CURRENT AFFAIRS MARCH /19/2015
1.Mumbai gets its first
local train with automatic sliding doors.
The
train was introduced on the Churchgate to Borivali route.
Railway
plans to add at least four rakes on both Central and
Western
Railway with closed doors in the next one year.
The
local trains ferry 7.5 million commuters daily - roughly 30 per cent of
the daily national rail traffic.
Some
37,383 persons were killed in local train accidents in the past decade.
2. Astra - indigenously
developed air-to-air missile - successfully
test - launched from a Sukhoi-30
fighter aircraft.
The
all-weather 'Beyond Visual Range (BVR)' missile can destroy enemy aircraft
at supersonic speed.
This
3.8 metre long missile is the smallest of the DRDO-developed missiles.
It’s
also capable of being launched from different altitudes.
3. Railway tracks and
platform will cost you a fine of Rs 5000 from now on.
The
ruling has been given by National Green Tribunal to help the cleanliness
drive in the country.
The
bench, headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar, also passed a
slew of instructions to Railways and other authorities on how to keep the
premises clean.
4.
Department of Consumer Affairs launches a web portal
"GAMA" (Grievances
Against Misleading Advertisements)
for redressal
of grievances against misleading advertisements.
It
also introduced "Grahak Suvidha Kendras" - one stop consumer
service
centers, in six cities of Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Jaipur,
Kolkata,
Patna and Delhi.
These
new initiatives aims to enhance consumer awareness and
strengthen
support services to them across the country.
5. For every convict, there
are more than 2 undertrials in Indian jails.
As
per the data compiled by the National Crime Records Bureau at the end of
2013, there were 4,11,992 inmates in the jails of the country, out of
which the number of convict prisoners was 1,29,608 and the number of
undertrials was 2,78,503.
'Prisons'
is a state subject under Entry 4 of List II of the 7th schedule to the
Constitution and prison administration is primarily the responsibility of
the state governments.
6. Indian Oil Corporation is
in talks with Nepal Oil
Corporation for setting up a petroleum
product pipeline from
Raxaul in India to Amlekhganj in Nepal.
The proposed pipeline, measuring
some 38 Km, would come up at estimated cost of around Rs 200 crore.
7. SMRITI IRANI
CHOSEN AS YOUNG GLOBAL LEADER FROM INDIA:
Union HRD Minister, Smriti Irani is named as Young Global leader from India by
the World Economic Forum (WEF).
Smriti Irani is among 10 Indians to be included in the
list of a total of 187 young
Global leaders.
HRD – Human
Resource Development.
8. HDFC BANK
LAUNCHED MOBILE APP ‘CHILLR’:
HDFC Bank launched a mobile app ‘Chillr’ to allow its customers
to instantly transfer money to any person in India.
HDFC Bank launched this app in partnership
with Kochi based mobile value added service company MobME.
Maximum transaction limit allowed is 5000 rupees or a maximum of 10
transactions per day and Rs.
50,000 a month.
Money can be transferred to any contact in
the phone book via app.
CEO of MobME – Sanjy Vijayakumar
Headquarter of MobME – Cochin, India
9. INDIA WILL HOST
NEXT AMCDRR CONFERENCE:
India will host the 7th Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk
Reduction (AMCDRR) in 2016.
Decision was taken at the third UN World Conference on Disaster
Risk Reduction held in Sendai,
Japan.
6th Asian Ministerial
Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (AMCDRR) was held in Thailand in June
2014.
Note: First AMCDRR held in China in the year
2005.
10. INDIA SIGNED
MoU WITH KYRGYZSTAN ON TEXTILE SECTOR COOPERATION:
Government of India has signed a Memorandum
of Understanding (MoU) with the centralAsian Republic of Kyrgyzstan on cooperation in the textiles Sector.
The Two countries have agreed to set up a
joint working Group (JWG) to explore details of cooperation within the scope of
the MoU.
The MoU was signed by Minister of State for
Textiles, Santosh Kumar Gangwar and
his counterpart Kubanychbek
Turdubaev, Minister of Energy and Industry of Kyrgyzstar.
