Current Affairs 31st March 2017
NATIONAL:
- Parliament passes Finance Bill 2017 without amendments
- Regional aviation routes & airlines announced by govt under Udan scheme
- High speed rail wire Wi-Fi facility inaugurated in National Rail museum
- Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Act, 2017 passed as law by President
- Govt staff of Chhattisgarh to get benefit of 7th pay commission from April
- Maharashtra Govt imposed Non bailable case for overcharging medicines
- 3 new states Kerala, Tripura and Arunachal joins in UDAY scheme
INTERNATIONAL:
- 3rd G20 Framework Working Group meet concluded in Varanasi
- Letter to trigger Brexit from EU got signed by British PM Theresa May
BANKING NEWS:
- Kotak Mahindra Bank launched purely digital saving account named ‘811’
- Canara Bank reduces base rate by 10 bps
- Kotak Bank likely to buyout M&M Financial Services
- Axis Bank ties up with Wells Fargo for inward remittances
BUSINESS AND ECONOMY NEWS :
- Third party premium for motor vehicles hiked up to 41% : IRDAI
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY:
- SpaceX poised to launch first recycled rocket
AWARDS AND HONOURS:
- Portugal local Airport to be named after Cristiano Ronaldo in his honour
- Bob Dylan to receive Nobel prize in Stockholm
SPORTS NEWS:
- Tamil Nadu wins Deodhar Trophy and becomes 1st state to win all BCCI senior trophies
- Srinath Narayanan turn into India’s 46th chess Grandmaster
- 1 world silver, 2 Olympic silver medals stripped off from Turkey’s Abeylegesse