Weekly One Liner Current Affairs : 16th to 22nd March 2020

Weekly One Liner Current Affairs : 16th to 22nd March 2020

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As we all know that General Awareness/ Current Affairs Part is playing a major role in any exam weather it will be SBI PO, SBI Clerk, IBPS PO, IBPS Clerk, LIC, SSC, Railway, or any other government examinations. So here we are providing the weekly one liner current affairs for every upcoming exam which has GA section. Weekly one liner current affairs consist top news in one line which is important for every exams. Check Weekly current affairs below and update yourself with weekly one liner current affairs here.

♦National News

• Uttarakhand celebrates Phool Dei festival
• Manipur CM announces scheme for welfare of sportspersons and artists
• PM Modi pledges $10 mn for SAARC emergency fund
• Haryana’s Amin village renamed as Abhimanyupur
• Govt sanctioned Rs 20,466.94 cr loans under Stand Up India Scheme till March 2020
• Indian Railways to electrify all broad gauge routes by December 2023
• SIDBI to start Swavalamban Express on 5 June
• India third largest producer of Electricity in the World
• UN World Happiness Index: India at 144 rank, Finland tops again

♦International News

• Philippines first country to suspend all financial markets as coronavirus spreads
• PM Modi to Participate in ‘Bangabandhu’ Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s 100^th Birth Anniversary Celebrations Via Video
• Iraqi President Barham Salih names Adnan al-Zurfi as new PM
• 7^th World Cities Summit 2020 to be held in Singapore from July 5 to 9
• ADB announces USD 6.5 bn package for developing member countries for Covid-19

♦Banking and Financial

• Moody’s cuts India growth forecast for 2020 to 5.3%
• S&P lowers India’s growth forecast to 5.2% in 2020
• RBI has reduced the capital requirements for payment aggregators to ₹15 crore from ₹100 crore proposed earlier.
• Crisil cuts India GDP growth forecast FY21 to 5.2%
• Fitch cuts India growth forecast to 5.1% for FY’21
• 15th Finance Commission sets up 8-member panel headed by its Chairman N. K. Singh to review fiscal consolidation road map of the both state and central
• IRDAI sets up panel on governance at insurers headed by Pravin Kutumbe

♦Appointment

• Debasish Panda Nominated As Director On RBI Central Board
• Ravinder Singh Dhillon appointed Power Finance Corporation CMD
• Former Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi Nominated To Rajya Sabha By President
• Former IBM executive Karan Bajwa appointed Google Cloud India MD
• Kamal Nath steps down as MP’s CM 

♦Award

• Prachi Salve, Pradeep Dwivedi won 2019 Road Safety Media Fellowship award

♦Defence

• SC rules in favour of permanent commission for women officers in Navy

♦Sports

• Viktor Axelsen (Men’s), Tai Tzu Ying (Women’s) win All England badminton Open titles
• Achanta Sharath Kamal clinches men’s singles title of Oman Open
• Two Indian Women umpires Janani Narayanan, Vrinda Rathi named in ICC panel

♦Important Day

• 16^th March: National Vaccination Day 2020
• 18^th March- Ordnance Factories’ Day
• March 18: Global Recycling Day 2020 (Theme 2020-#RecyclingHeroes)
• 20^th March: International Day of Happiness (Theme 2020: ‘Happiness for all’)
• 20^th March: World sparrow day (Theme 2020: “I LOVE Sparrows” and is pictured like “I Sparrows”.)
• 21^st March: World Poetry Day
• 21^st March: International Day of Forests 2020 (Theme 2020: Forests and Biodiversity.)
• 21^st March: World Down Syndrome Day (Theme 2020: “We Decide”)
• 21^st March: International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

♦Book and Author

• ‘An Extraordinary Life’: Book on the late Goa CM Manohar Parrikar (is written by veteran journalists Sadguru Patil and Mayabhushan Nagvenkar.)
• “My Encounters in Parliament” authored by Bhalchandra Mungekar released

♦Obituary

• Veteran actor Imtiaz Khan, brother of Amjad Khan, passes away at 77
• Sahitya Akademi awardee, Malayalam poet Puthussery Ramachandran passed away
• Famous Marathi Actor Jairam Kulkarni passed away
• Indian football legend P.K. Banerjee Passed Away
• Veteran Tamil director-actor Visu passes away

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