Weekly The Economic Times Review : 21 March – 27 March 2016. This is Current affairs for the last week of March 2016. As you know we changed our weekly current affairs from The Hindu to The Economic Times, because we feel that The Economic times weekly current affairs will be more useful for Banking aspirants.
हिंदी कर्रेंट अफेयर्स के लिए हमारे टेस्ट पोर्टल पर जाएँ : Hindi Current affairs Test
Abbreviation
UDF- User Development Fees
BEPS- Base Erosion and Profit Shifting
MCLR- Marginal Cost of Funds Based Lending Rates
UPI- Unified Payments Interface
FCRA- Foreign Contribution Regulation Act
BARC- Broadcast Audience Research Council
LCR- Liquidity Coverage Ratio
FDC- Fixed Dose Combination
GEAC- Genetic Engineering Approval Committee
Personalities
Chairman of Animal Welfare Board of India- Dr.RM Kharb
Governor of the China’s Central Bank ’People’s Bank of China’- Zhou Xiaochuan
CEO 0f Apple- Tim Cook
Chairman of the ‘Committee on Taxation of e-commerce’- Shri Akhilesh Ranjan
Governor of Uttarakhand- K K Paul
Chairman of Nestle India- Shri Suresh Narayan
CEO of Axis Bank- Shikha Sharma
MobiKwik Co-Founder- Bipin Preet Singh
Chairman of Broadcast Audience Research Council, India- Punit Goenka
CEO of Zee Entertainment- Punit Goenka
Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan- Gautam Bambawale
New Appointments
New HSBC’s Global Banking Chief in India- Hitendra Dave
New Secretary of Urban Development Ministry- Rajiv Gauba
Book & author
“Only The Paranoid Survive” written by- Andrew S Glove (Intel’s Former CEO)
“I: Founding Fathers” written by- Rajmohan Gandhi
National & International Days
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination- 21st March
World Poetry Day- 21st March
International Day of Nowruz- 21st March
World Down Syndrome Day- 21st March
International Day of Forests- 21st March
World Water Day- 22nd March
World Meteorological Day- 23rd March
World Tuberculosis Day- 24th March
Saheed Diwas- 23rd March
Awards
The Padmabhusan K.Vasantdada Patil Award 2014-2015- Bharat Bank
Business & Economy
Fortune’s third annual World’s top 50 greatest Leader list- 1st rank- Jeff Bezos (Amazon CEO)
42nd Rank- Arvind Kejriwal (Delhi Chief Minister)
Place
Venue of the ‘Maritime India Summit 2016’- Mumbai (14th to 16th Apr)
National Affairs
TRAI Orders all Internet apps under data pricing rule.
International Affairs
Venue of the 2016 BRICS Summit- Goa, India (First time out of Capital in India)
Microsoft launched an Artificial Chat program named MS Bot.
Starbucks to Donate unsold Meals in US for Five years
All The Best.
