Current Affairs 8th March 2016

Current Affairs 8th March 2016

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Current Affairs 8th March 2016

International Women’s Day

• Consistently International Women’s Day is being seen on eighth March over the globe to highlight the accomplishments of ladies while calling for more prominent balance. 2016 subject proclaimed by United Nations: “Planet 50-50 by 2030: Step It Up for Gender Equality”.
• It reflects increasing speed of the 2030 Agenda, building energy for the powerful execution of the new Sustainable Development Goals.
• The subject likewise similarly concentrates on new duties under UN Women’s Step It Up activity, and other existing responsibilities on sex correspondence, ladies’ strengthening and ladies’ human rights.

Indian Railways frames SPV to execute Mumbai-Ahmedabad shot train venture

• Indian Railways has framed another Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) to execute the Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed Bullet Train venture.
• The substance has been named the National High Speed Rail Corporation (NHSRC) Limited.

Air India works world’s longest all-ladies flight

• National bearer Air India effectively flew the World’s longest all-lady worked and upheld flight from the national capital New Delhi to San Francisco (United States).
• The flight was worked as a major aspect of International Women’s Day festivities and voyaged a separation of around 14,500 kilometers in near 17 hours.
• The direct flight to San Francisco took off on sixth March 2016 from New Delhi.

Telangana, Maharashtra ink MoU for five watering system ventures

• Telangana and Maharashtra Governments have marked Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) to set up a between state water board build 5 floods crosswise over Godavari and Pen Ganga waterways.
• The MoU was marked at an abnormal state meeting held in Mumbai in which Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhara Rao and Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis joined in.

Germany to create Bhubaneswar, Kochi, Coimbatore as Smart Cities

• Germany has chosen to join forces with India’s shrewd city program and will help creating Kochi (Kerala), Bhubaneswar (Odisha) and Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu) as brilliant urban areas. It was reported by State Secretary in Germany’s Ministry for Environment, Building and Nuclear Safety, Nature Conservation, Gunther Adler in New Delhi at the second meeting of the Indo-German Working Group on Urban Development.
• These three urban communities are among the main 20 urban communities chose by Urban Development Ministry which are to be produced as shrewd urban communities.

Maria Sharapova temporarily suspended in the wake of coming up short medications test at Australian Open

• Previous world number one female tennis player Maria Sharapova (28) from Russia has uncovered that she fizzled a medications test at the Australian Open.
• Because of this disappointment the International Tennis Federation (ITF) has temporarily suspended her till further activity from Tennis for abusing Anti-Doping Rule.
• She has been tried positive for meldonium, a substance that has been included the prohibited rundown by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) on 1 January 2016.

Sexual orientation hole in occupations, compensation stay unaltered in 20 years: ILO report

• According to recent report of International Labor Organization (ILO) titled-Women at Work: Trends 2016, sex correspondence still stays subtle in the working environment.
• The report highlights patterns in 2016 in 178 nations and it has been found that a great many ladies worldwide are not getting the same sort of value, well-paying occupations as men.

Haryana signs 11 MoUs on opening day of Global Investors’ Summit

• Haryana Government has marked 11 Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) including an aggregate venture of Rs 18,159 crores with various organizations.
• These MoUs were marked in the vicinity of Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal on the primary day of the two-day ‘Happening Haryana Global Investors’ Summit-2016′ held in Gurgaon.

Previous NDDB chief Amrita Patel gets Mahindra lifetime accomplishment grant

• Dr Amrita Patel was given prestigious 2016 Mahindra Samriddhi India Agri Lifetime Achievement Award otherwise called the Krishi Shiromani Samman.
• The recompense was gave to her by Union Minister of Agriculture Radha Mohan Singh for her commitment in the field of horticulture and to expand profitability and country success. As of now she is Chairman of Charutar Arogya Mandal.
• Prior she had served as Chairman of the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) from 1998 to 2014.