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Awards and Honours
Kerala Tourism campaign title " New Worlds" has won Golden City Gate Award at the Internationale Tourismus-Borse Berlin (ITB-Berlin) 2016.
- It potrays the importance of responsible tourism initiatives under taken in Kerala which have led to the life changing stories and have become the heart of it.
Hanan Al Hroub , a Palaestinian teacher from a refuge camp has been awarded prestigious Global Teacher Prize 2016 , worth 1 Million US Dollars.She was presented this award at a ceremony held in Dubai for her outstanding contribution to the profession
International
Htin Kyaw (69) is elected as first civilian President of Myanmar after 53 years of military rule. He was candidate of National League of Democracy ( NLD) party and was elected after securing 360 of the total 652 casted votes.
-Htin Kyaw is a close aide and adviser of Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi who is the leader of NLD party that has majority in the parliament
H Depp Saini , noted Indian scholar and plant physiologist has been appointed as 5th VC (vice chancellor) of Australia's prestigious University of Canberra .
-Earlier he had received many awards including Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal
Important Days
March 15th is celebrated as "World consumer rights day" . It's significance is to provide opportunity to promote the basic rights of all consumers and demand those rights that must be respected and protected and also for those protesting against market abuses and social injustices.
Theme For World Consumers Rights day 2016 is " Antibiotics off the menu".
Science and Technology
An unmanned spacecraft named "ExoMars 2016" was successfully launched jointly by Europe and Russia to search for bio signature on Mars( Martian life) in past or present. It is the 1st of two phase of ExoMars program.
- This space craft was launched on a porton - M rocket operated by Russia Roscosmos from Baikonur, Kazakhistan.
Indigenously developed , nuclear capable , surface to surface ballistic missile AGNI-I was successfully test fired off the Odisha coast as part of training exercise by SFC of Indian Army.
- Agni I is the first missile of Agni Series launched in 1983 by DRDO as part of Integrated Missile development program me in India.
National
Union Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister Radha Mohan Singh has notified maximum sale price of Bt Cotton seed for the year 2016-2017 accordin to which Price of BG-1 version of Bt Cotton hybrid has been fixed at 635 rupees and Price of BG-II version of Bt Cotton hybrid has been fixed at 800 rupees.
- Kakrapar Nuclear Plant located near Vyara in South Gujarat has been shut down for indefinite period after leakage of Heavy Water ( Deuterium Oxide) is detected .
- Heavy Water( Deuterium Oxide ) is used for cooling the reactor core and neutron moderator.
Allahabad High court has celebrated its 150th Foundation year on March 14th . President of India Pranab Mukerjee was the chief guest of the event .
- On this occasio , Chief justice of India ( CJI) TS Thakur dedicated digization centre of Allahabad Highe Court . RBI released a 10 rupee coin
Deaths
Anita Brookner(87). a renowned British author and art historian has passed away . She has won man Booker awards in 1984 for her famous novel Hotel du Lac .
-Anita Brookner was also awarded Commander of the order of the British Empire in 1990 and James Tait Black memorial Prize in 2010
Lloyd Stowell Shapley(92) , a Nobel prize winning Economist has passed away on 12th March 2016
He was considered as one of the "Fathers of Game Theory"and he also contributed in the fields of mathematical economics .
- He has recieved Nobel Prze in 2012 along with Alvin E Roth in Economic sciences for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design.
Sports
Lin Dan from China has won the All England Badminton 2016 title in men's single category. In teh final match played at Birmingham , he defeated teammate Tian Houwei by 21-9,21-10 score.
- In women's singles category Nozomi Okuhara( Japan) won the title by defeating Wang Shixian ( china) .
Services team has won the 70th Santosh football Championship title 2016 by defeating host Maharashtra in the final match.
- This is service team 5th time win this title after 1961,2012,2013 and 2015.
Read more March 2016 Current affairs Click Here
Kerala Tourism campaign title " New Worlds" has won Golden City Gate Award at the Internationale Tourismus-Borse Berlin (ITB-Berlin) 2016.
- It potrays the importance of responsible tourism initiatives under taken in Kerala which have led to the life changing stories and have become the heart of it.
International
Htin Kyaw (69) is elected as first civilian President of Myanmar after 53 years of military rule. He was candidate of National League of Democracy ( NLD) party and was elected after securing 360 of the total 652 casted votes.
-Htin Kyaw is a close aide and adviser of Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi who is the leader of NLD party that has majority in the parliament
H Depp Saini , noted Indian scholar and plant physiologist has been appointed as 5th VC (vice chancellor) of Australia's prestigious University of Canberra .
-Earlier he had received many awards including Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal
Important Days
March 15th is celebrated as "World consumer rights day" . It's significance is to provide opportunity to promote the basic rights of all consumers and demand those rights that must be respected and protected and also for those protesting against market abuses and social injustices.
Theme For World Consumers Rights day 2016 is " Antibiotics off the menu".
Science and Technology
An unmanned spacecraft named "ExoMars 2016" was successfully launched jointly by Europe and Russia to search for bio signature on Mars( Martian life) in past or present. It is the 1st of two phase of ExoMars program.
- This space craft was launched on a porton - M rocket operated by Russia Roscosmos from Baikonur, Kazakhistan.
Indigenously developed , nuclear capable , surface to surface ballistic missile AGNI-I was successfully test fired off the Odisha coast as part of training exercise by SFC of Indian Army.
- Agni I is the first missile of Agni Series launched in 1983 by DRDO as part of Integrated Missile development program me in India.
National
Union Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister Radha Mohan Singh has notified maximum sale price of Bt Cotton seed for the year 2016-2017 accordin to which Price of BG-1 version of Bt Cotton hybrid has been fixed at 635 rupees and Price of BG-II version of Bt Cotton hybrid has been fixed at 800 rupees.
- Kakrapar Nuclear Plant located near Vyara in South Gujarat has been shut down for indefinite period after leakage of Heavy Water ( Deuterium Oxide) is detected .
- Heavy Water( Deuterium Oxide ) is used for cooling the reactor core and neutron moderator.
Allahabad High court has celebrated its 150th Foundation year on March 14th . President of India Pranab Mukerjee was the chief guest of the event .
- On this occasio , Chief justice of India ( CJI) TS Thakur dedicated digization centre of Allahabad Highe Court . RBI released a 10 rupee coin
Deaths
Anita Brookner(87). a renowned British author and art historian has passed away . She has won man Booker awards in 1984 for her famous novel Hotel du Lac .
-Anita Brookner was also awarded Commander of the order of the British Empire in 1990 and James Tait Black memorial Prize in 2010
Lloyd Stowell Shapley(92) , a Nobel prize winning Economist has passed away on 12th March 2016
He was considered as one of the "Fathers of Game Theory"and he also contributed in the fields of mathematical economics .
- He has recieved Nobel Prze in 2012 along with Alvin E Roth in Economic sciences for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design.
Sports
Lin Dan from China has won the All England Badminton 2016 title in men's single category. In teh final match played at Birmingham , he defeated teammate Tian Houwei by 21-9,21-10 score.
- In women's singles category Nozomi Okuhara( Japan) won the title by defeating Wang Shixian ( china) .
Services team has won the 70th Santosh football Championship title 2016 by defeating host Maharashtra in the final match.
- This is service team 5th time win this title after 1961,2012,2013 and 2015.
Read more March 2016 Current affairs Click Here
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