Prepared by D.Sarala, Viluppuram
1. The United Nations Human Rights
Council has granted
a two year extension to Sri
Lanka to probe into the
alleged war crimes committed during civil war.
2. Terror attack happened in United Kingdom recently outside the Parliament
3. Assam Government has signed MoU with State Bank of India (SBI) to provide Housing and Educational Loan at
subsidised interest rates to
the employees of the state government. As per the MoU, state government will
provide interest subsidy at the rate of 3.50% for housing loan and education
loan at 4%. It will benefit state government employees in terms of interest
rates and reduced EMI. It also has provisions for collateral free loan, Zero
Margin, Zero Processing Fee with longer repayment tenure.
4. Bihar government has launched an ambitious programme to
provide free WiFi facilities in colleges and universities on the
occasion of Bihar Diwas. The program aims to provide free Wi-Fi facility to
help youths to move ahead in life and to become digital smart. The foundation
day of Bihar (also known as Bihar Diwas) is celebrated every year on March 22.
On this day in 1912, then British India Government had carved out the state
from Bengal Presidency in 1912.
5. India’s first vertical garden was set up at the Hosur Road
Electronics City Flyover in Bengaluru, Karnataka. The garden is an initiative
of SayTrees, NGO determined to protect nature. The vertical garden will help to
control the pollution level of the city and also act as a sound proofing
barrier. It covers pillar of the flyover by flaunting lovely organic and
refreshing saplings. It also has an automatic drip irrigation system allowing
the plants to get water on a daily basis.
6. The third edition of International Conference on “Alternate
Fuels and Raw Materials in Cement Industry -Towards Realising Swachh Bharat
Dream” was held in New Delhi. It
was organized by the Cement Manufacturer’s Association India (CMA). The 2-day
conference aimed to facilitate technical, financial and regulatory solutions
for increasing alternate fuels and raw materials usage in the cement industry.
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7. The 23rd edition of Conference of
Auditors General of Commonwealth Countries and British Overseas Territories was
held in New Delhi, India. The theme of the conference was
“Fostering Partnerships for Capacity Development in Public Audit”. The
conference was attended by 52 commonwealth countries and 9 British overseas
territories.This was the first time India had hosted this prestigious
conference i.e. by Comptroller & Auditor General (CAG). The last edition of
such conference was held in Malta in 2014.
8. The 5th
edition of ‘Rashtriya Sanskriti Mahotsav (RSM) – 2017’ was held in Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh. It was organized by the Union Ministry
of Culture to preserve, promote and popularize the heritage and cultural
diversity of Indian culture and reconnect the new generation with Indian
culture. Later
it was extend to other North Eastern states including, Dimapur (Nagaland),
Majuli (Assam), Aizawl (Mizoram), Imphal (Manipur), Gangtok (Sikkim), Shillong
(Meghalaya).
9. Prominent Tamil writer Ashokamitran,
passed away. He was 86. He was known for powerfully portraying the lives and
struggles of the urban middle-class life in his literary works.He was born as
Tyagarajan, but later assumed the pen name, Ashokamitran. In a career spanning
over six decades, he had written 8 novels, 20 novellas, hundreds of short
stories, commentaries on a wide range of issues, and profiles of personalities.
He was awarded Sahitya Akademi Award in 1996 for his work Appavin Snegidhar, a
collection of short stories.
10. Senior
executive editor of NDTV India Ravish
Kumar was awarded inaugural Kuldip Nayar journalism award at in recognition of his
outstanding contribution in the world of Journalism. The award was set up to
honour those working in vernacular media. It will be awarded every year from
now on and carries a plaque along with a cash amount of Rs 1 lakh.
11. Airtel has acquired 4G business of Tikona Networks including the Broadband Wireless
Access (BWA) business for Rs 1600 crore. With this acquisition, Airtel will be
second company after Reliance Jio to have pan-India presence in 2300 Mhz band.
The 2300 Mhz band has second largest ecosystem of 4G devices. Currently, Tikona
has 20 MHz spectrum in the 2300 MHz band in Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh (West),
Uttar Pradesh (East), Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh circles.
12. India’s
largest private sector lender ICICI
Bank has launched the Mera iMobile app, India’s first
one stop banking app for a range of digital services for rural customers. The
multi-lingual app allows electronic transfer of funds through multiple payment
mechanisms. It also provides weather updates, up to date prices of vegetables
in mandis. It helps customers to manage bank accounts, track cards and loans,
manage fund transfers, make payments for utility services, and find out
information relevant to farmers.
13. Indian
Navy successfully conducted
maiden test of short range surface-to-air Barak
missile from country’s sole
aircraft carrier INS
Vikramaditya. The test was conducted in the Arabian Sea in which
missile was fired against a live, low-flying, high-speed target. The missile
successfully engaged and destroyed the target, validating operational readiness
inspection of the Western Fleet of the Indian Navy. INS Vikramaditya is
the country’s sole aircraft carrier (after retirement of INS Viraat in March
2017). It was built in 1987 and had served the Soviet navy (named as Baku). It
was later renamed Admiral Gorshkov under the Russian navy. The Indian navy
purchased the vessel in 2004 and commissioned it in November 2013 at
Severodvinsk in Russia. The Kiev-class vessel weighs 44,500 tonne. Its overall
length is 284 meters and has maximum beam of about 60 meters It can carry over
30 aircraft comprising MiG-29Ks, Kamov-28s, Kamov-31s, ALH-Dhruv and Chetak
helicopters. It was retrofitted with a Barak missile system under joint
development with Israel.
14. Government
has notified that Animal
Welfare Board of India (AWBI), a statutory advisory body under the Ministry of Environment,
Forests and Climate Change (MoEF) will now be permanently chaired by a senior
MoEF official. Recently, new Board of 18 members, chaired by Sharad Singh Negi,
Special Secretary and Director-General (Forests), MoEF came into effect for
three years term.
15. The Law
Commission of India (LCI) in
its 267th Report has laid out that bare the danger of
hate speech to the Union Government and
called for action from the government and Parliament. It held that
hate speech has the potential to provoke individuals and society to commit acts
of genocides, terrorism and ethnic cleansing. The Supreme
Court of India in 2014 had referred to the Law Commission for means to arm
the Election Commission to crack down on hate speech. The commission
also has drafted a new law The Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill, 2017 by
inserting new Sections to fortify democracy against hate speeches.
The law defined hate speech as any word written or spoken, signs, visible
representations within the hearing or sight of a person with the intention to cause fear
or alarm, or incitement to violence. Its Section 153C
penalises incitement to hatred and Section 505A for the first time makes
‘causing fear, alarm, or provocation of violence in certain cases’
a specific criminal offence. Section 153C calls for punishing guilty
person with two years’ imprisonment or Rs. 5,000 in fine or both. Section 505A provides
a punishment of one year imprisonment or Rs. 5,000 in fine or both.
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