Current Affairs 23rd March 2017

Current Affairs 23rd March 2017

• UP CM orders to ban cow smuggling in state
• Majuli of Assam to become India’s 1st carbon neutral district
• Railway Dept Report : Aadhaar not mandatory for train tickets of senior citizens
• CBSE introduced new 2-semester exam system from Class VI onwards
• UP Police orders to form anti-Romeo squad in Lucknow
• Waitlisted passengers can now take next alternative train from April 1
• Streets of Juri village in Jharkhand named after most educated girls
• Govt recommends to make Aadhaar mandatory for I-T returns
• Govt plans to disallow cash transaction above Rs.2 lakh
• Techkriti 2017 to be host in IIT Kanpur from March 23 to 26
• Drive against illegal slaughter houses launched by Uttar Pradesh Govt
• Aadhaar made mandatory for crop insurance schemes by Maharashtra govt
• 5th Rashtriya Sanskriti Mahotsav being planned in NE Region from 23 March to 31

• Iceland consider increase tax over tourism sector
• Laptops, tablets from 6 Middle East nations on flights banned by UK
• Bill on NASA funding, Mars exploration got approval from US President Trump
• UN insists wastewater key to solve global water crisis

• SEBI  approves Hudco on IPO to raise funds

• Vodafone, Idea merger to worth Rs.13,400 crore : Report

• ISRO commissions world’s 3rd largest hypersonic wind tunnel

• Brian McClendon Vice President of mapping at Uber resigns
• Goa Assembly elects Dr Pramod Sawant as speaker of Assembly
• SEBI appoints Madhabi Puri Buch as its Whole Time Member
• Upendra Tripathy becomes Interim Director General of ISA:

• Owing to security problem Hong Kong forfeits Davis Cup at Pakistan
• India bags 18 medals in Olympics World Winter Games at Austria