March 2016 (People+ Events+ Appointments etc) Flashcards by Tanya Sehgal

Former Chief Justice of India ______ took charge as the Chairperson of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). He is the __th Chairperson of the NHRC.

H L Dattu

7th

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Foreign Minister _______ elected as President of Kosovo by the Members of Parliament amid the protests. He succeeded “Atifete Jahjaga”.

Hashim Thaci

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Slovenian high-jumper __________ was elected the Chairman of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Athletes’ Commission in Monaco.

Rozle Prezelj

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________________ won the 1st All India Open Invitational ______________ Championship 2016 in Aurangabad, Maharashtra.

Rahul Sachdev

Snooker

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Olympian ___________ clinched the ________ in men’s 50km race walk event on the second and final day of the National Championships in Jaipur. It was the 3rd edition of National Race Walking Championships.

Basant Bahadur Singh Rana

Gold Medal

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External Affairs Minister _________ has inaugurated the 1st Raisina Dialogue in New Delhi.

Sushma Swaraj

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Who topped the Forbes 2016 list of world’s richest people once again among 84 Indian billionaires ?
His Net worth is?

Reliance Industries Chairman - Mukesh Ambani

$75 billion

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Who has been appointed as the chief strategy & commercial officer of Vistara Airlines

Sanjiv Kapoor

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Vice Admiral________ took over as the Chief of Staff of the Visakhapatnam. He succeeds Vice Admiral Bimal Verma.

Atul Kumar Jain

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MCX announced the appointment of ___________ as MD & CEO of the exchange. He will succeed Manoj Vaish.

Mrugank Paranjape

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New Zealand Cricketer _________ passed away after a prolonged battle with cancer that eventually proved one attack the gifted cricketer couldn’t see off.

Martin Crowe

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Veteran Film Actor and Director __________ is to be conferred the 47th Dada Saheb Phalke Award for the year 2015.

Shri Manoj Kumar

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Independent investor ____________has become the 1st Indian American to occupy a key administration post as Alternate Executive Director at the IMF.

Sunil Sabharwal

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Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) CEO and managing director _____________ and two (2) others appointed as non-official directors to the board of Reserve Bank of India (RBI). Other two are: ?

Natarajan Chandrasekaran

Other two: Mr Mankad & Bharat Narotam Doshi.

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Author_____________ of Prince of Tides And Great Santini, Dies At 70.

Pat Conroy,

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_____________ Jumps To 9th Spot At World Golf Championships.

Anirban Lahiri

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President Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated a National conference on ‘Women Legislators: ‘____________’ in New Delhi.

‘Building Resurgent India’

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______________, the Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gases laid the foundation stone of Country’s 1st its of kind Octomax unit at ____________.

Dharmendra Pradhan

Mathura refinery

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Finance Minister of India Mr. Arun Jaitley has indicated that the Government may merge ___ public sector banks into just six.

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_____________ has been conferred with the Mahindra Samriddi India Agri Lifetime Achievement Aear-Krishi Shiromani Samman in New Delhi.

Dr Amrita Patel

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________________, the inventor of email has passed away. He was 74. He died of an apparent heart attack.

Ray Tomlinson

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____________ was an American actress and the wife of the 40th President of the United States, Ronald Reagan. She died At 94

Nancy Davis Reagan

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Union Minister for Women and Child Development ________________ launched _____________ portal in New Delhi to facilitate women entrepreneurs to sell their products to buyers.

Maneka Sanjay Gandhi

Launched : Mahila e-Haat

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President _____________ has awarded the Legion d’Honneur, France’s highest honour, to visiting Saudi crown prince ______________. Nayef was cited for his “efforts in the fight against terrorism and extremism.”

Francois Hollande

Saudi crown prince: Mohammed bin Nayef

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______________ provisionally suspended after failing drugs test at Australian Open

Maria Sharapova provisionally suspended after failing drugs test at Australian Open

____________ has topped the list among the 21 cities in a race to be the best state in India having an investment potential, according to the report submit by economic think tank _________.

Gujarat NCAER (National Council of Applied Economic Research)

___________ will be the new Chairman of BSE and new Public Interest Director announced by BSE. He is going to replace __________________

Sudhakar Rao Replace : Mr. S Ramadorai.

The Upper House of the Parliament passed The ________________ 2015, which was tabled in Lok Sabha on May 5, 2015 by the Minister of Road Transport and Highways and Shipping, Mr. NitinGadkari.

National Waterways Bill,

Veteran Egyptian diplomat____________ (aged 73) has been selected as Secretary General of the Arab League.

Ahmed Abul Gheit

The Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat, in association with the Karnataka Horticulture Department, will conduct a ‘___________’ in Mangaluru on March 12 and 13.

Honey Festival

Mahindra & Mahindra Chairman and Managing Director (MD) _____________was conferred with Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur (Knight of the Legion of Honour) by French Government.

Anand Mahindra

Lieutenant General (Lt Gen) ____________ has been appointed as Deputy Chief of Army Staff. He will be now moving to Army Headquarters in New Delhi.

N P S Hira

Astronaut _____________ will retire from NASA next month, after spending nearly a year in space and setting a record for the most cumulative days in space of any American.

Scott Kelly

Indian boxer and Olympic bronze medalist __________ notched up his fourth (4th) successive knockout win in the professional boxing circuit, beating Hungary’s Alexander Horvath in under three rounds in Liverpool.

Vijender Singh

External Affairs Minister ___________ will leave for Nepal to attend _____________. Before which, a session of Programming Committee of SAARC will be held in Pokhara (Nepal). Standing Committee of the SAARC, which is a Foreign Secretaries-level Forum, will be held on 16th of this month.

Sushma Swaraj SAARC ministerial meet

______________, Ambassador of India to Italy, has been concurrently accredited as the next Ambassador India to the Republic of San Marino with residence in Rome. of

Anil Wadhwa

Myanmar's Parliament elected ___________ as the first civilian president to lead the country after 53 years of military rule.

Htin Kyaw

Venezuela President ____________ on 14 March 2016 declared a two-month extension on emergency powers meant to help shore up the country's crippled economy.

Nicolas Maduro

Mumbai based Non-banking financial company Altico Capital India has appointed former HSBC India chairperson ______________ as an independent non-executive director.

Naina Lal Kidwai

India Post has selected ____________ to advise it on setting up a payments bank and an agreement between the two will be signed on March 14.

Deloitte

____________ from China has won the prestigious 2016 All England Badminton title in the men’s singles category.In the final match played at Birmingham, England he defeated Chinese teammate Tian Houwei

Lin Dan

__________ will be made a saint on September 4, Pope Francis announced. 19 years after the death of the Nobel Laureate who spent ___________ serving the poor and sick on the streets of Kolkata.

Mother Teresa | 45 years

World Consumer Day is celebrated across the World on ????

15th March 2016.

_____________, the Booker prize-winning British author and renowned art historian, has died at the age of 87.

Anita Brookner

A total of ___________ Indian investors have been featured in a list of top 100 venture capitalists in the world.

Fourteen (14)

India’s largest telecom operator by subcriber base, ______________, said on Thursday that it has acquired Videocon Telecom for Rs 4,428 crore.

Bharti Airtel

_____________, the award winning action heroine has been appointed as United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Goodwill Ambassador.

Michelle Yeoh

Famous Shehnai exponent __________________ has passed away in Kolkata, West Bengal. He was 77. He was suffering from kidney related problem and hospitalized from the past few days.

Ustad Ali Ahmad Hussain Khan

Television magician ______________ has died aged 77 after being diagnosed with a brain tumor.

Paul Daniels

The United Nations (UN) has suspended Russian tennis player ______________ as Goodwill Ambassador of the organisation after she was tested positive on doping allegations.

Maria Sharapova

The Govt of India (GOI) has signed a loan agreement with the World Bank for __________________ in Madhya Pradesh.

Neeranchal National Watershed Project

__________ is the cleanest railway station in the country, followed by Rajkot and Bilaspur (Chhattisgarh), according to an Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) survey released.

Surat

Air Asia India has made an announcement on Thursday that ______________ will be the new CEO of the company with the effect from April 1, 2016.

Mr. Amar Abrol

________________, the ex Wipro CFO has been appointed as the new Chairman by Honeywell Automation India Ltd (HAIL) on Thursday.

Suresh Senapaty

Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution ___________ on 17 March 2016 launched the Online Depot System in New Delhi to automate all the operations of _____________ (FCI) depots.

Ram Vilas Paswan Food Corporation of India(FCI)

Russia gets its own Rating Firm named ___________.

ACRA (Analytical Credit Rating Agency)

Pfizer, the pharmaceutical major has announced the appointed of _________________ as its new Managing Director (MD) with immediate effect for a period of five years

Mr. S Sridhar

The Airport Authority Of India (AAI) has given the additional charge of Chairman to ____________.

Mr. Sudhir Raheja

World Forestry Day or International Day of Forests is celebrated worldwide every year on ___________.

21st of March

India-born brothers ______________ and __________ topped the 'Asian Rich List 2016' released here last night and the annual rankings showed that they had added _________ to their personal fortune in a year to be worth an estimated 16.5 billion pounds.

G P Hinduja & S P Hinduja | One billion pounds

The ________________ Ban Ki Moon has appointed Red, the leader of the “Angry Birds” mobile game characters as an envoy to inspire climate action toward a sustainable and happier future for all

United Nations Secretary General

The US President Barack Obama has named the _______________ to head the U.S. combatant command. The position is one of the most senior in the US Military and Robinson becomes the first woman to head this position.

General Lori Robinson

FC Barcelona’s player _____________has been named as Huawei global ambassador.

Lionel Messi

India star wrestler ___________ secured an Olympic quota place for India with a gold-medal finish in the men's 65kg freestyle category on an otherwise disappointing day for the country's grapplers in the Asian Olympic Qualification tournament in Astana, Kazakhastan.

Yogeshwar Dutt

Union Health Minister __________ launched Cartridge Based Nucleic Acid Amplification Test (CBNAAT) machines for the quick diagnosis of ____________within two hours.

JP Nadda Tuberculosis

Swedish furniture retailing giant_________will contribute 12.4 million euro (Rs 92.84 crore) to provide safe water and sanitation to one million people in India and Indonesia through __________.

IKEA | Water Org

Justice___________, chairperson, ____________ (NHRC), India emerged as the unanimous choice to be appointed as a member of the International Coordinating Committee of NHRIs (ICC) Bureau in Geneva.

HL Dattu National Human Rights Commission

World TB Day, falling on March 24th each year. This time the Theme is "____________".

"Unite to End TB"