Current Affairs 29.3.19

1. Nizamabat constituency is one facing 17^th 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. 12^th 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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