Daily Current Affairs Digest 12th March 2016
• This spiritual organisation was fined 5 crore rupees by the NGT for causing damage to the Yamuna flood plain to organize 2-day World Culture Festival in New Delhi – The Art of Living Foundation
• To this company the Ratna and R-series oil fields were given back on 10 March 2016 by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs - Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited
• This city will host the Maritime India Summit for 2-days beginning from 14 April 2015 – Mumbai
• To achieve these objectives the revised policy on gas production from Deep Waters & HPHT areas was approved the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs – Marketing and Pricing freedom
• The city which was ranked as the most expensive city in the world by the Economist Intelligence Unit is - Singapore
• The Finnish city that will host the 2018 U-20 World Championships in Athletics is - Tampere
• The Union Cabinet on 10 March 2016 approved the Hydrocarbon Exploration and Licensing Policy which will replace the - New Exploration Licensing Policy
• The university that won the annual Visitor's Award for the Best University is - Tezpur University
• The NITI Aayog in partnership with the UN in India and MyGov launched the - Women Transforming India initiative
• The Centre and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) organised a three-day conference in New Delhi on the theme of - Advancing Asia: Investing for the Future
• Rest of India on 10 March 2016 won the Irani Cup Cricket title by defeating 41-time Ranji Champions - Mumbai
• Union Government on 10 March 2016 appointed former Supreme Court judge Justice Balbir Singh Chauhan as the chairperson of - 21st Law Commission
• Egyptian diplomat and former Foreign Minister who was named as Secretary General of the Arab League on 10 March 2016 - Ahmed Abul Gheit
• Rajya Sabha on 10 March 2016 passed the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Bill, 2015 that seeks to set up a - Real Estate Regulatory Authority (RERA)
• The Supreme Court on 10 March 2016 asked telecom operators to give an undertaking that they have not exceeded this percent of threshold limit of call drops as mandated in the regulations of TRAI –Two percent
• Indian Naval Ship that will participate in the Mauritius National Day celebrations to strengthen the existing bonds of friendship between the two nations - INS Tabar
• Myanmar's lower house of parliament voted to confirm a close friend and confidant of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi as its presidential candidate - Htin Kyaw
• The scheme that was approved by the CCEA to provide free LPG connections to the BPL households across the country - Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana
• This State became the first in the country to issue bonds under the Ujwal DISCOM Assurance Yojana – Uttar Pradesh
• India signed an agreement with this country to provide over 400 million US dollars to finance three water supply projects in that country – Sri Lanka
