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World Tuberculosis Day- 24 March
ii. The theme for World Tuberculosis Day 2017 is ‘Unite to End TB: Leave no one behind’. 2017 is the second year of a two-year “Unite to End TB” campaign for World TB Day.
ISRO commissions world’s third largest hypersonic wind tunnel
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ii. A wind tunnel is used to study the effects of air flowing past a solid object in ISRO’s case, space vehicles.
India Notifies Amended Tax Treaty with Singapore
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ii. India had amended the tax treaty with Singapore on December 30, 2016, under which for two years capital gains tax will be imposed at 50 percent of the prevailing domestic rate. Full rate will apply from April 1, 2019.
iii. The revision of tax treaty will help curb revenue loss, prevent double non-taxation and streamline the flow of investments adding that the amended tax treaty has been notified.
Assam govt, SBI sign MoU over housing, educational loan at subsidized interest rates
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ii. To provide housing loan at hugely subsidized interest rates of 5% for its women employees and 5.5 % for men, and education loan for higher education for their children at 4% interest rate. Both types of loans will be free of any collateral security and processing fee.
South Indian Bank introduces Aadhar-based payment app
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ii. Even non-customers of South Indian Bank can link any of their bank accounts in this mobile application.
iii. With the latest addition in SIB M-Pay, the fund transfers can be done by just entering the Aadhar number of the beneficiary. SIB M-Pay app is currently available in Android Playstore.
World Bank signs US$ 100 million credit agreement with Uttarakhand, Centre
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ii. The project aims to reduce the financial risk for its citizens and make affordable, quality health care available to all.
Airtel acquires Tikona’s 4G business for ₹1,600 crore
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ii. Bharti Airtel as India’s largest telecom company provides access to Tikona’s 4G airwaves in five circles are Gujarat, UP (East), UP (West), Himachal Pradesh, and Rajasthan.
BSE, NSE to launch F&O series in 15 companies
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ii. F&O are derivative securities derived from a debt instrument, share, loan, whether secured or unsecured or any other form of security. It also derives its value from the prices, or index of prices, of underlying securities.
Raghu Rai conferred with Lifetime Achievement award
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ii. Rai is also a Padma Shri awardee.
Yves Meyer wins the 2017 Abel Prize
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ii. He was awarded for his pivotal role in the development of the mathematical theory of wavelets. The theory of wavelets that he started and made fundamental contributions to finds wide-ranging applications from image processing to fluid dynamics.
8th Laadli Media Awards 2016
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ii. Anima Pookkunnyil, Assistant Editor with BusinessLine, and Shreya Ila Anasuya, a freelance journalist, were awarded this year for their critical gender-sensitive reportage.
iii. Ila Anasuya was awarded for her report on Suzette Jordan. Anima Pookkunnyi was awarded for her story about Kamlesh Kairi’s petition to the Supreme Court against the unjust laws.
RBI okays appointment of T S Anantharaman as part-time chairman
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ii. Anantharaman has been holding the position of Non-Executive Director of the bank since August 28, 2009.
iii. At present, he is an investment consultant and director of a number of other companies and institutions.
India ranks 87th on energy architecture performance: WEF
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ii. Switzerland topped the annual list released by Geneva- based World Economic Forum (WEF) and was followed by Norway, Sweden, Denmark and France in the top five. India’s rank improved three places from 90th last year.
Sarbananda Sonowal launches initiative to make Majuli carbon neutral
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ii. He launched the Sustainable Actions for Climate Resilient Development (SaCReD) Initiative would ensure that infrastructure in Majuli had less carbon.
Radha Mohan Singh launched Book titled ’50 Years – The Great Indian Milk Revolution’
Writer Ashokamitran passes away
ii. He was given the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1996 for his work Appavin Snegidhar, a collection of short stories.
Ankur Mittal wins gold in double trap at ISSF World Cup
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ii. The event was held in Acapulco, Mexico.
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