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Mahabaleshwar Sail gets Saraswati Samman - 2016

Eminent Konkani Writer Mahabaleshwar Sail has been honoured with the Saraswati Samman 2016, for his novel “Hawthan”. The award comprises a cash prize of Rs.15 lakh and a citation. ...

Sachin Tendulkar As Official Ambassador Of Women’s World Cup-2017

Veteran Indian Cricketer and former captain Sachin Tendulkar has appointed as an official ambassador of Women’s World Cup - 2017. It will begin from 24th June, 2017 in England and Wales. 8 Women Cri...

10 March 2017 Current Affairs Quiz

10 March 2017 Current Affairs

Current Affairs 10 March 2017 happenings of every day are covered here date wise. All types of current affairs like National, International, Economic, Science & Technology are covered in detail in thi...

Parliament Passes Maternity Benefit Bill, 2016

Parliament on 9 March 2017 passed the Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Bill, 2016. The Bill seeks to amends the Maternity Benefit Act, 1961. The Bill was passed by Lok Sabha during the Parliament Session...

Harn Ohlmeyer Appointed As CFO Of Adidas

Harn Ohlmeyer was recently appointed as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Adidas with effect from May 2017. He will succeed Robin Stalker, who served the post for 16 years. Presently Ohlmeyer is servin...

Donald Tusk Re-elected As President Of European Council

Donald Tusk on 9 March 2017 was appointed to a second term as president of the European Council, one of the European Union’s governing bodies. ...

INS Tillanchang Commissioned By Indian Navy

Indian Navy has commissioned INS Tillanchang at Karwar, Karnataka. It is a Water Jet Fast Attack Craft (WJFAC). It is the third ship of four follow-on WJFAC built by the Kolkata based Garden Reach Shi...

Vijayalakshmi Sets New Music World Record

Playback singer Vaikom Vijayalakshmi recently set a new world record by playing the maximum number of songs in the shortest time on a single string musical instrument. ...

Odisha Government Launches Helpline For Distressed Women

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik recently inaugurated a 24x7 toll free helpline number 181 for distressed women in Bhubaneswar. The helpline will facilitate quick response of various services including l...

Guinness Record To “Largest Tree Hug” Programme

Tata -DAV School at Mithapur in Gujarat has achieved the Guinness World Record for the “Largest Tree Hug” programme. The initiative saw the active participation of 1316 school students and staff ...

Mohan Bhagwat Awarded Honorary Doctor Of Science Degree

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Chief Mohan Bhagwat was on 9th March conferred honorary degree of “Doctor of Science” by the city-based Maharashtra Animal and Fishery Sciences University. ...

Hamid Ansari Attends IORA Summit In Jakarta

Vice President Hamid Ansari was on a two day visit to Indonesia to attend the 21-nation Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) summit in Jakarta, Indonesia from March 6-7, 2017. ...

Viswanath Mahadeshwar As Mumbai’s New Mayor

Viswanath Mahadeshwar was elected Mumbai’s new mayor on 8th March by show of hands in which the BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) supported the Shiv Sena Corporator. ...

09 March 2017 Current Affairs Quiz

09 March 2017 Current Affairs

Current Affairs 09 March 2017 happenings of every day are covered here date wise. All types of current affairs like National, International, Economic, Science & Technology are covered in detail in thi...

Cultural Festival “India By The Nile” To Begin In Egypt

The meg cultural festival “India by the Nile” got off to a colourful start at the foot of the Pyramids in Cairo with a Crafts Mela. Show casing joint handicraft exhibition of India and Egypt. ...

Viola Davis Honoured With “Artist Of The Year”

Viola Davis, the actress who took home some of this year’s biggest awards, was honoured with the Harvard Foundation “Artist of the year 2017 Award” at Harvard’s 32nd cultural Rhymes Festival i...

IDFC Bank Launches Aadhar Pay System

IDFC Bank on 8th March launched the Biometric based Aaadhaar Pay Payment system. Aaadhaar pay service is for merchants which will enable them to receive Aadhaar-enable payments by passing credit and d...

Veteran Journalist Arvind Padmanabhan Passes Away

The Veteran Journalist Arvind Padmanabhan, who was associated with the news agency IANS as an Executive Editor has died of cardiac arrest in New Delhi on 8th March....