Current Affairs- March,2015:
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Benjamin Netanyahu secured 3rd straight term for Israel’s PM after his rightwing Likud Party confounded the polls to win 30 of 120 seats in Parliament against 24 for the centre-left Zionist Party.
India successfully established Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System(IRNSS) 1-D into orbit which was launched through ISRO’s PSLV C-27.IRNSS 1-D is the fourth of series of 7 satellites. While four of the seven satellites will be in geosynchronous orbit, other three would be positioned in a geostationary orbit, some 36000 km above the Earth.
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International
- Benjamin Netanyahu wins PM election in Israel
Benjamin Netanyahu secured 3rd straight term for Israel’s PM after his rightwing Likud Party confounded the polls to win 30 of 120 seats in Parliament against 24 for the centre-left Zionist Party.
National
- PM launches first indigenous rotavirus vaccine
- ISRO navigation satellite IRNSS 1-D in orbit
India successfully established Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System(IRNSS) 1-D into orbit which was launched through ISRO’s PSLV C-27.IRNSS 1-D is the fourth of series of 7 satellites. While four of the seven satellites will be in geosynchronous orbit, other three would be positioned in a geostationary orbit, some 36000 km above the Earth.
Person/Place In News
- Dilip Shanghvi is the richest Indian:Forbes Dilip Sanghvi of Sun Pharmaceuticals,with a net worth of $21.5 billion, surpassed Mukesh Ambani (India’s wealthiest person for 8 consecutive years) as the World’s richest Indian on March,04.
- Lee Kuan Yew, the first Prime Minister of Singapore died on 23rd March.
Science & Tech.
- World’s first solar aircraft on its maiden journey
Miscellaneous
- ‘Water Man’ Rajendra Singh wins Stockholm Water Prize.
- U.K. schoolboy to grace new £1 coin A design drawn by David Pearce,15, from Walsall in central England has been chosen to grace one side of Britain’s new 12-edged £1 coin when it is introduced in 2017.
Sports
- Jagmohan Dalmiya was elected as President of BCCI on March,02.
- Spain’s Carolina Marin won the All England Badminton Championship by defeating India’s Saina Nehwal.
- Saina Nehwal has become World No.1 badminton player after dethroning China’s Li Xuerui.
- WORLD CUP CRICKET :
- Martin Guptill(New Zealand) strike a double-ton (237-not out) against West Indies in quarterfinals.
- Australia trounces New Zealand by 7 wickets to clinch World Cup 2015.It became first nation to lift the World Cup 5 times. Michelle Starc has been adjudged Player of the tournament.
Economics
- RBI cuts Repo Rate by 25 basis points to 7.5%
Regional
- Beef banned in Maharastra
- Maharastra scraps Muslim quota
- Rape accused lynched in Nagaland
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