Daily Current Affairs Update of 17 March 2015 | General Knowledge
Daily Current Affairs Update of 17 March 2015
1.
Credit Rating Information Services of India Limited (CRISIL) announced
to appoint Ashu Suyash as the Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive
Officer (CEO) of the company. Her appointment was confirmed by the
Board of Directors of the Company. She will succeed Roopa Kudva and will
take charge from June 2015.
2. Tainted Indian sports
administrator Suresh Kalmadi has been made Life President of the Asian
Athletics Association for his "work in the development of athletics in
the continent" during his 13-year tenure as the head of organisation
from 2000.
3. Senior IAS officer T.V.
Somanathan was appointed as Joint Secretary in the Prime Minister's
Office. Somanathan, a 1987 batch IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre, is
working as Director, Joint Secretary level, in the World Bank in
Washington since May 12, 2011.
4. Indian-American Renu Khator
has been elected chair of the Board of Directors of the American Council
on Education (ACE), the major coordinating body for US colleges and
universities. Uttar Pradesh born Khator, University of Houston President
and System Chancellor since 2008, became board chair during ACE's 97th
Annual Meeting in Washington, DC.
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5. India's Baljinder Singh
bagged a bronze medal in the men's section of the 10th Asian 20km Race
Walking Championships at Nomi City in Japan to qualify for the World
Championships. The Punjab race walker clocked a modest time of 1 hour 22
minutes 58 seconds to finish third in the competition. He has a
personal best of 1:22.12sec. The 28-year-old thus became only the second
Indian to win a medal in the prestigious championships after Gurmeet
Singh won a silver in 2012 besides two bronze medals in 2013 and 2014
editions.
6. Noted Gandhian and former
Chancellor of Gujarat Vidyapith, Narayan Desai, passed away in a private
hospital in Surat. 90 year old Desai was the son of Mahatma Gandhi's
diarist Mahadev Desai.
7. India won the Hero women’s
Hockey World League Round 2. In the final held at the Major Dhyan Chand
National Stadium in New Delhi, India defeated Poland by 3-1 to claim the
title. Malaysia was placed third in the tournament and was followed by
Thailand, Russia, Kazakhstan, Ghana and Singapore.
8. The Reserve Bank of India
(RBI) has eased the norms for payments made using NFC-based or
contactless cards and said that transactions below Rs. 2,000 will not
need a additional factor of authentication. The additional factor of
authentication the RBI had earlier mandated was entering a PIN or an
one-time password.
9. Hitachi India Limited and
Siemens Limited signed a MoU with CII in the capital to form a
consortium that would create pilots and replicate them throughout the
country for setting up 100 smart cities. The MoU was signed on behalf of
Hitachi by their MD, Mr. Ichiro Iino and MD, Siemens Ltd, Mr. Sunil
Mathur and DG, CII Mr. Chandrajit Banerjee in the presence of DIPP
Secretary Mr. Amitabh Kant.
