Current Affairs 2 March 2017

Current Affairs
2 March 2017

• The Indian shooter who won the gold medal in the 50m men’s air pistol event at the ISSF World Cup in New Delhi is - Jitu Rai

• The person named as India's next Ambassador to the World Trade Organisation is - J S Deepak

• The cricketer who won the BCCI Polly Umrigar Award 2015-2016 is - Virat Kohli

• The person recently appointed as the Head Coach of the India U-17 team for the FIFA U-17 World Cup is - Luis Norton de Matos

• Person appointed as Chief Commissioner of Right to Services (RTS) of Maharashtra - Swadheen Kshatriya

• Theme of 2017 International Rare Disease Day - Research

• Loan amount sanctioned by the World Bank (WB) for the Tejaswini project - USD 63 million

• Country that was granted the approval for visa-free travel to the European Union by the member states recently - Georgia

• It is from a submarine of this class, the Indian Navy successfully test-fired an anti-ship missile - INS Kalvari

• This company won the 7th National Award for Technology Innovation in Petrochemicals and Downstream Plastics Processing Industry in the category of Innovation in Polymeric Materials - Reliance Industries

• This State Government presented the Budget 2017-18 recently with an outlay of Rs 1,06,911 crore – Odisha

• This country is planning to cancel visa-free entry for North Koreans – Malaysia

• He has been elected as Sudan’s first Prime Minister ever since Bashir took over as the President of the country in 1989 through a military coup- Hassan Saleh

• UK’s House of Lords voted to amend the Brexit Bill to protect the rights of – EU citizens living in UK

• The National Green Tribunal has ordered a ban on camping activities within 100 m of - Ganga

• Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory (DMRL), Hyderabad, a premier research laboratory of Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) has signed the Licensing Agreement for Transfer of Technology of High Nitrogen Steel (HNS) for armour applications with - Jindal Stainless (Hisar) Limited (JSHL)

• Report by the Internet and Mobile Association of India and Indian Market Research Bureau states that - Internet users in India will cross 450 million by June 2017

• This state government has signed an agreement with Invest India to promote start-ups and MSME sector of the state - Odisha

• The ‘Working Group on Migration’ that on 1 March 2017 submitted its report to the union government was headed by - Partha Mukhopadhay