DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS-MARCH26TH

1.Pakistan has agreed to  allow former Army chief Gen.Raheel Shareef to Saudi Arabia led 39 national Islamic country coalition formed to combat terrorism.

2.State bank of India has decided to dilute 10% of its stake in its Life insurance venture SBI life through Initial public offer.SBI life is a joint venture between State Bank of India and BNP Paribas cardiff of France.In this Venture,SBI's share is 74% and BNP Paribas share is 26%.In the last year SBI has diluted its 3.9% stake to KKR holdings and Singapore based Temasek Holdings.

3.Policy making body for Indirect taxes, Central Board of Exchange and Customs(CBEC) will be rechristened as Central Board of Indirect Taxes and  Customs(CBIC) in the run up of the GST regime to be rolled out from July 1st.

4.Mangaluru based Karnataka bank has introduced a card product Moneyplant Tm Rupay International platinum debit card as part of its efforts to provide more  privileges to its premium customers.The card could be used for both domestic as well as International cash withdrawls.

IMPORTANT NATIONAL PARKS AND WILD LIFE SANCTUARIES-1

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NATIONAL PARK(WILD LIFE SANCTUARIES)	STATE
Kaziranga wild life sanctuary	Assam
Manas wild life sanctuary	Assam
Hoollongapur Gibbon WLS	Assam
Nameri WLS	Assam
Sonai Rupai WLS	Assam
Dibrusaikhowa WLS	Assam
Namdapha National park	Arunachal Pradesh
Mouling National Park	Arunachal Pradesh
Rajeev Gandhi National Park	Andhra Pradesh
Nelapattu WLS	Andhra Pradesh
Rollapadu WLS	Andhra Pradesh
Sri Venkateswara National Park	Andhra Pradesh
Kolleru WLS	Andhra Pradesh
Coringa WLS	Andhra Pradesh
Pulicat lake WLS	Andhra Pradesh
Valmiki National Park	Bihar
Khanger Ghati National  Park	Chattisgarh
Achanakamar National Park	Chattisgarh
Indravati National Park	Chattisgarh
Mollem(Bhagawan Mahaveer)WLS	Goa
Netravali WLS	Goa
Cottigao WLS	Goa
Bondla WLS	Goa
Black Buck WLS	Gujarat
Girr WLS	Gujarat
Wild Ass WLS	Gujarat
Thol WLS	Gujarat
Porbandar WLS	Gujarat
Bansda National Park	Gujarat
Great Himalayan National Park	Himachal Pradesh
Pin Valley National Park	Himachal Pradesh
Dachigam National Park	Jammu and Kashmir
Salim Ali National Park	Jammu and Kashmir
Hemis National Park	Jammu and Kashmir
Kishtwar National Park	Jammu and Kashmir
Eravikulam National Park	Kerala
Periyar National Park	Kerala
PArambikulam National Park	Kerala
Silent Valley National Park	Kerala
Mathikettan Shola National Park	Kerala
Chinnar WLS	Kerala
Neyyar WLS	Kerala
Idukki WLS	Kerala
Betla national Park	Jharkhand
HAzaribagh National Park	Jharkhand
Bandipur WLS	Karnataka
Bhadra National Park	Karnataka
Bannerghatta National Park	Karnataka
Ranganathittu National park	Karnataka
Nagarhole National Park	Karnataka
Dandeli National Park	Karnataka
Kudermukh National Park	Karnataka
Anshi National Park	Karnataka
Kanha National Park	Madhya Pradesh
Panna National Park	Madhya Pradesh
Pench National Park	Madhya Pradesh
Satpura National Park	Madhya Pradesh
Van Vihar National park	Madhya Pradesh
Kuno WLS	Madhya Pradesh

DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS-MARCH24TH

1.Bharati Airtel has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Tikona Digital netwroks 4G business for 1600 crore,including spectrum and 350 sites in five telecom circles.With this acquisition Bharati Airtel will have spectrum in 2300 mhz bad in all circles.

2.National Company Law Tribunal(NCLT) approved the metals and mining firm Vedanta's Merger with its cash rich oil subsidiary Cairn India,paving the way for the world's 4th largest resource company after BHP billition,Rio tinto and Glencore plc.

3.Competition Commission of India has approved a 11000 crore proposed transaction involving the sale of the tower division of Reliance Infratel limited,a subsidiary of Reliance communications to Brookfield Infrastructure group.

4.Chennai based Repco Finance ltd has signed with National Housing bank for implementation of Credit linked subsidy scheme for middle income group.The scheme will be implemented for a period of 1 year from January 2017 in all towns under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana(PMAY).

WHO IS THE NEW CMD OF IDBI BANK?

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Allahabad bank	Rakesh Sethi
Andhra bank	Suresh N Patel
Bank of Baroda	PS jayakumar
Bank of India	Melwyn Oswald
Bank of Maharashtra	Ravindra P Marathe
Canara Bank	Rakesh Sharma
Central Bank of India	Rajeev Rishi
Corporation bank	Jaya kumar Garg
Dena Bank	Aswhini Kumar
Indian Bank	Kishore Piraji Karat
Oriental Bank of Commerce	Animesh Chauhan
Punjab and Sindh Bank	Jatinder bir singh
Punjab National Bank	Usha Ananthasubramaniam
Syndicate bank	Arun Shrivastava
UCO bank	Ravi Krishna takkar
Union Bank of India	Arun Tiwari
United bank of India	Pawan kumar Bajaj
IDBI bank	MK Jain
Vijaya bank	Kishore kumar Sansi
State bank of India	Arundhati Bhattaharya

DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS-MARCH 15TH

1.BJP leader Manohar Pariker was sworn in as the new Chief minister of Goa state.Governor Mridhula Sinha asked the new chief minister to prove his majority by March 19 after Hung took place in the state.

2.Lok sabha passed Enemy property bill 2016,This law amends Enemy property act 1968,The law states that the heirs of those who migrated to Pakistan and China during partition will have no claim over the properties that are left behind in India.

3.After Manohar parikar took oath as the Chief minister of Goa,Finance minister Arun Jaitley took additional charge as the Defence minister for the 2nd time in 3 years.Mr.Jaitley was the defence minister when BJP won loksabha elections in the year 2014.

4.Trier,a city in Germany, the birth place of Karl Marx will soon gets a 20 foot tall bronze statue.The statue will be gifted by China on the occasion to mark the 200th birth anniversary of Karl Marx.

5.TATA sons has appointed Investment banker Ankur Verma to the TATA sons group.He previously worked with Bank of America Merill Lynch.He would be closely working with N.Chandrasekharan.

6.Singapore Airlines and its subsidiary Silk Air have signed an agreement to code share on Indian domestic flights operated by Vistara.Vistara is a joint venture between Tata sons and Singapore Airlines.

DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS-MARCH 6TH

1.Andhra Pradesh Tourism Authority has partnered with United Nations World Tourism Organisation to promote sustainable tourism across the state.United Nations has declared 2017 as the International year of Tourism and Development.This is the first time in India that a state government ties up with world body.

2.The centre is likely to increase the Dearness allowance by 2% to 4% for its about 50 lakh employees and 58 lakh pensioners.

3.INS viraat,India's oldest aircraft carrier of the Indian Navy gets a ceremonial farewell in Mumbai.INS viraat,weighing 27,800 tonnes is considered to be the world's oldest aircraft.It was commissioned in the year 1953.

4.American Sam Querrey wins ATP Mexico Open by defeating spain's Rafeal Nadal in the final held in Agapulco

5.GST council has scrapped the proposed Tax collected at Source (TCS) on e-commerce companies.The GST council has decided that the proposed TCS would be capped at 1%.The GST council has approved the Central GST and Interstate GST laws on Saturday thus paving the way for smooth roll out of GST from July 1st.

DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS MARCH 4TH AND 5TH

1.The Indian Navy will set up Meteorological facilities and impart training to the Myanmar Navy.This was agreed upon during a recent visit of a Myanmar Delegation to Kochi.

2.The West Bengal Assembly passed West bengal Clinical establishments(Registration,regulation and Transperancy bill, aimed at overhauling private health care and taking stringent measures against health institutions indulging in Medical negligence and corrupt practices.

3.Former MP and diplomat Syed Shahabuddin died in a private hospital in Noida.He had served as Ambassador to Algeria and Mauritiana.

4.Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir have agreed to start the work on Shahpur Kandi Dam across the Ravi river.The Project has been stalled by the Jammu and Kashmir government due to no agreement was made with the punjab government on sharing of water and power from the project.

5.The GST council gave its formal approval to the Central GST and Inter-State GST laws,thus getting ready for the July 1st deadline.Revenue secretary Hasmukh Adia stated that SGST will apply to all states and Union territories with Legislatures,but will not apply to Union territories that does not have legislature.The government also prepares UTGST law for Union territories.

DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS-MARCH 3RD

1.State bank of India will charge customers for not maintaining minimum balance from April 1st.SBI mandates maintenance of Rs 5000 for accounts in metropolitan Areas,Rs 3000 in urban areas Rs 2000 in semi urban areas and 1000 in rural areas.The charges will be levied on the difference between the Minimum balance required and the shortfall.

2.State Run Gas company GAIL has signed a time swap deal with Swiss trader Gunvor to sell some of its U.S Liquefied Natural Gas(LNG) as the Indian firm tries to ease the burden of its costly foreign LNG supplies.

3.India has accepted an invitation to attend the next meeting of the Permanent Indus Commission(PIC) to be held in Lahore.

4.Pakistan has appointed Amjad Hussein B sial, a veteran diplomat as the new secretary of South Association for Regional Cooperation(SAARC)

BOOKS AND AUTHORS IN NEWS

1. Book on Apj Abdul Kalam titled The people's president:Dr.Abdul Kalam-SM Khan
2. The untold vajpayee: Politician and Paradox-Ulekh NP
3. Bose an Indian Samurai: Netaji and The INA:A Military Assessment-GD Bakshi
4. Wrestler and Coach Mahaveer Singh Phogat's Autobigraphy Akhada is written by Saurabh Duggal
5. Cyber Pathashala:Tarun Vijay
6. RTI act-Authentic interpretation of Statute-Sailesh Gandhi
7. The Golden House-Salman Rushdie.
8. Emotional Ode to Kiran bedi-Challa Mahavir Abhishek
9. A medal for Kashmir,Jewish heritage in India-TV Parasurama Prasad
10. Verappan-chasing the Brigand-Vijay Kumar.

DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS-MARCH 2ND

1.Some private banks have decided to levy a certain amount on customers,who do cash transactions beyond a specified limit or beyond number of free transactions.The move is taken by banks to encourage digital transactions in the country and to create less cash economy.HDFC bank has begun charging a minimum amount of Rs 150/Transaction for cash deposits and withdrawls beyond 4 free transactions in a month.The new Charges would apply to both savings as well as salary accounts.The bank would also cap the 3rd Party transactions at 25000 per day,while cash handling charges would be with drawn.The charges are limited to cash transactions at a branch and not through ATMs.

2.Online travel portal Yatra announced that they have signed up Madhya Pradesh government to jointly promote home stays in the region.

3.Finnish telecom equipment Nokia and telecom service provider Bharati Airtel announced a creation of a strategic road map for network evolution to the 5G technology,Standard Internet of things enabled devices.The 5G technology promises to enable Dramatic improvements in Peak data speeds,network latency and Agility as well as the ability to enable new capabilities such as network sharing.

4.The first southern social science congress on Social Science:New Paradigms towards sustainable and prospective future will be held from March 2013 to 25 in Hyderabad.

5.The Defence Research Organisation(DRDO) successfully carried out a test of an interceptor missile,further validating the reliability if the under development,2 layered Ballistic Missile Defence(BMD) in shooting down enemies.The missile which can intercept Missiles at ranges of 15-30 km.

DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS -MAR1ST

1.The government has notified a new law that makes holding of more than 10 scrapped notes punishable with a fine of upto 10000.With the new law coming into force,possession of more than 10 pieces of the old notes by individuals and more than 25 pieces for study research purpose will be a criminal offence,attracting fine of Rs 10000 and 5 times the cash held,whichever is higher.

2.Non life insurer Reliance General insurance part of Reliance capital ltd has signed a Bancassurance deal with Kerala based Catholic Syrian bank.The company plans to boost its top line by upto 15% through these tie ups and Alliances with sharp focus on selling Retail products.

3.Soma Mandal has taken charge as Director(commercial) of Steel Authority of India thus becoming the first ever woman funtional director in the board of SAIL.Prior to this,she was the director(commercial) of NALCO,Bhubaneswar.

4.Amazon has launched Rekindle, an Initiative to encourage women on a professional break to resume their corporate careers.As part of this initiative the company will provide structured on boarding focussed monitoring,flexible work options and on the job learning to the candidate.

5.As part of government initiatives to achieve better ranking in world bank's Ease of doing business,government intends to decrease the no.of days required for an entity to start operations in the country.By march end,an entity will be able to start a business in India in 6 days,compared to the current 26 days.The number of procedures will also be halved from the current 12 to 6.

6.The Organisation for Economic cooperation and Development(OECD) cut its growth projection for India in 2016-17 to 7% from 7.4% it had projected last year.The organization in its Economic Survey of India 2017 report forecast a growth rate of 7.3% for 2017-18 and 7.7% for 2018-19.

7.India Army and Royal Army of Oman are scheduled to conduct their second bilateral exercise,Al NAgah-II in March with a focus on counter terrorism.The Army said the exercise would be held in Dauladhar Ranges At Bakloh in Himachal Pradesh from March 6 to 19.

DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS -FEB28TH

1.Thiruvananthapuram tops annual city governance ranking,According to Annual survey of India's city Systems(ASICS).The better a city scores in the survey the more likely it is that it will be able to deliver to better quality of services to its citizens.Pune occupies 2nd and Kolkata occupies 3rd.

2.Andhra Pradesh government has appointed Ajay Kellam as chief secretary.Mr.Ajay Kellam,However will retire on March 31 on attaining super Annuation.Dinesh The government has also issued orders appointing Dinesh Kumar,1983 IAS officer as chief secretary of the state from April 1st.

3.Paytm E-commerce announced the introduction of its New mall application on Android.Paytm Mall aims to offer a combination of Mall and Bazar concepts to Indian consumers.All products listed on a Mall will also go through Paytm certified ware house.

4.Union civil aviation minister P.Ashok Gajapati raju inaugurated India's first Dedicated airport Heliport built at a cost of 100 crore in New Delhi.The Heliport is the first such facility in South Asia.

5.The appointment committee of the cabinet has appointed Sanjiv Singh as the Chairman of Indian Oil corporation for a period of 5 years.

6.Former Union minister from Andhra Pradesh P.Siva Shankar passed away at the age of 89.

7.Indian test captain Virat Kohli has been named Captain of the year at the 10th Annual ESPN cric info Awards.England batsman Ben stokes named Test batting performance of the year and Stuart Broad was named Test bowling performance of the year.

8.Ranjhi trophy titans Rajinder Goel and Padmakar shivalkar have been nominated for the col.C.K.Nayudu Life time achievement award for the year 2016.The BCCI also introduced the life time achievement for women with former captain Shanta Rangaswamy  to be its first receipient.