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External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj arrives in Sri Lanka to set the stage for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Sri Lanka, the first bilateral visit to the country by an Indian premier in over 25 years. During her two day stay, Swaraj calls on Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and hold talks with Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera. She is also expected to call on President Maithripala Sirisena during the trip. Modi will be in Sri Lanka on March 13-14, during which he will hold meetings with President Maithripala Sirisena and other senior leaders across the political spectrum.

 

Ahead of the UN climate conference in Paris later this year, India and Egypt have decided to form a "joint working group" for "cooperation on environment and climate change". This group will discuss and finalise the areas of cooperation in the fields of climate change, urban waste management, hazardous waste management, environmental education and all other facets of environmental governance in the two countries.

Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar

Haryana govt is contemplating on framing a law under which registration of pregnancy would be made compulsory within first three months of pregnancy.

The HRD ministry has set up a 3 member committee to probe alleged misappropriation of funds received under the Sarva Siksha Abhiyan by an NGO run by activist Teesta Setalvad, who is facing heat along with her husband in a separate case of embezzlement. Head of the committee Supreme Court lawyer Abhijit Bhattacharje Members SA Bari (Gujarat Central University vice chancellor) Gaya Prasad(Senior HR ministry official).

To commercialise Ayurvedic medicines, National Research Development Corporation (NRDC) has signed a pact with Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences (CCRAS). The scope of the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) also includes providing Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) services to CCRAS in India and abroad.

Former Bihar Chief Minister Ram Sunder Das (95) passes away.

Former Bihar Chief Minister and senior JD(U) leader Ram Sundar Das died on 6 March 2015 due to age-related problems. Das was chief minister of Bihar as the head of the Janata Party government in 1979.He had defeated Ram Vilas Paswan in the Hajipur (SC) Lok Sabha seat in 2009, but in the parliamentary polls last year, had lost to the latter.

Centre to roll out Aadhar Linked Digital Locker facility to replace the usage of physical documents with e- documents. 

It will quicken and ease up the process of sharing our certificates and other such documents with various agencies.Digital Locker is one of the key initiatives under the Digital India Programme and a beta version of the same has already been released in February 2015 by the Department of Electronics and Information Technology. e-documents will be shared through registered repositories thereby ensuring the authenticity of the documents online. Residents can also upload their own electronic documents and digitally sign them using the e-sign facility.These digitally signed documents can be shared with Government organisations or other entities.

Railways launches program for restoration and rehabilitation of helpless children in contact with Railways. 

There are at least 5-6 lakh children who either use railways or arrive on railway stations, and are either runaway or abandoned or trafficked and are in need of assistance. The scheme named 'Special Operating Procedures' is a joint initiative of Ministry of Women and Child Development and the Ministry of Railways.20 railway stations have already started implementing these SOPs.These railway stations will have NGOs/Child Help Groups working with them for restoration of children to their parents/guardians or their rehabilitation in absence of the former.These stations will also help Child Help Desk/kiosk/Booths with a telephone facility to call child helpline 1098.

Hyderabad is the best city to live in India as per the Mercer's Quality of Living Report 2015. 

The city of Char Minar, offers the best quality of life in the country, and 138th in the world.Its followed by Pune (145th), Mumbai (152nd) and New Delhi (154th) in the list. Top 5 cities in the world: Vienna, Zurich, Auckland, Munich and Vancouver

ISRO is going to carry out a test flight of Reusable Launch Vehicle - Technology Demonstrator (RLV-TD) by second quarter of 2015. 

The reusable vehicle will bring down the cost of satellite launches. Technology Demonstrator winged body vehicle weighing 1.5T will be lofted to a height of 70 km using solid booster, thus attaining 5 times the speed of sound.It will be recovered ultimately from the sea after it descend from the sky into the ocean.The magnitude of cost reduction depends on development and realization of fully reusable launch vehicle and its degree of reusability.

BJP-led Maharashtra government withdraws the 5% reservation quota for Muslims in government jobs. 

The quota was introduced by the previous NCP-Congress regime just before the assembly election in July 2014. The reservation was given to, two separate categories the namely the Educationally and Socially Backward Category (ESBC) for Marathas as well as a Special Backward Class (Muslims) segment for the Muslims.

Ashwin Mittal appointed as the CFO of Walmart

Walmart India on 7th March, has announced two executive positions with Ashwin Mittal as the new Chief Financial Officer and Javier Rojo as the head of Real Estate and Business Development. Mittal is to replace Jill Anderson, currently the CFO of Walmart India, who will soon shift his base  back to Walmart US.Mittal had joined the company in 2007 as Head of Financial Planning and Analysis and has since held many key positions.

Standing for women Mastercard’s latest Index of Women’s Advancement.

The socio-economic ranking of women in India is the lowest among 16 Asia Pacific countries, as stated by the Mastercard’s latest Index of Women’s Advancement. Bangladesh and Sri Lanka has a higher ranking in this attribute.New Zealand tops with the highest overall Index score of 77, followed by Australia (76), the Philippines (72.6) and Singapore (70.5).India (44.2), Bangladesh (44.6) and Sri Lanka (46.2) had scores below 50, indicating the huge gaps in gender empowerment.

 

Sunil Sabharwal, an independent Indian-American investor, has been re-nominated as an Alternate Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by the United States (US) on 4 March 2015.

US President Barack Obama re-nominated him to the post.

Spectrum auction: Modi govt gathers bids around Rs 77,000 cr

Narendra Modi government has garnered bids worth around Rs 77,000 crore at the end of three days of spectrum auction as telecom operators continued to bid aggressively.The top competitors were Bharati Airtel, vodafone in a tie with Reliance Jio.

Dawn spacecraft of NASA reached on dwarf planet Ceres

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft creates history by becoming the first mission to achieve orbit around the dwarf planet Ceres.The spacecraft was approximately 61,000 kilometres from Ceres when it got captured by the planet’s gravity.Since its discovery in 1801, Ceres was known as a planet, then an asteroid and later a dwarf planet.The giant asteroid Vesta was explored by the spacecraft since 2011-2012.

NPCI linked 15 crore bank accounts with Aadhaar number:

National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) on 6 March 2015 said it has linked 15 crore bank accounts with Aadhaar number.NPCI is the nodal agency for all retail payment systems under the Jan Dhan scheme."NPCI, the umbrella organisation for all retail payments system in India, reached a major milestone of successfully linking 15 crore bank accounts with Aadhaar number," it said in a statement.

RBI eased norms for home loans for up to Rs 10 lakh:

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on 5 March 2015 eased the norms for home loans for up to Rs.10 lakh by allowing banks to include stamp duty and registration charges to the cost of a unit.These charges form around 15 per cent of the cost of the house and place a burden on borrowers.As per the current practice, banks do not include stamp duty, registration and other documentation charges in the cost of housing property.

UST Global launched mobile app for women's safety:

UST Global has launched its mobile app for women's safety.iSafe has been rolled out for the Thiruvananthapuram City Police.The app is currently available for Android phones and will soon be available on other platforms.Through the app, women will be able to send instant alerts to the police control room by using the Panic Button or just by the long press of volume key of their mobile phones.The police then immediately dispatches help via the police CRV (Control Room Vehicle)

Flipkart aquired mobile ad network AdIQuity:

Flipkart on 6 March 2015 acquired mobile ad network AdiQuity.The acquisition is aimed at increasing advertising muscle of Flipkart.The deal amount was not disclosed by both the companies.The deal marked the online retailer's first acquisition in 2015 so far.

Hyderabad best city to live in India: Study

Leaving behind India's more traditional business centres such as Mumbai and Bangalore, the city of pearls Hyderabad is the best city to live in the country, says a global survey.According to consultancy firm Mercer's 'Quality of Living Report-2015', notwithstanding its top rank among Indian cities, Hyderabad globally ranks at 138th position in a list of 230 cities around the world in terms of standard of living.The list is topped by Vienna for the second consecutive year.