DAILY CURRENT
AFFAIRS: 3 MARCH 2016
(Daily News India)
1.
DELHI’S IGI AIRPORT GRABBED WORLD’S NUMBER 1 POSITION
i. Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International
Airport has grabbed the world’s number 1 position in 25-40 Million Passengers
Per Annum category.
ii. The rankings were announced by the
Airports Council International.
iii. In 2014 it became no. 1 in the
25-40 MPPA categories and still retained the rank in 2015
2. SIDBI TO RAISE RS 10,000
CRORE FOR STAND UP INDIA FUND
i. The Small Industries Development Bank
of India will raise the proposed Rs 10,000 Crore corpus for ‘Stand Up India
Fund’ from Reserve Bank Of India.
ii. The Fund will be lent to Dalit and
women entrepreneurs.
iii. According the scheme each bank
branch has been mandated to lend to one micro enterprise promoted by a woman
and SC and ST entrepreneur.
3.
RANDEEP HOODA HONOURED WITH ACHIEVEMENT AWARD IN AUSTRALIA
i. Randeep Hooda was honoured by Melbourne based South Asian
community members at a function in Australia with Australia achievement award.
ii. Randeep Hooda formally launched a nonprofit
organisation ‘Nobody Dies Hungry’ founded by an Australian Indian Aloke Kumar.
4. NASA
INVITES INDIA TO JOINTLY EXPLORE MARS
i. India and will jointly explore Mars known
as Red planet on a joint mission.
ii. India’s Maiden mission to red
planets manglyaan has shined ISRO’s capabilities in the world for launching the
high value inter-planetary mission at very low cost.
iii. American scientists through its
Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN Mission (MAVEN) mission and India
through its Mars Orbiter Mission will share data for better results.
5. ROZLE
PREZELJ ELECTED CHAIRMAN OF IAAF ATHLETES’ COMMISSION
i. Rozle Prezelj was elected as the
Chairman of the International Association of Athletics Federations Athletes'
Commission in Monaco.
ii. He will replace Frank Fredericks
earlier chairman of IAAF.
iii. Britain marathon world
record-holder Paula Radcliffe was nominated Vice Chairwoman of the commission.
6. RAHUL
SACHDEV WON 1ST ALL INDIA OPEN INVITATIONAL SNOOKER CHAMPIONSHIP 2016
i. Rahul Sachdev won the 1st All India
Open Invitational Snooker Championship 2016 in Aurangabad, Maharashtra.
ii. Rahul defeated Pushpender Singh of
Railways in the final.
7. ARMAAN
EBRAHIM WON FMSCI MOTORSPORTS MAN OF THE YEAR TROPHY
i. Armaan Ebrahim was awarded with the
Motorsports Man-of-the-Year Trophy by the Federation of Motor Sports Clubs of India.
ii. B.I. Chandhok recived lifetime
achivement award. An
Chairman Of FMSCi: Vijay
Mallya.
