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Current Affairs 29.3.19

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1.     Nizamabat constituency is one facing 17th Parliamentary Election with old Voters slip method since 185 members are contesting.
2.     Blockchain based Marketplace launched by Commerce Ministry for coffee e-marketplace.
3.     World’s longest salt cave of 10km was discovered in Israel named as Malham
4.     In Bank of Baroda government decided to infuse around 5042 crore.

APPOINTMENTS
5.     Mahonar Ajganokar – Deputy Chief Minister of Goa.
6.     DK Jain – ADHoc Ethics Officer, BCCI for looking into matters of conflict of interest.
7.     Indian Men’s Hockey coach – Graham Reed

AWARDS
8.     Dr Rajendra Joshi – Pravasi Bhartiya Samman for his outstanding achievement in the field of Science.
9.     Bodley Medal – Amartya Sen, highest honour granted by the University of Oxford.
10. Martha Farrel Award – Manu Gulati, School Teacher for Exellence in Women’s Empowerment.
11. A.M. Turing Award – Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton & Yann Lecun for Deep neural networks of computing.

SPORTS
12. 12th Asian Airgun Championship at Taoyuan in Taipei – Shreya Agarwal & Yashwardhan bagged Gold in 10m Air Riffle Junior Mixed Event.

DEFENCE
13. INS Magar carrying a relief material to cyclone ravaged Mozambique.

OBITUARIES
14. Valery Bykovsky – Russian cosmonaut.

BOOKS
15. Indian Fiscal Federalism – Dr. Y. V. Reddy.

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