THE EXAMS MADE SIMPLE: 09th March 2017 : The Hindu and PIB Daily Current Affairs For UPSC/State PSC Exams

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09th March 2017 : The Hindu and PIB Daily Current Affairs For UPSC/State PSC Exams

09th March 2017

1)Compassion International an Americal NGO is leaving India.

Why : As per the NGO : Ideological Reasons.




2)CSIR Pvt. Tech Ltd(CSIRTech), a company affiliated to the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), and primarily formed to commercialise technology developed by the 75-year-old organisation’s 37 labs, has been shut down.




3)Jatra is a Form of Theatre or Melodrama Practiced in West Bengal and Odisha.

4)Uttarakhand to get 2 new Tiger Reserves:----

  • The Nandhaur Wildlife Sanctuary spanning across India and Nepal, and 
  • the Surai Range are the two proposed tiger reserves.


5)Fewer winter migratory water birds from central and north Asia were sighted at the RoparWetland in Punjab this season, apparently because of increasing human interference.Ropar has been declared a wetland by the Ramsar Convention of Wetlands.

6)China has proposed a “double suspension” formula to defuse the crisis on the Korean Peninsula as part of its new assertive approach to shoulder greater global responsibilities within the framework of the UN.
“As a first step, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) may suspend its nuclear and missile activities in exchange for the suspension of large-scale U.S.- Republic of Korea (ROK) military exercises.

7)CAG Audited the Delhi Discoms(Private) on the invitation of Delhi Govt. but the High Court said that CAG can not audit the Private entities , so an appeal is still pending in the Supreme Court on this issue. The Decision is Pending.

Questions:

1) In which Article of the Constitution CAG is Formed?

2) Where is RAMSAR and When did Ramsar Convention on Wetlands Took Place?

3)What is a Wetland?


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