Current Affairs Update – 31st March, 2016

Hello and welcome to ExamPundit. Here are the important Current Affairs of 31st March, 2016. These are important for the upcoming NABARD Assistant Manager 2016.

• Telangana IT minister KT Rama Rao
  and transport minister P Mahender Reddy launched the State Road Transport
  Authority’s new mobile app, M-Wallet on 30 March 2016 in Hyderabad. It is first
  of its kind in any state of India.
• M wallet is a mobile application
  developed for the Transport Department of the Government of Telangana.
• The app will help the user to
  download digital copies of documents like driving licence and registration
  certificate and they could be produced before the police and RTA authorities
  when demanded.
• It lets one auto-fetch documents,
  share documents, have all the documents on one screen and add multiple vehicles
  owned by a single person.
• The documents once downloaded
  will be saved for future use on the application.

• NTT Data, Inc. and Dell Inc. on
  28 March 2016 announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement for
  NTT Data to acquire Dell Services.
• This is set to be the
  biggest-ever acquisition by NTT Data, which is a part of Japan’s former
  telephone monopoly.
• The combined company will become
  an IT and BPO solutions powerhouse for the healthcare industry with more than
  40 years of industry experience and robust end-to-end solutions.
• The grouping will create a rich
  portfolio of IT and digital business solutions for some of the most attractive
  services industry sectors including healthcare, financial services, insurance,
  and the public sector.

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi and
  Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel on 30 March 2016 remotely launched Asia’s
  biggest telescope, the Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences
  (ARIES) which is located at Devasthal near Nainital in Uttarakhand.
• The telescope is the product of
  an Indo-Belgian collaborative effort and was assisted by the Russian Academy of
  Sciences.
• It will replace Vainu Bappu
  Observatory in Kavalur, Tamil Nadu to be Asia’s largest ground-based optical
  telescope.
•  Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational
  Sciences (ARIES) or Devasthal telescope
• It is the largest optical
  telescope of its kind in Asia.
• It will be used to study star
  structures and magnetic field structures of stars.
• India produced this telescope in
  collaboration with a Belgian company called AMOS (Advanced Mechanical and
  Optical Systems) to build and install the mirrors in 2007

• Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar
  on 29 March 2016 flagged off India’s first indigenous composites bow mounted
  Sonar Dome during DefExpo 2016 in Goa.
• The Sonar Dome will now be
  delivered to Mazgaon Docks, Mumbai for use in the warships of Indian Navy.
• With the successful manufacture
  of Sonar Dome, India joined a select group of nations which have the capability
  of realizing large composites structure with multi-functional requirements,
  complex geometry and high structural rigidity with acoustic transparency. 
• It was possible due to the Vacuum
  Assisted Resin Transfer Molding (VARTM) process technology with built-in
  process monitoring capability, to ensure manufacture of a quality product.

• India and US will sign a
  Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) Thursday for building a state-of-the-art Ligo
  (Laser Interferometer Gravitational – wave Observatory) project in the country,
  almost a month after the discovery of gravitational waves.
• The MoU will be signed between
  the National Science Foundation USA and India’s Department of Atomic Energy and
  Department of Science and Technology.
• DAE secretary Sekhar Basu will be
  signing the agreement in USA Thursday.
• The MoU also states of forming a
  Joint Oversight Group (JOG) with the scientists from NSF, DAE and DST for better
  coordination of the project.
• The government last month gave an
  “in-principle approval” for establishing the Ligo-India project which
  will establish a state-of-the-art gravitational wave observatory in India in
  collaboration with the Ligo Laboratory in the US, run by Caltech and MIT.

• The 13th India-European Union
  Summit was held on 30 March 2016 in Brussels, Belgium. In the summit, India was
  represented by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
• The European Union (EU) was
  represented by Donald Tusk, President of the European Council and Jean-Claude
  Juncker, President of the European Commission.

• The leaders endorsed the EU-India
  Agenda for Action 2020 that sets out a concrete road-map for the EU-India
  Strategic Partnership for the next five years.
• The European Investment Bank
  (EIB) agreed to extend 450 million Euros in loan for the construction of the
  first metro line in Lucknow.
• The EIB gave its nod to set up
  the Bank’s regional representation for South Asia in New Delhi.
• The leaders agreed to further the
  negotiations on early conclusion of the EU-India Broad-based Trade and
  Investment Agreement (BTIA).
• The EU and India expressed their
  confidence in the arbitration procedure on the Italian Marines case currently
  underway in the framework of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the
  Sea (UNCLOS).

• Haldhar Nag, the 66-year-old poet
  in Kosli language, was in news in the last week of March 2016. He came in news
  after President Pranab Mukherjee on 28 March 2016 conferred Padma Shri 2016 on
  him at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi.
• He was bestowed with third
  highest civilian honour for his contribution in Literature & Education
  section.
• In Odisha, he is known as Lok
  Kabi Ratna and has penned down 20 epics and several poems. He remembers all his
  creations and can recite them at any point of time.
• He wrote his first poem ‘Dhodo
  Bargachh’ (The Old Banyan Tree) in 1990, which was published in a local
  magazine. He wrote it while selling stationeries and eatables for school
  students from a small shop owned by him.

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