Tamil Nadu:
1. Animal Welfare
Board of India (AWBI)’s head quarter is shifted from Chennai, Tamil Nadu to
Ballabhgarh in Faridabad District of Haryana. This decision was taken after
consultation with AWBI for better coordination between the Environment Ministry
and AWBI for carrying out the animal welfare activities. Initially it was
within jurisdiction of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture. Later in 1990, the
subject of Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was transferred to Environment
Ministry.
National:
1. India’s
first helicopter shuttle service (HeliTaxi) was launched in IT capital
Bengaluru, Karnataka. The trail trip of helitaxi was between Electronic
City and Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru. It was provided by
Thumby Aviation. Bengaluru has poor road density (measure of road length per
square km area of land) as compared to other Indian cities. So such service was
needed much more than other cities to ferry air passengers to and from the city.
2. On March 6,2018,
the Centre told the Supreme Court that the selection committee for
appointing a Lokpal has decided to first fill up the vacancy of an eminent
jurist in the panel, which also includes the Prime Minister. Senior
advocate P P Rao was appointed as an eminent jurist in the panel but the post
became vacant after he passed away last year.
3. Sukhad Yatra mobile
application and 1033 Toll-free Emergency number for highway users has been
launched by Ministry of Road Transport & Highways (MoRTH). It also provides
users with real-time data related to waiting time expected at plazas and
various facilities like points of interest, highway nest and nest mini, etc.
available across highway. It also launched scheme for District Driving Training
Centres. Under it, at least one model driving training centre will be set up in
each district of States/UTs. MoRTH will provide financial assistance of up to
Rs. 1 crore for these centres. The financial assistance will be provided for
administering Road Safety Advocacy and awards for outstanding done in field of
Road Safety.
4. The Supreme Court
directed the CBSE not to make Aadhaar number mandatory for enrolment of
students appearing in NEET 2018 and other all India exams. A five-judge
Constitution bench headed by Chief justice Dipak Misra directed the CBSE to
upload the information on their website.
5. The Pension Fund
Regulatory Development Authority (PFRDA) has relaxed the norms for partial
withdrawal under the National Pension Scheme (NPS). The subscriber need
to be subscribed to NPS for a period of three years from the date of joining to
be eligible to make partial withdrawals, under specific circumstances as
specified in such regulations.
6. The
Railway Board has instructed zonal railways to link the arrival and departure
of trains with data loggers from January 1, 2018 and report authentic
punctuality status across 41 major stations.
7. Vision
for Future' event organised by the Ministry of External Affairs
(Eurasia Division) and the International Federation of Indo-Russian Youth Clubs was
held in New Delhi on March 6, 2018 to commemorate 70 years of the Indo-Russia
ties.
8. #YesIBleed
menstrual hygiene campaign on the occasion of International Women’s Day 2018
has launched by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. It has been
initiated formally across all multi-media platforms, including Facebook and
YouTube to spread awareness about issue. It is second edition of such campaign
that aims to create holistic approach to issue of menstruation, which is
experience that transcends culture, class, and caste. The National Commission
of Women (NCW) has extended full support to Shewings in endevour to spread awareness
about the core issue of every woman’s concern.
9. Liquid Natural Gas
(LNG) has been imported from United States for the first time by India. The development
comes on the heels of India’s first import of crude oil from the US in October
2017.
10. 46th edition of
Know India Programme (KIP) was attended by 40 participants of Indian Origin
from 9 countries in Madhya Pradesh. KIP is initiative (scheme) of Ministry of External Affairs for
Persons of Indian Origin (PIO) between the age group of 18 to 30 years. The
scheme was launched in 2004. As part of the initiative participants visited
Madhya Pradesh, Parliament House, President’s House and attended orientation
programme at the Foreign Service Institute.
11. 49 lakh LED street
lights were installed in 28 states/UTs by the Energy Efficiency Services
Limited (EESL) under the Street Lighting National Programme (SLNP). It is world’s
Largest Street Light Replacement Programme. Rajasthan was the first state to
adopt this scheme. This Programme was launched in Jan 2015 by PM Modi with an
aim to replace 1.34 crore conventional street lights with energy efficient LED
lights by March, 2019.
12. The Ministry of
Human Resource Development has sanctioned Rs. 1000 crore for phase II of
Impacting Research Innovation and Technology (IMPRINT) India programme to boost
research and innovation in the country. IMPRINT India Programme is joint
initiative of Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and Indian Institute of
Science (IISc). It seeks to develop road map for research to solve major
engineering and technology challenges in 10 technology domains relevant for
country.
13. The Union Ministry
of Commerce and Industry has released draft Indian National Strategy for
Standardisation for standardisation of products and services to provide
level playing field to domestic industry and adopt best global practices.
1. World Trade
Organization (WTO) has decided to set up panel to examine whether India has
complied with its 2016 ruling in case against US regarding domestic content
requirements (DCR) rules for solar cells and modules. In 2013, US had
filed complaint before WTO, arguing that domestic content requirement imposed
under India’s ambitious Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (NSM) violates
global trading rules by unfavorably discriminating against imported solar cells
and modules..
2. Iraq has overtaken
Saudi Arabia to become India’s top crude oil supplier by supplying
38.9 million tonnes (MT) crude oil in the current financial year.
3. North and South
Korea will hold their first summit in more than a decade in late April, 2018. This
announcement was made by South Korea’s presidential office on March 6, 2018
after its senior delegation returned from its two-day visit to the North where
they met leader Kim Jong Un.
4. The wreck of a US
aircraft carrier that sunk during World War Two has been found off the coast of
Australia. The United States navy stated that the ship - Lexington -
along with 11 of its 35 aircrafts was discovered by a search team led by
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen on March 4, 2018.Some of the ship's aircrafts
are reported to be in a remarkably good condition.
5. Philanthropist
Michael Bloomberg( Ambassador for WHO) announced to spend USD 20 million US
dollars to launch an anti-tobacco watchdog to detect and expose deceptive
practices by the tobacco industry
Science & Technology/Defence :
1. Silver copper
telluride (AgCuTe), a novel compound that exhibits poor thermal conductivity
but shows good electrical conductivity was developed by researchers from Jawaharlal Nehru Centre
for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bengaluru.
2. A new malware
called Saposhi was detected by Cybersecurity agencies that can take
over electronic devices and use them for Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)
attacks. In DDoS attacks, malware first creates network of bots — called botnet
and then uses botnet to ping single server beyond its capacity at same time. As
number of pings are far beyond server’s capacity, server crashes and denies
service to its consumers. Malwares like Saposhi, Reaper and Mirai are primarily
are used for DDoS attacks.
3. M777 ultra-light
howitzers (ULH) has been test fired by the joint investigation committee (JIC)
comprising US and Indian officials at Pokhran firing range in Rajasthan. The team will
review results of this test soon.. The test was conducted in the wake of
accident during its trial in September 2017. As part of deal, two M777 ULHs
were brought to India May 2017 for field firing with Indian ammunition to
compile firing tables that provide data such as range and elevation. But during
September 2017 trial firing, the projectile had bursted in barrel of howitzers.
After accident, two sides had formed joint team to examine issue.
Economy/Banking:
1. The Union
Government has set up 8 member steering committee headed by Economic Affairs
Secretary Subhash Chandra Garg to look into the development and
regulation of the financial technology (fintech) sector in India. It will look into
issues to make fintech-related regulations more flexible and generate enhanced
entrepreneurship in area where India has distinctive comparative strengths
vis-à-vis other emerging economies.
2. India’s candidature
to international financial institution has been approved by the shareholders of
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) With this, India
will become the 69th member of EBRD. EBRD is a multilateral developmental
investment bank headquartered in London, United Kingdom
Appointments/Resignations:
1. Senior
Indian-origin Scotland Yard officer Neil Basu became first person of Asian
heritage to be appointed as Counterterrorism Chief. He will take
charge as Scotland Yard’s National Lead for Counter Terrorism (CT) and Head of
Met Police’s Specialist Operations.
2. Biplab Kumar Deb
will be sworn in as the new Chief Minister of Tripura and Jishnu
Debbarman will be the Deputy Chief Minister. The oath-taking ceremony will be
held on March 9. BJP won over CPM (Communist Party of India – Marxist). CPM had
been ruling Tripura for 25 years.
3. Conrad Sangma took
charge as Chief Minister of Meghalaya. 12th chief minister of Meghalaya in
Shillong. He is the President of National People’s
Party (NPP). The oath was administered by Meghalaya Governor Ganga Prasad.
11 Cabinet Ministers also took oath during the ceremony.
4. Ryoko Azuma was
appointed as the commander of a unit that consists of Japan’s biggest warship. With this, She
became Japan’s first female chief of warship unit
5. SBI Life Insurance
Company Ltd announced that, P K Gupta has been named the nominee
director on SBI Life Board by SBI.
Sports:
1. India’s Manu Bhaker
has won gold medal in the women’s 10m air pistol by defeating Mexico’s Alejandra
Zavala in the ISSF World Cup in Guadalajara, Mexico.and Ravi Kumar
has won bronze medal in the men’s 10m air pistol This is Ravi
Kumar’s first World Cup medal.
Deaths:
1. Veteran Bollywood
actor Shammi (89) passed away on March 6, 2018 following prolonged illness. Shammi was also
well-known for her comic roles in television shows such as Dekh Bhai Dekh,
Zabaan Sambhal Ke, Shriman Shrimati and Filmi Chakkar.
2. Justice D Sreedevi,
former judge of the Kerala high court, died on 5th March,2018 while she was
undergoing treatment for some ailment in Kaloor, Kerala.
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