Prepared by Ms.Sarala Dhavamanoharan, Viluppuram
1.Government appointed ‘Working Group on
Migration’ headed by Partha Mukhopadhay has recommended necessary
legal and policy framework to protect the interests of the migrants in the
country. The 18-member Working Group was constituted by Union Ministry of
Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation (HUPA) in 2015.
2.The Union Ministry of Drinking Water
and Sanitation has launched week-long “Swachh Shakti Saptah”
campaign to emphasize on active involvement of women in the Swachh Bharat
Mission. This campaign will be
conducting till March 8. PM Modi will be
participating at the closing ceremony on March 8 at Gandhinagar , Gujarat
3.India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecasted above normal
temperature in most parts of the country during 2017 summer season. The
predictions were given by Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology in Pune.
4.Thiruvananthapuram, capital of Kerala has topped in city governance
ranking of the Annual Survey of India’s City Systems (ASICS) 2016 conducted
by Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy.
Thiruvananthapuram topped in 2016 Survey,
Pune is ranked second, Kolkata retained its third slot.,
5. The BCCI Awards are a set of annual
cricket awards given by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). The
awards were first given in 2006–07.
Recipients
of 2015-16 BCCI Awards are
CK. Nayudu Lifetime achievement
award: Padmakar Shivalkar, Rajinder Goel.
BCCI Lifetime achievement
award: Shantha Rangaswamy.
BCCI special award: Late Ramakant Desai, VV Kumar.
Polly Umrigar Award: Virat Kohli. For third time, he was conferred with this award
after 2011-12 and 2014-15 season.
Lala Amarnath Award for the best all-rounder
in the Ranji Trophy: Jalaj Saxena (Madhya Pradesh).
Lala Amarnath Award for the
best all-rounder in domestic limited-overs competitions: Axar Patel of (Gujarat).
Madavrao Scindia Award Highest
scorer in the Ranji Trophy: Shreyas Iyer (Mumbai).
Madavrao Scindia Award Highest
wicket-taker in the Ranji Trophy: Shahbaz
Nadeem (Jharkhand).
A. Chidambaram Trophy Highest
scorer in (U-23): Jay. G. Bosta (Mumbai).
A. Chidambaram Trophy Highest wicket-taker in
(U-23): Satyajeet Bachhav (Maharashtra).
NKP Salve Award Highest scorer
in (U-19): Arman Jaffer (Mumbai).
NKP Salve Award Highest
wicket-taker in (U-19): Ninad Rathva (Baroda).
Raj Singh Dungarpur Award
Highest scorer in (U-16): Abhishek Sharma (Punjab).
Raj Singh Dungarpur Award
Highest wicket-taker in (U-16): Abhishek
Sharma (Punjab).
Jagmohan Dalmiya Award (Best
Woman cricketer (Sr.): Mithali Raj (Railways).
Jagmohan Dalmiya Award (Best
Woman cricketer (Jr.): Deepti Sharma (Uttar
Pradesh).
Best Umpire in Domestic cricket:
Nitin Menon.
Best performance in BCCI
Domestic tournaments: Mumbai Cricket Association.
6. International Rare disease Day is celebrated on Feb 27. Theme of 2017
is “ Research”
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7. JS
Deepak ( Telecom Secretary) was appointed as India’s next ambassador to the World Trade Organisation ( Geneva,
Switzerland).
8. South Korean and United States
held large-scale joint military exercise called Foal Eagle to test their
defence readiness against the threat from North Korea.
9. Indian Navy have successfully
test fired an anti ship missile
from INS Kalvari
10. Odisha has signed an agreement
with India to Invest in promoting Start – Up’s and MSME sectors of the state
11. China has announced that it will cut
five lakh jobs from steel, coal and other heavy industries to reduce excess
production capacity amid slowdown of its economy which is world’s second
largest.
12. The Defence Research and Development
Organisation (DRDO) has signed a technology transfer agreement with Jindal
Stainless (Hisar) Ltd. (JSHL) for manufacturing high nitrogen steel
(HNS).
13. Indian shooter Jitu Rai won gold medal in 50 metre air pistol
event at the ISSF World Cup held in New Delhi. By this Jitu created a new
world record with 230.1 points in final. Indian shooter Amanpreet Singh won
a silver medal in the same event. Vahid Golkhandan of Iran won Bronze
in the same .
14. The All India Football Federation (AIFF) has appointed Portugal’s Luis
Norton de Matos (63) as the head coach of the India’s Under-17 team
for the FIFA Under-17 World Cup scheduled to be held in October 2017 in India.
15. Senior IAS officer Ajay Tyagi took charge as ninth
Chairman of markets regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI).
He replaces U K Sinha
16. Internet users in India to cross
450 million by June .According to recently published report by the
Internet and Mobile Association of India (IMAI) and Indian Market Research
Bureau (IMRB)
17. The National Green Tribunal has
ordered a ban on campaining activities within 100 m of River Ganga
18. Hassan Saleh has been elected as Sudan’s first PM
ever since Bashir took as the President of the country in 1989.
19. Malaysia is planning to cancel
visa free entry of North Koreans
20. Swadheen Kshatriya was appointed
as Chief Commissioner of Rights to
Services ( RTS) of Maharashtra
21. UK’s House of Lords voted to amend the Brexit Bill to
protect the Rights of EU citizens living in UK
22. Georgia was granted the approval
for the visa free travel to The
European Union by the member states recently.
23. Reliance Industries won the 7th
National award for Technology Innovation for Petrochemicals and
Downstream Plastic Processing Industry
in the category of Innovation in Polymeric Materials.
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