Prepared by D.Sarala, Viluppuram
1. India’s largest power generator NTPC Ltd has
commissioned another 45 Megwatt (MW) capacity solar power plant at
Bhadla in Rajasthan. With this, the company’s total installed capacity has
become 48,188 MW. Its first wind power project Rojmal wind energy
project 50 MW is being set up in Gujarat.
2. For the first time in India, four states Odisha, West
Bengal, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand have decided to conduct a
synchronised Elephant census in May 2017. These four together
have the maximum number of human-elephant conflict-prone regions in India. As
per the 2015 census, Odisha has 1,954 elephants while Jharkhand has 700,
Chhattisgarh and West Bengal had approximately 275 and 130 elephants,
respectively. These states will conduct the census based on an identical set of
rules using the direct and indirect counting methods The direct counting method
is based on sighting of elephants while the indirect method uses the elephant
‘dung decay’ formula, in which the analysis of dung is used to estimate the
population. The indirect method has already been used by Karnataka and Tamil
Nadu. Direct method can be used alone because it is not possible to cover
entire area during the census
3. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will soon issue new
Rs 10 currency notes with enhanced security features. The new notes
will be in the Mahatma Gandhi Series-2005 with inset letter ‘L’ in both the
number panels. It will bear the signature of Dr. Urjit R. Patel and the year of
printing ‘2017’. The numerals in both the number panels of these banknotes will
be in the ascending size from left to right and the first three alpha-numeric
characters (prefix) will remain constant in size. RBI also announced that, all
the Banknotes in the denomination of Rs10 issued in the past will continue to
be legal tender.
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4. Great Barrier Reef in Australia’s eastern coast is experiencing an
unprecedented second straight year of mass coral bleaching. This is
for the first time Great Barrier Reef has bleached two years in sequence. Coral
Bleaching occurs when abnormal environmental conditions, such as warmer sea
temperatures, cause corals to expel tiny photosynthetic algae, draining them of
their colour. It is the biggest coral reef system in the world composed of over
2,900 individual reefs. It was recorded as a World Heritage site in 1981
5. The German Development Bank (KFW) and Energy Efficiency Services
Limited (EESL) has signed a loan agreement for €200 million to enhance
energy efficiency in India.
6. Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Madras has won the 2017 IEEE Spectrum
Technology in the Service of Society Award for its solar-direct
current (DC) inverter system. The system was developed by Centre for
Decentralised Power Systems at IIT-M using micro grid technology.
7. Himachal Pradesh Government launched mobile App and website Mera
Hunar HP for job-seekers. It is first of its kind app and website in
the country. Mera Hunar is a web based platform where the skilled, semi-skilled
persons can apply for various jobs as per their convenience. The platform is
available both in English and Hindi.
8. Scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have found India’s first lunar
probe,Chandrayaan-1 which was considered lost, is still orbiting
the moon. They also have found NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). The
ISRO lost communication with Chandrayaan-1 on August 29, 2009, almost a year
after it was launched on October 22, 2008. The unmanned spacecraft is still
circling some 200 km in the polar orbit around the moon.
9. Iran successfully
tested a ballistic missile Hormuz 2. Hormuz-2 is a naval strike
ballistic missile intended to hit moving targets at sea with high precision. It
has a range of nearly 300 kilometers. It is similar in appearance to the
anti-ship Khalij-e-Fars (Persian Gulf) ballistic missile. Earlier, Iran
successfully tested the S-300 surface-to-air missile defence system purchased
from Russia.
10. Pakistan
National Assembly has passed the Hindu
Marriage Bill, 2016 to regulate marriages of Hindus in Pakistan.
11. The
National Skill Development Corporation ( NSDC) and the National Skill
Development Fund (NSDF) signed a MOU with Sashtra Seema Bal ( Central Armed
Police Force) for execution of skill development programmes.
12. India successfully test fired “Brahmos” Supersonic
cruise missile recently.
13. The Japanese
and United States navies conducted joint exercises in the East
China Sea.
14. The United
Kingdom is hosting the inaugural Common Wealth Summit 2017,
which is largely focused on stimulating trade within the group.
15. Veteran
journalist and Executive Editor at IANS( India abroad Newspaper) Arvind
Padmanabhan passed away due to cardiac arrest in New Delhi.
16. The World
Kidney Day was observed on 9th March. This
year theme is Kidney disease and Obesity :Healthy Life
Style for Healthy Kidneys.
17. Scottish
physicist and
gravitational waves pioneer Ronald Drever passed away. He was
85. He was one of the co-founders of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational
wave Observatory (LIGO) detectors that had detected the
gravitational waves emitted by merger of a binary black hole pair.
18. The European
Council has re-elected Donald Tusk as its president
for a second term.
19. Senior
diplomat Manjeev Singh Puri was appointed as India’s
new ambassador to Nepal.
20. Mr.
Puri, a 1982-batch IFS officer. He will be succeeding Ranjit Rae.
21. Nobel
Prize winner in Chemistry George
Olah has passed away. He was 89. He research work had paved the way
for more effective oil refining and ways of producing less polluting forms of
gasoline. He had won Nobel Prize in 1994 for his groundbreaking study of the
unstable carbon molecules known as carbocations.
22. The
Appointments Committee of Cabinet (ACC) has appointed BP Kanungo as Deputy
Governor Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for three years. He has been
appointed in place of R. Gandhi.
23. International
Cricket Council (ICC) has appointed Indian cricketing legend Sachin
Tendulkar as the official ambassador of Women’s Cricket World
Cup 2017. The women’s World Cup is scheduled to be held in June 2017 at
England and Wales with eight top cricketing countries locking horns to grab the
coveted trophy. The tournament will host 28 matches at five different venues
with the final at Lord’s Stadium.
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