Thursday, 16 March 2017

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.





7.ED Whitlock an England born canadian runner who became the first septuagenarian to run a marathon in under 3 hours passed away at the age of 72.

8.Bhubaneswar will host the Asian Atheletics championships in July after Ranchi pulled out of staging the continental event.Odisha Athletics Association president Jagmohan Patnaik said the state government had agree to sanction the required funds to host the event and the AFI had cleared the venue.

9.JET airways announced a strategic association with cab aggregator UBER to offer its passengers choice by facilitationg their travels to /from the Airport once they  have booked a ticket on the Jet Airways App.Passengers who book their tickets from the Jet airways app using Uber for the first time benefit from a discount of Rs 150 across their first 3 rides in using the Promo code JETUBER.



10.Digital wallets firm Paytm and Mobikwik are set to become Interoperable as RBI prepares to open up the UPI platform for them as part of Government's digitization campaign.RBI is expected to issue guidelines shortly on interoperability and KYC norms for Digital wallet companies.