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.

DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS-FEB27

1.According to New world Wealth,India's Financial capital Mumbai is the richest city in the country followed by Bengaluru and New Delhi.Mumbai is home to 46000 millionaires is the richest Indian city with a total wealth of $820 billion.The List also includes Hyderabad and Kolkata.

2.The world's first Robot table tennis tutor in Japan has set a new Guinness world records for its uncanny ability of being able to play the game better than most humans.FORPHEUS(Future Omron of Robotics Technology for Exploring Possibility of Harmonised Automation with Sinic Theoretics) has officially been given the guinness title for its unique technological Intelligence and Educational capabilities.

3.The Democratic National Committee elected former Labor Secretary Thomas Perez as its chair.Mr.Perez is Supported by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton defeated Keith Elison,who was supported by Senator Bernie Sanders.

4.BSNL is all set to sign a MoU with Nokia in the Areas of 5G and Internet of Things .The MoU is scheduled to be signed at Mobile World Congress,Barcelona.