NATIONAL UPDATES:
1. BIHAR GOVERNMENT BANS SALE OF LIQUOR FROM 1ST APRIL
2016
Bihar Government has banned
sale of liquor in the state from 1st April 2016. This decision
of government will make Bihar as 6th dry state/UT in the country. Some states had already banned liquor consumption in the states of
Gujarat, Nagaland, Manipur and Kerala and Union Territory of Lakshadweep.
2. SOUTH ASIAN ANNUAL DISASTER MANAGEMENT EXERCISE
2015 HELD IN DELHI
It was the first-ever joint exercise to be conducted
by the National Disaster Response Force of India. This joint exercise was
attended by South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation member countries.
The member countries are Bhutan, India, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Maldives,
Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The exercise aims to synchronize efforts to
institutionalize regional cooperation on disaster response among SAARC member
countries.
3. NUCLEAR CAPABLE MISSILE AGNI 1
SUCCESSFULLY TEST FIRED
Indigenously developed
nuclear capable surface-to-surface ballistic missile Agni-I was successfully
test-fired from Dr Abdul Kalam Wheeler Island off the Odisha coast. Agni I
Missile Agni-I is the first missile of the Agni series launched in 1983 by the
DRDO as part of Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme (IGMDP) in
India. Can travel at a speed of 2.5 km/s and can destroy targets nearly 700 km
away.
4. ASW
CORVETTE KADMATT HANDED OVER TO INDIAN NAVY BY GRSES:
The second Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Corvette INS Kadmatt has
been formally handed over to Indian Navy at Kolkata, West Bengal. It has been
built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Limited (GRSE) and would be
inducted into the Eastern Fleet shortly.
INTERNATIONAL UPDATES:
1. CHINA LAUNCHES LATEST YAOGAN WEIXING VIA LONG MARCH 4C
China
launched another satellite in the military’s Yaogan Weixing series via the use
of a Long March-4C (Chang Zheng-4C) rocket. The “YG-29″ mission began from the
LC9 launch complex at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre (TSLC). Yaogan-29
was launched by a Long March-4C launch vehicle. It was reported as the 219th
launch of the rocket family known as the Chang Zheng in Chinese.
OTHER UPDATES:
SPORTS:
1. AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND TO PLAY THE HISTORIC
FIRST DAY-NIGHT TEST MATCH:
First
day-night Test will be played at the Adelaide Oval with a pink Kookaburra ball
between Australia and New
Zealand. It is for the first time in 138 years, a Test match will be played
with at night with a ball that is not red.
OBITUARIES:
2. EMINENT
TAMIL SCHOLAR NOBORU KARASHIMA PASSES AWAY
Distinguished Tamil scholar and historian of South India
and South Asia, Noboru Karashima from
Japan passed away in Tokyo.
BANKING & ECONOMY:
3.
RAJIV BANSAL APPOINTED AS CFO OF OLA CABS
Home grown app-based cab operator OlaCabs has
appointed Rajiv Bansal as Chief
Financial Officer (CFO) as part of its expansion drives in the country. He will
succeed Mitesh Shah who will henceforth lead strategic finance initiatives of
Ola as part of Rajiv’s team.
4. 11.2% RISE IN BANKING-RELATED COMPLAINTS IN FY15
Reserve Bank of India stated that number of
complaints received by Banking Ombudsmen in 2014-15 has rised up to 11.2
percent. The maximum numbers of complaints recieved are from banks' failure to
meet commitments and for not following fair practices code. The Deputy Governor
of RBI S.S Mundra stated the rise in complaints is a sign of awareness about
the banking ombudsmen scheme.
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