Around INDIA
# Union Water Resources Ministry has invited Tamil Nadu,
Karnataka, Kerala and Puducherry to participate in a Chief Secretary level
meeting scheduled in Delhi on March 09 to discuss the Supreme Court’s recent
verdict ion the Cauvery Water dispute
# Ministry of Human Resources and Development has invited
suggestions on rationalizing curriculum for classes 1 to 12
TAMIL NADU
# Governor, Mr. Banwarilal Purohit appointed Mr. K. Srinivasan
as Assembly Secretary; the appointment is made in consultation with the Speaker
# Chief Minister, Mr. Edappadi K. Palanisami addressed a
conference of District Collectors and Senior Police officials
STATES SCAN
# Karnataka: Country’s first heli – taxi service introduced in
Bengaluru
# Rajasthan: Government to introduce uniform for college
students
# Uttarakhand: Chief Minister Mr. Trivendra Singh Rawat
inaugurated the week-long 29th edition of annual International Yoga Festival
(IYF) at Parmarth Niketan ashram in Rishikesh.
WORLD
# China: hiked military budget by 8.1%
# Italy: The two populist parties that won major upsets in the
Italian election – the Five Star Movement (M5S) and the League (La Liga) – are
in a race to be the first to try to form a majority government after the
election produced a hung parliament.
- The decision will ultimately fall to Italy’s president, Sergio
Mattarella, who could take weeks to determine whether the anti-establishment
M5S, which took 32.6% of the vote, or a fragile centre-right alliance led by
the League’s bombastic Matteo Salvini, with 35.7% of the vote, are better
equipped to create a majority government.
# UK: Neil Basu, a senior Indian-origin Scotland Yard officer,
was appointed as the counterterrorism chief
ECONOMICS
# WTO sets up panel for India – US dispute for its solar mission
programmes
# Union Information and Broadcasting Minister, Smiriti Irani
inaugurated 2018 edition of FICCI Frames in Mumbai
# Central Government has constituted a Steering Committee headed
by Secretary of Department of Economic Affairs (DEA) (Subhash Chandra Garg) to
consider various issues relating to development of Financial Technology
(Fintech) space in India.
SPORTS
# Viswanathan Anand won the rapid event at the 11th Tal Memorial
chess in Moscow, Russia.
# India’s Leander Paes returned to top 50 in World rankings; Paes
placed at 46th place; Other Indians: Rohan Bopana at 30th and Divij Sharan at
44th
# World Cup Shooting 2018 held at Guadalajara (Mexico)
- India’s Manu Bhaker won Gold in Women’s 10m air pistol
- India’s Ravi Kumar won Bronze in Men’s 10m air pistol
MISC
# In terms of military prowess, India has ranked 4th out of 133
countries on the Global Firepower (GFP) list 2017. The list is topped by USA
followed by Russia and China [Click for more details]
# Mahendra Singh Dhoni was named the brand ambassador of
Dream11, a gaming platform.
# 90th Academy Awards ceremony, popularly referred to as Oscars
2018, honouring the best films of 2017 was held in Los Angeles, California,
United States. “The Shape of Water” won the best picture award
# CIMON (Crew Interactive Mobile CompanionN): an AI – based space
assistant for Germany’s DCR space administration
- CIMON weighs around 5 kg, will be tested on the ISS by German
astronaut Alexander Gerst during the ESA’s Horizons Mission between Jen –
October 2018
- CIMON will be the first AI – based mission and fight
assistance system
# The Hindu Publications
Group released “Wealth of Heritage”
book on Padmanabhaswamy temple (Kerala)
# A new malware “Saposhi” blooms over cyberspace; it is capable of
taking over electronics devices and turning them into “bots”, which can be used
for any purpose, including a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack
# Air India operates all women-crew route in Kolkata – Dimapur –
Kolkata to commemorate International Women’s Day
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