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Current Affairs March 19

March 2019 Current Affairs
Appointment
Sr no
Name of post
Names
1
Ambassador to Vietnam
Mr.Pranay Kumar Verma
2
Re-Elected as President of Olympic Council of Asia
Sheikh Ahmad
3
1st Lokpal of India
Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose
4
Chief minister of Goa
Pramod Sawant
5
Navy Chief
Karambir Singh
6
DG National Archives of India
P V Ramesh
7
Prime Minister of Palestine
Mohammad Shtayyeh

Events
1
Indian Railway celebrated  Golden Jubilee of
Rajdhani Express on 3rd March 2019
2
World Wild Life Day
March 3
3
International Women’s Day
March 8
4
World Water Day
March 22
5
Mission Shakti – An Anti satellite (ASAT)  Missile Test
March 27
India becomes the  4th country after USA,Russia  China to have A-SAT .

Government Initiatives
1
Release of Wing Commander of IAF by Pakistan
Abhinandan Varthman
2
Indian Cabinet approved the National Policy on
Software Products
3
IRCTS launched its own digital Payment gateway
IRCTS ipay
4
Asian Games to be included in 2022 to held in China
Cricket
Awards
1
1st person outside US to get Missile System awarded by AIAA
Dr.G.Satheesh Reddy
2
Croatia’s Highest Civilian Award The Grand Order of the king of Tomislav
President of India
Ram Nath Kovind
3
Vyas (Samman)Award
Leeladhar Jagudi for “Jitne Log Utne Prem”
4
Turning Award
Noble Prize for Computing
Geoffrey Hinton,Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio
5
Commonwealth Youth Award for Asian Region 2019
Padmanabhan Gopala
Rankings

1
Indian Company to recognized as a most ethical companies for 8th time.
Tata Steel  
2
Swachh Sarvekshan 2019.
Indore Cleanest City 3rd time in row
3
 Worldwide Cost of Living Survey 2019.
1st-Sweden
76-India
Sports Events and Winners
1
Deepak Singh wins Gold at Mkaran  in Iran
Boxing
2
1st cricketer to smashed 500 sixes in International Cricket.
Chirs Gayle
3
Indian Cricketer Reappointed as Chairman of the ICC Cricket Committee.
Anil Kumble
4
Indian Wrestler won Gold in wrestling tournament held in Bulgaria.
Bajrang Punia


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