Daily Current Affairs Shorts 6-March-2016

1. President Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated a National conference on ‘Women Legislators: Building Resurgent India’ in New Delhi.

2. Justice Ajit Singh was sworn in as chief justice of the Guwahati High Court, the Oath of the Justice was administrated by Assam Governor Padmanaba Balakrishna Acharya.

3 .The International Energy Agency, a Paris based organization will enhance its ties with India in the fields of energy data and forecasting , a step towards raising engagement in technology research and policy making.

4. Indian men’s and women’s teams scripted history by clinching the gold medals at the World Table Tennis Team Championship in Kuala Lumpur . While Indian eves beat Luxemburg 3-1 in the event final of the Second Division, the Men overcame Brazil 3-2.

5. World largest E-commerce player Amazon has emerged as a most trusted online Brand in Indian market followed by India based Snapdeal and Flipkart.


6.Prof. Sirshendu De, Head of the Chemical Engineering department of the IIT, Kharagpur was selected for the Innovation Award 2016 given by the Indian Desalination Association (IDA), South Zone .

7. Sanjiv Kohli has been concurrently accredited as the next High Commisioner of India to the independent state of somoa with residence in wellington.

8. Paytm has tied up with Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) , Delhi Metro travellers will be able to recharge their metro cards via Paytm and DMRC website.

9. The Madras High Court has made it clear that the national anthem should be sung in all private schools in Tamil Nadu during the morning assembly .

10. Veteran Film Actor and Director Manoj Kumar has been selected for the prestigious 47th Dadasaheb Phalke Award for the year 2015.

11. United States Senator Ted Cruz has won the Kansas Republican caucuses in latest round of voting for the US Presidential nomination .

12. The Government has launched a River Information System (RIS) between Haldia and Farakka stretch of the National Waterway-1 (NW-1).



13. Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam, State Bank of India, Taiwan’s Sun Commercial Bank and South Korea’s Shinhan Bank were granted preliminary licenses, Myanmar’s Foreign Bank Licensing Committee.

14. BHEL has announced to commission a 700 MW Supercritical thermal unit at Bellary Thermal Power Project in Karnataka .

15 . The first Raisina-Dialogue 2016, a flagship conference on Geopolitics and Geo-economics began in New Delhi.


16.Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar the Union Textiles Minister today launched the first edition of the e-newsletter of the Ministry of Textiles .

17. Jalandhar based Capital Local Area Bank limited (CLABL) , is set to become country's first Small Finance Bank (SFB) by flagging-off its operations on April 13, 2016.

18. The Advertising Club Madras conferred its 1st Distinguished Service Award on Srinivasan K Swamy, Chairman and Managing Director, R K Swamy BBDO for his outstanding contribution to the advertising industry.

19.Malayalam actor Kalabhavan Mani passed away .


20.India beat Bangladesh by eight wickets in the Asia Cup T20 2016 final to lift the title for the record sixth time in Mirpur on Sunday.



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