Page-12 of Current Affairs - March, 2017

ICICI Bank launches Mera iMobile app for rural customers

India’s largest private sector lender ICICI Bank has launched the Mera iMobile app, India’s first one stop banking app for a range of digital services for rural customers. The multi-lingual app allows electronic transfer of funds through multiple payment mechanisms. ..

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Airtel acquires 4G business of Tikona Networks

Airtel has acquired 4G business of Tikona Networks including the Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) business for Rs 1600 crore. With this acquisition, Airtel will be second company after Reliance Jio to have pan-India presence in 2300 Mhz band. The 2300 ..

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5th Rashtriya Sanskriti Mahotsav (RSM)  held in Arunachal Pradesh

The 5th edition of ‘Rashtriya Sanskriti Mahotsav (RSM) – 2017’ was held in Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh. It was organized by the Union Ministry of Culture to preserve, promote and popularize the heritage and cultural diversity of Indian culture and ..

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Conference of Auditors General of Commonwealth Countries and British Overseas Territories held in India

The 23rd edition of Conference of Auditors General of Commonwealth Countries and British Overseas Territories was held in New Delhi, India. The theme of the conference was “Fostering Partnerships for Capacity Development in Public Audit”. The conference was attended by ..

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Ankur Khanna appointed as CFO of ICC

Ankur Khanna has been appointed as the new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of International Cricket Council (ICC). Prior to this appointment he was the CFO of the Air Asia India. Prior to that, he had worked in senior roles at ..

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Upendra Tripathy appointed as IDG of ISA

Senior IAS officer Upendra Tripathy was appointed as the full-time Interim Director General (IDG) of the International Solar Alliance (ISA). He is former secretary, Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy. ISA is a coalition of the solar resource rich ..

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International Conference on Alternate Fuels and Raw Materials in Cement Industry held in New Delhi

The third edition of International Conference on Alternate Fuels and Raw Materials in Cement Industry -Towards Realising Swachh Bharat Dream” was held New Delhi. It was organized by the Cement Manufacturer’s Association India (CMA). The 2-day conference aimed to facilitate ..

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Madhabi Puri Buch appointed as Whole-Time Member of SEBI

Madhabi Puri Buch was appointed as the new Whole-Time Member (WTM) of the market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI). This is the first time that a women and a person from private sector has been chosen for ..

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