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Current Affairs March 2017 Pdf CURRENT AFFAIRS MARCH 2017 PDF AWARDS AND HONOURS NAME OF THE AWARD AWARD WINNER KEY POINTS TO NOTE BCCI Lifetime Achievement The BCCI for the first time, has Award Ms. Shanta Rangaswamy introduced the Lifetime Achievement Award for Women 2017 Harvard Humanitarian of Rihanna She is a Singer the Year award Prestigious Polly Umrigar He is the first to receive the award Virat Kohli Award thrice Dilip Sardesai Award R Ashwin First time he received this award Jawaharlal Nehru University The annual Visitor’s Award for the Best University of 2017 (JNU) ‘Best University’, 2017. Most Popular Tourism At the Guangzhou International Sri Lanka Destination Award Travel Fair (GITF) in China. He is Eminent Malayalam author Moortidevi award M P Veerendra Kumar and journalist Best Actress Award at the Actress Aishwarya Rai International Film Festival and International Film Festival Bachchan Awards of Australia (IFFAA). Saraswati Samman 2016 Mahabaleshwar Sail For his novel Hawthan Honorary degree of Doctor of For his contribution in the field of Mohan Bhagwat Science veterinary sciencesand social work. Transgender beauty pageant Jiratchaya Sirimongkolnawin She belongs to Thailand Forbes magazine’s annual ranking world’s richest man Bill Gates of global billionaires. Reliance Industries Chairman India’s richest person According to the latest Forbes list. Mukesh Ambani world’s richest woman L’Oréal’s Liliane Bettencourt According to the latest Forbes list. KCK International Award for Pranab Mukherjee presented this Rajasthan Patrika excellence in print Journalism Award For part of the surgical strikes last Kirti Chakra Award Major Rohit Suri year 2017 Abel Prize Yves Meyer Mathematician Lifetime Achievement award Raghu Rai Photojournalist Kala Ratan Award Anupam Kher Awarded by Hamid Ansari 1 | Page www.DayTodayGK.com CURRENT AFFAIRS MARCH 2017 PDF Sikh Jewel Award Gurinder Chadha Indian-origin British director Padma Shri Award Virat Kohli Cricketer APPOINTMENTS NAME DEPT/FIELD Tourism Secretary N K Sinha India’s permanent representative to World Trade J.S. Deepak Organization (WTO) SEBI chief Ajay Tyagi Secretary-General of SAARC Amjad Hussain B Sial Chairman and Managing Director of state-run telecom major Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited P K Purwar (MTNL) Adviser to the Odisha Govt Dr K Srinath Redd U.S. ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman Chief Justice of the Kerala High Court Justice Navniti Prasad Chief Justice of the Chhattisgarh High Court Justice T B Radhakrishnan Chief Justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Court Justice Hemant Gupta Chief Justice of the Jharkhand Justice P K Mohanty leader of Congress legislature party of Manipur Okram Ibobi Punjab CM Amarinder Singh RBI deputy governor B P Kanungo Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment as Secretary, Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment Arun Kumar as Secretary, Ministry of Mines Directorate General of Supplies & Disposals (DGS&D),Ministry of Commerce & Industry, as Director General, Directorate General of Supplies & Binoy Kumar Disposals (DGS&D), Ministry of Commerce & Industry Special Secretary, Ministry of Mines, as Member (Finance), Space Commission R. Sridharan 2 | Page www.DayTodayGK.com CURRENT AFFAIRS MARCH 2017 PDF Additional Secretary of Ministry of Agriculture, Cooperation & Farmers Welfare as Director General, Raghvendra Singh National Archives of India, Ministry of Culture Ambassador of women’s World Cup 2017 Sachin Tendulkar Manipur Chief Minister Biren Singh Goa chief minister Manohar Parrikar Additional charge of Defence Ministry Arun Jaitley Chairman of HSBC Holdings Plc Mark Tucker Vice-president of FIFA U-17 World Cup Babul Supriyo Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath Dinesh Sharma Deputy Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Keshav Prasad Mauryay Full Time Interim Director General of ISA Upendra Tripathy SEBI whole time member Madhabi Puri Buch Part Time Chair Man of RBI T S Anantharaman Director of AIIMS, New Delhi Randeep Guleria First woman CEO of Pakistani bank Sima Kamil CEO of ‘The Leadership Conference on Civil and Vanita Gupta Human Rights’ Chairman of Central Board of Excise and Customs Vanaja N. Sarna Vice Chancellor of Nalanda University Sunaina Singh INDIAN AFFAIRS Govt to allow online filing of officers’ performance reports The Centre has decided to amend rules to allow online filing of performance reports of IAS and IPS officers. The move will help in checking delayed submission of the confidential reports and claims of bias in giving low ratings to an officer that affect his or her career growth. “Performance Appraisal Report shall be generated and written by the officer reported upon electronically as prescribed by the central government. 29th International Yoga Festival begins in Rishikesh Uttarakhand Governor K K Paul has inaugurated the 29th edition of the InternationaI Yoga Festival at Rishikesh, and said the event was growing in stature and helping the state become a sought-after destination for spiritual tourism. The week-long event, jointly organised by the 3 | Page www.DayTodayGK.com CURRENT AFFAIRS MARCH 2017 PDF AYUSH ministry, Uttarakhand Tourism Development Board, Parmarth Niketan and Garhwal Mandal Vikas Nigam, was inaugurated at Parmarth Niketan along the banks of the Ganges River. Govt launches nationwide ‘Swachh Shakti Saptah’ in Sikkim The Rural Management and Development Department (RM&DD) has started a week-long campaign titled “Swachh Shakti Saptah” to emphasize on active involvement of women in the Swachh Bharat Mission. The campaign was also launched and will conclude on March eight. The Department has lined up various events leading up to March eight which is the International Women’s Day, said the Secretary RM&DD, D R Nepal while addressing a press conference. BEML launches solar rooftop project in Karnataka BEML Ltd, a defence public sector company, has set itself a goal utilising 100 percent renewable energy for its consumption. In this endeavour, the company has inaugurated a 200 KW grid connected rooftop solar project at its Mysore complex. The project was inaugurated by Deepak Kumar Hota, Chairman & Managing Director, BEML, in the presence of B R Viswanatha, Director-Mining & Construction, BEML. Railways to soon start Aadhaar-based online ticketing system The railways will soon move towards Aadhaar-based online ticketing system to prevent touts from blocking a bulk of tickets, end fraudulent bookings and curb cases of impersonation. Aadhaar number has been made mandatory for senior citizens+ to avail concessions in train tickets from April 1. A three-month trial run for this is going on. An integrated ticketing app will also be launched by May to promote cashless transaction. Yatra.com signs pact with MP govt to promote homestays Online travel company Yatra.com has said it has signed an agreement with Madhya Pradesh government to jointly promote homestays in the state. Under the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), Yatra will promote all the state tourism approved homestays, where travellers can book a room with a local family or the entire house. Aashray inks MoU with Jharkhand, to set up incubation centre for start-ups Gujarat based Incube Ventures Pvt Ltd, under the banner of Aashray Promotion of Social Enterprises Foundation, a techno social business incubator announced the signing of an MoU with the Jharkhand government’s Department of Information Technology and e-Governance (DoIT) to establish an incubation center for start-ups in that state. DRDO inks deal with Jindal Steel to manufacturing high nitrogen steel The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Jindal Stainless (Hisar) Limited (JSHL) have inked a licence deal for manufacturing High Nitrogen Steel for armour 4 | Page www.DayTodayGK.com CURRENT AFFAIRS MARCH 2017 PDF applications. The agreement was signed in the presence of Minister of State for Defence Subhash Bhamre and DRDO Chairman S. Christopher. Dharamshala approved as Himachal Pradesh’s 2nd capital Himachal Pradesh chief minister Virbhadra Singh has announced Dharamsala as the second capital of the tiny hill state with a population of about 70 lakh. Dharamsala already figured prominently in national and international map due to its significance owing to many reasons including religious, natural and adventurous tourism and also being abode of Tibetan Spiritual head Dalai Lama. Delhi govt ties up with private hospitals for free surgeries The AAP government has tied with 41 private hospitals in Delhi to facilitate 30 surgeries free of charge for patients referred by government hospitals in the Capital. It will reimburse these National Accreditation Board for Hospitals and Healthcare Providers-accredited hospitals at Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS) rates for the complete treatment. India to participate in meets on Indus Water Treaty in Lahore India has accepted an invitation to attend a meeting of the Permanent Indus Commission (PIC) to be held in Lahore in March to talk with Pakistan on the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT). The move came after two months of diplomatic negotiations, with World Bank officials playing the mediator in encouraging Pakistan to extend an invitation and for India to accept it. Indus Waters Treaty: The Indus Waters Treaty is a water-distribution treaty between India and Pakistan, brokered by the World Bank (then the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development). The treaty was signed in Karachi on September 19, 1960 by Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru and President of Pakistan Ayub Khan.
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