track the growth of Make in India. ‘Green J&K’ program: Make in India initiative was launched in Jammu & Kashmir Forest Department, 2014. under the ‘Green J&K’ program, from its Traditional ‘Fagli’ festival celebrated in given target of 1 Crore saplings, has so far Himachal Pradesh’s Kinnaur: planted 32 lakh saplings of various varieties Traditional “Fagli” festival at kinnaur district across the UT. in Yangpa village, Himachal Pradesh. This Total of 50 lakhs will be planted by the end festival is celebrated to denote the end of the of March. winter and the start of the Spring. It is mainly Government sets up a committee on celebrated on the moonless night. Kisan Rail: It is also celebrated to receive blessings from The Government has set up a committee to Deota(God) for the upcoming harvest work out modalities of Kisan Rail. It comprises season. of representatives of Agriculture and Railway ‘COVA Punjab’ mobile app launched by ministries. Kisan Rail was created through Punjab Govt: the PPP (Public-Private-Partnership) Chief Secretary of Punjab, Karan Avtar mode to build a cold supply chain to transport Singh has launched a mobile application, perishable goods. COVA Punjab. COVA stands for Corona Virus Indian Railways has plans to install solar Alert. panel on un-utilized railway land. This app has been developed by the Centre approved for the construction of Department of GovernmentReforms and Delhi-Baghpat highway: Public Grievances in consultation with the NHAI got approval to construct the 1st phase Health and Family Welfare Department to of a new highway that will connect east Delhi’s spread awareness by sharing various travel Akshardham to Uttarakhand’s Dehradun, a and preventive care advisories. distance of almost 170 Km. The first phase

will connect Akshardham with west Uttar Governor ofTamilnadu to Witness Event Pradesh’s Baghpat, a distance of 32 Km. “Divya Kala Shakti-Witnessing the The existing Delhi-Dehradun route is Abilities in Disabilities” in Chennai: 250km long. Governor of Tamil Nadu Shri Banwarilal Telangana forms panel to divest from Purohit will witness the first ever regional Swagruha housing project: event Divya Kala Shakti: Witnessing the Telangana constituted a high-powered abilities in disabilities a unique cultural committee of secretaries to take forward the event at KalaivanarArangam, Chennai. proposal to dispose of all assets relating to He will be accompanied by the Minister of Telangana Rajiv Swagruha Corporation Social Welfare & Nutritious Noon Meal Ltd. Program, Government of Tamil Nadu They will divest these assets through an open Dr.V.Saroja and senior officers. auction on an ‘as is where is’ basis. Mangalore International Airport named Andhra Pradesh started the “Rajiv ‘best airport by size and region’: Swagruha” scheme on 2007. Mangalore International Airport, which is Nigha App launched in Andhra Pradesh to managed by the Airports Authority of India curb poll malpractices: (AAI), has been adjudged the ‘best airport Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy by size and region’ in the Airport Service launched the new Nigha app. The app was Quality (ASQ) survey for 2019, in the ‘2-5 launched for the citizens with the aim of million passengers per year in Asia-Pacific keeping a check on all the contestants in the region category’. polls, so that they do not resort to malpractice Apart from Mangalore, two other airports ahead of the elections managed by the AAI — Chandigarh and The app was developed by Panchayat Raj, Thiruvananthapuram — have also won the which was launched in addition to the award under the same category. measures taken by State Election Maharashtra approves implementation Commission and police department in of "happy hour" for autorickshaws: order to control the electoral malpractices. Maharashtra government has approved the Uttarakhand first state in country to implementation of "happy hour" for measure Gross Environment Product: autorickshaws. A government resolution Uttarakhand state is going to become the states that fares will be slashed by 15% first state of the country to measure Gross between 12 noon and 4 pm. The decision will Environment Product (GEP) for not be applicable to local taxis & app-based quantifying ecological growth measurement. taxis. Anil Prakash Joshi, a Padma awardee Khatua panel recommended the "happy environmentalist, the man behind the concept hour". has been advocating the implementation of Indian mountaineer Bhawna Dehariya the idea across the country especially in the scales Australia’s highest mountain Himalayas for years. peak:

To celebrate the second anniversary of Indian Mountaineer Bhawna Dehariya hails POSHAN Abhiyaan, 2020 PoshanPakhwada from Madhya Pradesh (MP) has is being celebrated in Nagaland. The focus successfully scaled Mount Kosciuszko [2, 228 area of PoshanPakhwada 2020 is “Men for meters], the highest mountain peak in Nutrition - Increasing Male Engagement Australia on the occasion of Holi. in POSHAN Abhiyaan to Improve Dehariya had scaled Mount Kilimanjaro [5, Nutritional Indicators”. 895 meters] on the occasion of Diwali in the POSHAN Abhiyaan was launched on 8 March year 2019 and also felt fortunate that she had 2018. celebrated 2 biggest festivals of India at the Maharashtra Assembly gives nod to bill mountain peaks. on caste validity certificate: Mission Zero Accident: SC directs to fix Gram panchayats in Maharashtra will now Medical Boxes at all Railway stations & allow its members to submit their caste passenger carrying trains: validity certificates within a year of winning Supreme Court instructed to provide a elections. Medical Box containing lifesaving medicines, At present, a candidate will have to submit equipment’s, oxygen cylinder etc. at all his/her caste validity certificate at the time Railway stations & passenger carrying trains. of filing of nominations. Mission Zero Accident was one of the A bill in this regard is passed by the state Missions announced in the Railway Budget assembly. 2016-17. Assam govt to construct 33 stadiums in Unmanned Level Crossings(UMLC)and state under Uttran scheme: Train Collision Avoidance System Assam government to construct 33 stadiums (TCAS)are the two sub-missions of Mission in the state under Uttaran scheme. Zero Accident. Principal Secretary of Sports Avinash Joshi PM Narendra Modi all set to lead the sixth and Joint Director Kamaljit Talukdar said International Yoga Day celebrations at that 300 crore rupees will be spent to build Leh on June 21: the stadiums across the state. The main national event for the sixth Joshi said that 500 playgrounds are being International Day of Yoga (IDY) will be developed at the state to encourage rural held on June 21 this year at Leh in Ladakh talents. and the event will be led by Prime Minister India Post to Launch Free Digital Locker Narendra Modi. Service in Kolkata: This year, the Yoga demonstration is to be For the first time in India, the Department of different as it is being held at higher altitudes. Posts is introducing a free digital parcel locker More than 15,000 to 20,000 people are service in the city to enable customers to expected to participate in the event. collect their consignment from specified post PoshanPakhwada being celebrated in offices at their convenience. Nagaland from March 8-22:

The facility will be available in two post offices of Indian Chambers of Commerce and in Kolkata-- the Nabadiganta IT Post Office Industry (FICCI). in Sector 5 of Salt Lake City and another in NAIs exhibition on Jallianwala Bagh was New Town. inaugurated by Shri P.L. Sahu: Mumbai Central Terminus to be renamed National Archives of India's (NAI) as Nana Shankarseth Terminus: exhibition on Jallianwala Bagh was The state cabinet government approved inaugurated by the Joint Secretary of Ministry renaming Mumbai Central Terminus station as of Culture Shri P.L. Sahu during the 130th Nana Shankarseth Terminus Station or Foundation Day of NAI at the premises of Jagannath Sunkersett. National Archives, New Delhi. He was one of the first directors of India's first NAI's exhibition will remain open for public railway company. The approval will now go to viewing until 30 April 2020. the Minister and Ministry of Railways as a Eleventh Bengaluru INDIA Nano proposal on which they will further take a call. conference and exhibition held at Bengaluru: Karnataka government launches Eleventh Bengaluru INDIA Nano ‘Namaste over Handshake’ campaign to conference and exhibition showcased tackle spread of COVID-19: technologies and products developed by Karnataka government on Wednesday started academia and companies in nanotechnology. a campaign called ‘Namaste over The three-day event was organized by the Handshake’ that encourages people to greet Department of Science and Technology in the traditional Indian style, to tackle the (DST), Government of Karnataka, and spread of coronavirus. Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced The campaign also includes health advice on Scientific Research (JNCASR), in how people can protect themselves from the association with other Govt Institutions and infection by adopting hygiene practices such corporate companies. as regularly washing hands to prevent the Major Port Authorities Bill, 2020 spread of COVID-19. introduced in Lok Sabha: Wings India 2020 begins in Hyderabad, Major Port Authorities Bill 2020 was Telangana: introduced in the Lok Sabha. It seeks to The three -day civil aviation business provide for regulation, operation and planning exhibition and air show, Wings India 2020 has of Major Ports and to vest the administration, begun in Hyderabad. control and management of such ports upon Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri the Boards of Major Port Authorities. will join the event at a round table conference Bill will replace Major Port Trusts Act, on Connecting the World-Ministerial Plenary. 1963. The biennial event being organized by India delivers 600 tonnes of rice to flood- Ministry of Civil Aviation and Airports hit Madagascar: Authority of India along with the Federation

Indian Ambassador to Madagascar Abhay National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber- Kumar has handed over 600 tonnes of rice Physical Systems (NM-ICPS). on behalf of the Government of India to the Hola Mohalla festival was celebrated at Madagascar Foreign Minister Anandpur Sahib Punjab: TehindrazanariveloDjacobaLiva for quick Hola Mohalla festival was celebrated at relief to the flood victims. Indian Naval Ship Anandpur Sahib Punjab from 10-12 March (INS) Shardul arrived in Madagascar at Port 2020. Hola Mohalla is a Sikh festival Antsiranana on 10th of this month carrying celebrated in the month of Phalguna, a day rice for the people of Madagascar. after Holi. Thermal Power plants to have 2,43,034 Nihang Singhs will carry the martial MW capacity by 2021-22: tradition with mock battles and displays of Minister of State for Power, New & Renewable swordsmanship and horse riding Energy R.K. Singh informed that as per the New Delhi Railway Station to be extant National Electricity Plan, installed redeveloped as World Class Station: capacity of thermal power plants, comprising Ministry of Railways have entrusted the work of Coal based and Gas & diesel plants, is likely of redevelopment of New Delhi Railway to be 243,037 MW in 2021-22. station to Rail Land Development Plant Load Factor of Coal based capacity in Authority (RLDA) under Public Private 2021-22 is 56.5%. Partnership (PPP) mode. The process for Uttar Pradeshgovt launches schemes for preparation of Detailed Project Report, Master skill development & employment plan and Bid documents has been initiated by generation for youths: RLDA. Uttar Pradesh government has launched Haryana’s Amin village was renamed as three ambitious schemes for skill Abhimanyupur: development and employment generation for Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar youths in the state and also announced to gave his nod to rename Amin village here to depute “Arogya Mitras” at all primary health Abhimanyupur after Mahabharta warrior centres to inform people about govt health Arjuna's son Abhimanyu. schemes. 3 Schemes- Kaushal Satrang, Yuva Hub & Tamil Nadu tops in farm credit Apprenticeship Scheme. disbursals: DST sanctions Rs 7.25 Cr to IIT Mandi for Tamil Nadu has topped in disbursement of Technology Innovation Hub: agriculture credit by giving away loans worth Department of Science and Technology Rs 1,63,289 Cr out of a total of Rs 10,33,183 (DST) sanctioned Rs 7.25 crore to the Cr distributed across India till December 31 Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, this fiscal. Andhra Pradesh & Uttar Himachal Pradesh to set up a Technology Pradesh were 2nd & 3rd in agricultural credit Innovation Hub at the institute under the disbursals.

Kerala, which is not a major agricultural As a target to electrify 4,310 km of BG route State, came fourth. in the year 2023-2024 (till December 2023), Government to mobilise Rs.51,000 Cr it is planned to electrify a total of 28,810 km more via Treasury-Bills to bridge cash of BG route. flow mismatch: Pradhan Mantri Fast Track Project: 498 To bridge a temporary cash flow mismatch, ongoing Railway Projects are at different the Government, in consultation with the stages: Reserve Bank of India, has decided to 498 ongoing Railway Projects including 188 mobilise Rs 51,000 crore more through New Lines, 55 Gauge Conversion & 255 auction of Treasury-Bills (T-Bills) during Doubling Projects of total length 49,069 Km, the remaining period of quarter ending March costing Rs. 6.75 lakh Cr are in different stages 2020. of planning/sanction/execution. Rs 47,841 Cr Earlier estimated cost of borrowing via T-Bills- have been included in 2020-21 Budget. Rs 24,000 Cr. Piyush Goyal is the current Union Minister 138 distribution camps have been for Railways. organised under RVY as on March 2020: Agricultural and Processed Food Department of Social Justice & Empowerment Products Export Development Authority launched a scheme namely ‘Rashtriya signs MoU with SFAC: Vayoshri Yojana’ on 1 April 2017 with the To bring in better synergy in the activities, objective to provide the senior citizens, living Agricultural and Processed Food Products BPL & suffering from any of age-related Export Development Authority (APEDA) has disability with such assisted living devices. signed a MoU with Small Farmers Banihal to Katra railway link to be Agribusiness Consortium (SFAC). The completed by 2022: MoU is aimed at addressing the obstacles Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal faced by FPOs. announced that Banihal to Katra railway link APEDA is under the Ministry of Commerce and to be completed by 2022 which is part of the Industry. Udhampur- Srinagar-Baramulla rail link Odisha’s Konark sun temple & Statue of project. Unity in Gujarat finds place in iconic The Katra-Banihal railway track is a 111- tourism sites list: km long stretch which will link Kashmir Valley According to the Union Minister of State with the rest of the country by train. (Independent) for tourism and culture, Indian Railways to electrify all broad Prahlad Singh Patel, the central government gauge routes by December 2023: has included grand Konark Sun Temple, the Minister of Railways and Commerce & UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Industry, Piyush Goyal informed that Indian Scientific and Cultural Organization) Railway(IR) Ministry plans to electrify all world heritage site in Odisha & Statue of Unity Broad Gauge(BG) routes by December in Gujarat in the Iconic Tourist Sites list, 2023.

taking the total number of such places from Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) 17 to 19. approved procurement of 83 indigenous Tejas Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank chairs fighter aircraft for Indian Air Force. The meeting on Research in Indian Defence Acquisition Council also accorded Traditional Knowledge Systems in Delhi: approval for acquisition of indigenous Defence Union HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal equipment for about 1,300 crore rupees. Nishank chaired a meeting on Research in Chief of Indian Air Force- Rakesh Kumar Indian Traditional Knowledge Systems in Singh Bhadauria. New Delhi. Objective of the meeting was to Pilot shopping festival planned in FY21: ensure the development of the society by Textiles minister Smriti Irani said that a pilot coordinating the ancient & modern genres of shopping festival at Bengaluru is to be knowledge. organized in 2020-21, which will He cited the example of Yoga as an Indian subsequently be organized in other cities Knowledge System. focusing on various sectors including gems & More than Rs 20,000 Cr of loans jewellery, textiles and Ayurvedic products. sanctioned under ‘Stand Up India Government of India allotted Rs 1,480 Cr to Scheme’ since inception: National Technical Textiles Mission. Rs 20,466.94 Crores of loans have been Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal sanctioned under ‘Stand Up India Scheme’ Nath steps down : to over 91,000 accounts up to 10.03.2020. Kamal Nath has resigned as the Chief The scheme facilitates bank loans between Minister of Madhya Pradesh. He has resigned Rs. 10 lakh-Rs. 1 Crores to at least one SC/ ahead of the floor test which was scheduled ST borrower & at least one-woman borrower. to be held on 20th March 2020 in the state Stand Up India Scheme was launched on 5th assembly. April 2016. He will submit his resignation to Lal Ji Defence Manufacturing Hub to be setup Tandon, governor of Madhya Pradesh. Kamal in Uttar Pradesh: Nath sworn-in as the chief minister of Madhya Honourable Finance Minister Nirmala Pradesh after winning the state Assembly Sitharaman in his Budget Speech on 1st polls held in 2018. February 2018 had announced setting up of J&K announces Rs 5 Lakhs free health two Defence Industrial Corridors in the insurance for residents: country. In pursuance to the said In a major relief to the people of J&K, announcement, it has been decided to Administrative Council which met under the develop one such corridor in Uttar Pradesh. chairmanship of LG Girish Chander Murmu The investment of Rs. 3700 crores were sanctioned to roll out the J&K Health Scheme announced for this. to provide free of cost Health Coverage to all DAC approves procurement of 83 residents under Ayushman Bharat-PMJAY. indigenous Tejas fighter aircraft for 1.25 crore residents of J&K will be provided Indian Air Force: the same benefits.

Government says Rs 6.16 lakh Crore Naval Command (ENC) for Indian nationals investment approved under PMAY: being evacuated from COVID-19 affected An investment of Rs 6.16 lakh Crore has countries. been approved so far under the Pradhan The Quarantine Camp has the capacity to Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) & the committed accommodate nearly 200 personnel with all central assistance is Rs 1.65 lakh Cr, Hardeep appropriate facilities. Indian nationals being Singh Puri. evacuated from COVID-19 affected countries Hardeep Singh Puri is the Minister of Housing will be closely monitored by a team of naval & Urban Affairs & Civil Aviation. personnel and medical professionals of ENC. Sanitary personnel in Tamil Nadu to be “Tech for Tribal”-Launched by TRIFED to called as ‘cleanliness workers’: develop Tribal Entrepreneurship: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palanisamy a TRIFED, the Tribal Cooperative Marketing total of 64,583 sanitary personnel employed Development Federation of India launched by urban and rural civic bodies in the State “Tech for Tribal” initiative. The initiative aims will be called as ”cleanliness workers” at providing entrepreneurship skills to the (Thooimai Paniyalargal in Tamil) to honour tribal people. their work. The initiative is to benefit 3 lakh people. The Tamil Nadu: Capital– Chennai Governor– TRIFED has launched the initiative along with Banwarilal Purohit Institutes of National Importance. Dance– Bharathanatyam It includes IIT-Kanpur, IIM Indore, National Parks(NP)- Guindy NP,Gulf of Institute of Social Science, Mannar Marine NP, Indira Gandhi Bhubaneshwar. (Annamalai) NP, Mudumalai NP, Mukurthi NP. Yogi Adityanath announces relief Uttarakhand govt abolishes quota in measures for UP's daily wage earners: promotion for employees: Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath has Uttarakhand government abolished announced sum of Rs 1,000 would be reservation in promotion in the state provided to each of the 20.37 lakh government jobs. Chief Minister Trivendra construction workers registered with the Rawat lead government took the major labour department to each of the 15 lakh decision on completion of 3 years of their self employed cart owners, small shop owners tenure. and rickshaw pullers. The state government also issued orders Tamil Nadu launches Covid-19 health regarding DPC (Departmental Promotion portal Committee). National Health Mission Tamil Nadu has Indian Navy installs Quarantine Facility launched a web portal - at Visakhapatnam : http://stopcoronatn.in/ to provide Indian Navy has established a Quarantine updates on Covid-19 & has a link to global Camp at INS Vishwakarma in Eastern cases by the Center for Systems Science and

Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, management expense to the tune of 37.25 which monitors the Covid-19 cases. crores over a period of eight years. Cabinet approves scheme to make India The new Production-linked Incentive electronic manufacturing hub: Scheme (PLI) would not only support the Cabinet approved 3 schemes to enable large Government’s efforts to establish India an scale electronics manufacturing & attract integral part of the Global Value Chain fresh investments worth at least Rs.50,000 (GVC) in the mobile handset. crore. in the sector. Cabinet approves relaunch of bulk drug Funds allocated are to be used over 5 years. park scheme: Scheme has the potential of creating 8,00,00 Cabinet approved the relaunch of a scheme to direct & indirect jobs. set up 3 bulk drug parks and 4 medical device Electronics & information technology parks for a total outlay of Rs.3,400 crore minister- Ravi Shankar Prasad. over 5 years. Rs 105366 Cr collected through GST in Bulk drug and medical devices park schemes February: were first suggested in Feb. 2015 by a Total of Rs 105366 Cr was collected through committee headed by V.M. Katoch. GST in the month of February 2020. This was Union ministry of Chemicals: D.V. stated by Union Minister of State for Finance, Sadananda Gowda. Anurag Thakur. Government had detected frauds through INTERNATIONAL NEWS: fake invoices for the last 3 years which had 3,000-kilometre-long power grid from amounted to 11,377 Cr. Myanmar-Thailand to India: GST came into effect from 1 July 2017. Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral MyGov Corona Helpdesk launched on Technical and Economic Cooperation Whatsapp to provide COVID-19 (BIMSTEC) is working on connecting about information: 3,000-kilometre long power grid from Government launched an official chatbot on Myanmar-Thailand to India. popular instant messaging application It was announced by the Energy Adviser to WhatsApp. The person in need is only the Prime Minister of Bangladesh Dr Tawfiq- required to save the number - 9013151515 E-Elahi Chowdhury while inaugurating the in their contact list and send a message to the energy conference of BIMSTEC in Dhaka. MyGov Corona Helpdesk. BIMSTEC is a regional grouping with seven MyGov.in,launched on : 26 July 2014. countries from South and Southeast Asia EMC 2.0 Scheme will help India become including Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Sri mobile manufacturing hub: Lanka, Thailand, Nepal and Bhutan. The union government has proposed a total Tech Mahindra to acquire Zen3 outlay for the EMC 2.0 Scheme at 3,762.25 Infosolutions for Rs 460cr: crore, which includes the financial assistance IT company Tech Mahindra has signed an of 3,725 crore and administrative and agreement to acquire 100 per cent stake in

US-based Zen3 Infosolutions for $64 In accordance with the “2019 World Air million (Rs 460 crore) in an all-cash deal.The Quality Report-Region & City PM 2.5 company was founded in the year 2013. Zen Ranking” compiled by IQAir AirVisual. 3 Headquartered in Seattle, Washington. India ranked 5th as the most polluted Tech Mahindra CEO: C. P. Gurnani. country in the world and topped in an annual UNSC renews its sanctions regime on list of cities with the worst air quality in the Yemen for another year: world. Ghaziabad as the most polluted city. United Nations Security Council has Bangladesh emerged as the most polluted renewed its sanctions regime on Yemen for country for PM2.5 exposure. It is followed by another year, after tense negotiations Pakistan, Mongolia, Afghanistan, and between Britain and Russia. India at 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th place Thirteen countries eventually adopted the respectively. London-drafted resolution on the sanctions, Indradhanush – V 2020: Indo-UK which now are in effect through February bilateral air exercise begins in Hindan, 2021. Uttar Pradesh: United Nations Security Council 5-day long 5th edition of Indo-UK (United Headquarters:New York, United States Kingdom) bilateral air exercise Birla Estates launches interactive AI “Indradhanush-V” 2020 between Indian Air powered ChatBot LIDEA on WhatsApp: Force (IAF) and British Royal Air Forces (RAF) Birla Estates recently launched an interactive has commenced at Air Force Station Hindan in AI Powered ChatBot solution LIDEA for its Uttar Pradesh. customers on WhatsApp. The solution is ‘Base Defence and Force Protection’ was aimed at providing information of its projects the focus of this year exercise. to users who are evaluating residential 36 specialised combatants from RAF developments of Birla Estates. Regiment & 42 combatants of the GARUD John McCarthy is one of the "founding Force from IAF team participated in this fathers" of AI. exercise. ExxonMobil inks cooperation pact with ADB raises $118 million through offshore IndianOil and Chart Industries: India rupee linked 10-year bonds: ExxonMobil inked a letter of cooperation Asian Development Bank (ADB), a regional with US’ Chart Industries Inc. &Indian Oil development bank,has secured Rs 850 crore Corporation Ltd (IOCL)for supplying (about $118 million) from a new issue of liquified natural gas (LNG) by by road, rail and offshore Indian rupee-linked 10-year bonds, waterways to areas not connected by physical with the bonds bearing a semi-annual coupon pipelines. of 6.15% and priced to yield 6.19%. India is the world’s third-largest oil This is the such 1st maturity secured in Indian importer. rupees since the year 2017 and gives an India ranks 5th in most polluted country: established yield curve that starts from 2021

through 2030 with Rs 72.4 billion ($1 billion) Astronomers have discovered 17 new of outstanding bonds. planets, including a potentially habitable India-Japan join hands to make Odisha a Earth-sized world, by combing through data Steel Hub “Mission Purvodaya”: gathered by NASA'sKepler space Union Minister of Steel announced at a telescope, which was launched in 2009. workshop organized by Confederation of The smallest planet is only two- thirds the Indian Industries (CII) that GoI is to make size of the Earth. Odisha the steel hub of India. This is to be One such rare planet is named as KIC- achieved by the Government with the help of 7340288 b. Japan. INSOFE ties up with CASE University for Odisha has been selected to establish steel master’s course: hub due to its strategic location, availability of The departments of biomedical engineering, raw materials and strong connectivity. mechanical engineering and civil engineering The city of Kalinga Nagar is to be developed from CASE Western Reserve University, as the epicenter of Mission Purvodaya. Cleveland, have tied up with International ADB to provide $4 million to member School of Engineering (INSOFE) in countries to contain coronavirus Hyderabad to offer a master’s degrees with outbreak: dual specialisation in Core and Data Asian Development Bank will provide a total Science/AI. of USD 4 million (about Rs 29 crore) to help Accenture opens Innovation Hub in developing countries in Asia and Pacific to Pune: fight the outbreak of novel coronavirus Accenture opened its third Innovation Hub in (COVID-19). The funds will be available for India, in Pune expanding its innovation all ADB developing member countries. capabilities for clients. ADB announced USD 4 million for this earlier Accenture Innovation Hub will provide an in February. immersive environment for clients to co- Facebook launches new campaign 'More innovate with Accenture experts in a variety Together' in India: of industries and across a range of advanced Social media company Facebook has launched technologies, including extended reality, a new consumer marketing campaign, called artificial intelligence, the internet of 'More Together', in India. things, blockchain and quantum Focused on the Facebook app, a new computing. consumer marketing campaign called 'More This will be the company’s second Nano Lab Together' shares stories that highlight the in the Asia-Pacific region. Power Of Connections on the platform. This DataCore launches R&D center in India, is the first such campaign launched by largest after Florida: Facebook in India. US based software storage firm 'Seventeen new planets, including one DataCoreplans to set up a global R&D centre Earth-sized world discovered':

in Bangalore, which will its largest Indian American Seema Verma named as centergloablly after the US. key member of coronavirus task force in The center in India, is expected to be ready in US: the next 12 months and willcater to clients Leading Indian American health policy across the US and EMEA region. consultant Seema Verma has been The centre in India will be led by Vani appointed as one of the key members of the Sharma as Center Head India & Vice White House Coronavirus Task Force President – Products, DataCore. constituted by US President Donald Trump China assumes presidency of UN Security to combat the deadly disease COVID-9 that Council for March 2020: has infected many people. China took over as president of the UN Task force Head-Health & Human Services Security Council for the month of March Secretary, Alex Azar. 2020,pledging to promote solidarity & Luxembourg is the First Country in the cooperation in this capacity.Security Council World to provide Free Public Transport: established by the UN Charter is primarily Luxembourg in Europe has become the first responsible for maintaining international country to make all forms of public transport peace & security. free. It is the second smallest country in the The council has 15 members. European Union. India set to be third biggest market for Around 0.2 million passengers travel to Coca-Cola: Luxembourg from its neighbouring countries India has emerged as the fifth largest such as Belgium, France and Germany for business hub for the $37.2 billion American work. Also, it has the highest car density in beverage giant, The Coca-Cola Company, and European Union. is on its way to becoming the third-largest LuxembourgCapital- Luxembourg market for the company. CityCurrency- Euro. World Bank announces 12 bn aid International Conference on package to help countries combat Nanoscience and Nano Technology held coronavirus outbreak: in Kolkata: World Bank has unveiled a 12-billion- Department of Science and Technology dollar aid package that will provide fast-track operating under Ministry of Science and funds to help countries combat the Technology organized an International coronavirus outbreak. Conference on Nanoscience and Nano World Bank President David Malpass told Technology (ICONSAT) at Kolkata. reporters that the goal is to provide fast, Sri Lanka to lead science, technology and effective action that responds to country innovation sector in BIMSTEC: needs. The funds, some of which are targeted Sri Lanka will lead the science, technology to the world's poorest nations, can be used for and innovation sector in the BIMSTEC and a medical equipment or health services and facility for technology transfer is also planned will include expertise and policy advice. to be open in the future. This was agreed

during the 20th Session of the senior India has ranked 83rd in the report along officials’ meeting held in Colombo, Srilanka. with Timor-Leste and Senegal in Sri Lanka is serving as chair of BIMSTEC(Bay ‘Free’category. of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Finland topped the list as the free democratic Technical and Economic Cooperation) country. from 2018 to 2020. TIME Magazine has named Indira Gandhi Mumbai set to host IOC session in 2023: & Amrit Kaur - “100 women of the year” Mumbai is set to host the Project: 2023International Olympic TIME Magazine created 100 New Covers for Committee'ssession after the IOC Executive the Project ‘100 women of the year’ to Board recommended the Indian city for the recognize selected women or groups to annual conference. represent each year from 1920 to 2019. The IOC Executive Board decided to put India’s Freedom Fighter Amrit Kaur will be Mumbai's candidature to a vote of the honoredas ‘Women of the Year’ for 1947 & members. The decision is to be ratified at the Former prime minister Indira Gandhi for 136th IOC session in Tokyo in July 2020. 1976. IIT Bombay & IIT Delhi find place in top BRAC retains its position as the top NGO 50 for engineering institutesQS World of the world for the 5th consecutive year: University Ranking 2020: Bangladesh-based international development According to the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) organization BRAC has retained its position World University Rankings 2020 by Subject, as the top NGO of the world among 500 global Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) NGOs. Bombay and IIT Delhi have made it to the The rankings for 2020 were announced by top 50 institutes in the world for the category the Geneva-based organization NGO Adviser of engineering and technology and ranked which publishes the list annually. 44th and 47th respectively. BRAC was founded by Sir Fazle Hasan Abed in Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1972. (MIT) in Cambridge,US (Unites States) India’s UHNWI population to increase by ranked at top position. 73% in 5 years & Ranks 12th: Finland topsFreedom in the World 2020; “Wealth Report 2020” released by Knight India ranked 83rd among least free Frank LLP,a leading International Property democracies: Consultant, India had 5,986 UHNWIs Ultra According to the ‘Freedom in the World high-net-worth individuals (UHNWIs) in 2020” report, which analyzesdemocratic 2019 and they expected to increase by 73% values and people’s freedom in 195 countries in the coming 5 years.This will almost double & 15 territories, released by the Freedom the current count to 10,354. House, a U.S (United States) -based According to Knight Frank India ranks12th. watchdog that conducts research and IIT Madras collaborates with Rolls-Royce advocacy on democracy. for research:

As part of the MoU, Rolls-Royce and IIT-M Ashraf Ghani sworn in as Afghanistan will also aim to pursue advanced research in President for second term: areas of relevance to future technological and Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani was programmatic needs of the company. sworn in for a second term as his rival As part of its Technical Higher Study Abdullah Abdullah held a parallel inauguration Framework, Rolls-Royce will sponsor select that could plunge the country deeper into employees keen to pursue master’s and PhD crisis ahead of peace talks with the Taliban. level studies, in partnership with IIT Madras. Fagu Purnima festival being celebrated Fourth International Diabetes Summit in Nepal: 2020 started in Pune: In Nepal, Holi, the festival of colours is being 4th International Diabetes Summit- 2020 celebrated in mountainous and hilly regions organized by Chellaram Diabetes Institute including Nepal capital Kathmandu. will be held from March 6-8, 2020 in Pune. Holi is also known as Fagu Purnima in Nepal. In these 3 days, over 2000 delegates are Every year, the festival of Holi is celebrated expected to attend the summit. It will help to with gaiety and enthusiasm. throw new light on diabetes management. Nepal President- Bidya Devi Bhandari. Maharaja Ranjit Singh named greatest Aon to buy Willis in $30-billion insurance world leader: mega-deal, antitrust hurdles loom: Maharaja Ranjit Singh, the 19th century ruler UK-based Aon Plc will buy Willis Towers of the Sikh Empire in India, has named as the Watson for nearly $30 billion in an all-stock ‘Greatest Leader of All Time’ in a poll deal that creates the world's largest insurance conducted by BBC World Histories broker but is almost certain to face regulatory Magazine. Singh was praised for creating a hurdles. Willis shareholders would receive new tolerant empire, by 5,000 voted readers. 1.08 Aon shares under the deal. African Independence Fighter Amilcar Deal is expected to close in the first half of Cabral is at the second. 2021. India ranked 12th in women member India was world’s second-largest arms presence on companies' board globally: importer in 2015-19: According to a recent study on 'Women on India remained the world’s 2nd largest arms Board 2020' by global recruitment tendering importer during 2015-19, with Russia being platform MyHiringClub.com and Sarkari- the largest supplier though Moscow’s share Naukri.info, India ranked 12th worldwide in of the Indian weapons market declined from women member presence on board. 72% to 56% as per the Trends in Norway continued to top the list with 40.72 international arms transfers 2019 report of per cent women on board, followed by SIPRI. Sweden with 30.84 per cent, Finland 29.91 SIPRI- Stockholm International Peace per cent, Germany 29.70 per cent, South Research Institute. Africa 19.84 per cent and the US 20.41 per ‘Joy Bangla’ to be national slogan of cent. Bangladesh:

High Court of Bangladesh has ordered that provide it the capability to fend off any missile ‘Joy Bangla’ will be the national slogan of attacks. Bangladesh. India ranks 46th out of 100 countries in In an order passed the two-judge bench of Inclusive Internet Index 2020: High Court asked the authorities to take Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) released necessary steps so that all the people holding the 4th iteration of the Inclusive Internet constitutional posts and state officials use Index 2020 for 100 countries where India is ‘Joy Bangla’. overall ranked in 46th place.Sweden in 1st Coronavirus outbreak could cost global place. economy up to $2 trillion: UNCTAD: WHO declares Corona Virus as GLOBAL The coronavirus outbreak could cost the PANDEMIC: global economy up to $2 trillion this year, World Health Organization declared Corona the UN's trade and development agency said, Virus as Global Pandemic as it is rapidly warning that shock from the epidemic will spreading across the world. There are more cause a recession in some countries and than 126,369 people infected with COVID-19 depress global annual growth to below virus. The virus has so far killed 4,634 2.5%. people. UNCTAD Secretary General- Mukhisa CCI approves acquisition of additional Kituyi. equity shares in Hero FinCorp Ltd by Jack Ma replaces Mukesh Ambani as Otter Limited & Link Investment Trust: Asia's richest man in $5.8 billion rout: CCI approves acquisition of additional equity Bloomberg Billionaires Index reported that shares in Hero FinCorp Ltd by Otter Jack Ma became Asia's richest man. Limited & Link Investment Trust. Ambani, who stood as richest man, has Otter is an investment company registered in moved to the 2nd position after oil prices Mauritius. Link is a private trust registered in collapsed along with global stocks. India and is engaged in making investments. Coronavirus erased $5.8 billion from Ambani's Hero FinCorp- Consumer Finance and net worth. commercial lending company. Jack Ma is the founder of Alibaba Group World Bank and GoI sign Agreement on Holding Ltd. Climate Resilient Rain-Fed Agriculture: India, US sign Rs 1200 crore deal for World Bank signed an $80 million loan protection system of new VVIP aircraft: agreement with the Government of India, India and the United States have signed a Government of Himachal Pradesh. The aim Rs 1200 crore deal for acquiring missile is to improve water management practices protection suites for the new Boeing VVIP and increase agricultural productivity in planes that India is acquiring for the President selected Gram Panchayats in Himachal and the Prime Minister. Pradesh. The missile protection suites on the two The loan from the International Bank for Boeing-777 Extended Range planes will Reconstruction and Development (IBRD)

has a final maturity of 14.5 years, including a with Spain, Mexico, France and New grace period of 5 years. Zealand. In other words, these countries he Integrated Project for Source were ranked equally to India. Sustainability and Climate Resilient Rain-Fed Saudi African & Arab-African summits Agriculture will be implemented in 428 Gram postponed due to Coronavirus: Panchayats in 10 districts in Himachal Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Pradesh. announced the postponement of the Saudi CCI approves acquisition of Teesta Urja African & Arab-African summits, Limited by Greenko Mauritius: scheduled to be hosted by the Kingdom in the The CCI approves the acquisition by Greenko first quarter of 2020. Postponement was Mauritius in Teesta Urja Limited, under done as a precaution in view of the spread of Section 31(1) of the Competition Act, 2002. COVID-19. Approval relates to the acquisition by Greenko Saudi Arabia Capital- Riyadh, Currency- of approximately 35% equity stake in the Riyal. paid-up equity share capital of TUL. India climbs to second position in Greenko Mauritius is an investment holding disruptive technologies development company. rankings: KPMG report Byju Raveendran, Zomato's Gaurav According to KPMG's "2020 Global Technology Gupta make it to WEF's Young Global Industry Innovation Survey" report, India Leaders list shared the second position with China as the World Economic Forum (WEF) announced most promising source of disruptive its new list of 115 Young Global Leaders technology in the world. Bengaluru entered (YGL), where 5 Indians Byju Raveendran, in the top 10 rankings of the list. Gaurav Gupta, SwapanMehra, VinatiMutreja& Singapore leaped to the top of this year's Tara Singh Vachani are named in the list. global rankings. The other three Indians on the list are Tara ADB allocates USD 200 million to support Singh Vachani (CEO of Antara Senior supply chains in the fight against Living), VinatiMutreja (Managing Director Coronavirus: and CEO, Vinati Organics Limited), and Asian Development Bank (ADB) is to make SwapanMehra (CEO, Iora Ecological available $200 million through its Supply Solutions). Chain Finance Program for several companies India Ranks Second Best in a New Farm that manufacture and distribute medicines Animal Cruelty Index: and other items needed to combat the novel Global Animal Protection Index 2020 was Coronavirus (COVID-19). released by World Animal Protection, an 3rd edition of WION Global Summit to be international animal welfare charity. India held in Dubai: was ranked second in the index. WION Global Summit is a platform for The Animal Protection Index ranks global leaders to engage in dialogue on a countries from A to G. India was ranked along common global agenda to be held in Dubai.

The summit intends to highlight the critical learn best practices & executing mission challenges of climate change, global during HADR disasters. governance, economic slowdown, and global 20-member team of IAF participated in the crisis that threatens to become the new exercise. normal. India inks Rs 880 crore deal for Israeli Theme: “Navigating and Negotiating light machine guns for frontline troops: Global Imperatives”. Indian Armed Forces operating under Ministry Flipkart teamed up with Aegon life of Defence signed an agreement with the insurance to sell quick-access life Israel Weapons Industry. According to the insurance policies: agreement, India is to procure 16, 479 LMG E-commerce marketplace Flipkart and (Light Machine Guns) for Rs 880 crores. Aegon Life Insurance joined hands to sell The LMG are used as squad automatic comprehensive insurance solutions for weapons. customers looking for instant digital policies The LMG were first used in Second World with a sum assured of up to Rs 10 lakh. War. Life insurance policies with sums assured India signs agreement with USA for from Rs 1 lakh to Rs 10 lakhs and supply of arms: premiums under the range of Rs. 129 to Rs. 1 One contract and two Letters of Offer and lakh sum insured will be available at the Acceptance (LOAs) have been concluded online shopping platform, the company said. with the US side for procurement of Microsoft India, NASSCOM Foundation Helicopters and Self Protection Suite. Launch Initiative To Empower People Countries such as US, Russia, France, With Disabilities: Germany, Israel, UK are leading exporters of Microsoft India and NASSCOM Foundation defence equipment. launched the Innovate for Accessible India The delivery of the helicopters will commence campaign aimed at empowering people with from May 2021. disabilities with the technology and tools World Cities Summit 2020 to be held in required for better integration into society Singapore: and access to equal opportunities. 7th World Cities Summit (WCS) is to be India conducts Joint Air Exercise with held from July 5 to 9, 2020 at Sands Expo & Myanmar: Convention Centre, Marina Bay Sands, in The first ever HADR (Humanitarian Singapore. It is organized by Singapore’s Assistance and Disaster Relief) exercise Centre for Liveable Cities and the Urban between the Indian and Myanmar Air Force Redevelopment Authority. (MAF) culminated at Air Force station The theme for WCS 2020 is ”Liveable and Bamrauli, Uttar Pradesh. Sustainable Cities: Adapting to a The objectives of the exercise include Disrupted World”. planning of HADR operation in each scenario,

Singapore Government invited Uttar Pradesh generation has increased to 34% by 2017 Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to the WCS- compared to seven years ago. 2020. Now, the country produces more energy than Singapore: Japan and Russia seven years ago, President– Halimah Yacob Capital– compared to India, which were installing 27% Singapore Currency-Singapore dollar and 8.77% more power generation capacity Roche Diagnostics India, first private respectively. firm to get COVID-19 test approval: According to a report by India Brand Equity Swiss firm Roche Diagnostics India Foundation (IBEF), a trust set up by the received the license for conducting Ministry of Commerce, electricity generation coronavirus tests after approval from DCGI. It stood at 1,003.525 billion units from April became the 1st private firm to get such 2017 to January 2018. permission after the govt. decided to allow India extends Covid assistance worth $ 1 accredited private labs to test for COVID-19. million under SAARC emergency fund: Drug Controller General of India (DCGI)-V. G. India, within days of Modi’s announcement of Somani. creation of $10 million SAARC Emergency WhatsApp donates $1 million to IFCN for Fund to fight Covid-19, has supplied various coronavirus facts alliance: medical supplies, testing equipment and other WhatsApp announced the global launch of the items to Maldives, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, WhatsApp Coronavirus Information Hub in Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. partnership with the World Health World Bank, ADB give USD 588 million to Organization, UNICEF and UNDP, besides a $1 Pakistan to fight coronavirus pandemic: million donation to the Poynter Institute's World Bank and Asian Develo•pment International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN). Bank have committed to providing USD 588 Director of IFCN- Baybars Orsek. million to Pakistan for its emergency United Nations launches World response . Happiness Report, 2020: The World Bank would provide USD 238 United Nations released the World Happiness million and the Asian Develo•pment Bank Report on the International Day of Happiness, (ADB) USD 350 million to Pakistan in support 2020. for the COVID-19. Finland ranked first in the report and India ranked 144. Around 156 countries were assessed under the ranking. This is the eighth World Happiness Report prepared by the organization. India becomes third largest electricity producer in the world: India has become the third-largest electricity producer in the world, as its power

BANKING AND TECHNOLOGY: EPFO is considering a cut of 15 basis points RBI directs banks to link all the new in the interest rate on PF deposits in FY20 to floating rate loans to medium 8.5%. Provident fund deposits had fetched enterprises with external benchmark: 8.65% in FY19. RBI has directed banks to link all the new EPFO Headquarters: New Delhi. floating rate loan to medium enterprises HDFC Bank launches co-branded credit (MEs) with external benchmark. card with IndiGo Move is aimed at further strengthening The card is being launched in partnership with monetary policy transmission so that benefits Mastercard, which is the largest issuer for of reduction in key lending rate can be passed HDFC Bank on to MEs. With over 14 million active cards, HDFC Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Founded: 1 Bank is by far the largest credit card issuer in April 1935. the country, and hopes to sell 1 million Ka- FinaneMinister Nirmala Sitaraman ching cards over the next three years launches EASE 3.0 to enhance Ease of HDFC Bank joined hands with the country's Banking: largest airline IndiGo to launch a co- FM Nirmala Sitaraman launched Enhanced branded credit card, which will effectively Access and Service Excellence(EASE 3.0) work like a loyalty programme for the carrier. along with the annual report of EASE 2.0 at a Sovereign Gold Bond Scheme 2019-20 function organized by Indian Banks’ (Series X) – Issue Price Association. Sovereign Gold Bonds 2019-20 (Series X) Aim of EASE 3.0 is to make public sector will be opened for the period March 02-06, banking technology enabled &smart. 2020. The issue price of the Bond during the EASE-Set of banking reforms to ensure subscription period shall be Rs better banking experience. 4,260(Rupees Four Thousand Two Finance secretary Rajiv kumar launches” Hundred Sixty only) – per gram with BarodaStartup Banking” initiative for Settlement date March 11, 2020. start-ups in 15 cities: Government of India in consultation with the Finance Secretary Shri Rajiv Kumar has Reserve Bank of India has decided to allow inaugurated the ‘Baroda Startup Banking’ discount of Rs 50 (Rupees Fifty only) per service with the objective of making Bank of gram from the issue price to those investors Baroda (BoB) a preferred ally of startup who apply online and the payment is made companies and connecting more than 2,000 through digital mode. startups over the next 2- years. India's unemployment rate rises to The initiative was launched simultaneously in 7.78%, highest since Oct 2019: 15 cities across India. India's unemployment rate rose to 7.78% in EPFO mulls rate cut on PF deposits to February, the highest since October 2019, 8.5% for FY20 and up from 7.16% in January, according to

data released by the Centre for Monitoring Asset Liability Management Committee Indian Economy (CMIE) (ALCO) of the Bank has decided to revise In rural areas, the unemployment rate interest rates for the products linked to increased to 7.37% in February from 5.97% External Benchmark with effect from 1st in the previous month, while in urban areas, March 2020,". it fell to 8.65% from 9.70%, the data While the RBI's repo rate remains unchanged released by CMIE, a Mumbai-based private at 5.15 per cent, the three-month MIBOR think-tank showed (Average) has reduced to 5.75 per cent from SBI Cards & Payment Services raise Rs 6.15 per cent. 2,769 Cr ahead of its initial share sale MIBOR refers to the Mumbai Interbank SBI Cards and Payment Services has Offered Rate. raised Rs 2,769Crore from 74 anchor Fitch Solutions cuts India's economic investors, ahead of its initial share sale, growth forecast to 4.9% for FY20: starting on March 2. Anchor investors are Fitch Solutions cut its forecast for India's institutional investors, who are offered shares economic growth to 4.9 per centfrom 5.1 in an Initial Public Offering, ahead of its per cent in the current fiscal that ends March opening. 31, saying manufacturing could come under Singapore government, Monetary Authority of pressure from weak domestic demand and Singapore, HDFC Mutual Fund, Government supply chain disruptions due to the Pension Fund Global and Birla Mutual Fund, coronavirus outbreak. are among the anchor investors. RBI receives 1.71 trillion in Long-term Bank credit growth dips to 8.5 % in repo operation (LTRO): January: The Reserve Bank of India received 1.71 Bank credit growth declined to 8.5 per cent trillion in the third long-term repo operation in January from 13.5 per cent in the year- (LTRO) conducted for an amount of 25,000 ago period led by a sharp slowdown in loans crore. The RBI will conduct another LTRO for to the services sector, according to RBI data. three-year tenor worth 25,000 crore on March Growth in advances to the services sector 9. decelerated to 8.9 per cent from 23.9 per Shaktikanta Das, 25th governor of Reserve cent in January 2019. Bank of India (RBI). Bank loan growth to non-banking financial OECD lowers India's FY21 GDP growth to companies (NBFCs) slowed to 32.2 per cent in 5.1% on coronavirus concerns: the reporting month from a growth of 48.3 Global agency OECD (Organisation for per cent a year-ago. Economic Cooperation and Development) Allahabad Bank lowers interest rate on lowered its India's GDP growth forecast to 5.1 external benchmark-linked products percent from the earlier projection of 6.2 State-owned Allahabad Bank announced a cut percent for 2020 on concerns of impact of of up to 40 basis points in interest rate on deadly coronavirus on the domestic as well as external benchmark-linked products. the global economy.

OPPO launches 'Kash' mutual fund Supreme Court set aside the complete ban on platform, offers Systematic Investment cryptocurrency imposed by the Reserve Planfrom Rs100: Bank of India. The RBI had decided to ban OPPO announced its foray into financial banks from providing services to people or services with 'OPPO Kash' that offers users businesses dealing with cryptocurrencies. to invest in mutual funds, along with free The apex court allowed a plea challenging credit reports, personal loans up to two lakh, RBI's 2018 circular that barred banks from business loans up to 2 crore and screen trading in cryptocurrencies. insurance. A three-judge Bench of Justice Rohinton Fali RBL Bank, Zomato and Mastercard Nariman, Justice S Ravindra Bhat and Justice partner to launch co-branded credit V Ramasubramanian allowed the plea of the cards: Internet and Mobile Association of India Zomato announced the launch of a co- (IAMAI) challenging the order. branded credit card along with RBLand NBCC gets NCLT nod to acquire Jaypee Master Card. It will help the online food Infratech: delivery platform further cement its position State-owned NBCC received National in India's dining market by offering benefits Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) approval to such as Zomato credits on purchases. takeover debt laden Jaypee Infratech, Vishwavir Ahuja,Managing Director & CEO restoring hopes of homebuyers finally getting of RBL Bank. their promised flats in next four years. NABARD infuses Rs 1.46 lakh crore in This development will provide a huge relief to rural banking system during current over 20,000 homebuyers across various fiscal: housing projects launched by Jaypee National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Infratech (JIL) in Noida and Greater Noida Development (NABARD) has infused 1.46 (Uttar Pradesh). lakh crore rupees in the rural banking NBCC(National Buildings Construction system during the current fiscal. Corporation) has proposed to complete over NABARD has said that 66,397 crore rupees 20,000 pending flats in the next three-and-a- have been given in short-term credit and half years. 6,704 crore rupees in long-term credit to rural Financial Awards 2020: SBI and HDFC cooperative banks. Bank win 'Bank of the Year' award: Regional rural banks have availed 14,141 State Bank of India (SBI) and private major crore rupees in short-term credit and 8,417 HDFC Bank have jointly bagged the 'Bank of crore rupees in long-term credit. In addition, the Year' award at Business Today-Money other banks, including small finance banks, Today Financial Awards 2020. While this is have obtained long-term refinance of 37,895 the second time SBI has won the award, for crore rupees. HDFC Bank, it was sixth year running. Supreme Court quashes RBI's ban on HDFC has also bagged the 'Best Large cryptocurrency: Bank' and 'Best Fintech Engagement' award.

On the other hand, SBI won the award for An urban co-operative banking institution, to 'Best in Rural Outreach'. distribute its products with the latter’s Kotak Mahindra Mutual Fund emerged the customers base spread across its 280 'Best Fund House Overall' and 'Best Fund branches in 6 states House Debt'. Axis Mutual Fund won the ICICI Prudential AMC:Headquarters– award for 'Best Fund House Equity'. Mumbai,MaharashtraManaging Director ICICI Lombard General Insurance bagged and CEO– Nimesh Shah. the award for the 'Best General Insurance RBI Deputy Governor N.S. Vishwanathan Provider'. resigned ahead of retirement Govt imposes withdrawal limit of Rs Reserve Bank of India deputy governor NS 50,000 for depositors of Yes Bank for a Vishwanathan has quit three months ahead month of his retirement in June due to health The government has imposed a withdrawal reasons. limit of 50,000 rupees for depositors of At presentthree deputy governors B. P. beleaguered private lender Yes Bank for one Kanungo, Mahesh Kumar Jain and month. An official notification issued by the Michael Patra. finance ministry said that the cap will stay in Cabinet approves Mega Consolidation in effect till 3rd of April. Public Sector Banks with effect from 1 Former Chief Financial Officer of SBI April 2020 Prashant Kumar has been appointed as 10 PSBs- Amalgamation of Oriental Bank of administrator for Yes Bank. Commerce & United Bank of India into PNB, Equitas Small Finance Bank gets SEBI Amalgamation of Andhra Bank & Corporation approval to launch IPO Bank into Union Bank of India, Amalgamation Equitas Small Finance Bank received of Allahabad Bank into Indian Bank, Securities and Exchange Board of India's Amalgamation of Syndicate Bank into Canara (SEBI) approval to launch its Initial Public Bank. Offering (IPO). SEBI introduces mobile app ‘Sebi The IPO includes a fresh issue of shares worth SCORES’ for investors to lodge Rs 550 crore and an offer-for-sale (OFS) of 8 grievances: crore equity shares by Equitas Holdings Securities and Exchange Board of India Limited (EHL), the promoter, according to (SEBI) the regulator for the securities market document filed with market regulator SEBI. in India, has introduced a mobile app called ICICI Prudential AMC ties up Saraswat ‘Sebi SCORES (Sebi Complaints Redress Co-op Bank to tap rural potential: System)’ through which, investors can ICICI Prudential AMC (Asset Management register their grievances. Company), one of the leading mutual fund On the SCORES platform, investors can investment companies in India, has entered complain online with SEBI against listed into the partnership with Saraswat Co- companies, registered intermediaries and operative Bank. market infrastructure institutions.

RBI to extend Rs 10,000 crore under SBI has reduced its one-year MCLR by 10 special liquidity facility: basis points to 7.75% from 7.85% earlier. SBI Reserve Bank of India has decided to has also cut its FD rates. extend a loan of Rs10,000 crore This is 10th consecutive cut in MCLR by SBI immediately under the special liquidity facilty this fiscal. to Yes Bank against government securities, CSIR: Discovery of ink to curb fake according to two people familiar with the printing of Passports & counterfeiting of matter, who spoke on conditions of Currency Notes anonymity. CSIR-National Physical Laboratory has The 90-day loan will be offered at the current developed a bi-luminescent security ink which Bank Rate of 5.4% plus 3% to meet the glows in red and green colours when immediate liquidity needs of the bank. illuminated by two different excitation sources Punjab National Bankannounces share at 254 nano meters & 365 nm, exchange ratio for merger with Oriental respectively. The ink was given to Bank Note Bank, United Bank: Press, Dewas. Punjab National Bank has announced the SPMCIL (Security Printing & Minting share exchange ratio for the merger with Corporation of India Limited) has currency Oriental Bank of Commerce & United note presses at Nashik and Dewas. Bank of India. No minimum balance needed for SBI The bank also said the board has fixed March savings bank accounts: 25 as the date for issuing and allotting its State Bank of India (SBI) announced that equity shares to the shareholders. it has waived off the requirement of holding Punjab National Bank MD- S. S. Mallikarjuna average monthly balance for savings Rao. accounts. "State Bank of India has decided to Moody's again slashes India's growth waive maintenance of Average Monthly projection for 2020 to 5.3% Balance (AMB) for all Savings Bank Moody’s Investors revised its baseline growth Accounts," the bank's press release stated. projections for India from 5.4% to 5.3% in From now on all SBI customers will enjoy the 2020, saying an extensive and prolonged zero-balance facility in their savings bank slump as a result of the Covid-19 outbreak accounts. This, according to the press release, will reduce growth in Asia’s third-largest will benefit 44.51 crore savings bank economy to 5% during the calendar year. account. SBI cuts MCLR rate, home loans to get Canara HSBC Oriental Bank of Commerce cheaper Life Insurance launches iSelect+ Term SBI has cut its Marginal Cost Of Fund- Plan Based Lending Rate (MCLR) by up to 15 Canara HSBC Oriental Bank of Commerce basis points across various tenors, effective Life Insurance Company Limited from March 10. announced the launch of iSelect+ Term

Plan to provide enhanced protection cover at starting April 1, to 4% from the 5.1% an affordable premium estimated earlier. UBS Securities said it The plan is designed to provide death benefit, expects India to clock a 4.8% growth in terminal illness, & has additional options of FY20. accidental death benefit, accidental total, S&P lowers India's growth forecast to permanent disability benefit & child support 5.2% in 2020 amid coronavirus fears: benefit S&P Global Ratings lowered India's economic World’s first Digital Solutions Exchange growth forecast to 5.2% for 2020, saying the Cloud launched in India: global economy is entering a recession amid GOKADDAL, the World’s first Digital the coronavirus pandemic. Solutions Exchange in Cloud, was launched in The agency had earlier projected a growth India. www.gokaddal.com, a cloud-based rate of 5.7 per cent during the 2020 solution exchange platform mainly focuses on calendar. 4A’s – Automation, Artificial Intelligence, Paytm Payments Bank to now issue Visa Analytics and Augmentative debit cards: Technologies. Paytm Payments Bank Ltd (PPBL) announced GOKADDAL – It is a Business to Business that it will now start issuing Visa debit cards (B2B), Business to Government (B2G), to its customers. With this partnership, Paytm Business to Consumer (B2C) solution is targeting to issue over 10 million new platform which connects solution providers to digital debit cards in FY 20-21. solution seekers and an innovative platform The bank, known for introducing neo-banking for Startups and SME companies. in the country, is already the largest issuer of RBI announces US dollar sell/buy swap RuPay Debit Cards and has the fastest to provide liquidity to foreign exchange growing bank account base. market: RBI opens dollar-swap window along Observing mismatch in US dollar liquidity with infusion of Rs 1,00,000 crore across the world, the Reserve Bank has through LTRO: announced a six-month US dollar sell/buy RBI opens dollar-swap window-StartThere is swap to provide liquidity to the foreign global instability in financial markets due to exchange market. the spread of COVID 19 (Coronavirus), The 1st swap worth 2 billion US dollars will which may lead to a slowdown in growth. be conducted on March 16th. Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has opened a Indian Forex reserves stood at $487.24 six-month dollar sell-buy swap window, and billion as of 6th March. will also inject Rs 1,00,000 crore additional UBS cuts India’s FY21 real GDP growth Long Term Repo Operations (LTROs) at forecast to 4%: the policy repo rate. The coronavirus pandemic and the resulting RBI to infuse Rs.10,000 crore via OMO to lockdowns led UBS to sharply cut India's maintain liquidity in banking system: growth forecast for the next financial year

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is all set to infuse (WLAs). They provide the banking services Rs.10,000 crore liquidity in the banking to the customers of Indian banks based on the system by buying government securities cards issued by banks. WLA operators are through Open Market Operations (OMO) authorised under the Payment & Settlement on March 20, 2020. Systems Act, 2007 RBI. The securities will be purchased through a ICICI Bank launches ‘ICICIStack’, a multi-security auction using the multiple price digital banking platform: method with tenor between two and five ICICI (Industrial Credit and Investment years. RBI will offer to buy four set of Corporation of India) Bank announced the sovereign papers maturing between launch of 'ICICIStack', a set of the country’s February 2022 and May 2025. most comprehensive digital banking services RBI issued new guidelines for payment and APIs (Application Programme aggregators; MCR reduced for new PAs Interface) to ensure uninterrupted banking to Rs 15 crore from Rs 100 crore experience to customers--retail and business. Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has issued new SBI acquired 6.825% stake of Zero Mass guidelines for the Payment Aggregators Private Limited: (PAs) to provide ease for payments industry SBI has entered into an agreement to acquire players. 6.825% stake in Zero Mass. As part of the These are issued under Section 18 read with deal, the Bank has sold its entire stake in A Section 10(2) of the Payment and Little World to the Zero Mass. Settlement Systems Act, 2007 and shall ZERO Mass Pvt. Ltd. was founded by come into effect from April 1, 2020. The new Anurag Gupta, Founder and Director on 20 rules are for non-bank PAs. March 2007. RBI has reduced the Minimum Capital State Bank of India: Headquarters– Requirements (MCR) for PAs at the time of Mumbai, India Chairman– Rajnish Kumar application for the licence to Rs 15 crore DBS Bank India ties up with Bharti AXA from Rs 100 crore. However, the net worth to roll out insurance plan covering needs to be increased to Rs 25 crore within COVID-19 three years of operations. DBS Bank India Limited, a wholly owned RBI extended authorisation to subsidiary of DBS (Development Bank of Vakrangee Ltd for white label ATMs till Singapore) Bank Ltd, has entered into the Mar 31, 2020: partnership with Bharti AXA General Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has extended the Insurance Company Ltd to launch a validity of Authorization to Vakrangee complimentary insurance for customers of Limited till March 31, 2021 to setup, own and DBS treasures. operates the White Label ATMs (WLA) 15th Finance Commission constitutes Business in India. committee to review fiscal consolidation ATM set up, owned and operated by non-bank roadmap: entities are called “White Label ATMs”

15th Finance Commission has constituted a SEBI lowered the limit of positions that can be committee to review the fiscal consolidation taken in the futures & options market, roadmap of the general government. increased margin requirements and The committee, to be headed by chairman of capped derivatives exposure. the Finance Commission, NK Singh, will SEBI’s measures are largely to curb extreme recommend a debt & fiscal consolidation volatility in individual stocks and index roadmap for FY 2021-25 for the government derivatives segment. SIDBI launches “Swavalamban Express” RBI opens Rs.60,000-crore emergency to promote business aspirants credit line for Yes Bank: Small Industries Development Bank of Reserve Bank has opened an emergency line India (SIDBI) is to start Swavalamban of credit of around Rs.60,000 crore to Yes Express on 5 June 2020. The aim is to Bank to meet any liquidity crisis in paying promote budding business aspirants and back its depositors. entrepreneurs. The move comes after 16 years when a SIDBI will start a special train based on the similar credit line was opened for Global Trust opinions and suggestions of various Bank in 2004. stakeholders. The Train is to visit 11 Additional liquidity, under Section 17 (4) of entrepreneurial cities. The train has been the RBI Act. launched to fulfil India’s goal of 5 trillion USD RBI extends restrictions on PMC Bank for by 2024-25. three more months: India’s forex reserves plunge the most in Reserve bank of India extended the 8 years as RBI defends the rupee: regulatory restrictions on Punjab and India’s foreign-exchange reserves plunged Maharashtra Cooperative Bank (PMC) the most in about eight years as the central Bank by another three months. bank stepped in to defend the rupee.The The validity of directive dated 23 September, reserves fell by $5.35 billion to $481.9 2019, stands modified from 23 March, 2020 billion in the week. to 22 June, 2020. CRISIL lowers FY21 growth to 5.2% J B Bhoria, administrator.of PMC Bank. from 5.7%: IRDAI sets up 16-member panel on CRISIL downgraded India’s Gross Domestic governance at insurers headed by Pravin Forecast (GDP) for fiscal 2021 to 5.2% from Kutumbe: 5.7% due to the coronavirus pandemic. Insurance Regulation and Development Also, it is spreading rapidly in India causing Authority (IRDAI) instituted a 16-member adverse effects on domestic consumption, committee headed by Pravin Kutumbe to investment, and production and slowing the further strengthen its guidelines on corporate financial markets. governance. SEBI takes measures to check short The committee consists of a head, six selling, curb volatility: members from the insurance regulator besides members from the Reserve Bank of

India (RBI) and the Securities and They will together set-up a Center of Exchange Board of India (SEBI) along Excellence in the campus. with other industry participants. Scientists from INST develops starch- based ‘hemostat’ material to stop rapid SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: blood loss during accidents ISRO to launch GISAT-1 on 05 March Scientists from the Institute of Nano Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Science and Technology (INST), an (GSLV-F10) will launch Geo Imaging Satellite autonomous institute under the Department (GISAT-1) from the Second Launch Pad of of Science & Technology, developed a starch- Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) SHAR, based ‘Hemostat’ material which absorbs Sriharikota. The launch is tentatively excess fluid by concentrating the natural scheduled on March 05, 2020. clotting factors in the blood that stops the Weighing about 2275 kg, GISAT-1 is a state- rapid blood loss. of-the-art agile Earth observation satellite IHBT scientists develop new sanitizer which will be placed in a Geosynchronous without chemicals like parabens, Transfer Orbit by GSLV-F10. triclosan, and phthalates: STMicroelectronics, Aligarh University Scientists of CSIR-Institute of Himalayan tie up to develop wireless chargers for Bioresource Technology (CSIR-IHBT), EV: Palampur (HP) have developed a new hand- STMicroelectronics has tied up with sanitizer. Aligarh Muslim University of Uttar Natural flavors,active tea constituents & Pradesh, to jointly develop technology for alcohol content in the hand-sanitizer have solar-powered, wireless charging stations in been used according to WHO guidelines. India. World Health Organization(WHO): Both STMicroelectronics and AMU will bring Headquarters-Geneva, Switzerland. parts of their home-grown technologies to the 10 earth-observing satellites among 36 projects. missions lined up by ISRO for FY21: STMicroelectronics is a French multinational ISRO lined up 36 missions including 10 company. earth observation satellites in 2020-21. L&T Technology Services and IIT-Kanpur Besides 10 earth observation satellites, the sign MoU for research in Cybersecurity space agency lined up 3 communication programs: satellites, 3 space science satellite, 2 L&T Technology Services Limited, a pure- navigation satellite and 1 technology play engineering services company, signed a demonstration. multi-year Memorandum of Understanding Gaganyaan (unmanned) is also part of (MoU) with the Indian Institute of ISRO’s mission for 2020-21. Technology, Kanpur to collaborate on research in industrial and infrastructure cybersecurity. RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC | 46 Official Website: www.raceinstitute.in| Official Blog: www.bankersdaily.in Chennai RACE Coaching Institute Pvt Ltd

APPOINTMENTS: Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Indian-origin minister Suella Braverman Mohamad resigned,and the cabinet was sworn in as UK's Attorney General dissolved, plunging the Southeast Asian Indian-origin Suella Braverman, appointed country into chaos less than two years after the UK's new Attorney General in British the 94-year-old leader took office in a Prime Minister Boris Johnson's reshuffled historic election. Cabinet earlier this month, was on Monday formally sworn in for the post at a ceremony Realme ropes in Salman Khan as brand at the Royal Courts of Justice in London. ambassador The 39-year-old minister, a barrister and Smartphone brand realme has appointed Cambridge University law graduate who Bollywood actor Salman Khan as its brand specialised in public law and judicial review, ambassador. said her priority will be to restore confidence According to Counterpoint Research, realme in the justice system. was the world's fastest-growing smartphone Michael Miebach is Mastercard new CEO, brand in 2019. It ranked at the 4th spot in Banga moves to executive chairman the Indian smartphone market. Mastercard’s chief executive officer of 10 Realme Headquarters: Shenzhen, China years, Ajay Banga, will step down at the Bob Chapek appointed as Disney CEO he start of the next year, the company said, and replaces Bob Iger: e replaced by Chief Product Officer Michael Bob Iger has stepped down as CEO of the Miebach. Walt Disney Company (DIS), effective Ajay Banga, who took charge of the company immediately. just after the 2008-09 financial crisis. India- Bob Chapek is the new CEO, the board of born Banga will take on the role of executive directors announced. He most recently served chairman, while Miebach will become the as chairman of Disney Parks, Experiences and company's president on March. Products. Riek Machar sworn in as first Vice Walt Disney Company Headquarters- President in South Sudan Burbank, California, United States. Riek Machar sworn in as 1st Vice President Axis Bank appoints Puneet Sharma as in South Sudan. Transition govt will serve for CFO 36 months. President Salva Kiir called the Axis Bank said its board has approved official ending of the war & said peace is now appointment of Puneet Sharma as Chief irreversible as the new govt was formed after Financial Officer (CFO). more than a year of delays. His appointment will be effective from March South Sudan Capital- Juba, Currency- 6, the private sector lender said in a Pound. regulatory filing. Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Sharma replaces Jairam Sridharan, who has Mohamad Resigned resigned as the group executive and CFO of

the bank, with effect from the close of Muhyiddin Yassin sworn in as Malaysia's business hours on March 5. new Prime Minister Abhay Kumar Singh appointed as Malaysia, the King Sultan Abdullah Sultan Chairman & Managing Director of NHPC Ahmad Shah has appointed seasoned Limited politician Muhyiddin Yassin, a former Abhay Kumar Singh has been recently interior minister and president of the Bersatu appointed as the Chairman & Managing party as the new Prime Minister Director of the Indian PSU, National MalaysiaCurrency: Malaysian Hydroelectric Power CorporationLimited. ringgitCapital: Kuala Lumpur Abhay Kumar has replaced Ratish S C Garg appointed advisor to Andhra Kumarwho held additional charge of the post Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy: of Chairman & Managing Director. Former Union finance secretary Subhash Sumant Kathpalia succeeds Romesh Chandra Garghas been appointed as advisor Sobti as IndusInd Bank MD & CEO to Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Private sector lender IndusInd Bank said that JaganMohan Reddy for resource it had appointed Sumant Kathpalia the next mobilisation. managing director (MD) and chief executive Garg has been assigned the rank of a Cabinet officer (CEO) from March 24, for a three- minister, according to an order issued by year term. Principal Secretary (Political) Praveen Kathpalia will succeed current MD & CEO Prakash. RomeshSobti, who has been at the helm of Nokia appoints PekkaLundmark as CEO affairs for over a decade now andRajeev Suri to step down: Rajesh Kumar becomes new MD & CEO of The chief executive of Nokia, Rajeev Suri, is CIBIL stepping down after just over half a decade at Credit Information Bureau (India) the helm of the Finnish network company. Limited the largest credit information bureau Suri will be replaced by PekkaLundmark, appointed Rajesh Kumar of HDFC Bank as the outgoing CEO of Fortum Oyj its new managing director and chief Suri, who has been at Nokia for 25 years, executive. He will succeed Satish became CEO after running the Nokia Siemens Headquarters of CIBIL: Mumbai. Networks joint venture. SEBI chief Ajay Tyagi gets 6-month Ram Nair named World Vegetable Center extension: regional head: The government has given a six-month The World Vegetable Center (WorldVeg) has extension to Securities and Exchange Board appointed Ramakrishnan (Ram) M Nair as of India (SEBI) chairman Ajay Tyagi whose the Regional Director for its South and Central term at the helm was ending on February 29. Asia operations. Mr.Ajay Tyagi is an Indian Administrative He will work with donors and partners and Officer (IAS) of the Himachal Pradesh develop new projects, besides promoting cadre. research and development.

Nair also leads the WorldVeg global legume of delivery for advanced technology centres in breeding programme and the International India. Mungbean Improvement Network Sudhanshu Pandey appointed as new (IMIN). CMD of MMTC: Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu claims Sudhanshu Pandey, Additional Secretary at victory in general elections: the Department of Commerce, assumed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu additional charge as CMD (Chairman & has claimed victory in the general elections. Managing Director) of MMTC (Metals & Exit polls indicated that Mr Netanyahu is in a Minerals Trading Corporation). strong position to form the next government. He was the successor of Ved Prakash. Publicis appoints Unny Radhakrishnan as Pandey currently discharges functions as the Digitas India CEO: Chief Negotiator of India. Publicis Groupe India announced the Arjun Ranga elected president of All appointment of Unny Radhakrishnan as India Agarbathi Manufacturers chief executive of its digital agency Digitas Association: India. He will take over the role from Arjun Ranga, the CEO of N Ranga Rao & Amaresh Godbole who is joining Google. Sons, has been elected president of the All Unny Radhakrishnan comes with over 20 India Agarbathi Manufacturers years in the digital marketing, consulting and Association. technology. Ranga, who was previously the Vice-president Aegon Life Insurance appoints Naveen of the association, will represent over 700 Bachwani as Chief Operating Officer: agarbathi manufacturers. Aegon Life Insurance announces the Ajay Bhushan Pandey appointed as the appointment of Naveen Bachwani as its new Finance Secretary: chief operating officer. Bachwani is expected Prime MinisterNarendra Modi has approved to drive digital transformation, product the appointment of Ajay Bhushan Pandey development and operations. He will be based as the new Finance Secretary in Ministry of out of the corporate office in Mumbai. Finance. He will succeed current Rajiv Naveen Bachwani previously worked with the Kumar, who has retired in February 2020. Edelweiss Group. Pandey, a 1984 batch Indian Administrative Mindtree appoints former Accenture Service officer of Maharashtra cadre, had executive DayapatraNevatia as COO: earlier worked as chief executive officer of Bengaluru-based IT firm Mindtree has Unique Identification Authority of India appointed DayapatraNevatiaas the Chief (UIDAI), the organization behind the Operating Officer (COO) of the company Aadhaar. effective Monday, March 2, 2020. Former India spinner Sunil Joshi named Before joining Mindtree, Nevatia worked in BCCI’s selection committee chairman: Accenture as managing director and director Former India spinner Sunil Joshiwas named chairman of the national selection panel by

the BCCI's Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) Anurag Srivastava to replace Raveesh in Mumbai. A statement from BCCI Secretary Kumar as Ministry of External Affairs Jay Shah said, the CAC also picked ex-pacer spokesperson: Harvinder Singh for a place in the five- Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer Anurag member group. Srivastava will replace Raveesh Kumar as Kishore Biyani redesignated as non- the spokesperson of Ministry of External executive VC at Future Lifestyle: Affairs (MEA). Future Lifestyle Fashions said that its board Srivastava is currently serving as India’s had approved the redesignation of Kishore Ambassador to Ethiopia and African Union. Biyani, the company’s managing director, as He is a 1999-batch IFS officer. non-executive vice chairperson. The re- Kriti Sanon as new brand ambassador of designation is based on the recommendations ITC Vivel: of the nomination and remuneration ITC Ltd-owned personal care brand Vivel committee, the company said. announced the appointment of Bollywood Sanjay Kumar Panda appointed as actor Kriti Sanon as its new brand India’s Ambassador to Turkey: ambassador. Ministry of External Affairs announced Senior The brand has launched a new campaign diplomat Sanjay Kumar Panda has been featuring Sanon for its cooling portfolio of appointed as India’s Ambassador to Turkey. soaps and body washes which has He succeeds Sanjay Bhattacharya. ingredients like mint and cucumber. Sanjay Kumar Panda is a 1991 batch Indian Bimal Julka sworn in as Chief Foreign Service (IFS) officer. Information Commissioner of Central Janez Jansa sworn in as Slovenia’s new Information Commission: Prime Minister: Bimal Julka was sworn in as the new Chief Slovenia’s lawmakers have approved the Information Commissioner of the Central Leader of Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS) Information Commission. President Ram JanezJansa as Slovenia’s new Prime Nath Kovind administered the oath of office. Minister. He will replace center-left Prime Number of Information Commissioners has Minister MarjanSarec who resigned from s fallen to 5 as against a sanctioned strength of post in January 2020. 11. JanezJansa led the Slovenian government Bimal Julka will succeed Sudhir Bhargava. from 2004 to 2008 and from 2012 to 2013. Puma signs Bollywood actress Kareena He has a close ally of Poland’s Jaroslaw Kapoor Khan as the new brand Kaczynski and Hungary’s Viktor Orban. ambassador: Slovenia: German sportswear brand Puma said it has Capital– Ljubljana Currency- signed Bollywood actor Kareena Kapoor EuroPresident– BorutPahor Khan as its new brand ambassador. Kareena joins the brand’s roaster of dynamic women personalities like Adriana Lima,

Selena Gomez, Cara Delevingne, Sara Ali Group, has been given additional charge of Khan, MC Mary Kom, and Dutee Chand. Deputy Managing Director and CFO. SBI Life re-appoints Sanjeev Nautiyal as Indian American Sonia Syngal becomes MD & CEO: new CEO of Gap: Reappointment is subject to approval of Gap Inc. named its Old Navy leader, Sonia Insurance Regulatory and Development Syngal, as chief executive officer as the Authority of India (IRDAI) and members apparel retailer looks to reverse falling foot of the company. traffic and sales while it pivots to a new SBI Life Insurance said it has re-appointed strategy. Sanjeev Nautiyal as managing director and Syngal, 49, will take over as of March 23, the chief executive officer of the company. company said in a statement. She became K.M. Mammen re-elected ATMA chief: CEO of Old Navy in 2016. Tyre major MRF’s chairman & MD K.M. Nupur Kulshrestha becomes Indian Mammen has been unanimously re-elected Coast Guard’s first woman DIG: as chairman of Automotive Tyre Nupur Kulshrestha becomes the 1st woman Manufactures’ Association (ATMA). to be promoted as Deputy Inspector ATMA Founded in 1975, ATMA represents 11 General(DIG)of Indian Coast Guard.She large tyre companies comprising Indian & joined Indian Coast Guard in 1999. international tyre majors. Prashant Kumar takes charge as Yes Anurag Mehrotra was appointed as the Bank administrator: Chief Executive officer of Mahindra-Ford Prashant Kumar former deputy managing venture: director and CFO of State Bank of India, has Managing Director of Ford India, Anurag taken charge as its administrator. Mehrotra was appointed as the Chief Kumar taking charge as the Yes Bank Executive officer for the New joint venture administrator is in line with notifications formed by Mahindra and Ford with effect issued by the Department of Financial from April 1, 2020. Services and the RBI. This joint venture is formed to develop and ITBP chief Shri Surjeet Singh Deswal sell Ford branded cars in India and other given additional charge of BSF DG: emerging markets. The joint venture created Director General Indo Tibetian Border is valued at $275 million (Rs 1,925 crore). Police (ITBP), Shri Surjeet Singh Deswal Chalasani Venkat Nageswar gets was given an additional charge by the Ministry additional charge of DMD, CFO of SBI: of Home Affairs to serve as a Director General State Bank of Indiasaid Chalasani Venkat of Border Security Force (BSF). Nageswar has been given additional charge He will succeed Vivek johri repatriated by of deputy managing director and chief Government of India who has now taken over financial officer (CFO) of the bank. a charge as a Director General of Police at "Chalasani Venkat Nageswar, Deputy Madhya Pradesh. Managing Director, International Banking

PV Sindhu becomes the brand DFS secretary Debasish Panda ambassador for anti-graft helpline: nominated on central board of RBI: Badminton world champion PV Sindhu is Reserve Bank of India said that the Central appointed as the brand ambassador for Government has nominated Department of Andhra Pradesh government’s anti-graft Financial Services Secretary Debasish helpline or anti-corruption helpline– 14400 Panda as a Director on the RBI central board. She has featured along with Chief Minister YS iQOO named Virat Kohli as its brand Jagan Mohan Reddy in a video titled ‘stop ambassador: corruption’ which states people keep their iQOO - a new smartphone brand from China eyes & ears open against corruption. and part of the BBK Group - on Wednesday HSBC appoints Mark Wang as Chief named cricketer ViratKohli as its new brand Executive in China: ambassador. HSBC has appointed a new chief executive for ECI appoints Hirdesh Kumar new Chief China, a major focus for the bank, the latest Electoral Officer of Jammu and Kashmir: in a series of senior management changes. The Election Commission of India appointed Mark Wang, head of HSBC's China investment Hirdesh Kumar as the new Chief Electoral banking business, will become China CEO. Officer of the Union Territory of Jammu and HSBC interim group CEO is Noel Quinn. Kashmir. IDFC FIRST Bank names Amitabh He will replace Shailendra Kumar with effect Bachchan as Brand Ambassador: from the date he assumes charge. IDFC FIRST Bank has announced the Government ropes in Amitabh Bachchan signing of India's most iconic personality, to spread awareness about COVID-19: Amitabh Bachchan, as its 1st ever brand Actor Amitabh Bachchan has been roped in ambassador. by the government to spread awareness His personality resonates IDFC FIRST's brand about the novel coronavirus or COVID-19. In persona & values pillars,that of Sincerity, a new video posted by the Ministry of Health Humility & Contemporariness. and Family Welfare, Bachchan is seen telling Mr. V Vaidyanathan, MD & CEO, IDFC FIRST people about the basics of fighting the deadly Bank, virus COVID 19. Lt Gen KJS Dhillon to take charge as DG Shri Ravinder Singh Dhillon, Appointed DIA, DCIDS: as Chairman and Director (Projects) of Lt Gen KJS Dhillon will take over the post of PFC : Director General Defence Intelligence Agency Mr.Ravinder Singh Dhillonwas appointed and Deputy Chief of Integrated Defence Staff as CMD of Power Finance Corporation Ltd. (Intelligence). He has more than 34 years of experience in It is a department that comes under the Chief various areas of power sector and was of Defence Staff in the newly created serving as Executive Director in PFC prior to Department of Military Affairs. this appointment. He also served as Director (Public Grievances) in PFC.

Former IBM executive Karan Bajwa He was nominated by President of India Shri appointed Google Cloud India MD: Ram Nath Kovind, under the exercise of the Google has turned to tech industry veteran powers conferred by sub-clause (a) of clause Karan Bajwa to drive its cloud business in (1) of article 80 of the Constitution of India the country, appointing him managing Ranjan Gogoi will be the successor of K.T.S director of Google Cloud India. Tulsi. Bajwa will be responsible for driving revenue Iraqi President Salih appoints Adnan al- and go-to-market operations for Google Zurfi as new PM-designate: Cloud’s extensive solution portfolio that Iraqi President Barham Salih has appointed includes Google Cloud Platform and G Suite. Adnan al-Zurfi as the country's new prime Bajaj Auto board approves minister-designate in the latest bid to resolve reappointment of Rajiv Bajaj as MD, CEO: a months-long political crisis. Bajaj Auto said its board has approved the Al-Zurfi will replace caretaker PM- Adel re-appointment of Rajiv Bajaj as Managing Abdul Mahdi. Director and CEO of the company. Iraq: Capital– Baghdad Currency– Iraqi Rajiv Bajaj, Managing Director and CEO of dinar. the company, whose five-year term expires Former Air India CMD Ashwani Lohani on March 31, 2020, has been re-appointed for appointed chairman of AP Tourism a further period of five years with effect from Development Corporation: April 1, 2020," the company said in a filing to Andhra Pradesh government appointed BSE. former CMD of Air India Ashwani Lohani as the Journalists Prachi Salve & Pradeep Chairman of the AP Tourism Development Dwivedi selected for Road Safety Media Corporation, assigning him the rank of a Fellowship 2019: Cabinet minister.The appointment is for a Journalists Prachi Salve of Indiaspend & period of one year. Pradeep Dwivedi of Dainik Jagran has been Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy,Andhra Pradesh selected for the 1st prize in the Road Safety CM. Media Fellowship 2019. Salesforce names former SBI B. Raveendra Shetty of Vijaya Karnataka chairperson Arundhati Bhattacharya as along with Purnima Singh of Times Now Hindi India CEO: are at 2nd place. Salesforce names former SBI chairperson The fellowship is given by Centre for Media Arundhati Bhattacharya as India CEO. She Studies, New Delhi. was the 1st woman to lead the more than Government nominated former chief 200-year-old SBI. justice of India Ranjan Gogoi to Rajya Arundhati Bhattacharya submitted the Sabha: resignation as an independent director from Government nominated former Chief Justice CRISIL Board. of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi, 65 years old, to She is the first woman to be the chairperson Rajya Sabha. of the State Bank of India and retired in 2017.

CRISIL (Credit Rating Information A. Ajay Kumar becomes India’s next High Services of India Limited): Commissioner to Republic of Uganda: Headquarters– Mumbai, Maharashtra. A. Ajay Kumar has been appointed as the CEO– Ashu Suyash. next High Commissioner of India to the HSBC appoints Noel Quinn as Chief Republic of Uganda. Executive Officer A. Ajay Kumar is currently posted as the Joint Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs. appointed Noel Quinn as Chief Executive Ajay Kumar is a 2001 batch IFS officer. Officer, handing the insider & interim boss the Romesh Sobti to have advisory role at reins of Europe's biggest bank & ending IndusInd Bank: months of conjecture an external candidate IndusInd Bank CEO Romesh Sobti will could get the role. He joined HSBC in 1987. move into a full-time advisory role at the bank HSBC Headquarters: London, United after his retirement on March 24. Sobti took Kingdom. over as IndusInd Bank CEO at the end of 2007 Indian umpires Janani Narayanan and after serving as the head of ABN Amro in Vrinda Rathi named in International India. Panel of ICC Development Umpires: Sumant Kathpalia newly appointed CEO of Janani Narayanan from Tamil Nadu (TN) IndusInd Bank. and Vrinda Rathi from Mumbai were named in Vasant Rao appointed MD for IDC India the International Panel of ICC and South Asia: (International Cricket Council) International Data Corporation (IDC) Development Umpires. announced the appointment of Vasant Rao as After the inclusion of Janani and Vrinda, the MD for IDC India and South Asia, effective count of females from India in ICC panel March 18, 2020. He will be based out of IDC’s becomes 3 after the appointment of GS Bengaluru office and will be reporting to Eva Lakshmi as the International Panel of Match Au-Managing Director, IDC Asia/Pacific. Referees. GoAir appoints Sanjiv Kapoor as Advisor: RBI names R Gandhi, Ananth GoAir has appointed Sanjiv Kapoor as Gopalkrishnan additional directors on Advisor. He was at Vistara as its Chief YES Bank Board: Strategy & Commercial Officer. His career Reserve Bank of India has appointed R spanned for over 2 decades with airlines in Gandhi and Ananth Narayan Asia, Europe, and the US as investment Gopalakrishnan as additional directors to advisor, portfolio manager & management the board of private sector lender YES Bank consultant. for a period of two years. Prashant Kumar Chief Executive Officer of GoAir- Vinay Dube. was earlier appointed as CEO & MD of Yes Bank S.NO Name Designation SBI is biggest investor in YES Bank via reconstruction scheme.

1. Suella Braverman UK's Attorney 19. DayapatraNevatia Chief Operating General Officer of 2. Michael Miebach Mastercard new Mindtree CEO 20. Sudhanshu Pandey CMD of Metals & 3. Riek Machar 1st Vice Minerals Trading President in Corporation South Sudan 21. Arjun Ranga President of All 4. Salman Khan Brand India Agarbathi ambassador of Manufacturers Realme Association 5. Bob Chapek CEO of Walt 22. Ajay Bhushan Finance Disney Pandey Secretary 6. Puneet Sharma CFO of Axis Bank 23. Sunil Joshi BCCI’s selection 7. Abhay Kumar Chairman & committee Managing chairman Director of NHPC 24. Sanjay Kumar India’s Limited Panda Ambassador to 8. Sumant Kathpalia IndusInd Bank Turkey MD & CEO 25. Janez Jansa Slovenia’s Prime 9. Romesh Sobti Advisory role at Minister IndusInd Bank 26. Anurag Srivastava Ministry of 10. Rajesh Kumar MD & CEO of External Affairs CIBIL spokesperson 11. Ajay Tyagi SEBI Chairman 27. Kriti Sanon Brand 12. Muhyiddin Yassin Malaysia's Prime ambassador of Minister ITC Vivel 13. Subhash Chandra Advisor to 28. Bimal Julka Chief Information Gargh Andhra Pradesh Commissioner of Chief Minister Y S Central JaganMohan Information Reddy Commission 14. PekkaLundmark CEO of Nokia 29. Kareena Kapoor Puma’s brand 15. Ram Nair World Vegetable ambassador Center regional 30. Sanjeev Nautiyal SBI Life head Insurance MD & 16. Benjamin Israel Prime CEO Netanyahu Minister 31. K.M. Mammen Automotive Tyre 17. Unny Digitas India CEO Manufactures’ Radhakrishnan Association 18. Naveen Bachwani Aegon Life 32. Anurag Mehrotra CEO of Mahindra- Insurance CEO Ford venture

33. Chalasani Venkat Deputy Managing 49. Adnan al-Zurfi Iraq Prime Nageswar Director and CFO Minister of SBI 50. Ashwani Lohani chairman of 34. Sonia Syngal CEO of Gap Inc Andra Prdesh 35. Nupur Kulshrestha Indian Coast Tourism Guard’s first Development woman DIG Corporation 36. Prashant Kumar Yes Bank 51. Arundhati Salesforce India administrator Bhattacharya CEO 37. Shri Surjeet Singh Director General 52. Noel Quinn CEO of HSBC Deswal of Border 53. Janani Narayanan ICC Development Security Force and Vrinda Rathi Umpires 38. PV Sindhu Brand 54. A. Ajay Kumar India’s next High ambassador for Commissioner to anti-graft Republic of helpline Uganda 39. Mark Wang HSBC Chief 55. Vasant Rao International Executive in Data Corporation China of India and 40. Amitabh Bachchan IDFC FIRST Bank South Asia brand 56. Sanjiv Kapoor Advisor of GoAir Ambassador 41. KJS Dhillon Director General AWARDS AND RECOGNITION: Defence Sahitya Akademi Award for translation Intelligence Agency and goes to K.V. Jeyasri Deputy Chief of K.V. Jeyasri, a Tamil teacher from Integrated Tiruvannamalai, has won the Sahitya Defence Staff Akademi Award 2019 for her translation of the 42. Debasish Panda Director on the Malayalam novel RBI central board NilamPoothuMalarnnaNaal(The day the 43. Virat Kohli iQOO land bloomed and blossomed) into Tamil as 44. Hirdesh Kumar Chief Electoral NilamPoothuMalarnthaNaal. Officer of Jammu The award includes a cash prize of rs50,000 and Kashmir and a copper plaque. 45. Ravinder Singh CMD of Power Hurun Global Rich List 2020: Jeff Bezos Dhillon Finance retains 1st rank, Mukesh Ambani at 9th Corporation Ltd 46. Karan Bajwa MD of Google position Cloud India Hurun Global Rich List 2020 was jointly 47. Rajiv Bajaj MD and CEO of released by Shanghai-based Hurun Bajaj Auto Research Institute and Shenzhen-based 48. Ranjan Gogoi Rajya Sabha ShimaoShenkong International Center. RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC | 56 Official Website: www.raceinstitute.in| Official Blog: www.bankersdaily.in Chennai RACE Coaching Institute Pvt Ltd

Jeff Bezos retains 1st rank for the third Assamese, Nepali, Pangchenpa, Karbi, running year and Mukesh Ambani is Mishing, Bodo, and Marathi. positioned at 9th. Rally driver Gaurav Gill feted at FMSCI Raja Ravi Varma Award 2020 conferred Awards: Raja Ravi Varma State Award was conferred Rally driver Gaurav Gill took home a special on veteran painter from Kalaburagi, Prof. award at the Federation of Motor Sports Club J.S. Khanderao(for the year 2019) and of India Awards. senior artist from Mumbai, Vasudev FMSCI(Federation of Motor Sports Clubs of Kamath(2020). The award carries a cash India) is the only federation in Asia Pacific that prize of Rs.10,000 and a citation. organises 10 national championships in Raja Ravi Varma State Award was instituted almost all verticals of 2-wheelers, 4-wheelers by Karnataka’s Shri Ravivarma Art and karting Institute. Gill is the 1st motorsport athlete to be Assam CM SarbanandaSonowalreceived awarded Arjuna Award. the prestigious Dr.Syama Prasad Padma Shri Jadav Payeng honoured with Mukherjee award 6th Swami Vivekananda Karmayogi Assam Chief Minister Award 2020 SarbanandaSonowalreceived the prestigious Forest Man of India & environmentalist Padma Dr.Syama Prasad Mukherjee award 2020 for Shri Jadav ‘Molai’Payeng is honoured with Politics at the 6th India Ideas Conclave in the 6th annual Swami Vivekananda Gujarat. Karmayogi award 2020 for his consistent The award, instituted by India Foundation, efforts in creating a manmade forest through was presented to Chief Minister Sonowal by afforestation. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and The award comprises of a trophy, a recitation Speaker of People’s Majlis of Maldives & a reward of Rs 1 Lakh. He is also a forest Mohamed Nasheed, which carries a citation, worker from the missing tribe from Jorhat, a specially designed trophy and a cheque Assam. worth Rs. one lakh. LuLu's chairman Yusuff Ali becomes first Film editor Sreekar Prasad enters the Indian to get Saudi's premium residency: limca book of records Abu Dhabi-based Indian retail tycoon M A Sreekar Prasad, a veteran editor has Yusuff Ali has become the first Indian to entered the Limca Book of Records for ‘films receive Saudi Arabia's premium residency, his edited in the most number of languages’. office said in a statement. Sreekar Prasad has received the certification Yusuff Ali, 64, is the chairman of the LuLu from the Limca Records for editing films in 17 Group, who was ranked the richest expat in languages. the UAE by the Forbes magazine last year. The 17 languages include: English, Hindi, Ireland Architects Yvonne Farrell & Punjabi, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Shelley McNamara wins The Pritzker Tamil, Odia, Sinhalese, Bengali, Architecture prize 2020

Chairman of The Hyatt Foundation Tom (25) have won the Hockey India Dhruv Batra Pritzker announced Yvonne Farrell and Player of the Year Award 2019 for Men and Shelley McNamara as the winners of Women respectively. Pritzker Architecture prize 2020. Dr JaimantiBakshi, PGI Professor won It is the 1st time an Irish citizen & a female Best Citizens of India Gold medal Award combination won the prize.It is an annual National award: award sponsored by Hyatt foundation is Dr JaimantiBakshi, Professor & Unit Head regarded as the profession’s highest award. II, Department of Otolaryngology and Head Times of India Sports Awards (TOISA) Neck surgery at PGIMER (Post Graduate 2019 function held in New Delhi Institute of Medical Education & Research), World champion shuttlerPV Sindhu was Chandigarh was awarded with “Best today named Sportsperson of the Year at the Citizens of India”. fourth Times of India Sports Awards (TOISA) The award was given by “GEPRA” (Global 2019 in New Delhi. Economic Progress and Research Association) Former India football captain during the National Unity conference held in BhaichungBhutia was given the Lifetime Chennai, Tamil Nadu (TN). Achievement award, while hockey legend and Smart Incubator of the YearAward for three-time Olympic gold medallist Balbir Maker Village Kochi: Singh Sr was honoured with the Icon of the Maker Village Kochi won the ISGF (India Century award. Smart Grid Forum) Award for the best National badminton coach Pulella incubator in recognition of its efforts to boost Gopichand won the Mentor of the Year the country’s startup ecosystem and award, while former shooter Jaspal Rana encourage innovation. was recognised as the Coach of the Year. Prasad Balakrishnan Nair, CEO of Maker India's first world championship silver Village, received the ISGF ‘Smart Incubator medallist pugilist Amit Phanghal won the of the Year’ award from Indian Angel recognition among male boxers while Network co-founder Padmaja Ruparel. The LovlinaBorgohain bagged the award among award was presented at the just-concluded female boxers. India Smart Utility Week (ISUW) in New Hockey India 3rd annual awards 2019 in Delhi. New Delhi: Mr. Rajesh Chaplot honoured with the Hockey India the governing body with Highest Civilian Award of Uganda: mandate to conduct all activities for both men Distinguished Non-Resident Indian (NRI) and women’s hockey, has organized its 3rd businessman, Mr. Rajesh Chaplot was Annual Awards 2019 at Hotel the Lalit in New honoured with the Highest Civilian Award Delhi to honour the best hockey players and (Golden Jubilee Medal-Civilians) of Uganda. former legends of the game from India. The award was presented by Hon’ble Manpreet Singh Pawar (27) & Captain of President of Uganda, Mr Yoweri Museveni Indian Women Hockey Team,Rani Rampal in a ceremony in Kampala, Uganda.

The accolade was bestowed upon Mr. Chaplot He also holds the record as the youngest for his excellence in the field of Business & mountaineer in the world to climb both 7 Commerce, Social Service and for fostering peaks and 7 volcanic summits. better India – Uganda ties. Mr. Chaplot who hails from Udaipur in BOOKS AND AUTHORS: Rajasthan has been also a proud recipient of Smriti Irani releases book titled PravasiBharatiyaSamman, the highest award “Chronicles of Change Champions”: for overseas Indians. Union Minister for Women and Child WGSHA enters Limca Book of Records for Development Smriti Zubin Irani released a Indias first Living Culinary Arts Museum: book titled “Chronicles of Change The culinary museum in Welcomgroup Champions” at an event held in New Delhi. Graduate School of Hotel Administration The book is a compilation of 25 innovative (WGSHA),Karnataka, has been listed in initiatives taken at the state and district levels Limca Book of Records as India's First Living under the Prime Minister’s flagship scheme of Culinary Arts Museum. BetiBachao, BetiPadhao. The process for making WGSHA's culinary Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik releases museum to enter into the popular Limca Book comic book on Biju's heroics: of Records (LBR) started in 2019. Chief minister Naveen Patnaik released "The Nita Ambani, Serena Williams & Simone Adventures of the Daredevil Democrat”- Biles named in Influential Women in a comic book on adventure and works of Sports list 2020: legendary leader and his father Biju Patnaik. Nita Ambani, the owner of Mumbai Indians The comic book, prepared by Kalinga cricket team franchise, has been named in the Foundation Trust and published by New Delhi- iSportconnect’s list of 10 most influential based the Creative Workshop, chronicles women in sports for 2020. Biju's childhood, his bicycle journey from iSportconnect is a Sports business network, Cuttack to Peshawar which released the list. The other women who Tahira Kashyap to Launch New Book feature in the list were Tennis superstars “The 12 Commandments of Being a Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka, ace Woman” gymnast Simone Biles and famous footballer Writer-filmmaker Tahira Kashyap Megan Rapinoe among others. Khurrana announced that she is coming up Indian mountaineer Satyarup Siddhanta with her new book, titled “The 12 enters ‘Limca Book of Records: Commandments of Being A Woman”. Indian mountaineer Satyarup Siddhanta The books authored by her are “I Promise”, hails from Kolkata, West Bengal, 37 years old, “Souled Out” and in the year 2015 she co- entered ‘Limca Book of Records’ (LBR) for authored Ayushmann’s biography “Cracking his extraordinary achievements, as the first the Code: My Journey in Bollywood”. Indian to climb the highest volcanoes of each ‘My Encounters in Parliament’ authored of the 7 continents. by Bhalchandra Mungekar released:

The book titled ‘My Encounters in OBITUARY NEWS: Parliament’ authored by Bhalchandra Egypt's former President Mohammed Mungekar an Indian economist, former Hosni Mubarak, who ruled country for 30 member of Rajya Sabha, was released in the years passes away presence of former Vice President- Hamid Egypt's former President Mohammed Hosni Ansari CPI General Secretary D Raja & NCP Mubarak, who ruled the country for 30 years, chief Sharad Pawar. died. He was 91. A former air force chief, Nitin Gadkari presents a copy of Mubarak became Vice President of Egypt on ‘Invincible – A Tribute to Manohar 14 October 1981. Parrikar’ to the President: ‘Human computer’ Katherine Johnson Nitin Gadkari, the Union Minister of Road dies at 101 Transport and Highways, presented the book NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, ‘Invincible – A Tribute to Manohar whose calculations helped get the first Parrikar‘ to President Ram Nath Kovind at Americans to space & back safely died.Among the Rashtrapati Bhawan on the first death her many accomplishments, She completed anniversary of Manohar Parrikar. the trajectory analysis for Alan Shepard’s The “Invincible – A Tribute to Manohar 1961 suborbital flight. Parrikar” was authored by Tarun Vijay and National Aeronautics & Space Administration released by defence minister Rajnath Singh Founded:29 July 1958. on 16th March 2020. Daredevil and Flat Earth theorist Mike A new book entitled ‘Messiah Modi: A Hughes dies in rocket crash Great tale of expectations’ penned by Daredevil & Flat Earth theorist Michael "Mad Tavleen singh released: Mike" Hughes died in a rocket crash. Hughes, A new book entitled ‘Messiah Modi: A 64, wanted to prove the Flat Earth theory by Great Tale of Expectations’ written by taking photographs of the Earth from a senior journalist & author Tavleen Singh has homemade rocket. been released. Kazuhisa Hashimoto, Creator of Famous The book, published by HarperCollins India, 'Konami Code' Gaming Cheat, Dies narrates the early support for Modi the Kazuhisa Hashimoto,the man who invented candidate by the author, once a great the "Konami code" cheat that became supporter of the government. pervasive in video gaming and pop culture, has died. Former Tamil Nadu Minister K.P.P. Samy Former Fisheries Minister and DMK MLA K.P.P. Samy died in Chennai after prolonged illness. He was elected from Tiruvottiyur constituency and held the portfolio of

Fisheries between 2006 and 2011 in former He took GE's revenue from under $30 billion Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi’s Cabinet. when he took over in 1981 to $130 billion by Renowned Vedic Scholar Sudhakar 2000. Chaturvedi passes away Uttar Pradesh MLA Virendra Sirohi Renowned Vedic Scholar and Gandhian passes away at the age of 73: Sudhakar Chaturvedi passed away in Uttar PradeshBJP MLA(Member of the Bengaluru today. The centenarian was given Legislative Assembly) Virendra Singh Sirohi the title Chaturvedi for his mastery over the from Bulandshahr passed away at the age of four vedas.He was 122-year-old. 73 in New Delhi. Vamikinagar MP Baidyanath Prasad He also served as Revenue Minister from 1997 Mahto passes away till 2002 in the Mayawati-led state Janata Dal(United)’s Lok Sabha Member government in UttarPradesh. Baidyanath Prasad Mahto from World’s oldest man Chitetsu Watanabe Vamikinagar Parliamentary Constituency passes away: passed away in Delhi. World’s oldest man, Chitetsu Watanabe of Dronacharya awardee athletics coach Japan, has passed away at 112. He was born Joginder Singh Saini passes away on March 5th, 1907. Veteran athletics coach and Dronacharya He received his Guinness World Record awardee Joginder Singh Saini, who certification on February 12, 2020. With the groomed some of India's finest track and field death of Chitetsu Watanabe, Britain’s oldest stars, died in Patiala. He was 90. man, Bob Weighton, who is 111, has now Saini received the Dronacharya Award in become the oldest person in the world. 1997 for his contribution to Indian athletics. Veteran historian Dr S Shettar passed He was the chief coach of the Indian athletics away: team which won 18 medals, including eight Veteran historian Dr S Shettar recently golds, at the 1978 Asian Games. passed away in Bengaluru, at the age of 85. Former India hockey star and Olympic He taught history in many universities for bronze medallist Balbir Singh Kullar dies more than twenty-five years. Former India hockey player Balbir Singh Renoned Konkani writer Richard John Kullar, who was a part of the 1968 Olympics Pais dies at 51: bronze-winning team, has died after suffering Veteran Konkani writer and dramatist Richard a heart attack at his home in Punjab. He was John Paisv recently passed away at the age 77. of 51. He has written several short stories, Former General Electric CEO Jack Welch satirical writings and poems in Konkani dies at 84: language Jack Welch, the former Chief Executive Journalist Ramniklal Solanki passes Officer (CEO) of General Electric who led the away company for over two decades, has died at Veteran journalist in Gujarati-language and the age of 84. pioneer of the Asian media in the United

Kingdom, Ramniklal Solanki recently Hossein Sheikholeslam an adviser to Iran's passed away. foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, died He served as the London correspondent of the from coronavirus yesterday. Mumbai-based Janmabhoomi Group of He was a veteran and revolutionary diplomat newspapers. He was also the founder-editor who took part in the 1979 US embassy of the Garavi Gujarat newsweekly and the hostage crisis as a student. Asian Media Group. Former Law Minister and former Bouddha Kristi Prachar Sangha governor of Karnataka & Kerala H. R. Sanghanayaka Suddhananda Mahathero Bhardwaj passed away at 83 passes away Hansraj Bhardwaj, former Union Law Head of the Bangladesh Bouddha Kristi Minister and former governor of Karnataka & Prachar Sangha Sanghanayaka Kerala, Senior Congress leader passed away Suddhananda Mahatheropassed away in at the age of 83 in New Delhi, India. Dhaka today. He was 88. He was born in GarhiSampla village in Former United Nations Chief Javier Perez Rohtak district, Haryana. He also holds the de Cuellar dies in Peru: record of India’s second longest serving Law Former UN chief Javier Perez de Cuellar, who Minister. led the world body during the Iran-Iraq war Swedish actor and Game of thrones fame and the civil war in El Salvador, died in his Max von Sydow passes away: native Peru. Max von Sydow, the Swedish actor who was Tamilnadu Politician and DMK General nominated for two Oscars during his career Secretary K AnbazhaganDies At 97 In passed away. The actor featured in various Chennai: films and TV series. Max Von Sydow was Mr Anbazhagan was the General Secretary nominated for Oscars as best actor in 1988 of DMK nine times from 1977. He was a nine- for Pelle the Conqueror. time MLA, one-time Lok Sabha member and Veteran Bengali actor Santu former finance minister of Tamil Nadu and a Mukhopadhyay passed away at 69: close friend of former Chief Minister M Veteran Bengali actor Santu Karunanidhi. Mukhopadhyay or Santu Mukherjee, 69 a CPI(M) MLA Vijayan Pillai passes away widower passed away at his south Kolkata N. Vijayan Pillai, CPI(M) MLA representing residence due to cardiac arrest. Chavara constituency, passed away in Kochi Veteran journalist Patil Puttappa dies at at the age of 65. Mr. Pillai started his political 99 career in 1979 & in the 2016 Assembly Veteran journalist and former Rajya Sabha election. member Patil Puttappa passed away due to Adviser to Iran's foreign minister age-related ailments at a hospital in Mohammad Javad Zarif dies from Karnataka's Hubballi. He was 99. coronavirus

Sahitya Akademi awardee, Malayalam SPORTS NEWS: poet Puthussery Ramachandran passed J&K bags gold in 6th National Ice Stock away: sports Championship at Ice Rink in Dr Puthussery Ramachandran a Veteran Gulmarg: Malayalam poet, a scholar of Dravidian Jammu and Kashmir, the hosts bagged gold linguistics and a teacher passed away due to medal in the 6th National Ice Stock Sports age-related illness at the age of 91 years. Championship organized at Ice Rink in Marathi Actor JairamKulkarni passed Gulmarg. Two hundred participants from 18 away at 88: different states across the country Marathi Actor Jairam Kulkarani passed participated in the three-day event which away at the age of 88 in Pune, Maharashtra concluded. due to old-age related illness. He was born in The event was organized by J&K Ice Stock Barshi tehsil in Solapur district, Maharashtra. Sports Association under the aegis of Indian Former world champion boxer Roger Ice Stock Sports Federation and sponsored Mayweather passes away: by J&K Tourism Department. The former world champion boxer and trainer, Roger Mayweather passed away on 18th During the competition in team target event, March 2020 at the age of 58 due to health- J&K bagged gold, Haryana bagged silver related illness. Roger Mayweather won the while Maharashtra and Bihar bagged world champion boxer title in two weight bronze medals. classes. Savitribai Phule Pune University tops Indian football legend P.K. Banerjee tally with 14 medals in Khelo India passed away at 83: University Games: Indian football player Pradip Kumar Khelo India University Games in Odisha, Banerjee passed away at the age of 83 in Savitribai Phule Pune University was on top Kolkata, West Bengal. He was born on June with 14 medals including seven gold and 23, 1936, in Jalpaiguri, West Bengal. two silver medals on the fifth day. Legendary country music singer Kenny Punjab University gave a tough competition Rogers dies at 81: by winning 18 medals including six gold and Legendary country music singer Kenny seven silver medals while Jain University, Rogers, best known for global hits such as Karnataka claimed the thirdposition with "Lucille", "Lady", "The Gambler" and "Islands total of 12 medals including six gold and five in the Stream", passed away. He had his 1st silver medals. gold single with a song called "That Crazy India working to be in top ten countries Feeling" under the name Kenneth Rogers. in medal tally in 2028 Los Angeles Olympics: Union Youth Affairs and Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju said, India is working to be in top ten

countries in medal tally in 2028Los Angeles India skipper Virat Kohli lost the top spot in Olympics. the ICC Test Player Rankings. Sports Minister inaugurated Khelo India Kohli's slump meant Australia's Steve Smith Ladakh Winter Games - 2020 in NDS Indoor was back on top of the list for the eighth time Stadium Ice Hockey rink in Leh. after first occupying the top position in June The Minister informed already 62 sports 2015. persons in various fields are qualified for Tokyo Olympics in July 2020 and some Bangalore Central University bags Men’s more will be eligible by May, to send a largest Hockey Gold In ongoing Khelo India contingent with winnability from the country. University Games: Achanta Sharath Kamal, Bangalore Central University beat Bangalore SathiyanGnanasekaran win silver at University 5-4 in a nail-biting shootout to take Hungarian Open: home the men’s hockey gold in Khelo India Indian men's doubles pair of Achanta University Games, Bhubaneswar, Odisha Sharath Kamal Punjabi University, Patiala won two gold andGnanasekaranSathiyan settled for a medals in weightlifting and run event. silver medal at the ITTF World Tour Hungarian Harjinder Kaur of Punjabi University won Open after losing the summit clash to German the gold medal in women’s 71 Kg combination of BenediktDuda and Patrick weightlifting, While Nikeeta of Savitribai Franziska at Budapest, Hungary. Phule Pune University won silver and Sneha Sharath won a bronze with Manika Batra in of the University of Calicut won bronze. mixed doubles. First Khelo India University Games Maria Sharapova announces retirement concludes in Bhubaneswar: from tennis: Khelo India University Games concluded in Five-time Grand Slam winner Russian Maria Bhubaneswar, Odisha. Panjab University, Sharapova, one of the world's most Chandigarh took home the champions trophy- recognisable sportswomen, announced her winning 46 medals including 17 gold, 19 retirement at the age of 32. silver, and 10 bronze. Sharapova shot to fame as a giggly 17-year- Panjab University won a total of 46 medals old Wimbledon winner in 2004. She became while Savitribai Phule Pune University world number one in 2005. won 37 medals including 17 gold, 11 silver, She is the third-youngest player to claim and 9 bronze medals. Wimbledon trophy. Savitribai Phule Pune University claimed the Team India continues to be placed at the second position and Punjabi University, top of latest ICC Test rankings: Patiala declared as the second runners up. ICC World Test Championship, India Rafael Nadal wins Mexican Open title continues to be placed at the top of the latest after beating Taylor Fritz: Test rankings with 360 points. However, World Number 2 Rafael Nadal captured his first title of the year, defeating unseeded

Taylor Fritz in straight sets, 6-3, 6-2, in the Federation) world rankings in 2003, in the final of the ATP Mexico Open. recently released chart. Women's final, seventh-seeded Heather World champions Belgium remains in Top Watson captured her first WTA title in three position, with Australia 2nd and the years by grinding out a 6-4, 6-7, 6-1 win over Netherlands 3rd also holding their positions in Canadian teen Leylah Fernandez. the top three. Dutee Chand wins her 2nd gold in 200 In the women's list, India occupies the ninth meters race; Gurwinder Singh bags gold spot. The Netherlands is at the top followed in boxing: by Australia, Argentina, Germany and Khelo India University Games in Odisha, England. India's fastest woman Dutee Chand won her Tasnim Mir, Mansi Singh win bronze at second gold after she bagged the top honours Yonex Dutch Junior International: in the 200meters final in Bhubaneswar. ShuttlersTasnim Mir & Mansi Singh won a Dutee Chand also clinched gold in 100 bronze medal each in the girls' singles meters dash. Badminton event at the Yonex Dutch Junior The 24-year-old, who is representing Kalinga International 2020. Institute of Industrial Technology, clinched It was the 1st time India won two bronze the gold medal with a timing of 23.66 medals in girls' singles at this BWF Junior seconds. International Grand Prix tournament. Kirti Vijay Bhoite from the University of The event held at Haarlem, Netherlands. Mumbai settled for silver with a timing of Azlan Shah Cup Hockey Tournament 24.98 seconds while Deepali Mahapatra postponed from April to September due from Utkal University won the bronze, to Coronavirus: clocking 25.19 seconds. Azlan Shah Cup hockey tournament has Remaining rounds of 2020 UAE World been postponed from April to September this Tour Cycle race get cancelled due to year in the wake of the novel coronavirus COVID-19: outbreak across the world. Abu Dhabi Sports Council cancelled the In a statement, the organisers said, the remaining rounds of the 2020 UAE Tour after tournament which was scheduled to be held 2 Italian participants were tested positive for in Ipoh, Malaysia from April 11 to 18, will the CIVID-19. This is the only World Tour now be held from September 24 to October 3. Cycle race held in West Asia. The 68th All India Police Athletic competition had started on the 23rd of Championship kick starts in Haryana: February. 68th All India Police Athletic Championship- FIH rankings: Indian men's hockey team 2019 began at Bhanu in Panchkula District of climbs to fourth position: Haryana. Union Minister of State for Youth Indian men's hockey team has climbed to Affairs and Sports Kiren Rijiju declared the the fourth position, their highest since the meet open at Basic Training Centre of ITBP inception of the FIH (International Hockey (Indo-Tibetan Border Police).

Badminton Asia Championships moved and he also has the highest number of first- from Wuhan to Manila over coronavirus class hundreds to his name outbreak: Australia beat India to win ICC Women's Badminton Asia Championships have T20 World Cup for record fifth time: been moved out of novel coronavirus Defending champions Australia have won outbreak epicentre,Wuhan, to the the ICC Women's T20 World Cup for record Philippines capital Manila. The Badminton fifth time, outclassing India by 85 runs in the Asia officials said this in a statement in summit clash at Melbourne. Shanghai. The Asia Championships will be Australia’s Alyssa Healy was named the staged in Manila from 21st of next month. player of the Match andBeth Mooney is Bilateral Sports Exchange: Cricket Match player of the tournament. between UKAFCA & IAF: Pooja Rani, Vikas Krishan become first Sports Exchange is a good opportunity at Indian boxers to qualify for Tokyo fostering camaraderie, friendship & the Olympics: diplomatic relationship between the 2 Asian champion Pooja Rani in the 75kg countries. Bilateral Sports Exchange between category and Vikas Krishan in 69kg category Indian Air Force Cricket team & UK Armed today became the first set of Indian boxers to Forces Cricket Association was held at New qualify for Tokyo Olympics 2020. Both boxers Delhi. advanced to the semifinals of the continental Sports Authority of India announces first qualifiers at Amman in Jordan. edition of Khelo India Women's Hockey Indian runner Prachi suspended after League Under-21: dope test positive: Sports Authority of India in association Indian 400-meter runner Prachi choudhary with Hockey India today announced the first from Uttar Pradesh was tested out of edition of the Khelo India Women's Hockey competition and was provisionally suspended League Under-21. by the National Anti-Doping Agency Phase one will be held from 23rd to 29th of (NADA) on March 6,2020, for the presence this month at the Major Dhyan Chand of anabolic steroid, Oxandrolone. National Stadium in New Delhi.The second Shafali Verma loses the top spot in the phase will be held from 13th to 19th at the ICC women's T20 International rankings SAI Centre in Bengaluru, followed by the Indian batting sensation Shafali Verma lost final one from 22nd to 29th November at the the top spot in the ICC women's T20 Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar. International rankings as she slipped to third Former India opener Wasim Jaffer after managing only two runs in the World announces his retirement: Cup final against Australia in Melbourne. 42-year old former India opener Wasim Australia opener Beth Mooneynumber one Jaffer announced his retirement from all with 762 points to her kitty. forms of cricket in Mumbai. He’s the only New Zealand's Suzie Bates with 750 points batsman to score 12,000 runs in Ranji Trophy remained in second position while India vice-

captain Mandhana moved down a spot to be Amit Panghal, LovlinaBorgohain won ranked seventh, Rodrigues remained static on bronze medal in the Asian Boxing ninth. Olympic qualifiers West Indies skipper Kieron Pollard Boxers Amit Panghal&LovlinaBorgohain becomes 1st player to play 500 T20s won the bronze medal in the Asian Boxing West Indies skipperKieron Pollard has Olympic qualifiers held in Amman. They had become the 1st player in the history of T20 already claimed their place in 2020 Tokyo (Twenty20) cricket to feature in 500 Olympics. Borgohain secured 0-5 & lost to matches during the field against Sri Lanka China's Hong Gu in the 69 Kg weight for the first T20I in Pallekele, Srilanka. category. The jersey had the all-rounder’s name at the World bronze-medallist Manish Kaushik back along with the number 500. Dwayne in 63kg category becomes 9th Indian Bravois second in the list with 453 matches boxer to qualify for Tokyo Olympics: under his belt so far. World bronze-medallist Manish Kaushik in Chris Gayle is at the third spot in the list as 63kg category became the ninth Indian boxer he has featured in 404 T20 matches. to qualify for 2020 Tokyo Olympics after a win Chennaiyin FC forward Andre Schembri at the Asian Qualifiers in Amman, Jordan. to retire after ISL final Kaushik beat Commonwealth Games Maltese Footballer Andre Schembri, 33 champion, Harrison Garside of Australia for 4- years old, is currently playing for Chennaiyin 1. FC’s (Football Club) announced that he will UAE General Authority of Sports retire from professional football after the Hero suspends activities for sportspersons Indian Super League (ISL) final against aged 18 years and below: ATK FC in Goa. UAE General Authority of Sports has directed Mohun Bagan are the Hero I-League all its partners in the public and private Champions 2019-2020 sectors to suspend until further notice all Indian football heavyweights Mohun Bagan trainings and competitions for sports persons clinched their second I-League title with a 1- aged 18 years old and below. 0 win over Aizawl FC at Kalyani, West Tiger Woods to be inducted into World Bengal. Golf Hall of Fame in 2021 class: Mahim Verma set to resign as BCCI vice American golfer Tiger Woods will be president inducted into the male competitor category of Mahim Verma, the current BCCI vice World Golf Hall of Fame as part of the class of president, is set to resign from his post after 2021. The hall of fame is located in St. he won the election for the post of secretary Augustine,Florida. Woods was among 10 at the Cricket Association of Uttarakhand. finalists named in March as candidates. BCCI President cannot hold his post for more Ranji Trophy 2019-20: Jaydev Unadkat- than two years. led Saurashtra lift first-ever title against Bengal:

Saurashtra clinched its maiden Ranji Trophy New Zealand(NZ) all-rounder Andrew title in Rajkot at the Saurashtra Cricket Malcolm Ellis (37) announced his retirement Association Stadium. from Canterbury cricket after 18 years of his As per the rules, if the final of the Ranji career. Trophy is headed towards a draw, then the After Ross Taylor he became the 2nd player winner is decided on the basis of a first- in NZ to play over 100 games in each format. innings lead. He is the only player to be named as Men’s Whoever manages to take the lead in the first Domestic Player of the Year twice by NZ innings, is declared as the champion. Achanta Sharath Kamal clinches men's IMPORTANT DAYS: singles title of Oman Open: Ace Indian paddler Achanta Sharath Kamal DATE DAY THEME wins the ITTF Challenger Plus Oman Open. The 37-year-old Indian veteran beat top- March World civil - seeded Marcos Freitas of Portugal 4-2 in the 01 Defence Day final played in Muscat. March Zero - Taiwan's Tai Tzu Ying clinches her third 01 Discrimination women's singles title of All England Day: Championships: March Janaushadhi “Suvidha Se In Badminton, Taiwan's shuttler Tai Tzu Ying (1 to 7) Week Sammaan” March World Wildlife "Sustaining all life clinched her third women's singles title of the 03 Day on Earth" All England Championships at Birmingham in March World Hearing “Hearing for life: United Kingdom. 03 Day Don’t let hearing Ying beat China's Chen Yufei in two straight loss limit you” games 21-19, 21-15 in 44 minutes. March National Safety “Enhance Health ATK FC create history, beat Chennaiyin to 04 Day & Safety lift ISL trophy 3rd time: Performance by ATK (Atlético de Kolkata) claimed an Use of Advanced unprecedented 3rd Indian Super League title Technology “ triumph with a 3-1 victory by beating March National Security - Chennaiyin FC. 04 Day ISL is a football league in India. For March National Dentist's - 06 Day sponsorship reasons, the competition is March Jan Aushadhi - officially known as Hero Indian Super 07 Diwas League. March International I am Generation Final held without spectators owing to the 08 Women's Day Equality: COVID-19 pandemic. Realizing New Zealand all-rounder Andrew Women’s Rights” Malcolm Ellis announced retirement:

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Q.14) ______acquisition of entire stake Q.19) Government of India, recently in NEEPCO, THDC India, recently got announced Maiden Summit on Artificial Competition Commission of India (CCI) nod. Intelligence namely, ______. a) GAIL's a) RAISE 2020 b) SAIL's b) TARGET 2020 c) NTPC's c) AIM 2020 d) BHEL's d) RISE 2020 e) None of the Above e) PHASE 2020 Q.15) Which country hosted the International Q.20) ______has been named new Stroke Conference-2020? CEO of Disney. a) USA a) Acadi b) France b) Bob Iger c) Germany c) Shepherd d) India d) Bob Burbank e) UK e) Bob Chapek Q.16) Who sworn in as UK's Attorney Q.21) Recently Maria Sharapova announced General? retirement from tennis. She belongs to which a) Shailesh Vara country? b) Steve Baker a) Switzerland c) Ranil Jayawardena b) USA d) Priti Patel c) Russia e) Suella Braverman d) Germany e) France Q.17) DPIIT recently notified policy to allow Q.22) Sahitya Akademi Award ,2019 for ______% FDI in insurance intermediaries. translation has been awarded a) 96 to______. b) 49 a) K.V. Jeyasri c) 74 b) Indira Parthasarathy d) 100 c) C.S. Chellappa e) 65 d) Ilanko Adigal Q.18) Smartphone brand Realme has e) Durai Manickam appointed Bollywood actor ______as its Q.23) ______raises $118 million through brand ambassador. offshore India rupee linked 10-year bonds a) Aamir Khan a) AIIB b) Akshay Kumar b) ADB c) Amitabh Bachchan c) NDB d) Salman Khan d) World Bank e) Shahrukh Khan e) IMF

Q.24) Kazuhisa Hashimoto passed away Q.29) Ghaziabad as the most polluted city. recently. He was a renowned______. What is India’s position in most polluted a) Video game developer country as per IQAir AirVisual Report? b) Politics a) 2nd c) Playback Singer b) 4th d) Author c) 5th e) Computer Scientist d) 8th Q.25) 3-day international conference on e) 3rd “EMMDA 2020” (EnsembleMethods in Q.30) India and ____ bilateral air exercise Modelling and Data Assimilation) held Indradhanush – V 2020begins in Hindan, in______? Uttar Pradesh a) Noida a) Russia b) Gandhinagar b) Oman c) Lucknow c) UK d) Mumbai d) Nepal e) New Delhi e) Sri Lanka Q.26) Former ______Minister K.P.P. Samy Q.31) 24th Meeting of the Eastern Zonal a) Karnataka Council held in______? b) Kerala a) Kolkata c) Tamil Nadu b) Bhubaneswar d) Madhya Pradesh c) Mumbai e) Uttar Pradesh d) Lucknow Q.27) National cyber research and Innovation e) Pune centre, inaugurated by MoS G.K.Reddy in Q.32) The Central Exercise Day celebrated ______? annually on ______? a) Hyderabad, Telangana a) January 26 b) Chennai, Tamil Nadu b) April 15 c) Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh c) February 24 d) Mumbai, Maharashtra d) May 12 e) Kochi, Kerala e) July 24 Q.28) ______to Invest Rs 400 Crore in Assam To Set Up Manufacturing Unit. Q.33) 32 projects in food processing sector a) Unilever spread across around 17 states worth Rs b) Coca cola ______has been recently sanctioned by the c) PepsiCo central government under the Pradhan Mantri d) Nestle Kisan Sampada Yojana. e) Ford a) 406 b) 387 c) 563

d) 327 b) Jharkhand e) 650 c) Nagaland Q.34) What is the theme of the 2020 National d) Goa Science Day, that is celebrated on 28th of e) Gujarat February? Q.39) Which union minister launched the a) Make in India: S&T driven innovations ‘Programme for capacity building of ST b) Women in science representatives in local self-governments’ c) Science and Technology for specially abled and ‘1000 Spring Initiatives’? persons a) Shripad Yesso Naik d) Science for people and people for science b) Prakash Javadekar e) Science and Technology for a sustainable c) Arjun Munda future d) Gajendra Singh Shekhawat Q.35) Sudhakar Chaturvedi who recently e) Pralhad Joshi passed away, was a well-known? Q.40) What is the name given for the newly a) Drama Actor launched Coast Guard Offshore Patrol Vessel- b) Freedom fighter 6? c) Novelist a) Indra d) Sitar Exponent b) Varuna e) Carnatic Musician c) Vajra Q.36) India and Myanmar agreed to d) Vikram strengthen the bilateral relations by signing e) Vedha 10 agreements in various fields. Who is the Q.41) Finance Minister Nirmala Sitaraman president of Myanmar? recently launched EASE 3.0 to enhance Ease a) Prayut Chan-o-cha of Banking. What does “S” represent in b) Bounnhang Vorachith “EASE”? c) Recep Tayyip Erdogan a) Service d) U Win Myint b) Secured e) Moon Jae-in c) State Q.37) Who has been appointed as the d) Social Chairman & Managing Director of NHPC Ltd? e) Surveillance a) Abhay Kumar Singh Q.42) Which city hosts 91st Annual General b) Sanjay Kumar Meeting of the ICAR Society? c) Rajiv Sharma a) Mumbai d) Harsh Kumar Bhanwala b) Raipur e) Ratish Kumar c) Lucknow Q.38) Which state government annually d) New Delhi celebrates the Eight-day cultural fair e) Hyderabad “Vasantotsav”? a) Uttarakhand

Q.43) Union Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Q.48) Which country will host the ISSF Prasad inaugurates BSNL FTTH (Fiber To the shooting World Cup slated to be held from Home) in_____? 15th of March 2020? a) New Delhi a) Mexico b) Mumbai b) Brazil c) Shimla c) Thailand d) Dehradun d) Germany e) Chennai e) India Q.44) ______becomes the 1st govt entity Q.49) Where is the Headquarters of United to adopt centralised invoicing platform? Nations Human Rights Council? a) Defence Research and Development a) Vienna, Austria Organisation b) Brussels, Belgium b) Ordnance Factory Board c) Geneva, Switzerland c) Hindustan Aeronautics Limited d) Paris, France d) Indian Space Research Organisation e) Berlin, Germany e) Bhabha Atomic Research Centre Q.50) Name the world’s largest cricket Q.45) ______signs MoU with Central stadium? Pollution Control Board to set up air quality a) Sardar Patel Stadium (Motera Stadium), monitoring stations Gujarat a) ONGC b) Eden Gardens, Kolkata b) IOCL c) M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai c) NTPC d) Green Park Stadium, Kanpur d) BHEL e) Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai e) HAL Q.51) Government had announced setting up Q.46) Puneet Sharma appointed as CFO of of Defence Industrial Corridor in ______, which private bank? during the Investors Summit held on 21st a) HDFC Bank February 2018. b) ICICI Bank a) Sikkim c) Axis Bank b) Jharkhand d) Induslnd Bank c) Uttar Pradesh e) Bandhan Bank d) Madhya Pradesh Q.47) Who becomes new MD & CEO of CIBIL? e) Gujarat a) Sathish Kumar Q.52) Baidyanath Prasad Mahto, who passed b) Rajesh Kumar away at the age of 72 was a well-known? c) Aditya Puri a) Biologist d) Sandeep Bakhshi b) Cricketer e) Ajay Tyagi c) Cartoonist d) Film Director e) Politician

Q.53) Which Union Territory has been c) Nashik selected for NITI Aayog’s first pilot project d) Lucknow among all States and UTs on Sustainable e) New Delhi Developmental Goals? Q.58) Ministry of Steel and CII along with a) Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry- b) Puducherry Government of ______organised the c) Lakshadweep “Enabling Procedures for Increase of Steel d) Jammu & Kashmir Usage for the Growth of Economy” workshop e) Andaman & Nicobar Islands in Bhubaneswar. Q.54) Which state assembly decided to give a) Australia ‘Best MLA’ award starting from the year 2019, b) Germany in the lines of Outstanding Parliamentarian c) Japan Award and Best MLA awards being given in d) Malaysia some other states? e) Singapore a) Rajasthan Q.59) In which Indian city, Defence Minister b) Telangana Rajnath Singh inaugurated the new Light c) Gujarat Combat Helicopter Production Hangar facility? d) Uttarakhand a) Chennai e) Odisha b) Trivandrum Q.55) Which state government organized c) Lucknow two-day unique Chilli Festival to help in d) Bengaluru fulfilling the Central Government's goal of e) Visakhapatnam doubling the income of farmers? Q.60) World Rare Disease Day is held on the a) Andhra Pradesh last day of which month? b) Manipur a) February c) Chhattisgarh b) March d) Karnataka c) December e) Madhya Pradesh d) April Q.56) Mansukh Mandaviya recently e) January commissioned “VARAD”, which is a? Q.61) Atal Innovation Mission partnered with a) Robotics Surveillance Platform ______to launch AI-based module in 5000 b) Offshore Patrol Vessel ATLs c) Multiple Rocket Launcher a) NCLT d) Infantry Fighting Vehicle b) ASSOCHAM e) Ballistic Missile c) NASSCOM Q.57) Which city hosted the 11th National d) FICCI Krishi Vigyan Kendra Conference? e) SEBI a) Gurugram b) Ahmedabad

Q.62) Which state emerged as the best c) J.S. Khanderao performing state in terms of digitising land d) Palani Kumar records? e) Nivetha Kasilingam a) Madhya Pradesh Q.68) EPFO mulls rate cut on PF deposits from b) Maharashtra 8.65% to ___ for FY20. c) Nagaland a) 8.5% d) Bangalore b) 8.4% e) Telangana c) 8.1% Q.63) Which Bank launches co-branded credit d) 8.8% card with IndiGo? e) 7.9% a) Axis Bank Q.69) Where is the Headquarters of Ordnance b) HDFC Bank Factory Board (OFB) located at? c) ICICI Bank a) Kolkata, West Bengal d) Indusland Bank b) Mumbai, Maharashtra e) IDBI Bank c) Chennai, Tamil Nadu Q.64) Who was presented the prestigious Dr. d) Pune, Maharashtra Syama Prasad Mukherjee award e) Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh a) Sarbananda Sonowal Q.70) The Jaffna International Airport is b) Vijay Rupani located in which country? c) Kamal Nath a) India d) Ashok Gehlot b) Bangladesh e) Jagdish Mukhi c) Sri Lanka Q.65) Film editor ______enters the limca d) Malaysia book of records e) Indonesia a) Santosh Sivan b) Sreekar Prasad Q.71) Who recently launched the 'Suposhit c) Ravi K. Chandran Maa Abhiyan' with the aim to create a d) Akshay Akkineni malnutrition-free India? e) None of these a) Amit Shah Q.66) Who is the Chief of SEBI? b) Narendra Singh Tomar a) Harsha Kumar Bhanwala c) Gajendra Singh Shekhawat b) Ajay Tyagi d) Om Birla c) Ashok Lasava e) Nitin Gadkari d) Suresh Mathur Q.72) Union Minister Jitendra Singh e) None of the Above inaugurated ‘Pension Adalat’ & National Q.67) Who has been Awarded Raja Ravi Pension System Awareness and Grievance Varma Award 2020? Redressal Programme in ______. a) Ram Dass a) Jammu b) Vasudev Kamath b) Ladakh

c) Puducherry e) Desirae Krawczyk d) New Delhi Q.78) Which country is the host of the West e) Chandigarh Asia’s only one World Tour Cycle race? Q.73) Muhyiddin Yassin appointed new Prime a) Kuwait Minister of which of the following nations? b) Armenia a) Azerbaijan c) UAE b) Malaysia d) Turkey c) Myanmar e) Yemen d) Vietnam Q.79) Largest sites of the Harappan e) Indonesia civilisation, Rakhigarhi is located in the Indian Q.74) Tamil Nadu state has decided to set up state of? a technical textiles park in a) Punjab ______. b) Uttarakhand a) Chennai c) Rajasthan b) Madurai d) Uttar Pradesh c) Salem e) Haryana d) Tiruchirappalli Q.80) Multilingual Incredible India website e) Coimbatore launched by Tourism Ministry is now available Q.75) Which university bagged the champions in many languages, except? trophy in the first edition of Khelo India a) German University Games concluded in Bhubaneswar? b) Spanish a) Savitribai Phule Pune University c) Chinese b) Panjab University, Chandigarh d) Arabic c) Utkal University, Bhubaneswar e) English d) University of Mumbai Q.81) In which of the following Universities, e) Punjabi University, Patiala Indian Air Force established the “Marshal of Q.76) Joginder Singh Saini, who passed away the Air Force Arjan Singh Chair of at the age of 90 was a well-known? Excellence”? a) Carnatic Musician a) Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar b) Biologist b) Kurukshetra University, Haryana c) Athlete Coach c) Mangalore University, Karnataka d) Novelist d) University of Rajasthan e) Politician e) Savitribai Phule Pune University Q.77) Who won the Women’s Singles Mexican Q.82) What is the name given for the Open title? explosive detection device developed by a) Wang Yafan DRDO & IISc Bangalore? b) Giuliana Olmos a) Alpha 6 c) Leylah Fernandez b) H3TEC d) Heather Watson c) RaIDer-X

d) HEDD1 b) Alyte e) SNIFFEX c) Manart Q.83) “Ekam Fest” is set to begin in NewDelhi d) Mahind to promote craftsmanship & products of e) Raider Divyang Artisans & Entrepreneurs. What does Q.88) ADB to provide ______million to “A” represent in “Ekam”? member countries to contain coronavirus a) Artisans outbreak. b) Awareness a) $5 million c) Authenticity b) $4 million d) Attraction c) $8 million e) Ability d) $12 million Q.84) 3-day Ports Review Meeting Chintan e) $6 million Baithak was held in the Indian state of? Q.89) Which Social media company Facebook a) Gujarat has launched a new consumer marketing b) Andhra Pradesh campaign, called 'More Together', in India? c) Karnataka a) Twitter d) Odisha b) WhatsApp e) Tamil Nadu c) LinkedIn Q.85) Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi d) Facebook recently inaugurated “Hunar Haat” in Ranchi, e) Amazon Jharkhand. Which ministry organizes the Q.90) International School of Engineering “Hunar Haat” as a platform for artisans to (INSOFE) in Hyderabadties up with Which showcase their talents? University for master’s course? a) Ministry of Commerce and Industry a) The Ohio State University b) Ministry of Minority Affairs b) Case Western Reserve University c) Ministry of Human Resource Development c) Cleveland State University d) Ministry of Labour and Employment d) University of Michigan e) Ministry of Social Justice and e) Johns Hopkins University Empowerment Q.91) Who appointed advisor to Andhra Chief Q.86) Which State government is set to Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy? become single-use plastic-free by 1 May 2020 a) Ajay Narayan Jha a) Madhya Pradesh b) Subhash Chandra Garg b) Gujarat c) Hasmukh Adhia c) Tamil Nadu d) Bimal Jalan d) Maharashtra e) Ajay Bhushan Pandey e) Karnataka Q.92) Which country recently took over as Q.87) Anand Mahindra's M&M launch a cab president of the UN Security Council for the aggregator service named ____? month of March 2020? a) Cape a) Nepal

b) USA c) IIT Roorkee c) Japan d) IIT Delhi d) China e) IIT Mandi e) India Q.98) Jack Welch, the former Chief Executive Q.93) OPPO announced its foray into financial Officer (CEO) of ______,passed away services with '______' that offers users to recently. invest in mutual funds. a) Volkswagen a) OPPO Kash b) Walmart b) OPPO Pe c) Amazon c) OPPO Kiosk d) Flipkart d) OPPO Jeb e) General Electric e) OPPO Paisa Q.99) Global agency ______lowered its Q.94) Zomato, recently announced the launch India's GDP growth forecast to 5.1 percent of a co-branded credit card along with from the earlier projection of 6.2 percent for ______, and Master Card. 2020 a) RBL Bank a) IMF b) Yes Bank b) UN c) ICICI Bank c) World Bank d) Axis Bank d) OECD e) HDFC Bank e) WHO Q.95) India ranks 120th in Index of Economic Q.100) Publicis appoints ______as Freedom 2020. Which country Tops the list? Digitas India CEO. a) Finland a) Raja Raman b) Iceland b) Unny Radhakrishnan c) Norway c) Ashok Gupta d) Singapore d) Siva Subramani e) Denmark e) Nivetha Ranganathan Q.96) RBI, recently received 1.71 trillion in Q.101) Virendra Sirohi passes away. He LTRO. 'R' in LTRO stands for______. Related with____? a) Reverse a) Sports b) Rate b) Politics c) Repo c) Film Industry d) Recurring d) Journalism e) Reserve e) Singing Q.97) ______along with the Enabling Q.102) Aegon Life Insurance appoints Women of Kamand (EWOK) Society signed a ______as Chief Operating Officer MoU with NABARD a) Faruk Ahmad a) IIT Kanpur b) Suresh Sethi b) IIT Madras c) Manish Sharma

d) Naveen Bachwani d) World Health Organization e) Mohammad Rafiq e) Asian Development Bank Q.103) What is Indian Men’s Hockey team Q.108) Which state is hosting the 68th All rank according to International Hockey India Police Athletic Championship-2019? Federation report? a) Jharkhand a) 5th b) Sikkim b) 8th c) Uttarakhand c) 4th d) Haryana d) 10th e) Himachal Pradesh e) 3rd Q.109) Which state government deposited Rs. Q.104) Who was appointed as Mind Tree Chief 4,807 Cr into the bank accounts of 7.65 lakh Operating Officer? farmers under the Mahatma Phule farm loan a) Dayapatra Nevatia waiver scheme? b) Arjun Singh a) Madhya Pradesh c) Dinesh Trivedi b) West Bengal d) Subhranshu Roy c) Maharashtra e) None of these d) Rajasthan Q.105) World Wildlife Day observed on 3rd e) Bihar March. What is the theme of World Wildlife Q.110) Which Union ministry is implementing Day? the “Setu Bharatam scheme”? a) Life below Water: for People and Planet a) Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs b) The future of elephants is in our hands b) Ministry of Culture c) Big cats - predators under threat c) Ministry of Road Transport and Highways d) The future of wildlife is in our hands d) Ministry of Statistics and Programme e) Sustaining all life on Earth Implementation Q.106) Which Government provides Rs 900 e) Ministry of Tourism per month to farmers willing to keep stray Q.111) Which country has the largest cattle? identified value gaps in trade-related financial a) Maharashtra flow, as per the report released by Global b) Madhya Pradesh Financial Integrity? c) Gujarat a) China d) Uttar Pradesh b) Russia e) Arunachal Pradesh c) India Q.107) Which International organization d) Poland announced a USD 12 billion aid package to e) Mexico help countries combat coronavirus outbreak? Q.112) Which is the host city of the 35th a) World Bank edition of Food and Hospitality fair- AAHAR? b) Asian Development Bank a) New Delhi c) International Monetary Fund b) Mumbai

c) Ranchi b) Pune d) Lucknow c) Chennai e) Hyderabad d) Mumbai Q.113) ______has infused 66,397 Cr Rs in e) Kolkata short-term credit in the rural banking system Q.118) Minister of State Gangwar launches during the current fiscal. Short-term ______mobile app for doorstep diesel refinance is essentially? delivery a) RBI a) Aaykar Setu b) SEBI b) Consumer app c) SIDBI c) mParivahan d) NABARD d) Humsafar e) FICCI e) ePathshala Q.114) Centre has approved development of Q.119) Who appointed as new CMD of MMTC highways projects worth Rs Rs 2,185 Cr (Metals & Minerals Trading Corporation)? in ______and introduction of four-way lanes a) Sudhanshu Pandey linking the UT with important segments. b) Manish Sharma a) Chandigarh c) Puneet Agarwal b) Tamil Nadu d) Karanjit Singh c) Puducherry e) Rajasekar d) Maharashtra Q.120) Airport Authority of India and which e) Himachal Pradesh Government sign MoU for construction of Q.115) Richard John Pais, who passed away equipment hiring centers? recently, was associated with which field? a) Meghalaya a) Sports b) Jharkhand b) Politics c) Tripura c) Literature d) Manipur d) Film Industry e) West Bengal e) Freedom Fighter Q.121) Badminton Asia Championships which Q.116) Lalit Kala Akademi awards are given is planned to start on 2020 April is shifted to recognise the outstanding work in the field from the Wuhan city to ______over of_____? coronavirus outbreak. a) Sports a) Jakarta, Indonesia b) Literature b) Kula Lumpur, Malaysia c) Coach c) Manila, Philippines d) Art d) Hanoi, Vietnam e) None of the Above e) Bangkok, Thailand Q.117) Which city to host 108th Indian Q.122) Janaushadhi week is celebrated across Science Congress annual session in 2021 India on? a) Bangalore a) February 14-21

b) May 20-27 Q.127) Microsoft has tied up with which c) April 7-14 company to help deepen the reach of d) March 1-7 entrepreneurs and start-ups that are focused e) January 21-28 on social impact and sustainability? Q.123) Which Indian woman cricketer bagged a) Accenture the top spot in ICC women's T20I rankings, b) Capgemini replacing New Zealand's Suzie Bates, who had c) Infosys been at the top of charts since October 2018? d) Tech Mahindra a) Harmanpreet Kaur e) Wipro b) Smriti Mandhana Q.128) In which of the following Union c) Poonam Yadav Territory, India’s first travel company fully d) Shafali Verma operated by women was set up? e) Deepti Sharma a) Andaman & Nicobar Islands Q.124) To exchange the sporting experiences b) Lakshadweep between two countries, New Delhi hosted the c) Ladakh Bilateral Sports Exchange match between d) Jammu & Kashmir Cricket teams of Indian Air Force and e) New Delhi ______Armed Forces Cricket Association. Q.129) India Pharma 2020 & India Medical a) UK Device 2020 Conference to be held in b) Russia ______? c) Spain a) Bangalore d) USA b) Gujarat e) UAE c) New Delhi Q.125) NEDFI through its Microfinance d) Chennai Scheme has facilitated generation of indirect e) Lucknow employment to about 7.97 lakh women. What Q.130) Which is the First Country in the World does “D” represent in “NEDFI”? to provide Free Public Transport? a) Development a) Luxembourg b) Data b) Monaco c) Direct c) Malta d) Dissolution d) Lithuania e) Differential e) Slovakia Q.126) Javier Perez de Cuellar who passed Q.131) Which two Bank win 'Bank of the Year' away at the age of 100. He was a _____? award at Business Today-Money Today a) Former United Nations Chief Financial Awards 2020? b) Russian President a) SBI and Axis Bank c) Mexico Prime Minister b) Bank of Baroda and HDFC Bank d) Journalist c) Canara and Axis Bank e) Former Cricketer d) SBI and HDFC Bank

e) Indian and Canara Bank a) Afghanistan Q.132) Who elected president of All India b) Singapore Agarbathi Manufacturers Association? c) Turkey a) Ajay Bhusan d) Ethiopia b) Arjun Ranga e) Egypt c) Rangaraj Pandey Q.138) Swachh Bharat Mission was launched d) Farook Ahmad on____? e) None of the Above a) September 30, 2010 Q.133) LuLu's chairman ______becomes b) April 1, 2012 first Indian to get Saudi's premium residency c) October 2, 2014 a) Mohammad khan d) January 31, 2008 b) Yusuff Ali e) December 1, 2016 c) Rahim Q.139) Economic Times Global Business d) Sourav Varma Summit to be held in ______? e) None of the Above a) Mumbai Q.134) Ramniklal Solanki passed away. He b) New Delhi related with____? c) Kolkata a) Sports d) Lucknow b) Politics e) Pune c) Journalism Q.140) Which RBI governor resigned d) Film Industry recently? e) Freedom Fighter a) B. P. Kanungo Q.135) Who appointed as the new Finance b) Michael Patra Secretary? c) N.S. Vishwanathan a) Harsh kumar Singha d) Mahesh Kumar Jain b) Ajay Bhushan Pandey e) None of the Above c) Rajiv Kumar Q.141) ______sworn in as Slovenia’s new d) Amitabh Kant Prime Minister? e) Suresh Mathur a) Manuel Marrero Cruz Q.136) Name the Former India Cricketer Who b) Janez Jansa appointed as BCCI’s selection committee c) Sophie Wilmès chairman? d) Adam Wilhelm Moltke a) Sunil Joshi e) Charles Michel b) Zaheer Khan Q.142) Fourth Global Ayurveda Festival (GAF) c) Rahul Dravid will be held in______? d) Virendra Shewag a) Maharashtra e) Anil Kumble b) Karnataka Q.137) Sanjay Kumar Panda appointed as c) Madhya Pradesh India’s Ambassador to which country? d) Kerala

e) Tamil Nadu Q.148) International Conference on Q.143) 3-day Namaste Orchha festival begins Nanoscience and Nano Technology held in in which State? _____? a) Nagaland a) Chennai b) Arunachal Pradesh b) Mumbai c) Bihar c) Pune d) Madhya Pradesh d) Kolkata e) Gujarat e) Bangalore Q.144) Which country is the current Chair of Q.149) Who appointed as new brand BIMSTEC? ambassador of ITC Vivel? a) Bangladesh a) Salman Khan b) Bhutan b) PV Sindhu c) Thailand c) Kriti Sanon d) Sri Lanka d) Sunil Chettri e) Myanmar e) Sanju Samson Q.145) ICICI Prudential AMC ties up which Q.150) Four-day Poetry Festival has begun Co-Operative Bank to tap rural potential? in___? a) Shamrao Vithal a) Mumbai b) Saraswat b) Kolkata c) SVC Bank c) Chennai d) Abhyudaya Bank d) Guwahati e) Prathama Bank e) Dehradun Q.146) Which city is set to host International Q.151) First edition of Khelo India Women's Olympic Committee session in 2023? Hockey League Under-21 to be held in? a) Wuhun a) New Delhi b) London b) Ladakh c) New Delhi c) Mumbai d) Mumbai d) Chandigarh e) Beijing e) Kolkata Q.147) Who appointed as Ministry of External Q.152) Govt sanctions projects worth over Rs Affairs spokesperson by replacing Raveesh _____crore in food processing sector Kumar? a) 367 a) Anurag Srivastava b) 404 b) Parvesh Verma c) 301 c) Prem Kumar Dhumal d) 453 d) Jagmohan Dalmiya e) 534 e) Gurunath Meiyappan Q.153) “Chapchar Kut” is the spring festival of which of the following Indian state? a) Tripura

b) Manipur b) IIT Kanpur c) Nagaland c) IIT Bombay d) Mizoram d) IIT Kharagpur e) Assam e) IIT Madras Q.154) PRAGYAN CONCLAVE 2020 is an Q.159) Which country Ranks tops Freedom in International Seminar organised by which the World 2020? Armed Force of India? a) Norway a) Indian Navy b) Denmark b) Indian Army c) Iceland c) Indian Air Force d) Finland d) Indian Costal Guard e) India e) National Security Guard Q.160) Name the people who has been Q.155) which city hosts India Smart Utility honoured with the Pritzker Architecture prize Week 2020? 2020 (Architecture’s Nobel) sponsored by a) Mumbai Hyatt Foundation. b) Hyderabad a) Yvonne Farrell c) New Delhi b) Shelley McNamara d) Lucknow c) Arata Isozaki e) Kolkata d) Both a) & b) Q.156) Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana signs e) Both b) and c) MoU with which e-market commerce? Q.161) SEBI introduces mobile app ______a) Myntra for investors to lodge grievances b) Flipkart a) SEBI CREDIT c) Amazon b) SEBI SCORES d) Snap deal c) SEBI AVERAGE e) Lifestyle d) SEBI COMPLAINT Q.157) Name the Public Sector Bank (PSB) e) SEBI REGISTER which is going to be Amalgamated with Indian Q.162) Who sworn in as Chief Information Bank in effect from April 1, 2020. Commissioner of Central Information a) Indian Overseas Bank Commission? b) Canara Bank a) Bimal Julka c) Andhra Bank b) Rajesh Kumar d) Allahabad Bank c) Saini Sharma e) Corporation Bank d) Farhan Akhtar Q.158) As per Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) e) Ramesh Kumar World University Rankings 2020 by Subject, Q.163) Which Bollywood actress appointed as which Institute ranked top among Indian new brand ambassador of Puma? institutions? a) Sonakshi Sinha a) IIT Delhi b) Anushka Sharma

c) Katrina Kaif c) K. Suresh Mathur d) Karena Kapoor d) L. Hari Mohan e) Alia Bhatt e) None of the Above Q.164) Sanjeev Nautiyal re-appoints as MD & Q.169) Cricketer ______recently CEO of _____? announced his retirement. He is the only a) HDFC Life Insurance batsman to score more than 12,000 runs in b) SBI Life Insurance Ranji Trophy. c) Muthoot Finance a) Aditya Sarwate d) ICICI Lombard Insurance b) C Pujara e) Axis Life Insurance c) Faiz Fazal Q.165) Recently K Anbazhagan passed away. d) Wasim Jaffer He belongs to______? e) Mayank Agarwal a) Politics Q.170) Which of the following became the b) Sports first University in the East Zone to be gifted c) Journalism with a Community Radio Station by the d) Singing Ministry of Information & Broadcasting? e) Film Industry a) Guru Ghasidas University Q.166) A subscriber is required to contribute b) Ranchi University a prescribed amount of 55 to ______rupees c) Tezpur University depending upon the age of subscriber till the d) Guwahati University age of 60 years under the Pradhan Mantri e) West Bengal State University Shram Yogi Maandhan Scheme. Q.171) Khadi & Village Industry Commission a) 240 Rs in consultations with the Hill Council has b) 280 Rs adopted 4 villages in which Union Territory? c) 100 Rs a) Ladakh d) 200 Rs b) Jammu and Kashmir e) 120 Rs c) Chandigarh Q.167) Google to now launch _____ cloud d) Andaman and Nichobar region After Mumbai? e) Daman and Diu a) Kolkata Q.172) Union Minister Smriti Irani b) Delhi inaugurated a National Conference on Women c) Pune in Police & CAPFs in ______. d) Hyderabad a) Bengaluru e) Gandhinagar b) Ahmedabad Q.168) ______has been unanimously re- c) Mumbai elected as chairman of Automotive Tyre d) New Delhi Manufactures’ Association (ATMA). e) Chennai a) J. Mehta b) K.M. Mammen

Q.173) Vijayan Pillai recently passed away at c) Tamil Nadu the age of 65. He was a renowned d) Karnataka ______. e) Madhya Pradesh a) Painter Q.178) World's largest religious congregation b) Politician of women, Attukal Pongala is annually held at c) Novelist the Indian city of? d) Bureaucrat a) Madurai, Tamil Nadu e) Cricketer b) Kochi, Kerala Q.174) Shriram Transport has signed an MOU c) Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala with which of the following companies to offer d) Mysore, Karnataka fuel credit to its customers digitally? e) Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu a) GAIL Q.179) Which of the following campaign is b) IOCL launched by PM Modi, as a platform to c) HPCL showcase the work of woman? d) BPCL a) Speak Is Beautiful e) Reliance Petroleum b) Always – Keep Going Q.175) Which ministry launched the Mahatma c) She inspires Us Gandhi National Fellowship programme under d) She’s a lady the “SANKALP” scheme? e) This Girl Can a) Ministry of Human Resource Development Q.180) How many women were conferred b) Ministry of Science and Technology with the Nari Shakti Puraskar for the year c) Ministry of Social Justice and 2019? Empowerment a) 12 d) Ministry of Skill Development and b) 15 Entrepreneurship c) 55 e) Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium d) 42 Enterprises e) 20 Q.176) Who won the ICC Women's T20 World Q.181) Indian Coast Guard conducts 9th Cup for record fifth time? edition of rescue exercise ‘SAREX-2020’ in a) New Zealand ______? b) South Africa a) Kochi c) India b) Visakhapatnam d) Australia c) Goa e) England d) Umroi Q.177) Which state topped in the list of the e) Port Blair states in terms of the number of participants Q.182) SEBI proposed a detailed review of the in the POSHAN Abhiyan? regulatory framework for Corporate Bonds a) Maharashtra and Debenture Trustees. Where is the b) Telangana headquarters of SEBI?

a) Bangalore b) N. R. Narayana Murthy b) New Delhi c) Nandan Nilekani c) Mumbai d) Salil Parekh d) Hyderabad e) N. S. Raghavan e) Lucknow Q.188) RBI to extend _____ crore under Q.183) Government to make sanitary napkin special liquidity facility. disposal bags mandatory from a) Rs 15,000 January_____? b) Rs 12,000 a) 2020 c) Rs 20,000 b) 2021 d) Rs 10,000 c) 2023 e) Rs 14,000 d) 2022 Q.189) Which of the following neighbouring e) 2024 country of India celebrates Holi festival in the Q.184) Which state to launch total digital name of Fagu Purnima? literacy campaign? a) Myanmar a) Kerala b) Nepal b) Karnataka c) Bhutan c) Gujarat d) Pakistan d) Madhya Pradesh e) Sri Lanka e) Maharashtra Q.190) Which central sector scheme is Q.185) Which IIT collaborates with Rolls- remodelled as Sampushta Keralam mission in Royce for research in areas of relevance to the state of Kerala? future technological? a) Mega Pension Scheme a) IIT Bombay b) Stand Up India b) IIT Kharagpur c) Poshan Abhiyaan c) IIT Ahmadabad d) Setu Bhartam Yojana d) IIT Madras e) Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana e) IIT Guwahati Q.191) As per the ‘Trends in international Q.186) Fourth International Diabetes Summit arms transfers 2019’ report of Stockholm 2020 held in ____? International Peace Research Institute, what a) New Delhi is India’s rank in the import of arms during b) Mumbai 2015-19 period? c) Pune a) Fourth d) Kolkata b) First e) Lucknow c) Third Q.187) Who gets additional charge of deputy d) Second managing director and chief financial officer e) Fifth of SBI? Q.192) What is India’s latest GDP growth a) Chalasani Venkat Nageswar forecast of Moody’s Investors for the FY 2020?

a) 5.5% e) Pune b) 5.3% Q.197) Which state tops in domestic solar c) 5.2% rooftop installations? d) 5.4% a) Karnataka e) 5.1% b) Tamil Nadu Q.193) Which Indian airport bagged the c) Kerala Airports Council International’s Airport d) Gujarat Service Quality (ASQ) Departures Awards for e) Telangana the Asia-Pacific region for 2019? Q.198) Who becomes 1st player to play 500 a) Cochin International Airport Limited T20s? b) Kempegowda International Airport a) Chris Gayle c) Rajiv Gandhi Hyderabad International b) Dwayne Bravo Airport c) Kieron Pollard d) Chattrapati Shivaji International Airport, d) Rohit Sharma Mumbai e) M S Dhoni e) Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Q.199) Recently H. R. Bhardwaj passed away. Delhi He was a Former_____? Q.194) RBI recently stated that the solvency a) Cricketer of banks is internationally based on CRAR and b) Politician not on market capitalization. What does “A” c) Painter represent in “CRAR”? d) Footballer a) Algebraic e) Chief Justice b) Apex Q.200) Who becomes Indian Coast Guard’s c) Average first woman DIG? d) Annuity a) Kriti Sanon e) Assets b) Nupur Kulshrestha Q.195) Which state ranked 1st in country for c) Tara Sutaria overall implementation of Poshan Abhiyan? d) Kriti Kharbanda a) Kerala e) Geeta Sanon b) Karnataka Q.201) "The Adventures of the Daredevil c) Tamil Nadu Democrat” - a comic book released by_____? d) Andhra Pradesh a) Ramnath Kovind e) Telangana b) Rajnath Singh Q.196) UNGCNI organizes 3rd Gender c) Naveen Patnaik equality summit 2020 in ______? d) Ashok Gehlot a) Gujarat e) Venkaiah Naidu b) New Delhi Q.202) ______becomes the 1st state to c) Mumbai introduce department for Self Help Groups? d) Kolkata a) Odisha

b) Maharashtra e) Cycling c) Madhya Pradesh Q.207) SBI bank has reduced its one-year d) Gujarat MCLR by 10 basis points to ____ from 7.85% e) Meghalaya a) 7.65% b) 7.75% c) 7.55% d) 7.40% e) 7.35% Q.208) FDI inflows recorded highest ever for Q.203) ‘Fagli’ festival celebrated in which fiscal year 2018-19 at _____. State? a) USD 56 billion a) Mizoram b) USD 67 billion b) Meghalaya c) USD 62 billion c) Gujarat d) USD 80 billion d) Karnataka e) USD 40 billion e) Himachal Pradesh Q.209) Who won Dr MS Swaminathan Award Q.204) Which Union Territory has planted 32 for the period 2017- 2019? lakh saplings as part of the national initiative a) Vishal Sikka for enhancing the green cover across the b) V Praveen Rao country? c) Kris Gopalakrishnan a) Ladakh d) Natarajan Chandrasekaran b) Jammu & Kashmir e) Rajesh Gopinathan c) Puducherry Q.210) Which is the first state in country to d) Daman & Diu measure Gross Environment Product? e) Lakshadweep a) Madhya Pradesh Q.205) As per the Bloomberg Billionaires b) Himachal Pradesh Index report who is the Asia's richest man? c) Uttar Pradesh a) Mukesh Ambani d) Uttarakhand b) Azim Premji e) Manipur c) Hui Ka Yan Q.211) What is the rank of India in Inclusive d) Jack Ma Internet Index 2020 by Economist e) Ma Huateng Intelligence Unit? Q.206) Lovlina Borgohain won the bronze a) 41st medal. She is related with which of the b) 45th following sports events? c) 46th a) Archery d) 47th b) Weightlifting e) 52nd c) Swimming Q.212) Who takes charge as Yes Bank d) Boxing administrator?

a) Raj Kapoor validity certificates in the Gram panchayats b) Rana Singh within a year of winning elections? c) Prashant Kumar a) Rajasthan d) Navneet Singh b) Arunachal Pradesh e) Kishore Kumar c) Karnataka Q.213) Which state approved the d) Maharashtra implementation of “happy hour” for e) Madhya Pradesh autorickshaws? Q.218) Which educational institution has a) Haryana partnered with Pre-engineered Structures b) Maharashtra Society, to work together for research & c) Madhya Pradesh knowledge sharing? d) Gujarat a) NIT Warangal e) Karnataka b) NIT Hamirpur Q.214) Mahim Verma set to resign as BCCI c) NIT Durgapur vice president. As per the Lodha Committee's d) NIT Agartala recommendations, BCCI President cannot e) NIT Calicut hold his post for more than ______years. Q.219) Which International Airport named a) 3 years Best airport by size and region? b) 6 years a) Rajiv Gandhi International Airport c) 5 years b) Indira Gandhi International Airport d) 2 years c) Chatrapathi Sivaji International Airport e) 4 years d) Mangalore International Airport Q.215) India and which country sign Rs 1200 e) Chennai International Airport crore deal for protection system of new VVIP Q.220) Name the Indian mountaineer who aircraft? scales Australia’s highest mountain peak? a) US a) Bhawna Dehariya b) Russia b) Mohan Singh Kohli c) Israel c) Malavath Purna d) Iran d) Santosh Yadav e) China e) Arunima Sinha Q.216) Which team won the Hero I-League Q.221)World Bank signed an $80 million loan Champions 2019-2020? agreement with which State Government? a) Punjab F.C. a) Manipur b) East Bengal b) Telangana c) Mohun Bagan c) Assam d) Chennai City F.C. d) Himachal Pradesh e) Kerala Blasters e) Kerala Q.217) Which state government passed a bill Q.222) Which celebrity becomes the brand to allow candidates to submit their caste ambassador for anti-graft helpline?

a) Sachin Tendulkar a) Mumbai b) P V Sindhu b) Chennai c) Saina Nehwal c) New Delhi d) Sunil Chettri d) Kolkata e) Salman Khan e) Hyderabad Q.223) Which bank appoints Mark Wang as Q.228) What is the India’s latest GDP forecast Chief Executive in China? for FY21 as per the foreign brokerage UBS a) Standard Chartered Securities’ estimates? b) HSBC a) 5.2% c) PNB Paribas b) 5.0% d) HDFC c) 4.0% e) Axis d) 5.1% Q.224) IDFC FIRST Bank names ______as e) 4.2% Brand Ambassador Q.229) Which financial institution recently a) Amitabh Bachchan announced a package of $200 million to b) Sharukh Khan companies manufacturing products to combat c) Salman Khan coronavirus? d) Akshaya Kumar a) NDB e) Sonam Kapoor b) ADB Q.225) Which Indian city is selected for the c) IMF main national event for the International Day d) AIIB of Yoga that to be held on 21st of June? e) World Bank a) Shimla, Himachal Pradesh Q.230) What is India’s rank in the Animal b) Panchkula, Haryana Protection Index 2020? c) Gulmarg, Jammu & Kashmir a) 3rd d) Dehradun, Uttarakhand b) 8th e) Leh, Ladakh c) 5th Q.226) CCI approved the acquisition of d) 11th additional equity shares in which of the e) 2nd following commercial lending company, by Q.231) Which Railway station is to be Otter Limited & Link Investment Trust? renamed after famous philanthropist and a) Shriram Transport Finance Company Ltd educationist Nana Shankarsheth? b) Sundaram Finance Ltd a) Mumbai c) Tata Capital Financial Services Ltd b) Kolkata d) Bajaj Finance Ltd c) Lucknow e) Hero FinCorp Ltd d) Vijayawada Q.227) Witness Event “Divya Kala Shakti- e) Pune Witnessing the Abilities in Disabilities” to be Q.232) 3rd edition of WION Global Summit to held in ______. be held in______.

a) New Delhi Q.237) WGSHA enters Limca Book of Records b) Moscow for Indias first Living Culinary Arts Museum. c) Dubai It is located in ______. d) Mumbai a) Maharashtra e) Geneva b) New Delhi Q.233) Where is the Hola Mohalla festival c) Telangana celebrated? d) Karnataka a) Gujarat e) Assam b) Assam Q.238) India Post to Launch Free Digital c) Tripura Locker Service in _____? d) Punjab a) Kolkata e) Mizoram b) Mumbai Q.234) Wings India 2020 is being held in c) Hyderabad ______. d) Ranchi a) Kolkata e) Lucknow b) Mumbai Q.239) Which govt launches schemes for skill c) Hyderabad development & employment generation for d) Chennai youths? e) Pune a) Himachal Pradesh Q.235) According to KPMG's "2020 Global b) Jharkhand Technology Industry Innovation Survey" c) Madhya Pradesh report, India has ranked ______as the most d) Uttar Pradesh promising source of disruptive technology in e) Kerala the world. Q.240) Central Government has nominated a) 3rd Department of Financial Services Secretary b) 2nd ______as a Director on the RBI central board c) 5th a) Vandana Shiva d) 9th b) Anupam Mishra e) 7th c) Sunita Narain Q.236) Who was honoured with the Highest d) Debasish Panda Civilian Award "Golden Jubilee Medal- e) Anil Agarwal Civilians" of Uganda? Q.241) India provided how much amount to a) Hari Prasath the SAARC Emergency Fund to fight Covid- b) Chandrasekhar 19? c) Rajesh Chaplot a) USD 2 Million d) Venkatraman Ramakrishnan b) USD 4 Million e) Robinson Mistry c) USD 5 Million d) USD 1 Million e) USD 3 Million

Q.242) United Nations released the World Q.247) Pilot shopping festival at ______Happiness Report on the International Day of is to be organized in 2020-21. Happiness, 2020. What is India’s rank? a) Hyderabad a) 133 b) Bengaluru b) 141 c) Kanpur c) 144 d) New Delhi d) 157 e) Lucknow e) 149 Q.248) Which state’s Chief Minister resigned Q.243) How much is the total investment from his position on March 20? approved by the central government under a) Rajasthan the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) as b) Madhya Pradesh on March 2020? c) Maharashtra a) Rs 4.05 lakh Crores d) Chattisgarh b) Rs 6.16 lakh Crores e) Manipur c) Rs 2.53 lakh Crores Q.249) What is the name of new train d) Rs 3.89 lakh Crores launched by SIDBI for new entrepreneurs? e) Rs 5.14 lakh Crores a) Swavalamban Express Q.244) Which state government recently b) Protsahan Express abolished reservation in promotion in the c) Garima Express state government jobs? d) Urja Express a) Gujarat e) None of the Above b) Haryana Q.250) As per the International Energy c) Himachal Pradesh Agency, which of the following countries is the d) Uttarakhand third largest producer of electricity? e) Madhya Pradesh a) Nepal Q.245) Which Union Territory announced Rs 5 b) China Lakhs free health insurance for its residents? c) India a) Puducherry d) Pakistan b) Jammu & Kashmir e) Russia c) Ladakh Q.251) Fitch Ratings cuts India’s growth d) Daman & Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli forecast to ____ for FY’21 from 5.6% e) Andaman & Nicobar Islands a) 5.2% Q.246) Who becomes India’s next High b) 5.1% Commissioner to Republic of Uganda c) 5.4% a) A. Ajay Kumar d) 5.5% b) N. Vijay Kumar e) 4.9% c) S.Jai shankar Q.252) Name the Indian mountaineer enters d) M Manish Sharma Limca Book of Records? e) K Suresh Kumar a) Jagdeesh Kumar

b) Satyarup Siddhanta e) Jean Pierre Mustier c) Rajiv Sharma Q.258) With which country India conducted a d) Gokul Krishnan tabletop Joint Air exercise on the theme of e) Nandhan Nilakeni HADR (Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Q.253) P.K. Banerjee passed away at 83. He Relief)? was a/an______? a) Myanmar a) Football Player b) Bhutan b) Cricket Player c) Thailand c) Basketball Player d) Sri Lanka d) Hockey Player e) Malaysia e) Athlete Player Q.259) Which state announced the Q.254) Indian Navy installs Quarantine investment of Rs. 3700 crores for setting up Facility at ______? of Defence Industrial Corridors in the state? a) Chennai a) Bihar b) Lucknow b) Gujarat c) Visakhapatnam c) Haryana d) Mumbai d) Rajasthan e) Pune e) Uttar Pradesh Q.255) A book entitled ‘Messiah Modi: A Great Q.260) Which team bagged the 3rd Indian tale of expectations’ penned by ______? Super League title? a) Tavleen singh a) Mumbai City FC b) Ravindra Doha b) ATK c) Farook Ahmad c) FC Goa d) Naveen Sinha d) Kerala Blasters e) None of the Above e) Chennaiyin FC Q.256) Which cloud-based software company Q.261) Gairsain will be the summer capital of appointed former SBI chairperson Arundhati _____? Bhattacharya as India CEO? a) Jammu and Kashmir a) Rackspace b) Rajasthan b) Oracle Cloud c) Uttarakhand c) Dropbox d) Ladakh d) Salesforce e) Leh e) ScienceSoft Q.262) Which state has topped in Q.257) Who has been appointed as the Chief disbursement of agriculture credit by giving Executive Officer of HSBC bank? away loans worth Rs 1,63,289 Cr out of a total a) Noel Quinn of Rs 10,33,183 Cr distributed across India till b) Mark Tucker December 31 this fiscal? c) Ralph Hamer a) Maharashtra d) John Flint b) Andhra Pradesh

c) Tamil Nadu Q.267) As per RBI’s new guidelines for d) Kerala Payment Aggregators (PAs), what is the e) Odisha minimum net worth required for entities to be Q.263) Which multinational company has tied set up as PAs (earlier it was 100 crore)? up with Aligarh Muslim University, to jointly a) 50 Crore develop technology for solar-powered, b) 25 Crore wireless charging stations in India? c) 30 Crore a) STMicroelectronics d) 10 Crore b) Broadcom e) 15 Crore c) Micron Technology Q.268) Which Indian Institute signed MoU d) Texas Instruments with L&T technology services for research in e) Qualcomm cybersecurity programs (March 2020)? Q.264) RBI has received Rs 27,096 Cr worth a) IIT Madras of bids in the fifth long-term repo operations b) IIT Delhi conducted for an amount of Rs 25,000 Cr with c) IIT Calcutta a tenure of 3 years under? d) IIT Kanpur a) Operation Weave e) IIT Bombay b) Operation Change Q.269) Adnan al-Zurfi has been appointed as c) Operation Twist the Prime Minister of which of the following d) Operation Invent country? e) Operation Knit a) Kuwait Q.265) The Central government has included b) Iraq Konark Sun temple & Statue of Unity in iconic c) Qatar tourism sites list. Where does Konark Sun d) Iran temple & Statue of Unity located at? e) Syria a) Bihar, Gujarat Q.270) The World Cities summit is going to be b) Haryana, Telangana held at which among the following cities in the c) Odisha, Gujarat month of July (5-9), 2020. d) Punjab, Haryana a) London e) Odisha, Bihar b) Geneva Q.266) Under which scheme the government c) New Delhi has sanctioned loan of Rs 20,466.94 crores d) Brussels (upto March 10, 2020) for the empowerment e) Singapore of women? Q.271) Name the person who Authored the a) Make in India book ‘My Encounters in Parliament’. b) Accessible India a) Hamid Ansari c) Stand Up India b) D Raja d) Start Up India c) Bhalchandra Mungekar e) Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana d) Sitaram Yechury

e) Sharad Pawar c) Swimming Q.272) Find the Public Sector Bank of India d) Weightlifting which has acquired 6.825% of stake in Zero e) Boxing Mass private limited (1st Business Q.277) With which country, India signed a Rs Correspondent of the country). 880 crore Defence Deal agreement? a) Dena Bank a) USA b) Allahabad Bank b) Russia c) Punjab National Bank c) Israel d) Corporate Bank d) Australia e) State Bank of India e) Germany Q.273) Who has written the book “Invincible Q.278) Haryana’s Amin village was renamed – A Tribute to Manohar Parrikar”? as ______. a) Tarun Vijay a) Arjunapur b) Anil Baluni b) Bhimapur c) Mahendra Singh Mahra c) Sathrukanpur d) Jairam Ramesh d) Abhimanyupur e) Shashi Tharoor e) Krishnapur Q.274) The Global Recycling day is celebrated Q.279) NASSCOM Foundation and who has annually on March 18. What is the Theme for launched the Innovate for Global Recycling day 2020? Accessible India campaign aimed at a) Theme: ‘Reduce the Plastic do recycle’ empowering people with disabilities? b) Theme: ‘Recycling Heroes’ a) Microsoft India c) Theme: ‘Recycle & Reproduce’ b) Google India d) Theme: ‘Recycling into the Future’ c) Flipkart e) Theme: ‘3R of Recycling’ d) Amazon Q.275) DBS Bank India has tied-up with e) NITI Aayog which Insurance company, to roll out a Q.280) Who was appointed as CMD of Power complimentary insurance plan covering all Finance Corporation Ltd? medical conditions, including Covid-19? a) Karan Bajwa a) ICICI Prudential Life Insurance b) Rajiv kumar b) Bharti AXA Life Insurance c) Ravinder Singh Dhillon c) Kotak Mahindra Life Insurance d) D Y Chandrachud d) HDFC Standard Life Insurance e) Rajendra Singh e) Max Life Insurance Q.281) Jairam Kulkarani passed away Q.276) Roger Mayweather, who passed away recently. He was a ______. at the age of 58 is related with which of the a) Actor following fields? b) Journalist a) Archery c) Poet b) Badminton d) Writer

e) Novelist d) West Bengal Q.282) The 2019 Chameli Devi Jain Award for e) Karnataka Outstanding Women Q.287) The Reserve Bank has opened an Mediaperson for the year has been awarded emergency line of credit of around to ______. Rs.______crore to Yes Bank to meet any a) Rohini Mohan liquidity crisis b) Arfa Khanum Sherwani a) 50,000 c) Priyanka Dubey b) 60,000 d) Both a and b c) 80,000 e) All the above d) 35,000 Q.283) Who wins the ITTF Challenger Plus e) 48,000 Oman Open? Q.288) Romesh Sobti is appointed to take a) Achanta Sharath Kamal advisory role at ______. b) Manika Batra a) Yes Bank c) Mouma Das b) Bandhan Bank d) Pooja Sahasrabudhe c) RBL Bank e) Madhurikaa Paatkar d) IndusInd Bank Q.284) Who clinched women's singles e) PMC Bank title of the All England Q.289) Which state government, recently Championship? announced relief measures for daily wage a) Chen Yufei earners? b) Tai Tzu Ying a) Uttarakhand c) Carolina Marin b) Odisha d) Jwala Gutta c) Uttar Pradesh e) Nozomi Okuhara d) Maharashtra Q.285) Flipkart and ______joined hands e) Bihar to sell comprehensive Q.290) Kenny Rogers passed away at the age insurance solutions for customers looking for of 81. He was a renowned______. instant digital policies. a) Boxer a) Bajaj insurance b) Scientist b) Max Bupa life insurance c) Singer c) Bharati Axa Life insurance d) Actor d) Aegon Life insurance e) Politician e) HDFC ergo general insurance Q.291) Cabinet approved the relaunch of a Q.286) Mansukh Mandaviya inaugurated scheme to set up 3 bulk drug parks and 4 ROPAX service in which state? medical device parks for a total outlay of a) Delhi Rs.______over 5 years. b) Maharashtra a) 3,400 cr. c) Goa b) 5,300 cr

c) 4,200 cr Q.297) Who has been appointed as the MD of d) 2,700 cr International Data Corporation (IDC) India e) 4,400 cr and South Asia? Q.292) Recently,______took measures to a) Anurugh Das check short selling, curb volatility. b) Karan Bajwa a) RBI c) Nitin Bawankule b) SEBI d) Rick Harshman c) NABARD e) Vasant Rao d) IRDAI Q.298) Which airline has appointed Sanjiv e) SIDBI Kapoor as its Advisor? Q.293) The World Bank and ADB have a) GoAir provided ______million to Pakistan to b) SpiceJet fight the coronavirus pandemic. c) Jet Airways a) 330 d) Indigo b) 460 e) Air India c) 588 Q.299) World water day Observed on? d) 600 a) March 26 e) 250 b) March 23 Q.294) World Poetry Day declared by c) March 21 UNESCO in 1999 was celebrated on ? d) March 22 a) March 20 e) March 25 b) February 25 Q.300) What is the theme of World c) March 21 Meteorological Day celebrated on 23rd March? d) June 23 a) Climate and Water e) October 8 b) Water and Climate Change Q.295) CRISIL lowers FY21 growth to _____ c) Climate Change from 5.7%. d) The Sun, the Earth and the weather a) 5.1% e) Understanding Clouds b) 5.2% c) 5.5% ANSWER KEY d) 5.3% 1. c, 2. b, 3. d, 4. d, 5. e, 6. c, 7. e, 8. c, 9. e) 4.9% a, 10. d, 11. c, 12. e, 13. e, 14. c, 15. a, 16. Q.296) IRDAI sets up 16-member panel on e, 17. d, 18. d, 19. a, 20. e, 21. c, 22. a, 23. governance at insurers headed by ______? b, 24. a, 25. a, 26. c, 27. a, 28. c, 29. c, 30. a) Pravin Kutumbe c, 31. b, 32. c, 33. a, 34. b, 35. b, 36. d, 37. b) Abhijit Banerjee a, 38. e, 39. c, 40. c, 41. a, 42. d, 43. d, 44. c) Amartya Sen b, 45. c, 46. c, 47. b, 48. e, 49. c, 50. a, 51. d) Narayana Murthy c, 52. e, 53. d, 54. c, 55. e, 56. b, 57. e, 58. e) Duvvuri Subbarao c, 59. d, 60. a, 61. c, 62. a, 63. b, 64. a, 65.

b, 66. b, 67. b, 68. a, 69. a, 70. c, 71. d, 72. BANKING QUIZ: a, 73. b, 74. c, 75. b, 76. c, 77. d, 78. c, 79. Q.1) Who can issue Rupee Denominated e, 80. a, 81. e, 82. c, 83. b, 84. e, 85. b, 86. Bonds Overseas? d, 87. b, 88. b, 89. d, 90. b, 91. b, 92. d, 93. a) REITs a, 94. a, 95. d, 96. c, 97. e, 98. e, 99. d, 100. b) Indian Banks b, 101. b, 102. d, 103. c, 104. a, 105. e, 106. c) InvITs d, 107. a, 108. d, 109. c, 110. c, 111. a, 112. d) All of these a, 113. d, 114. c, 115. c, 116. d, 117. b, 118. e) None of these d, 119. a, 120. c, 121. c, 122. d, 123. d, 124. Q.2) Who among the following is not eligible a, 125. a, 126. a, 127. a, 128. c, 129. b, 130. to issue Rupee denominated bonds overseas? a, 131. d, 132. b, 133. b, 134. c, 135. b, 136. a) Corporate a, 137. c, 138. c, 139. b, 140. c, 141. b, 142. b) Limited Liability Partnerships d, 143. d, 144. d, 145. b, 146. d, 147. a, 148. c) Partnership firms d, 149. c, 150. b, 151. a, 152. c, 153. d, 154. d) Both (a) and (b) b, 155. c, 156. c, 157. d, 158. c, 159. d, 160. e) Both (c) and (b) d, 161. b, 162. a, 163. d, 164. b, 165. a, 166. Q. 3) In REITs, “I” stands for ______d, 167. b, 168. b, 169. d, 170. b, 171. a, 172. a) Infrastructure d, 173. b, 174. b, 175. d, 176. d, 177. c, 178. b) Initial c, 179. c, 180. b, 181. c, 182. c, 183. b, 184. c) Investment a, 185. d, 186. c, 187. a, 188. d, 189. b, 190. d) Internal c, 191. d, 192. b, 193. c, 194. e, 195. d, 196. e) None of these b, 197. d, 198. c, 199. b, 200. b, 201. c, 202. Q.4) In FATF, “T” stands for? a, 203. e, 204. b, 205. d, 206. d, 207. b, 208. a) Trade c, 209. b, 210. d, 211. c, 212. c, 213. b, 214. b) Tax d, 215. a, 216. c, 217. d, 218. a, 219. d, 220. c) Trust a, 221. d, 222. b, 223. b, 224. a, 225. e, 226. d) Task e, 227. b, 228. c, 229. b, 230. e, 231. a, 232. e) All of these c, 233. d, 234. c, 235. b, 236. c, 237. d, 238. Q.5) The Rupee denominated bonds can only a, 239. d, 240. d, 241. d, 242. c, 243. b, 244. be subscribed by a ______d, 245. b, 246. a, 247. b, 248. b, 249. a, 250. a) NRI c, 251. b, 252. b, 253. a, 254. c, 255. a, 256. b) resident of a country d, 257. a, 258. a, 259. e, 260. b, 261. c, 262. c) PIO c, 263. a, 264. c, 265. c, 266. c, 267. e, 268. d) NRE d, 269. b, 270. e, 271. c, 272. e, 273. a, 274. e) None of these b, 275. b, 276. e, 277. c, 278. d, 279. a, 280. Q.6) The Headquarters of IOSCO located in c, 281. a, 282. d, 283. a, 284. b, 285. d, 286. _____ b, 287. b, 288. d, 289. c, 290. c, 291. a, 292. a) Rome, Italy b, 293. c, 294. c, 295. b, 296. a, 297. e, 298. b) Madrid, Spain a, 299. d, 300. A. c) Geneva, Switzerland

d) Bern, Switzerland Q.12) The Headquarters of TransUnion CIBIL e) M.S.Sahoo is ______Q.7) The minimum maturity period for Masala a) Chennai Bonds raised up to USD 50 million equivalent b) Kolkatta in INR per financial year should be _____ c) Mumbai years d) Bengaluru a) 6 years e) None of these b) 4 years Q.13) Any Non-Banking Finance Institution c) 3 years should be a company registered under d) 5 years ______of the Companies Act, 1956 to get e) None of these the NBFC license from RBI. Q.8) Masala bonds raised above ______a) Section 6 equivalent in INR per financial year should be b) Section 3 5 years c) Section 4 a) USD 50 million d) Section 5 b) USD 100 million e) None of these c) USD 150 million Q.14) Any Non-Banking Finance Institution d) USD 200 million should have an NOF of Rs______to get the e) None of these NBFC license from RBI. Q.9) In FFMC “M” stands for? a) 100 Lakh a) Maturity b) 150 Lakh b) Mortgage c) 200 Lakh c) Money d) 250 Lakh d) Medium e) None of these e) None of these Q.15) In NOF, O stands for ______Q.10) AMCs are entities, authorised by the a) Original RBI under ______of the Foreign Exchange b) Operation Management Act, 1999. c) Owned a) Section 10 d) All of these b) Section 12 e) None of these c) Section 16 Q.16) NBFCs whose asset size is of ______or d) Section 14 more as per last audited balance sheet are e) Section 11 considered as systemically important NBFCs. Q.11) In FCEB, E stands for ______a) Rs. 200 Crore a) External b) Rs. 100 Crore b) Exchangeable c) Rs. 400 Crore c) Export d) Rs. 500 Crore d) Earned e) None of these e) None of these

Q.17) Core Investment Companies with asset a) External size of less than Rs. ______are exempted b) Exchange from registration with the RBI. c) Earned a) Rs. 100 Crore d) Enabled b) Rs. 500 Crore e) None of these c) Rs. 300 Crore Q.23) In CBLO, “L” stands for ______d) Rs. 400 Crore a) Liability e) None of these b) Loan Q.18) Core Investment Companies with asset c) Lender size of ______and above but not accessing d) Lending public funds are exempted from registration e) None of these with the RBI. Q.24) In FPI, “P” stands for ______a) Rs. 100 Crore a) Percent b) Rs. 600 Crore b) Profit c) Rs. 300 Crore c) Portfolio d) Rs. 400 Crore d) Prompt e) None of these e) None of these Q.19) IFC is a non-banking finance company Q.25) CCIL stands for ______which deploys at least ____ of its total assets a) Clearing Council of India Limited in infrastructure loans. b) Clearing Corporation of India Limited a) 65% c) Clearing Centre of India Limited b) 75% d) Clearing Company of India Limited c) 55% e) None of these d) 85% Q.26) In UTR Number, “U” Stands for ____ e) None of these a) Universal Q.20) IFC has a minimum Net Owned Funds b) Unstructured of ______c) Unique a) Rs. 100 Crore d) Uniformed b) Rs. 500 Crore e) All of these c) Rs. 300 Crore Q.27) In EMV, E stands for ______d) Rs. 400 Crore a) External e) None of these b) Exchange Q.21) In FIMMDA, “I” stands for ______c) Earned a) International d) Europay b) Identification e) None of these c) Income Q.28) In MOTO, “M” stands for ______d) Issuer a) Merge e) None of these b) Multi Q.22) In FEDAI, “E” stands for ______c) Mail

d) Multiple 2017, the floor rate of SLR ______was e) None of these removed. Q.29) In PIN, “P” stands for ______a) 20.25 a) Permanent b) 20.50 b) Previous c) 20.75 c) Personal d) 21.25 d) Prompt e) None of these e) None of these Q.35) Which of the following is determined by Q.30) In CCP, “P” Stands for ____ a percentage of total demand and time a) Permanent liabilities? b) Policy a) CRR c) Personal b) SLR d) Prompt c) MBS e) None of these d) MCLR Q.31) Which of the following is the e) None of these headquarters of Bank for International Q.36) If any Indian bank fails to maintain the Settlements? required level of SLR, then it becomes liable a) Italy to pay penalty to ______. b) Germany a) Finance Ministry c) Switzerland b) Bank Board Bureau d) USA c) GOI e) None of these d) RBI Q.32) The SLR is commonly used to control e) None of these ______Q.37) Which of the following is an example of a) Deflation Demand Liability? b) Inflation a) Fixed Deposit c) Credit Growth b) Current Account d) Both (A) and (B) c) Savings Account e) Both (B) and (C) d) Both (A) and (B) Q.33) The minimum limit(Earlier Limit) of SLR e) Both (C) and (B) is ______Q.38) Which of the following is an example of a) 20% Time Liability? b) 25% a) Fixed Deposit c) 35% b) Current Account d) 40% c) Savings Account e) None of these d) All of these Q.34) Following the amendment of the e) None of these Banking regulation Act(1949) in January Q.39) If any Indian bank fails to maintain the required level of SLR, then the defaulter bank

pays penal interest at the rate of ______per c) MBS annum above the Bank Rate on the shortfall d) MCLR amount for that particular day. e) Open Market Operations a) 4% Q.44) ______is a certain percentage of b) 5% bank deposits which banks are required to c) 3% keep with RBI in the form of reserves or d) 2% balances. e) 6% a) CRR Q.40) If the defaulter bank continues to b) SLR default on the next working day, then the rate c) MBS of penal interest can be increased to _____ d) MCLR per annum above the Bank Rate e) None of these a) 4% Q.45) Every financial institution has to b) 5% maintain a certain quantity of liquid assets c) 3% with themselves at any point of time of their d) 2% total time and demand liabilities. This is e) 6% known as ______Q.41) ______is the rate at which the a) CRR central bank of a country borrows money from b) SLR commercial banks within the country c) MBS a) Repo Rate d) MCLR b) Reverse Repo Rate e) None of these c) Base Rate Q.46) Which of the following makes bank rate d) MCLR policy effective and maintains stability in e) None of these government securities market? Q.42) The increase in the ______will increase a) CRR the cost of borrowing and lending of the b) SLR banks. c) MBS a) Repo Rate d) MCLR b) Reverse Repo Rate e) Open Market Operations c) Base Rate Q.47) The RBI sells government securities to d) MCLR ______the flow of credit and buys e) None of these government securities to ______credit Q.43) ______is an instrument of monetary flow. policy which involves buying or selling of a) Increase, Decrease government securities from or to the public b) Decrease, Increase and banks. c) Increase, Increase a) CRR d) Decrease, Decrease b) SLR e) None of these

Q.48) RBI is empowered to vary CRR between ENGLISH VOCABULARY: ______and ______. English Vocabulary: a) 10%, 4% 1) DESPOTIC (Adjective): b) 10%, 2% Meaning: of or typical of a despot; c) 10%, 3% tyrannical. d) 10%, 1% Synonyms: autocratic, dictatorial, e) None of these totalitarian, authoritarian, Q.49) ______the CRR with the RBI ______Antonyms: democratic, accountable will be the liquidity in the system Usage: Under orders from the despotic ruler, a) Higher, Lower citizens were denied freedom of speech. b) Lower, Higher c) Lower, Lower 2) GRISLY (Adjective): d) Higher, Higher Meaning: causing horror or disgust. e) None of these Synonyms: gruesome, ghastly, frightful, Q.50) The maximum limit of SLR is ______horrid, a) 30% Antonyms: pleasant, attractive b) 35% Usage: Many massacres in history fade while c) 45% some linger as grisly curiosities. d) 40% e) None of these 3) SPLURGE (verb): Meaning: to spend extravagantly or ANSWER KEY ostentatiously. Synonyms: squander, fling, dissipate, 1. d, 2. e, 3. c, 4. d, 5. b, 6. b, 7. c, 8. a, 9. disburse. c, 10. a, 11. b, 12. c, 13. b, 14. c, 15. c, 16. Antonyms: accumulate, hoard, conserve, d, 17. a, 18. a, 19. b, 20. c, 21. c, 22. b, 23. preserve d, 24. c, 25. b, 26. c, 27. d, 28. c, 29. c, 30. Usage: I feel like splurging on a new dress. b, 31. c, 32. e, 33. b, 34. c, 35. b, 36. d, 37. e, 38. a, 39. c, 40. b, 41. b, 42. a, 43. e, 44. 4) REFRACTORY (adjective): a, 45. b, 46. e, 47. b, 48. c, 49. a, 50. D. Meaning: stubborn or unmanageable. Synonyms: recalcitrant, obstreperous, insubordinate, intractable. Antonyms: obedient, manageable, amenable, compliant. Usage: Most teenagers go through a refractory phase where they don’t want to listen to authority figures.

5) BEDECK (verb): 10) CONFOUND(Verb) : Meaning: to decorate or cover. Meaning: to mix up or confuse Synonyms: adorn, bedizen, embellish, Synonyms: confuse, puzzle emblaze. Antonyms: confirm, verify Antonyms: denude, blemish, deface, Usage: Without instructions, this unusual disfigure. game will confound anyone. Usage: The cars were all bedecked with 11) Mellow (adjective) : flowers for the wedding ceremony. Meaning: (especially of a sound, flavor, or color) pleasantly smooth or soft; free from 6) ENVIRON (verb) : harshness. Meaning: surround; enclose. Synonyms: dulcet, euphonious, melodious, Synonyms: encircle, envelop, cloak, swathe. mellifluous, mellifluent. Antonyms: unbridle, free, open, release. Antonyms: rugged, abrading, gruff, Usage: The stone circle was environed by an abrasive, harsh. expanse of peat soil. Usage: His mellow voice and his qualitative speech made everyone applaud him 7) EMANCIPATE(Verb) : Meaning: to give people social or political 12) Precarious (adjective) : freedom and rights Meaning: dependent on chance; uncertain. Synonyms: liberate, loosen Synonyms: unsure, unpredictable, doubtful, Antonyms: detain, hold dubious. Usage: It neither made him be human to his Antonyms: certain, stable, confirmed, slaves nor to emancipate them. definite. Usage: As Finance Secretary I found that the 8) IDOLIZE(verb) : finances of the state were in a precarious Meaning: to adore, admire, or love greatly condition. Synonyms: admire, acknowledge Antonyms: dislike, disrespect 13) Jeer (noun) : Usage: She wanted someone to idolize her Meaning: a rude and mocking remark. for her strong work ethic. Synonyms: hoot, ridicule, scuff, taunt Antonyms: compliment, praise, flatter 9) DENUDE (Verb) : Usage: Virat Kohli asked the crowd not to Meaning: strip (something) of its covering, jeer Steve Smith possessions, or assets. Synonyms: divest, deprive, bare, uncover 14) Indigenous (adjective) : Antonyms: cover Meaning: originating or occurring naturally in Usage: He proceeded to denude the statue, a particular place; native. fronting the church. Synonyms: native, innate, inborn, primitive, congenital

Antonyms: alien, foreign Usage: The training will encompass how to Usage: They were our indigenous peoples, administer first aid and CPR. our first peoples, our first speakers and our first hearers. 20) Drought (Noun) : Meaning: a prolonged period of abnormally 15) Intimidate (verb) : low rainfall, leading to a shortage of water. Meaning: frighten or overawe (someone), Synonym: dry spell, dry period, especially in order to make them do what one Antonym: abundance, adequacy, wants. Usage: Heat and drought had continued for Synonyms: dishearten, dismay, terrify more than three weeks. Antonyms: please, praise 21) WHIMSICAL (Adjective) : Usage: Her boss intimidates her Meaning: acting or behaving in a capricious manner. 16) Torrid (Adjective) : Synonyms: volatile, capricious, Meaning: Very hot and dry temperamental, impulsive Synonym: hot, sweltering, Antonyms: boring, serious Antonym: Cold, cool, wet Usage: The whimsical music made me feel Usage: the equator into the south torrid zone. like a little kid again.

17) Desalination (Noun) : 22) MANDATE (noun): Meaning: the process of removing salt from Meaning: an official order or commission to seawater. do something. Synonym: Chemical change, chemical action Synonyms: instruction, directive, direction, Antonym: Salinate, stay decree, command Usage: Desalination capacity, increasing Antonyms: encourage electrical generation and distribution. Usage: They carried out the governor’s mandate to build more roads. 18) Vague (Adjective) : Meaning: of uncertain, indefinite, or unclear 23) NEUROSIS (NOUN) : character or Meaning. Meaning: a mental and emotional disorder Synonym: indistinct, indefinite that affects only part of the personality Antonym: clear, certain Synonyms: aberration, dementia, Usage: She rolled her eyes at the vague hallucinosis, hypomania, paranoia response. Antonyms: lucidity, rationality, rationalness, reasonability 19) Encompassing (Verb) : Usage: These are givers whose philanthropy Meaning: surround and have or hold within. has been absent neurosis and aggression Synonym: surround, enclose, ring Antonym: Exclude, leave 24) INTRANSIGENCE (Noun) :

Meaning: refusal to change one’s views or to agree about something. 29) SLUMP (verb) : Synonyms: inflexibility, stubbornness, Meaning: undergo a sudden severe or obstinacy prolonged fall in price, value, or amount. Example: I can’t understand Rachel’s Synonyms: plummet, plunge, tumble, intransigence. decline. Antonyms: rise, ascend, grow, soar. 25) REDACT (verb) : Usage: When the task force was putting Meaning: edit (text) for publication. together its original report, the world price of Synonyms: correct, rectify, repair, fix. oil had slumped as low as $10 a barrel. Antonyms: befoul, deteriorate, diminish, hinder. 30) HABITUAL(adjective): Usage: Some of the conclusions in the report Meaning: usual or repeated have been redacted. Synonyms: addicted, perpetual Antonyms: infrequent, occasional 26) DILATORY (adjective) : Usage: Longer prison sentences will help keep Meaning: slow to act habitual criminals off the streets. Synonyms: sluggish, slothful, lax, slack. 31) Altruist (Noun): Antonyms: fast, prompt, brisk, quick. Meaning: who make charitable donations Usage: They were dilatory in providing the Synonyms: beneficent, benevolent, researchers with information. charitable, humanitarian, philanthropist, generous 27) PURLOIN (verb) : Antonyms: self-centered, self-concerned, Meaning: steal (something). selfish. Synonyms: loot, pilfer, steal, embezzle. Example: Animals can have more altruistic Antonyms: bestow, contribute, donate, behavior than humans. purchase. 32) BITTERSWEET(Adjective) : Usage: Sometimes it’s impossible to not Meaning: tinged with a feeling of sadness purloin an excerpt from another person’s blog Synonyms: tangerine Antonyms: happiness 28) SPLENDID(adjective) : Example: The ending of the romance movie Meaning: excellent, or beautiful and was bittersweet. impressive 33) DISSIDENCE (Noun) : Synonyms: excellent, amazing Meaning: disagreement over a matter Antonyms: dull, normal Synonyms: contention, disagreement, Usage: It is a splendid and challenging book discordance, disharmony, dispute which seeks answers to large questions in Antonyms: agreement, approval, interesting cultural and psychological authorization, concurrence agendas.

Example: So much is said nowadays about Usage: If you want to achieve any goal, the dissidence of the spiritual and intellectual revere the process & success will follow. worlds. 38) Concurrence (noun) : 34) Inviolable(Adjective): Meaning: the fact of two or more events or Meaning: Secure from the violation or circumstances happening or existing at the profanation same time. Synonym: unchallengeable, unbreakable, Synonym:concordance, cooperation, Antonym: partial coincidence. Usage: Everyone has an inviolable right to Antonym: dissonance, discord. protection by a fair legal system. Usage: Because the events ran in 35) XENOPHOBIC (adjective) : concurrence, the coordinator could not attend Meaning: having or showing a dislike of or both parties at the same time. prejudice against people from other countries. 39) AGITATION(verb): Synonyms: racist, racialist, ethnocentric, Meaning: a state of anxiety or nervous ethnocentrist. excitement. Antonyms: bountiful, permissive, Synonym: anxiety, perturbation, disquiet thoughtful, lenient. Antonym: calmness, relaxation Usage: As a result, the new parliament is Usage: Payal entered the room with an distinctly more xenophobic and illiberal than agitated face. its predecessor. 40) Quirk(Noun) : 36) INSISTENCE (Noun) : Meaning: a strange habit Meaning: a solemn and often public Synonyms: irregularity, a trait declaration of the truth or existence of Antonyms: normality, something Usage: His biggest quirk is his love for old Synonyms: affirmation, assertion, marbles asseveration, avouchment, declaration, 41) HARK (verb) : profession, protestation Meaning: to pay attention especially through Antonyms: disavowal the act of hearing Usage: We got to know by the continued Synonym: attend, harken, hear, hearken, insistence that there was a massive cover-up heed, listen, mind by the government. Antonym: ignore, tune out 37) REVERE (verb) : Usage: Upon hearing the offending ringing, Meaning: feel deep respect or admiration for the teacher sarcastically cried, “Hark! Could (something) that possibly be a cell phone?” Synonyms: respect, admire, cherish, appreciate. 42) ENFEEBLEMENT (Noun) : Antonyms: blaspheme, desecrate, profane, Meaning: a gradual sinking and wasting violate. away of mind or body

Synonym: decaying, declension, decline, degeneration, descent, deterioration 46) INCHOATE (adjective) : Antonym: comeback, improvement, rally, Meaning: just begun and so not fully formed recovery, recuperation, rehabilitation or developed; rudimentary. Usage: Daily exercise can help to halt some Synonyms: budding, inceptive, incipient, of the enfeeblement that comes with nascent. advanced years. Antonyms: developed, full-fledged, evolved, ripened. 43) DYNAMISM (noun) : Usage: Having just come into existence a few Meaning: the fact of two or more events or years ago, the new political party is circumstances happening or existing at the considered inchoate by many historians. same time. Synonym: beans, bounce, brio, dash, drive, 47) EERILY (adverb) : energy, Esprit Meaning: in a strange and frightening Antonym: lethargy, listlessness, manner. sluggishness, torpidity Synonyms: hauntingly, creepily, scarily, Usage: Voters were attracted to the young spookily. challenger’s dynamism, charisma, and Antonyms: dulcetly, pleasingly, pleasantly, progressive ideas. agreeably. Usage: In front of him stood a masked man 44) FERVOUR (Noun) : clutching a knife in one hand, grinning eerily Meaning: great warmth and earnestness of at him. feeling Synonym: ardor, passion, zeal. 48) VALIANT (Adjective) : Antonym: impassiveness, impassivity, Meaning: possessing or showing courage or insensibility, insensibleness determination. Usage: Surprised by the fervor that her Synonyms: brave, fearless, courageous, parents’ old love letters contained when she valorous discovered them in the attic. Antonyms: cowardly, irresolute Usage: Firemen are valiant individuals who 45) EVANGELIZE (noun) : put their lives on the line to save others. Meaning: to try to convert (a group or area) to a different religion (especially Christianity). 49) EXTOL (Verb) : Synonym: lecture, platitudinize, preach, Meaning: praise enthusiastically. preachify, sermonize Synonyms: eulogize, acclaim Antonym: deconvert, dissuade, endure, Antonyms: criticize hold, idle, keep Usage: I got angry when my mother would Usage: The missionaries set out to evangelize extol my brother’s accomplishments and the world. ignore all the good things I did.

Antonyms: advantage, benefit, blessing 50) HEDGE (Verb) : Example: The onus of proof lies with the Meaning: limit or qualify (something) by prosecution. conditions or exceptions. Synonyms: confine, restrict, limit, hinder, 55) EMULATE (verb) : obstruct, Meaning: to use (someone or something) as Antonyms: absolute, certainty the model for one’s speech, mannerisms, or Example: She was hedged in by her imperfect behavior. education. Synonyms: imitate, reecho, repeat, follow. 51) EQUANIMITY(Noun) : Antonyms: neglect, reprove, proscribe, the Meaning: to stay calm, especially under affront. stress; to maintain composure Example: Josh is trying to emulate the Synonyms: calmness, cool success of his well-accomplished mother. Antonyms: agitation, discomposure Usage: During the horrible storm, it was hard 56) BULGE (Noun) : for us to focus on and maintain our Meaning: a rounded bump or swelling that equanimity. juts outward on a surface Synonyms: lump, bump 52) DENUDE (Verb) : Antonyms: in growth Meaning: strip (something) of its covering, Example: The bag was so full that a bulge possessions, or assets. from the oranges could be seen through the Synonyms: divest, deprive, bare, uncover packaging. Antonyms: cover Usage: He proceeded to denude the statue, 57) PROLIFERATION (Noun) : fronting the church bishop’s podium. Meaning: rapid increase in the number or amount of something 53) ALLEVIATE(Verb) : Synonyms: generation, propagation Meaning: to make something less painful, Antonyms: reduction severe, or serious Example: The proliferation of technology over Synonyms: help, soothe the last 100 years has happened so quickly Antonyms: aggravate, exacerbate and caused many societal changes. Usage: If you want to alleviate the situation, start by apologizing for your mistake. 58) NONPAREIL (adjective) : Meaning: having no match or equal; 54) ONUS (Noun) : unrivaled. Meaning: Something that is one’s duty or Synonyms: incomparable, unrivalled, responsibility. unparalleled, unsurpassable. Synonyms: burden, responsibility, liability, Antonyms: common, normal, ordinary, obligation inferior.

Example: The champions deserved the title Meaning: the fact of two or more events or because they were nonpareil all season and circumstances happening or existing at the won every game. same time. Synonym:concordance, cooperation, 59) DECREE(Noun) : coincidence. Meaning: to declare formally and with Antonym: dissonance, discord. authority Usage: Because the events ran in Synonyms: directive, edict concurrence, the coordinator could not attend Antonyms: lawlessness both parties at the same time. Example: The president decreed that Halloween would henceforth be a national 64) Unprecedented (adjective) : holiday. Meaning: never done or known before. Synonym: unequaled, unmatched, 60) FRIVOLOUS (adjective) : unrivaled. Meaning: not having any serious purpose or Antonym: precedented, familiar, usual. value. Usage: The damage caused by the hurricane Synonyms: flippant, glib, waggish is unprecedented and has never been Antonyms: serious, practical, important experienced before in this country. Example: Isabelle was a frivolous little fool, vain and flighty. 65) SPATE (Noun) : 61) SCOFF (Verb) : Meaning: a large number of similar things or Meaning: speak to someone or about events appearing or occurring in quick something in a scornfully derisive or mocking succession. way. Synonyms: deluge, flood, flurry, outpouring, Synonyms: mock, deride, ridicule string, succession Antonyms: flatter, praise, compliment Antonyms: dribble, drip, trickle Usage: The rude rich boy thought it was fun Usage: A spate of words has been published to scoff at the poor people at his school. on this controversial topic.

62) PROFANE(adjective): 66) SALUBRIOUS(adjective): Meaning: vulgar and inappropriate Meaning: favorable to or promoting health or Synonyms: coarse, nasty well-being Antonyms: kind, polite Synonyms: medicinal, tonic Usage: They have profaned the long upheld Antonyms: unhealthy, insalubrious traditions of the Temple. Usage: Emergent public health and sanitary experts actively sought the most salubrious 63) CONCURRENCE (noun) : and efficient means of refuse disposal.

67) GRISLY (Adjective):

Meaning: causing horror or disgust. Usage: A half-mask is more practical, as you Synonyms: gruesome, ghastly, frightful, can eat, drink and kiss without encumbrance. horrid, Antonyms: pleasant, attractive 72) Disenchanted (Noun) : Usage: Many massacres in history fade while Meaning: disappointed by someone or some linger as grisly curiosities. something previously respected or admired; disillusioned. 68) ESOTERIC (Adjective): Synonym: disillusioned, disappointed Meaning: intended for or likely to be Antonym: Enchanted, encourage understood by only a small number of people Usage: only to be disenchanted with the Italy with specialized knowledge or interest. he had loved so intensely a year or two Synonyms: abstruse, obscure, arcane, before. Antonyms: simple, familiar Usage: he medical research was so esoteric 73) Blatant (Adjective) : that only a few physicians could actually Meaning: (of bad behavior) done openly and understand the results. unashamedly. Synonym: flagrant, glaring 69) SPLURGE (verb) : Antonym: inconspicuous, subtle Meaning: to spend extravagantly or Usage: The blatant defiance was so sweetly ostentatiously. uttered, he didn’t know how to respond. Synonyms: squander, fling, dissipate, disburse. 74) Genocide (Noun) : Antonyms: accumulate, hoard, conserve, Meaning: the deliberate killing of a large preserve. group of people, especially those of a Usage: I feel like splurging on a new dress. particular nation or ethnic group Synonym: racial killing, massacre 70) REFRACTORY (adjective) : Antonym: Peace, toleration Meaning: stubborn or unmanageable. Synonyms: recalcitrant, obstreperous, 75) Glossary (Noun) : insubordinate, intractable. Meaning: an alphabetical list of words Antonyms: obedient, manageable, relating to a specific subject, text, or dialect, amenable, compliant. with explanations; a brief dictionary. Usage: Most teenagers go through a Synonym: Dictionary, vocabulary refractory phase where they don’t want to Antonym: Roughness listen to authority figures. Usage: A small glossary of some of the more 71) Encumbrance (Noun) : common component words is appended Meaning: an impediment or burden. below. Synonym: hindrance, obstruction Antonym: help, asset 76) protagonists(noun) :

Meaning: the leading character or one of the 81) INTIMIDATE (verb): major characters in a play, film, novel, etc. Meaning: frighten or overawe (someone), Synonym: supporter, upholder especially in order to make them do what one Antonym: opponent wants. Usage: The most adamant opposition to my Synonyms: dishearten, dismay, terrify argument is likely to come from protagonists Antonyms: please, praise of secular reason. Usage: Her boss intimidates her

77) Flawed (adjective) : 82) EPHEMERAL (Adjective): Meaning: having or characterized by a Meaning: Lasting for a short time fundamental weakness or imperfection. Synonyms: Temporary, Short-lived, Synonym: unsound, defective transient. Antonym: sound Antonyms: long-lived, enduring, everlasting, Usage: I’m flawed, but I will do my best. eternal, perpetual. Usage: time is ephemeral so don’t waste it. 78) juvenile(adjective) : Meaning: for or relating to young people. 83) ARDENT (Adjective) : Synonym: young, teenage, Meaning: Characterized by strong Antonym: adult enthusiasm Usage: There is also an increase in juvenile Synonyms: Passionate, enthusiastic, zealous delinquency. Antonyms: apathetic, dull, calm. Usage: One should be an ardent supporter for 79) dilemma(noun) : the right cause. Meaning: a situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two or more 84) MANDATE (noun): alternatives, especially ones that are equally Meaning: an official order or commission to undesirable. do something. Synonym: quandary, predicament Synonyms: instruction, directive, direction, Antonym: benefit, a boon decree, command Usage: Prodding Martha to talk out her Antonyms: encourage dilemma helped Usage: They carried out the governor’s mandate to build more roads. 80) Droves(noun) : Meaning: a herd or flock of animals being 85) DISSIDENCE (Noun) : driven in a body. Meaning: disagreement over a matter Synonym: herd, flock, pack, fold Synonyms: contention, disagreement, Antonym: trickles discordance, disharmony, dispute Usage: He drove to their house in some Antonyms: agreement, approval, agitation. authorization, concurrence

Usage: So much is said nowadays about the Antonyms: bountiful, permissive, dissidence of the spiritual and intellectual thoughtful, lenient. worlds. Usage: As a result, the new parliament is distinctly more xenophobic and illiberal than 86) INCHOATE (adjective) : its predecessor. Meaning: just begun and so not fully formed or developed; rudimentary. 90) VEST (verb) : Synonyms: budding, inceptive, incipient, Meaning: confer or bestow (power, nascent. authority, property, etc.) on someone. Antonyms: developed, full-fledged, evolved, Synonyms: entrust, invest, bestow, confer. ripened. Antonyms: impede, inhibit, disqualify, Usage: Having just come into existence a few disbar. years ago, the new political party is Usage: Extensive powers were vested into the considered inchoate by many historians. hands of the President who headed the executive branch of government. 87) CONFLATE (verb) : 91) DENIZEN (noun) : Meaning: combine (two or more sets of Meaning: a person, animal, or plant that information, texts, ideas, etc.) into one. lives or is found in a particular place. Synonyms: amalgamate, converge, unify, Synonyms: inhabitant, occupant, resident, fuse. tenant. Antonyms: divide, part, separate, rupture. Antonyms: visitor, emigrant, evacuee, Usage: To conflate art and science, teachers expatriate. must design activities that blend the two. Usage: The author of Atlanta’s latest guidebook is a longtime denizen of the city 88) STRINGENT (adjective) : who knows all the best places to visit. Meaning: not allowing for any exceptions or loosening of standards 92) SPLURGE (verb) : Synonyms: brassbound, cast-iron, exacting, Meaning: to spend extravagantly or hard-line, inflexible, rigid, rigorous, ostentatiously. Antonyms: flexible, lax, loose, relaxed, slack Synonyms: squander, fling, dissipate, Usage: There are stringent rules against disburse. unauthorized persons being in our building Antonyms: accumulate, hoard, conserve, preserve. 89) XENOPHOBIC (adjective) : Usage: I feel like splurging on a new dress. Meaning: having or showing a dislike of or prejudice against people from other countries. 93) DETENTE (noun) : Synonyms: racist, racialist, ethnocentric, Meaning: the easing of hostility or strained ethnocentrist. relations, especially between countries.

Synonyms: agreement, peace, amity, concord. 98) DECRY (Verb) : Antonyms: disruptive, antagonism, Meaning: publicly denounce. antipathy, hostility. Synonyms: denounce, condemn, criticize, Usage: The policy of detente was scrapped censure, damn, attack and the objective was increasingly to roll back Antonyms: praise, overrate the Soviet Union. Example: He is impatient with those who decry the scheme. 94) SACK (verb) : Meaning: dismiss from employment. 99) VITRIOLIC (Adjective) : Synonyms: bounce, discharge, dismiss, Meaning: filled with bitter criticism or terminate, malice. Antonyms: recruit, employ, engage, hire. Synonyms: acrimonious, rancorous, bitter, Usage: They made him pay for his offence by caustic, mordant giving him the sack. Antonyms: pleasant, kind Example: The newspaper launched a vitriolic 95) DILATORY (adjective) : attack on the president. Meaning: slow to act Synonyms: sluggish, slothful, lax, slack. 100) BITTERSWEET(Adjective) : Antonyms: fast, prompt, brisk, quick. Meaning: tinged with a feeling of sadness Usage: They were dilatory in providing the Synonyms: tangerine researchers with information. Antonyms: happiness Example: The ending of the romance movie 96) TRIFLE (Noun) : was bittersweet. Meaning: a thing of little value or importance. Synonyms: bagatelle, inessential, nothing Antonyms: lot Example: We needn’t trouble the headmaster over such trifles.

97) POLEMICAL (Adjective): Meaning: of or involving strongly critical or disputatious writing or speech. Synonyms: critical, hostile, bitter, polemic, virulent Example: Unlike most academic philosophy much of it is personal, polemical, poetical or allusive.