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Current Affairs [PDF] - March 16-31, 2020

Sumitro Bhattachar
News Headlines:
Current Affairs: News Headlines-16 March 2020
India
PM Modi, leaders and representatives from SAARC nations participate in video conference to chalk
out a joint strategy to fight the coronavirus outbreak
Governor Anandiben Patel promulgates the ‘Uttar Pradesh Recovery of Damages to Public and Private
Property Ordinance, 2020’
IAS officer Baseer Ahmed Khan appointed Advisor to J&K Lieutenant Governor Girish Chandra Murmu
Gujarat: Four Congress MLAs resign from Assembly; party now has 69 MLAs in 182-member
Assembly
Sadanand Fulzele, founder secretary of the Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Smarak Samiti which looks after
Deekshabhoomi in Nagpur, dies at 91
A roll on-roll off cum passenger ferry service, also called ‘Ropax’, launched between Bhaucha Dhakka,
Mumbai and Mandwa, Alibaug
World
World Consumer Rights Day celebrated on March 15; theme: ‘The Sustainable Consumer’
Vittorio Gregotti, Italian architect who designed the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics stadium, dies
at 92
Sports
All England Open Badminton Championships winners: Viktor Axelsen (Denmark): Men’s Singles, Chen
Yufei (China): Women’s Singles, Yuki Fukushima & Sayaka Hirota (Japan): Women’s Doubles, Praveen
Jordan & Melati Daeva Oktavianti (Indonesia): Mixed Doubles
Table tennis: Achanta Sharath Kamal clinches men’s singles title at ITTF Challenger Plus Oman Open
Chandigarh-based Aadil Bedi wins Bengal Open Golf Championship in Kolkata
Current Affairs: News Headlines-17 March 2020
India
Parliament passes Central Sanskrit Universities Bill, 2019 granting central university status to three
deemed Sanskrit universities — Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, Sri Lal Bahadur Shastri Rashtriya
Sanskrit Vidyapeeth, and Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth Tirupati
nominates former Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi to Rajya Sabha
Coronavirus: Govt. prohibits entry of passengers from EU countries, Turkey and the UK from March 18
till March 31
Economy & Corporate
The 30-share BSE Sensex plunges 2,713.41 points or 7.96% to finish at 31,390.07
The 50-share NSE Nifty slumps 757.80 points or 7.61% to end at 9,197.40
Wholesale price index (WPI) based inflation declines to 2.26% in February 2020
RBI directs banks/FIs to assess impact on balance sheet, asset quality due to coronavirus outbreak
Shares of SBI Cards and Payment Services list at Rs 661, 12.45% below its issue price of Rs 755 after
successful IPO
Share of Indian vendors in defence contracts grew from 39.06% in 2015-16 to 75.03% in 2019-20:
Govt
Ravinder Singh Dhillon appointed CMD of Power Finance Corporation (PFC)
World
US Federal Reserve cuts benchmark borrowing rate to a range of 0-0.25%

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