Current Affairs 12th March 2016

Current Affairs 12th March 2016

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Current Affairs 12th March 2016

India, US dispatch Fulbright – Kalam Climate Fellowship

• India and United States have propelled the Fulbright – Kalam Climate Fellowship empowering Indian research researchers to work with American foundations in the field of environmental change.
• It will support up to 6 Indian PhD understudies and post-doctoral analysts to work with US organizations for a period up to one year. The association has been named after late Indian President Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam.
• It was dispatched as a feature of a pledge made by US President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Narendra Modi to manufacture long haul ability to address environmental change-related issues in both the nations.
• It will be worked by the binational US-India Educational Foundation (USIEF) under the umbrella of the prestigious Fulbright program. It will be together subsidized by both the legislatures.

IMF and India to set-up South Asia Regional Training and Technical Assistance Center in Delhi

• India and International Monetary Fund (IMF) have chosen to set up South Asia Regional Training and Technical Assistance Center (SARTTC) in New Delhi.
• In such manner, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund (IMF) have marked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).

Union Power Ministry named LED based Domestic Efficient Lighting Program as UJALA

• Union Power Ministry has reported name UJALA for the LED based Domestic Efficient Lighting Program (DELP). UJALA is acronym for Unnat Jyoti by Affordable LEDs for All.
• The National LED based DELP project was dispatched by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on January 2015 for vitality preservation by lessening vitality utilization.
• The objective of project is to supplant 77 crore radiant lights with LED knobs.
• Vitality Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) is executing it and is as of now running effectively in more than 120 urban communities crosswise over India.

Anand Mahindra consulted with France’s Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur

• Mahindra and Mahindra Chairman and Managing Director (MD) Anand Mahindra was consulted with Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur (Knight of the Legion of Honor) by French Government.
• He was given this recompense by Francois Richier, Ambassador of France to India in acknowledgment of his remarkable national and worldwide accomplishments.
• Anand Mahindra is a standout amongst the most noticeable business pioneers in India.
• Under his authority Mahindra and Mahindra bunch has transformed into a worldwide organization of exceptional notoriety.

Lt Gen N P S Hira selected Deputy Chief of Army

• Lieutenant General (Lt Gen) N P S Hira has been selected as Deputy Chief of Army Staff. He will be presently moving to Army Headquarters in New Delhi. In the blink of an eye he is posted as Chief of Staff of Northern summon at Udhampur, Jammu and Kashmir.
• He was charged in the Sikh Light Infantry. He has a rich affair of counter revolt operations in J&K and in the upper east area, and in addition routine operations in Western charge.
• He had directed the Battalion in Assam (Op Rhino) amid high viciousness period. The unit under his charge has sacked 32 bravery grants and COAS reference.
• He had instructed 12 Infantry Brigade conveyed at Line of Control (LoC) in Uri segment. He likewise had directed the 10 Infantry Division in J&K on the LoC with unique excellence for which he was honored the Ati Vishisht Seva Medal.

Middle Easterner League announces Lebanese development Hezbollah a terrorist bunch

• The Arab League has pronounced Lebanese development Hezbollah, a Shia political association a terrorist bunch. The move comes after the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) had embraced the same position.
• Choice in such manner was taken amid the Arab League Foreign Ministers’ meeting at the association’s seat in Egypt’s capital Cairo. Every one of the 22 Arab League individuals bolstered the choice aside from Lebanon and Iraq communicated reservations.
• Hezbollah (Party of God) is a Shia political association made by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards in the 1980s. It was built up with an outfitted wing amid Lebanon’s affable war from 1975 to 1990.
• Presently, it is battling in Lebanon’s neighboring Syria to bolster the Government of President Bashar al-Assad. The United States, Canada and Australia as of now have recorded Hezbollah as a terrorist bunch and the European Union (EU) has additionally boycotted its military wing.