Page-11 of Current Affairs - March, 2013

Renowned painter Ganesh Pyne passed away

March 15, 2013

Legendary painter Ganesh Pyne (76) passed away in Kolkata.  Described famously as ‘an artist’s artist, a philosopher’s philosopher and master fantasist of them all’, Pyne had received several awards and honors for his works. He blended romanticism, fantasy and free ..

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SEBI Bill for appointing SAT head passed in Rajya Sabha

March 15, 2013

Rajya Sabha cleared a Bill envisaging for broadening the criterion for appointment of Presiding Officer of the Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT). SAT is a statutory body that adjudicates on appeals against orders passed by SEBI. The SEBI (Amendment) Bill, 2013, ..

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Google to build personal hardware devises to replace passwords

March 15, 2013

Google is conducting a research to build a more secure personal hardware device which can be used to login to a computer or an online account, thus doing away with the need for a password. Designed in the shape of ..

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Curiosity finds key ingredients required to support life on mars

March 15, 2013

NASA’s Curiosity rover, which is exploring Mars, has identified sulphur, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and carbon – some of the key chemical ingredients required to support life – in the powder it drilled out of a sedimentary rock near an ..

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Falkland islanders choose to stay with Britain

March 15, 2013

In a referendum in which people of Falkland Islands were asked whether they wished to retain their current political status as an Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom, 99.8% of voters have chosen to stay as British Overseas Territory. What ..

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Four regulators sign MoU to jointly supervise financial conglomerates

March 15, 2013

The four financial sector regulators in the country- RBI, SEBI, IRDA and PFRDA have inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for co-operation in the field of consolidated supervision and monitoring of financial groups identified as financial conglomerates. What is the ..

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Fact Box: Operation Lal Dora

March 15, 2013

 India planned ‘Operation Lal Dora’ in 1983 to prevent coup in Mauritius India, during the regime of Indira Gandhi in 1983, had planned top secret military intervention-“Operation Lal Dora” to help the then Mauritian Prime Minister Anerood Jugnauth fight off ..

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Princess Lilian of Sweden passes away

March 15, 2013

Princess Lilian (97) of Sweden passed away. She had been suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. Her romance with husband Prince Bertil became one of Sweden’s best-known love stories.

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