DAILY CURRENT
AFFAIRS: 15TH MAR 2017
(DAILY NEWS INDIA)
1. FOOTWEAR
DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE BILL, 2017 INTRODUCED IN LOK SABHA
i. The Commerce & Industry Minister Nirmala
Sitharaman introduced the Footwear Design and Development Institute Bill, 2017
in the Lok Sabha in order to declare the FDDI as an Institution of National
Importance.
ii. Its objective is to enable FDDI emerge as
Centre of Excellence to meet with the international standards and address the
shortage of trained human resource in the sector.
iii. The Bill seeks to facilitate and promote
teaching, training and research in all disciplines relating to design and
development of Footwear and leather products.
iv. The institute shall consist of a governing
council where chairperson shall be an academician, scientist or industrialist
from the leather sector to be nominated by the central government.
iv. The central government shall have the power to
remove the chairperson or other members or reconstitute the governing council
if it considers it appropriate to do so.
v. It will also develop an international centre for
creation and transmission of information, with a focus on educational,
professional and industrial commitments.
2. GOVERNMENT
ESTABLISHES BANANA RESEARCH CENTRE IN VAISHALI DISTRICT OF BIHAR
i. Shri Radha Mohan Singh, The Union Agriculture
and Farmer’s Welfare Minister laid the foundation stone of the Banana Research
Centre at Gorole, Vaishali, Bihar Centre to fulfill the aspirations of the
local banana growers.
ii. The new centre will work to find reasons behind
less production in banana, enhancement in acreage for cultivation, suitable
utilization of the various parts of the plants, different products, marketing
and value addition.
iii. The new research centre at Vaishali will let
the research work to get more momentum to bring a new era of banana cultivation
in Bihar and surrounding states
iv. India is the largest producer of banana in the
world. Among the states, Maharashtra is the largest producer followed by Tamil
Nadu.
3. RBI LIKELY
TO OPEN UPI PLATFORM FOR DIGITAL WALLETS SOON
i.
The Reserve Bank of India is set
to open up the Unified Payment Interface platform for digital wallets firms as
part of the government’s digitization campaign.
ii. Presently, the digital wallets can access the
UPI network through partner banks to facilitate bank-to-bank money transfers.
iii. The initiative will enable the digital wallets
such as Paytm and MobiKwik to become inter-operable and also help them to
expand their business model.
iv. RBI is expected to issue guidelines shortly on
inte`roperability and ‘know your customer’ norms for digital wallet companies
as well as the interchange fees to be levied between the wallets to access the
UPI framework.
4. MADHYA
PRADESH REWA SOLAR PLANT TO RECEIVE LOAN FROM WORLD BANK
i. An international financial institution, World
Bank has agreed to provide loan to develop internal transmission arrangements
of the upcoming Rewa Ultra Mega Solar project in Madhya Pradesh.
ii. This was officially announced by Public
Relations Department official in New Delhi.
iii. RUMS become India’s 1st solar power project of
the country to receive a loan under CTF.
iv. It will provide 75% of the loan amount with an
interest rate of only 0.25% and remaining 25 % of the loan amount under its
Clean Technology Fund, money will be provided at an interest rate of only 0.25%”.
5. FORMER
DEFENCE MINISTER MANOHAR PARRIKAR SWORN IN AS GOA CM
i. Former Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar was
sworn in as Goa CM for 4th time at the Raj Bhavan in Panaji, Goa. Goa Governor
Mridula Sinha administered the oath of office and secrecy to the CM and 8 other
ministers who also took the oath.
ii. Supreme Court has given Mr. Parrikar 48 hours
to prove his majority on the floor of the house on March 16.
6. MANIPUR CM
IBOBI SINGH RESIGNS, BIREN SINGH TO BE SWORN IN NEXT CM
i. The incumbent CM of Manipur Okram Ibobi Singh
resigned from the post giving way for formation of a new ministry under the
BJP.
ii. In 60-member assembly of Manipur, BJP won 21
seats.
iii. The BJP’s Nongthombam Biren Singh will take
oath as Manipur’s next CM along with his council of ministers in the presence
of BJP president Amit Shah and Union Minister Jitendra Singh.
7. RELIANCE
COMMERCIAL FINANCE APPOINTS DEVANG MODY AS CEO
i. Devang Mody was appointed as CEO of Reliance
Commercial Finance Ltd ,a subsidiary of Reliance Capital.
ii. Prior to this, Mody served as president of
consumer business at Bajaj Finance.
iii. He has over 20 years of experience in the
financial sector.
8. FILMMAKER
AND CHILDREN’S AUTHOR AMY KROUSE ROSENTHAL DIED
i. Popular American author, public speaker and
filmmaker, Amy Krouse Rosenthal died to ovarian cancer.
ii. Her writings included both adult and children’s
books. She has written more than 30 books that include journals, memoirs and
the bestselling children’s picture stories Uni the Unicorn and Duck! Rabbit!
9.
COMMONWEALTH DAY: MARCH 13, 2017
i. Common wealth Day is
celebrated annually across the Commonwealth of Nations on the 2nd Monday in
March.
ii. Its objective is to come together and celebrate
its values and diversity.
iii. 2017 Theme was “A peace-building Commonwealth”.
OBJECTIVE
QUESTION BASED ON TODAY’S NEWS
Q1. IN WHICH
OF THE GIVEN STATES, GOVERNMENT HAS LAID THE FOUNDATION STONE OF BANANA
RESEARCH CENTRE TO CATER TO THE NEEDS OF BANANA GROWERS?
a)
Maharashtra
b) Tamil
Nadu
c) Bihar
d) Madhya
Pradesh
Q2. WHICH
FINANCIAL INSTITUTION IS SET TO PROVIDE LOAN FOR THE UPCOMING REWA ULTRA MEGA
SOLAR PROJECT IN MADHYA PRADESH?
a) International
Monetary Fund
b) Asian
Development Bank
c) Reserve
Bank of India
d) World
Bank
Q3. WHO HAS
BEEN SWORN IN AS THE NEW CHIEF MINISTER OF GOA?
a) M.
Venkaiah Naidu
b) Manohar
Parrikar
c) Amit Shah
d) Laxmikant
Parsekar
Q4. 51 YEAR
OLD AMY KROUSE ROSENTHAL WHO DIED RECENTLY WAS A RENOWNED ____?
a)
Journalist
b) Actor
c) Author
d) Singer
Q5. WHO HAS
BEEN APPOINTED AS THE NEW CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF RELIANCE COMMERCIAL
FINANCE LTD?
a) Ashok
Mishra
b) Devang
Mody
c) Deepak
Jain
d) Pawan
Kumar
ANS: 1 - C 2
- D 3 - B 4 - A 5 - B
