1) Nation paying tribute on 86th martyrdom day: 23 March
•Nation is paying tributes to freedom fighters -Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev on their 86th martyrdom day (23 March).
•On this day in 1931, British rulers had executed them in Lahore for their revolutionary activities against the British rule. They were hanged a day before the scheduled date of execution.
2) PM to inaugurate India’s longest road tunnel in J&K on April 2
•Prime Minister Narendra Modi will dedicate to the nation, the country’s longest road tunnel named Chenani-Nashri tunnel, built on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway, which will cut short the distance between Jammu and Srinagar by nearly 30 km.
•The Prime Minister will inaugurate the 9.2 km long twin-tube tunnel on JK highway on April 2, 2017. The work on tunnel, which is part of a 286-km-long four-lane project on the highway, started on May 23, 2011 in the lower Himalayan mountain range, and cost Rs. 3,720 crore.
3) NABARD launches water conservation campaign in Karnataka
•NABARD (National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development) will help Karnataka with low-cost technologies for water conservation and efficient use of water in the drought-affected districts.
•The main focus of the save water programme would be to create awareness and to cover maximum number of villages in the districts.
4) Major Rohit Suri awarded Kirti Chakra
•Major Rohit Suri, from the Parachute Regiment who led the army team that carried out a surgical strike in PoK last year, was presented the second highest peacetime gallantry award Kirti Chakra by President Pranab Mukherjee.
•Corporal Gursevak Singh of Indian Air Force was posthumously conferred the Shaurya Chakra for putting up a valiant fight against terrorists who had attacked the frontline Pathankot air base. Naib Subedar Vijay Kumar of Indian Army was conferred the Shaurya Chakra.
5) Shri Upendra Tripathy Appointed as Full Time Interim Director General of ISA
•Shri Piyush Goyal, Union Minister for Power, Coal, New and Renewable Energy and Mines, Government of India and Ms. Ségolène Royal, Minister for Environment, Energy and Marine Affairs Government of France jointly decided to appoint Mr. Upendra Tripathy, as the Interim Director General (IDG) of the International Solar Alliance (ISA) on a full time basis.
•Mr. Upendra Tripathy was the Former Secretary, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy.
•The International Solar Alliance (ISA) was launched on 30th November 2015 as a coalition of the solar resource-rich countries jointly by Shri. Narendra Modi and Mr.François Hollande, President of France.
6) Madhabi Puri Buch appointed as SEBI whole time member
•The government has announced Madhabi Puri Buch as new whole time member of Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI).
•She will be in the office for period of three years. She is currently serving in the New Development Bank, Shanghai.
•This is the first time that a women and a person from private sector has been chosen for a key post with the market regulator.
