Current Affairs Update – 11th March, 2016

Hello and welcome to ExamPundit. Here are the Important Current Affairs of 11th March, 2016.

• The NITI Aayog on 8 March 2016,
  celebrated as International Women’s Day, launched the Women Transforming India
  initiative in partnership with the UN in India and MyGov. 
• Through the initiative, NITI
  Aayog seeks for entries in the form of written essays/stories, preferably
  accompanied by photographs that set a context to the narrative. These stories
  should reflect new ground broken by women in empowering themselves/others, or
  of challenging stereotypes.
• The many interventions including
  Beti Bachao Beti Padhao, Sukanya Samridhi Yojana, Janani Suraksha Yojana are
  testimony to its resolve to empower and educate of girls, and to tackle
  discrimination against girls and women.
• This initiative is also a step
  forward in furthering the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which have
  Gender as a stand-alone goal.

• Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu on
  Friday launched an online “clean my coach” service that allows
  travellers to get their compartments cleaned by sending an SMS or by using an
  app or a designated website.
• “As per the scheme, for any
  cleaning requirement in the coach, passengers have to send an SMS on a mobile
  number 58888,” a statement issued by the ministry said.
  “Alternatively, passengers can use the android app or Web page
  www.cleanmycoach.com for logging the request.”
• Following this, a passenger’s
  request is immediately acknowledged via SMS on mobile phone along with a code.
  “This service empowers the citizen to get an important service on board
  and is in line with the objectives of the ‘Digital India’ programme.”
• Prabhu had announced this scheme
  in the rail budget for the next fiscal.

• The Lok Sabha on Friday passed
  the Aadhaar Bill to provide a unique identity to residents and give legal teeth
  to the government in ensuring that its subsidies and services directly reach
  the beneficiaries in entirety.
• The Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of
  Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Bill, 2016, was passed by
  a voice vote after a brief debate, during which Finance Minister Arun Jaitley
  assured the House that details provided for the card will not be misused in any
  manner.
• When enacted, the Bill intends to
  empower the government in providing targeted services to the intended
  beneficiaries by assigning them unique identity numbers, called Aadhaar. It
  will be given to every person, who has stayed in India for 182 days in the year
  preceding the date of application.

• The Union Cabinet chaired by the
  Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has given its approval for a Memorandum of
  Understanding (MoU) between India and Bahrain on cooperation for prevention of
  human trafficking especially trafficking in women and children; rescue,
  recovery, repatriation and re-integration of victims of trafficking.
• This MoU will strengthen the
  bonds of friendship between the two countries and increase the bilateral
  cooperation on the issues of prevention, rescue, recovery and repatriation
  related to human trafficking especially women and children expeditiously.
• The MoU is expected to be signed
  during the Home Ministers upcoming visit to Bahrain in the first week of April
  2016.

• Union Government on 10 March 2016
  appointed former Supreme Court judge Justice Balbir Singh Chauhan as the
  chairperson of the 21st Law Commission. The post was vacant since September
  2015 when the commission was constituted.
• At present, Justice Chauhan is
  heading the Cauvery River Water Disputes Tribunal. He was a judge of the
  Supreme Court from May 2009 to July 2014. Earlier from July 2008 to May 2009,
  he served as the Chief Justice of Orissa High Court.
• The 21st Law Commission was
  constituted through a Union Government Order with effect from 1 September 2015.
  It has a three-year term, ending on 31 August 2018. The Commission presently
  comprises of three members, Member-Secretary and Secretary to the Union
  Government, two ex-officio members and Secretary to the Law Commission of
  India.

• Egyptian diplomat and former
  Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit was named as Secretary General of the Arab
  League on 10 March 2016. The 22-member organization voted unanimously in favor
  of Aboul Gheit.
• This appointment was announced by
  Bahraini Foreign Minister Khaled bin Ahmed Al-Khalifa at the end of 22-nation
  ministerial meeting in Cairo.
• 73-year-old Aboul Gheit, a former
  ambassador to the United Nations, will succeed Nabil El-Araby. Gheit served as
  Egypt’s foreign minister during the final seven years of Hosni Mubarak’s rule,
  leaving his post in 2011, following the mass protests that toppled the Mubarak.
• Gheit’s name was proposed for the
  post by Cairo after the incumbent, Nabil al-Arabi, another Egyptian, declined a
  second five-year term as Secretary General.

• Ola, India’s leading mobile app
  for transportation, announced Friday that Sunil Shirguppi, former Vice
  President at Goldman Sachs, will join Ola as Vice President, engineering and
  will primarily be working towards enhancing capabilities in Data Science and
  Machine Learning.
• In this role, Sunil will be
  working closely with Ankit Bhati in areas that will impact the business
  significantly, including Consumer Analytics, Behavioral Analytics and other
  data platform capabilities.

• Rest of India on 10 March 2016
  won the Irani Cup Cricket title. In the match played in Mumbai, Rest of India
  defeated 41-time Ranji Champions Mumbai by four wickets.
• Rest of India overhauled the
  victory target of 480 by making 482 for 6 on the fifth and final day in Mumbai.
• Rest of India’s chase was also
  the best-ever run-chase in the Irani history. It bettered Rest’s 424, chasing
  421 set by Delhi at the Ferozshah Kotla in 1982-83.

• The Union Cabinet, presided by
  Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on 10 March 2016 approved the Hydrocarbon
  Exploration and Licensing Policy (HELP).
• The decision will enhance
  domestic oil and gas production, bring substantial investment in the sector and
  generate sizable employment. The policy also targets the enhancement of
  transparency and reduction of administrative discretion.
• The HELP will replace the New
  Exploration Licensing Policy (NELP).

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