Current Affairs: 11 March 2020
- Jack Ma is the founder of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. He topped the list with a $44.5 billion fortune, which is $2.6 billion more than Ambani.
- Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) is headquartered at New Delhi.
- SAREX is a biennial exercise that is conducted by the Indian Coast Guard under the aegis of the National Maritime Search and Rescue Board (NMSARB). The Exercise has been conducted since 2003.
- The UN’s 64th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW64) adopted a stripped-down political declaration on women’s rights.
- The 64th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW64) was held at New York.
- ‘Chapchar Kut’ is a popular festival of Mizoram.
- As per the recent study by the Institute of Advanced Study in Science and Technology (IASST), the ‘Endophytic Actinobacteria’ could reduce chemical in tea plant.
- Bipasha Chakrabarti was recently appointed as the Communications Director of Facebook’s Indian arm.
- ‘Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS)’, is associated with research in Genetics.
- FCRA stand for Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act.
- Chairperson of the recently reconstituted National Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (NPDRR) is Union Home Minister.
- Union Ministry of Women and Child Development organized a discussion on “The Future of Work: Women in India’s Workforce”, in association with world bank.
- Theme of the campaign conducted by the Indian Railways to celebrate International Women’s Day is Each for Equal.
- School health education plan called ‘Student Health Card’ was launched by Jammu & Kashmir.
- Agartala and Ghojadanga were recently designated as the authorized land immigration check posts. Ghojadanga is located in West Bengal.
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