Page-32 of Current Affairs - March, 2017

Four States come together for elephant census

March 11, 2017

For the first time in India, four states Odisha, West Bengal, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand have decided to conduct a synchronised elephant census in May 2017. These four together have the maximum number of human-elephant conflict-prone regions in India. This decision ..

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Gravitational waves Pioneer Ronald Drever passes away

March 11, 2017

Scottish physicist and gravitational waves pioneer Ronald Drever passed away. He was 85. He was one of the co-founders of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory (LIGO) detectors that had detected the gravitational waves emitted by merger of a binary ..

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Sachin Tendulkar appointed as official ambassador of women’s World Cup 2017

March 11, 2017

International Cricket Council (ICC) has appointed Indian cricketing legend Sachin Tendulkar as the official ambassador of Women’s Cricket World Cup 2017. The women’s World Cup is scheduled to be held in June 2017 at England and Wales with eight top ..

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Mass coral bleaching occurring in Great Barrier Reef for second year

March 11, 2017

Great Barrier Reef in Australia’s eastern coast is experiencing an unprecedented second straight year of mass coral bleaching. This is for the first time Great Barrier Reef has bleached two years in sequence. Earlier in March and April 2016, 2,300-km ..

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Donald Tusk re-elected as European Council president

March 11, 2017

The European Council has re-elected Donald Tusk as its president for a second term. He will have tenure of two and a half years from June 2017 to November 2019. He was also re-appointed as President of the Euro Summit ..

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IIT-M solar inverter system wins 2017 IEEE Spectrum Technology Award

March 11, 2017

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Madras has won the 2017 IEEE Spectrum Technology in the Service of Society Award for its solar-direct current (DC) inverter system. The system was developed by Centre for Decentralised Power Systems at IIT-M using micro grid ..

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NASA scientists found lost Chandrayaan-1 orbiting Moon

March 11, 2017

Scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have found India’s first lunar probe, Chandrayaan-1 which was considered lost, is still orbiting the moon. They also have found NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). The ISRO lost communication with Chandrayaan-1 on August ..

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Parliament passes Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Bill, 2016

March 10, 2017

Parliament has passed the Maternity Benefits (Amendment) Bill, 2016 to raise maternity leave for working women from 12 weeks to 26 weeks for two surviving children. It was passed in the Lok Sabha and already has been passed in the ..

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