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• On [latex]14^{th}[/latex] March Pi Day is celebrated around the world. Pi is a symbol used in mathematics to represent a constant.


• It is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter which is approx. 3.14.

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• Every year on [latex]14^{th}[/latex] March, International Day of Action for Rivers is observed to raise voice to protect rivers and demand for improving the policies for Rivers.


• It is a day to educate one another about the threats facing our rivers and to find solutions.

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• A leading researcher on China`s ethnic policies said that an estimated 1.5 million Uighurs and other Muslims could be held in so-called re-education centres in Xinjiang region, up from his earlier figure of 1 million.


• China has faced growing international opprobrium for what it says are vocational training centres in Xinjiang, a vast region bordering central Asia that is home to millions of ethnic minority Muslims.


• The governor of Xinjiang, Shohrat Zakir, said that China is running boarding schools not concentration camps or re-education camps in the remote region.

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• China, a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), blocked India's bid to designate Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed's (JeM) chief Masood Azhar as a global terrorist for the fourth time.


• The US, UK and France had moved a proposal to ban Azhar following the terror attack in Pulwama last month, the responsibility for which was claimed by the terror group.

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• US President Donald Trump has issued an emergency order to ground all Boeing 737 MAX aircraft in the US after an Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX 8 crashed on [latex]10^{th}[/latex] March killing all 157 people on board.


• Trump said the fleet would be grounded until Boeing "comes up with a solution". The crash was the second involving the model in five months.

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• The UK's Parliament members voted by 312 to 308 to reject the idea of Britain leaving the European Union (EU) without a deal.


• The Parliament will now vote on whether to ask the EU for permission to delay the date for departure, which was scheduled for [latex]29^{th}[/latex] March.

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• India and the US said they have agreed to build six American nuclear power plants in India, in a boost to bilateral civil nuclear energy cooperation.


• The two countries said this in a joint statement issued at the conclusion of the 9th round of India-US Strategic Security Dialogue, co-chaired by Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale and Andrea Thompson, the US Under-Secretary of state for arms control and international security.

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• Arecanut (also known as supari or betel nut) is the latest entrant in the list of agricultural produce with a GI (geographical indication) tag.


• The Registrar of Geographical Indications, Government of India, accorded a GI tag, ‘Sirsi Supari’, to areca nut grown in Sirsi, Siddpaur of Uttara Kannada district in Karnataka.


• ‘Sirsi Supari’ is unique in taste from areca nuts grown in other parts of the country due to the differences in the chemical composition of different areca nuts.


• The World Intellectual Property Organisation defines GI as a search sign used on products that have a specific geographical origin and possess qualities due to that origin.

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• The 4th IoT India Congress, an event which will see digital technology leaders converge to discuss and explore business opportunities in mainstreaming Internet of Things (IoT), will be held in Bengaluru in August 2019.


• The IoT India Congress 2019 will include tracks on segments such as healthcare, manufacturing, telecom, smart cities, energy, retail, cybersecurity, skills and development, IoT Standards, legal and regulatory, and agriculture.

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• The Delhi government’s Dialogue and Development Commission (DDC), a think-tank that advises the government on key issues, has set up a 17-member high-level committee to “reform higher education” in the capital.


• The committee will be chaired by DDC vice-chairperson Jasmine Shah. Nalanda 2.0, a non-profit policy think tank is collaborating with the DDC as the knowledge partner in the initiative.

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• India and Pakistan will hold a dialogue to discuss the modalities on Kartarpur Corridor project on at Attari, near Amritsar.


• A Pakistani delegation will visit India for this meet. This will be followed by an Indian delegation's visit to Islamabad on March 28.


• Visa-free access to the corridor, linking Gurudwara Darbar Sahib in Pakistan's Kartarpur town to Gurdaspur district in Punjab, are expected to be raised in the meeting.

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• HDFC Bank Ltd crossed the Rs 6 trillion market capitalization mark for the first time, making it only the third Indian firm—after Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS) and Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL)—to achieve the milestone.


• RIL is the most valued company in India with a market cap of Rs8.50 trillion, followed by TCS at Rs7.48 trillion.

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• Markets regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) withdrew the 20% limit on investments by Foreign Portfolio Investors in corporate bonds of an entity. The regulator stated that the restriction is being withdrawn in accordance with a circular issued by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).


• In June 2018, Sebi had mandated that no Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs) shall have an exposure of more than 20% of its corporate bond portfolio to a single corporate.

• Bank of Baroda has become one of the first public sector banks to launch a creche/child daycare facility for children of its employees. After launching such a facility at its Mumbai corporate office in Bandra Kurla Complex which houses some 1500-plus employees, the bank intends to roll out more of them at its head office in Vadodara.


• This initiative is designed to help employees save time and reduce stress of finding the right care for children in the age group of 6 months to 6 years. Bank of Baroda will bear 60% of the cost every month for each employee, while 40% will be taken care by the parents.

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• 2019 All England Open, officially YONEX All England Open Badminton Championships 2019 was a BWF World Tour 1000 event which took place at Arena Birmingham in England from 6 to [latex]10^{th}[/latex] March 2019.


• It had a total purse of $1,000,000.

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• Keeping its unbeaten record India easily defeated Maldives in its first group match in Biratnagar, Nepal. Sanju and Ratanabala Devi helped team India to take comfortable 5-0 lead in the first half. India has remained unbeaten in SAFF championship and it has won the trophy four times so far.


• India has remained unbeaten in SAFF championship and it has won the trophy four times so far.

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• Sona Yukti, a skill development institute, was honoured with the Social Enterprise Network (SEN) sustainability award for education by Young Presidents Organisation at its annual event held in Cape Town, South Africa.


• It is the only Indian organisation to be selected as part of the SEN awards for 2018.


• The award was given to Sona Yukti for helping over 55,000 economically disadvantaged individuals, mostly women, by training them to achieve highly skilled jobs in marginalised communities.


• The organisation focuses on providing opportunity for the disadvantaged, in partnership with the government of India, and follows standards set up by the National Skills Development Corporation.


• It runs 50 vocational schools in rural India providing a skilled workforce for companies and opportunities for those workers to lift themselves from poverty.


• It is present in rural areas of Jharkhand, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh.

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• Famous Novelist and Film Director, Ved Rahi will be awarded with prestigious Kusumagraj Rashtriya Sahitya Puruskar which carries a cash prize of Rs. 1 Lakh, A memento and a citation.


• Ved Rahi was born in Jammu in 1933 and he had written seven novels in Dogri Language. He also wrote in Hindi and Urdu.


• He was given Sahity Akademi Award in 1983 for his Novel “Aale” which was written in Dogri Language.


• Kusumagraj award is named after Marathi Poet and playwright, late V V Shirwadkar who was popularly known as Kusumagraj.

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• Retired IAS officer C Lalsawta was sworn-in as the first Chairman of the newly-constituted Lokayukta in Mizoram.


• He was administered the oath of office and secrecy by the newly appointed Mizoram governor Jagdish Mukhi in a swearing-in ceremony held at Raj Bhavan in Aizawl.

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• The Congress government in Madhya Pradesh has appointed self-styled godman Namdev Tyagi, also known as Computer Baba, as chairman of a river trust in the State.


• The State spiritual department passed the order of appointing Mr. Tyagi as head of the ‘Ma Narmada, Ma Kshipra and Ma Mandakini Rivers Trust’ a few days back.


• He would now work to conserve the rivers in the central state and check illegal sand mining.

• With 90% of gravely wounded security personnel succumbing to injuries within a few hours, Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences (INMAS), a laboratory of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), has come up with a range of cost effective ‘combat casualty drugs‘ that can extend the time till the soldier is shifted to a hospital.


• The spectrum includes bleeding wound sealants, super absorptive dressings and glycerated salines, all of which can save lives in the event of warfare in jungle and high altitude areas as well as in terror attacks.


• Scientists at INMAS, entrusted with research and development in a number of areas concerning the defence sector, said the main battlefield emergencies are excess bleeding, sepsis, shock, hypovolemia (decreased blood volume) and pain.


• Among the drugs developed is Glycerated saline, a battlefield intravenous fluid that does not freeze till -18 degrees Celsius and is useful in handling trauma cases in high altitude areas. Unlike normal saline, it also reduces inflammation.


• INMAS has also developed a special medicated dressing material which is 200 times more absorptive than normal dressings during bleeding wounds. The cellulose fibre-based dressings are more effective in stopping bleeding and keeping the wound clean and moreover, antiseptics, antibiotics and curcumin can be impregnated in the dressing which acts as a slow drug release system.


• Then there is Chitosan gel, which helps in preventing blood loss by forming a film over the wound. Coupled with platelets and red blood cells aggregation, it stops the bleeding. Its antibacterial and wound health properties are of added benefit.


• Hypocholorous acid (HOCL), a disinfectant for troopers involved in jungle warfare which is helpful in treating necrotising fascitis, a rapidly progressing bacterial infection of soft tissues. Bacterial toxins cause local tissue damage and necrosis, as well as blunt immune system responses.

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• 95 years old John Richardson, the art historian who devoted more than a quarter century in writing four-volume biography of Pablo Picasso died in Manhattan, New York while working on the final installment of the biography.


• He was born on [latex]6^{th}[/latex] February 1924 in London, England and moved to New York in 1960.

• Veteran Hindi Newsreader Vinod Kashyap passed away at the age of 88, owing to prolonged illness.


• She worked at the All India Radio for around 30 years, starting her career in Radio as a drama artist. A prayer meeting to offer condolences will be held in New Delhi.

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