Current Affairs of March 2014

Current Affairs of March 2014

National & International Current Affairs March,2014

• Tata Teleservices limited (TTL) launched new Wi-Fi business in Chennai
• Earth Hour was observed across the world
• Jammu and Kashmir became first state to Declare No Smoking Area in elections booths
• WHO certified India as a Polio Free country
• The Third Nuclear Security Summit 2014 was held in The Hague, Netherlands
• Bank of India launched Instant Money Transfer (IMT) scheme in Mumbai on 24 March 2014
• Nirbheek is India’s First Revolver Designed for Protection of Women
• Vandana Foundation launched AQUATM in Mumbai
• Govind Mishra the Hindi author honoured with Sarawasti Samman 2013
• Tata Communications Payment Solutions Ltd. (TCPSL) launched the white label Automated Teller Machines (ATMs)
• World Water Day observed across the world with the theme Water and Energy
• World Poetry Day observed across the world
• Wipro, Tata Power among world’s most ethical Companies
• World Sparrow Day was observed across the world on 20 March 2014
• Five Indian languages reinstated as official subjects in South African state schools
• The Union health ministry revoked the ban on painkiller and anti-pyretic drug Analgin
• New Molecule HSP90 with potential to kill malaria parasite discovered
• Russia signed Accession Agreement with Crimea
• Indian Oil Corp (IOC) on announced to build30000 crore rupees refinery at Mundra in Gujarat
• India nominated Rani-ki-Vav and GHNP for UNESCO’s World Heritage Site Status
• Ekhon Nedekha Nadir Xipaare won audience choice award in North Carolina film festival
• Department of Telecommunications (DoT) released new guidelines to tackle the threats of cyber attacks
• India world’s largest arms importer: SIPRI
• Hinduja brothers emerge as 3rd richest family in Britain
• World Kidney Day observed across the World on 13 March 2014
• Nagaland and Assam became the first two states to get Plastic Photo Identity Card for elections in India
• President Pranab Mukherjee presented the President’s Standard and Colours Award
• Union Government announced to build 200 low cost airports
• India emerged as the largest non oil trading partner for Dubai in 2013-14
• World Longest aircraft Airlander unveiled in Britain
• Avaya appointed Priyadarshi Mohapatra as New Managing Director for India and SAARC
• Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports inaugurated National Cycling Academy in New Delhi
• Mumbai was the least expensive major city for expatriates -EIU Report
• China announced to extend the Qinghai-Tibet railway line to Xigaze
• Lok Sabha elections to be held from 7 April 2014 in 9-phases
• Third BIMSTEC Summit 2014 was held in Myanmar
• Rail link between Kilinochchi to Palai in North Sri Lanka was inaugurated
• World Dentist Day observed across the World on 6 March 2014
• NDMC launched Stri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana
• Assam is the first state in India to celebrate Child Protection Day on 4 March 2014
• Maulana Azad Sehat Scheme for the welfare of minorities launched on 4 March 2014
• Union Ministry of Minority Affairs launched Nalanda Project for Minorities Higher Educational Institutions on 4 March 2014
• National Food Security Act came into force in Madhya Pradesh
• Union Ministry of Commerce and Industry launched the DMIC at Lucknow

Personalities Current Affairs March,2014

• Sunil Gavaskar was appointed as the interim president of BCCI
• Jens Stoltenberg appointed as the Secretary General of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)
• World number two air pistol shooter, Heena Sidhu won a silver medal in 10m Air Pistol Women final of ISSF World Cup
• Zubin Mehta won special jury award of Times Now NRI Awards 2014
• Actor Arjun Kapoor named as the brand ambassador of the Earth hour 2014
• Indian-origin Gopal Rao won UK Twitter Prize on 27 March 2014
• General Sedki Sobhi sworn-in as the new Defence Minister and Army Chief of Egypt
• Japanese architect Shigeru Ban won the Pritzker Architecture Prize 2014
• Rajiv Takru appointed as the new Revenue Secretary
• Varun Berry appointed as Managing Director (MD) of Britannia Industries
• Vinita Bali Managing Director (MD) of Britannia Industries announced to retire
• Saugata Gupta chief executive officer (CEO) of Marico was promoted as Managing Director (MD) on 25 March 2014
• Ravishankar Gopalakrishnan, Acting Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Jet Airways resigned on 25 March 2014
• Rusi Dinshaw, the only Pakistani cricketer of Parsi Community passes away
• Nanda, the veteran actress of Hindi and Marathi films dies at 75
• Adolfo Suarez, the first elected Prime Minister of Spain dies at 81
• Physicist Rajesh Gopakumar to be honored with G D Birla award for scientific research for the year 2013
• Indian Journalist Shubranshu Choudhary won digital Activism Award 2014
• Former Brazilian international footballer Hilderaldo Luiz Bellini passes away at the age of 83
• President of India conferred Gallantry and Distinguished Service Awards
• Aditi Khanna elected as the first women President of Indian Journalists’ Association (IJA) on 20 March 2014
• Deputy Governor of RBI, Dr KC Chakrabarty resigned before end of term
• Khushwant Singh, the renowned author and journalist dies at 99
• Gyan Correa bagged the 17th Gollapudi Srinivas National Award 2013
• Former Arunachal Pradesh Minister, TC Teli dies at 50
• Former president and leader of Sierra Leone, Ahmad Tejan Kabbah dies at 82
• GK Pillai resigned as Chairman of MCX-SX
• Tomas Halik, the Czech priest won the Templeton Prize for 2014
• Sachin Tendulkar voted Cricketer of the Generation
• Nandan Nilekani resigned as chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India
• Rakesh Sethi is appointed as Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of Allahabad Bank
• Soma Mondal appointed as the first woman director of National Aluminium Company Ltd (NALCO)
• Michelle Bachelet was sworn-in as the President of Chile for Second time
• Financial Planning Standards Board India (FPSB) appointed Former Supreme Court judge BN Srikrishna as its Chairman
• Joe McGinniss, author of Fatal Vision dies at age 71
• Pooja Ghatkar won Gold medal at Asian Air Gun Championship
• Vice President of Afghanistan Marshal Mohammad Qasim Fahim dies at 56
• Kush Sharma, an Indian-American student won the National Spelling Bee
• Sheila Dikshit sworn-in as Kerala Governor
• Heena Sidhu and Chain Singh won Gold Medal at 7th Asian Air Gun Championship
• Indian writer Pankaj Mishra won Windham Campbell Literature Prize on 9 March 2014
• Indian-American scientist Anil Jain Created the first 3D model of a human fingerprint called Phantom
• Tom Albanese appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Vedanta Resources
• Veteran Actress, Sheila MacRae dies at 92
• William Clay Ford the grandson of automotive pioneer Henry Ford dies at 88
• World’s first 3D fingerprint Created by Indian-American scientist
• Sumith Nakandala appointed as first Secretary General of BIMSTEC
• Sheila Dikshit appointed as the new Governor of Kerala
• Bill Gates is the World’s top richest Billionaire according to annual list of Forbes
• Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Apple Inc Peter Oppenheimer announced his retirement
• SpiceJet appointed R.Neelakantan as its Chief Financial Officer (CFO) on 4 March 2014
• Arvind Bhat won the German Open Grand Prix title
• Veteran journalist T. V. Venkitachalam passes away at the age of 85
• South Africa captain Graeme Smith announces retirement
• Chandi Prasad Bhatt won the Gandhi Peace Prize for the year 2013
• Former Union Minister Bhuvnesh Chaturvedi passes away at the age of 85

Sports Current Affairs March,2014

• Simon Santoso, Indonesian Shuttler won Malaysia Grand Prix gold
• West Zone won cricket’s Deodhar Trophy 2014
• India won 3rd South Asian Handball Championship title
• Hsieh Su-Wei and Peng Shuai won BNP Paribas Open 2014
• Karnataka won the Vijay Hazare Trophy 2013-14
• Virat Kohli reclaims top spot in ODI batting rankings
• Australia replaced India at second position in ICC Test Team rankings
• 64th National Basketball Championship concluded
• South Africa won ICC under 19 World Cup 2014
• Roger Federer won the Dubai tennis Championships for the sixth time

Honours And Awards Current Affairs March,2014

• 12 Years A Slave won the best picture award in the 86th Annual Academy Oscar Awards 2014.

Books And Authors Current Affairs March,2014

• The book entitled Rationalised Roman for Kashmiri written by Dr R L BhatWas released
• Vice President of india released book entitled Akbar – The Aesthete

Astronomy Current Affairs march,2014

• India successfully test-fired its nuclear-capable Prithvi-II missile.

Current Affairs of February 2014

         Current Affairs of February 2014

National & International Current Affairs February,2014

•          National Science Day was observed across India on 28 February 2014

•          Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Gulam Nabi Azad inaugurated the All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS), Bhubaneswar

•          The largest Solar Power Plant of India was launched at Bhagwanpur in Neemuch, Madhya Pradesh on 26 February 2014

•          Ibrahim Mahlab was sworn in as new Prime Minister of Egypt

•          Union Minister of Road Transport & Highways R. Ramalinga Reddy inaugurated electric passenger bus in Bangalore on 27 February 2014

•          Maritime Energy Heli Services Pvt Ltd (Mehair) and Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation (MTDC) launched a seaplane service on 24 February 2014

•          Union Government inaugurated the National Centre for Good Governance (NCGG) on 24 February 2014

•          NTPC signed MoU with BSPGCL and LBCPL to develop a 1320 MW Thermal Power Project in Bihar

•          Indian Origin 12 year old boy Shubham Banerjee developed a low cost Braille Printer

•          Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) launched E-Wallet Scheme to make payment process fast

•          Social media giant Facebook acquired WhatsApp for 19 billion dollars

•          18th Wharton India Economic Forum (WIEF) to be held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

•          West Bengal government and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) launched a campaign about safe drinking water and safe sanitation practices on 20 February 2014

•          Union Cabinet Approves Odia as Classical Language on 20 February 2014

•          Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) approved a National Mission for Green India on 20 February 2014

•          Connaught Place (CP) in Delhi ranked as the world’s eighth most expensive office location

•          Airtel first to cross the 200 million mobile-user mark in India

•          China plans to build World‘s longest underwater tunnel

•          India to host 2015 World Bridge Championship

•          World Radio Day was celebrated across the globe on 13 February 2014

•          National Women’s Day of India was observed on 13 February 2014

•          Bombay Stock Exchange launched an institutional trading platform [ITP] for small and medium enterprises [SME] on 12 February 2014.

•          Assam became the first state to ban smokeless tobacco legally

•          Vice President of India M. Hamid Ansari launched the India-China Year of Friendly Exchanges on 11 February 2014

•          The South Central Railway (SCR) launched Hyderabad Live Train Enquiry System (HYLITES) on 10 February 2014

•          Sikkim became the first State in India to achieve 100 percent sanitation coverage

•          President of Israel Shimon Peres set a new Guinness World Record with 6500- student online civics class

•          World’s oldest tigress, Machli Found in the Ranthambhore National Park

•          India and Germany sign two umbrella agreements for financial and technical cooperation

•          India’s Visa-on-arrival facility extended for tourists of 180 Countries, except eight

•          Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved the implementation of the National Mission on Agricultural Extension and Technology

•          World‘s First Paperless public Library of the BiblioTech was opened in the USA on 4 February 2014

•          First online Global Freshwater Biodiversity Atlas launched

•          Union Ministry of Communications and Information Technology launched the National Cloud on 4 February 2014

•          Dr. Ali Mohamed Shein, President of Zanzibar, is on an official visit to India from 1 to 9 February 2014

•          Union Cabinet approved the second phase of Bangalore Metro Rail Project

•          World’s oldest flamingo died at Adelaide Zoo of Australia

                  Personalities Current Affairs February,2014

•          Legendary Spanish Guitarist Paco de Lucia passed away at the age of 66

•          Harold Ramis, the American actor, Writer and Director of classic comedy films passed away at the age of 69

•          Dinesh Sarraf appointed next Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC)

•          Eminent Telugu litterateur Hanumath Shastry, the passes away at the age of 90

•          Vice President Hamid Ansari released a commemorative postage stamp in the honour of Maulana Hasrat Mohani

•          German Chancellor Angela Merkel awarded with Israeli Presidential Medal of Distinction

•          Somdev Devvarman won his third ATP Challenge Tennis title

•          Eminent painter Prokash Karmakar passed away at the age of 81

•          Prime Minister Inaugurated ‘Indira Paryavaran Bhawan’

•          Rishang Keishing Oldest M.P retires after serving seven decades

•          Matteo Renzi was sworn-in as Prime Minister of Italy

•          Cheteshwar Pujara appointed as the brand ambassador of the Gujarat State Election Commission

•          Oleksandr Turchynov appointed as the interim President of Ukraine

•          United Bank of India CMD Archana Bhargava resigns

•          Hindi writer & Jnanpith Award winner Amar Kant passes away at 89

•          Minority Affairs minister K Rehman Khan inaugurated first Minority Cyber Village in Rajasthan on 19 February 2014

•          Kiran Kumar Reddy resigns as Andra Pradesh Chief Minister

•          Kingfisher Airlines Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Sanjay Aggarwal resigned

•          Abdul Basit appointed high commissioner of Pakistan to India

•          Carnatic music Vocalist Rudra Krishna Srikantan passed away at 94

•          Edward Snowden was elected as the new Rector of the University of Glasgow

•          Tom Finney, the former Preston and England footballer passes away at the age of 91

•          Sachin Tendulkar and Virendra Sehwag were nominated for Cricketer of the Generation award.

•          Justice Mukul Mudgal, former Chief Justice of Punjab & Haryana High Court, was appointed as the chief of the Broadcast Content Complaints Council (BCCC)

•          Italy Prime Minister Enrico Letta resigned

•          Vijaykumar Vinayak Dongre and Guocheng Zhang received International Gandhi Award for the year 2013

•          Foreign Minister of Kyrgyz Republic, Erlan Abdyldaev visited India

•          South Africa launched a commemorative silver stamp of Nelson Mandela

•          Balu Mahendra, the award winning film director and cinematographer passes away at 74

•          Hollywood child star Shirley Temple passed away at the age of 85

•          Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg became the youngest and the most generous donor of America in 2013

•          Indian-Origin Ashok Varadhan appointed as the co-head of securities division of Goldman Sachs’ on 11 February 2014

•          R.K.Tiwari appointed new chairman of Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT)

•          Jatinder Bir Singh was appointed as Chairman and Managing Director of Punjab and Sind Bank (PSB)

•          Vinod Sawhny appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Reliance Communications

•          Sonia Gandhi named as Chairperson of Congress Campaign Committee

•          Sushil Koirala veteran Nepali Congress (NC) leader elected as the next Prime Minister of Nepal

•          Abhinav Bindra, become the 1st person to win third gold-medal in the Inter-Shoot Tri-series Shooting

•          Yulia Lipnitskaya became the youngest Russian athlete to win gold medal in Winter Olympics

•          N Ramachandran elected as new President of Indian Olympic Association (IOA)

•          Olympian long distance runner Ranjit Bhatia passes away at 77

•          Legendary bhajan singer Juthika Roy died at the age of 93

•          Kumar Sangakkara, the became the second person in the history of Cricket to score a triple century and a century in the same test match

•          Narayanswamy Srinivasan, the President of BCCI elected as the new Chairman of the International Cricket Council (ICC) from July 2014 for a period of 2 years

•          Arunima Sinha Honored with Amazing Indian Award 2014

•          Malala Yousafzai, John Wood and Indira Ranamagar nominated for the World Children’s Prize

•          Union Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas confirmed the appointment of B.N.Talukdar as head of Director General of Hydrocarbon (DGH)

•          John Thompson was appointed as the Chairman of Microsoft

•          Marco Lambertini appointed as director-general (DG) of the WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) International on 6 February 2014

•          Vishwanath Tripathi, the eminent Hindi writer selected for the prestigious Vyas Samman 2013

•          Indian-origin professor Sanjeev Kulkarni named dean of Princeton University school

•          Satya Nadella appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of [CEO] of Microsoft

•          Sachin Tendulkar and Prof CNR Rao conferred with Bharat Ratna

•          UN appointed India based Vivek Lall as special advisor on cyber security

•          Former Supreme Court Justice, Ashok Kumar Mathur appointed as the Chairman of the 7th Central Pay Commission

•          Manoj Vaish took charge as the Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd.

•          Poonam Khetrapal Singh took charge as the Regional Director of SEARO on 1 February 2014

•          Harish Rawat was appointed as the 8th Chief Minister of Uttarakhand

•          Michael Rogers nominated as Director of the National Security Agency [NSA]

•          Oscar-winning American actor, Philip Seymour Hoffman died at the age of 46

•          Silverine Swer, the First Padma Shri Awardee of Meghalaya passed away

                                         

                      Sports Current Affairs February,2014

•          Sourav Kothari won the National Billiard Championships title on 26 February 2014

•          Delhi Waveriders won the 2nd edition of Hockey India League cup 2014

•          Li Na of China ranked World Number 2 in Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) singles ranking

•          Peng Shuai of China ranked World Number 1 in Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) Doubles ranking

•          New Zealand won 2-cricket Test Series against India 1-0

•          Karnataka won Irani Trophy for the fifth time.

•          Indian boxers Finished Fourth at the 58th Bocskai International Tournament

•          Abhinav Bindra won second gold medal at the Inter Shoot Tri Series shooting at The Hague, Netherlands

•          Joshna Chinappa won the Winnipeg Winter Club Open title

•          Karnataka defeated Maharashtra to win the Ranji Trophy 2014

•          Virat Kohli slips to fourth in ICC Twenty20 rankings

                                   

           Honours And Awards Current Affairs February,2014

•          Madan Babu, Indian scientist won the Protein Society’s Protein Science Young Investigator Award for 2014

•          Sikkim won the National Tourism Award 2012-13

•          Marathi film, Killa won the Crystal Bear award at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival.

•          Bangladesh’s Kamar Ahmad Simon’s documentary ‘Are You Listening‘ won the Golden Conch Award of MIFF 2014