Daily Current Affairs Shorts 11-March-2016

1.Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar today launched an interactive web portal of Kendriya Sainik Board Secretariat in New Delhi.

2.India’s largest private Sector Lender (ICICI) launched a credit-linked subsidy scheme for home loans under the ‘Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana'.

3.The Centre and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are organising a three-day conference on the theme of 'Advancing Asia: Investing for the Future' starting in New Delhi.

4.According to a top London-based forecast group, Mumbai and Bangalore are among the cheapest cities in the world .

5.The government appointed former Supreme Court judge Justice Balbir Singh Chauhan as chairman of the 21st Law Commission, a post lying vacant since last September last year.

6.Mexican Foreign Minister, Claudia Ruiz-Massieu Salinas is arriving in New Delhi on two-day visit.

7.Ridesharing services provider Uber has opened its first Asian engineering centre in Bengaluru.

8.The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) approved revised policy on gas production from deep water, ultra deep water and high pressure-high temperature (HPHT) areas .

9.NASA announced that it has moved back it’s next unmanned mission to Mars to 2018 , after a component of the Mars spacecraft was found to have a leak in its key science instrument.

10.The Union Cabinet approved the proposal of the Ministry of Home Affairs to amend the Sikh Gurdwaras Act, 1925 through the Parliament retrospectively with effect from 8 October 2013.

11.Tezpur University won the annual Visitor’s Award for the Best University. Rakesh Bhatnagar and the Molecular Parasitology Group of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) have also won the Visitor’s Awards for Research and Innovation respectively.

12.The “Queen” of Bollywood Kangana Ranaut was announced as the brand ambassador of Reebok India .

13.The NITI Aayog, celebrated as International Women’s Day, launched the Women Transforming India initiative in partnership with the UN in India and MyGov.

14.The cabinet approved the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwal Yojana– a scheme for providing LPG to households Below Poverty Line.

15.Haryana Government is going to organise a national level freestyle wrestling championship titled "Bharat Kesri Dangal" on 23rd of March at Tau Devi Lal Stadium in Gurgaon in the memory of martys Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru.

16.Hyundai Motor India Ltd (HMIL) has entered into a four-year partnership with the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) as an associate sponsor for all international matches at home.


17.Rest of India defeated Mumbai by 4 wickets to lift the Irani Cup Cricket Title.

18.Egyptian diplomat and former Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit was named as Secretary General of the Arab League .

19.India will launch 25 foreign satellites belonging to seven countries, with the USA topping the lis t in 2016-17.

20.The Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat, in association with the Karnataka Horticulture Department, will conduct a ‘honey festival’ in Mangaluru on March 12 and 13.

21.Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere grew more in past 12 months than at any time in the past 56 years.


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