Important Current Affairs 24th March with PDF download

1. Abel Prize 2017

• French mathematician Yves Meyer was 23rd Mar 17 awarded the 2017 Abel Prize for his work on wavelets, a mathematical theory with applications in data compression, medical imaging and the detection of gravitational waves.
• Last year Able Prize won by Briton Andrew Wiles for his work on solving Fermat’s Last Theorem.
• It is considered by many to be a maths equivalent of the Nobel Prize.

2. GRAPES-3 Telescope upgraded

• The GRAPES-3 experiment at TIFR’s Cosmic Ray Laboratory in Ootacamund is getting upgraded.
• The telescope made news last year when it detected the effect of a solar storm that hit the earth in June 2015.
• The upgrade will play a major role in getting precise information about the propagation of storms in ‘the last million miles’ (from the L-1 point) of their journey from the Sun to the earth.

3. World Meteorological Day – 23 March

• ‘Understanding Clouds’ is the theme of World Meteorological Day 2017 to highlight the enormous importance of clouds for weather climate and water.
• Clouds are central to weather observations and forecasts.
• World Meteorological day observed every year on March 23.
• The day is organised every year by world meteorological organisation.

4. World Poetry Day

• World Poetry Day is on 21 March and was declared by UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in 1999.
• The purpose of the day is to promote the reading, writing, publishing and teaching of poetry throughout the world.
• The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is a specialised agency of the UN based in Paris.

 

5. Major Rohit Suri awarded Kirti Chakra

• Second highest peacetime gallantry award ‘Kirti Chakra’ went to a young officer, Major Rohit Suri, who was part of the surgical strikes last year
• The Kirti Chakra is an Indian military decoration awarded for valour, courageous action or self-sacrifice away from the field of battle.
• It comes after Ashoka Chakra and before Shaurya Chakra.

6. 18 medals in Olympics World Winter Games

• India’s special athletes continue to make India proud by winning 18 medals so far in the ongoing 2017 Olympics World Winter Games in Austria.
• The medal tally includes 6 gold, 4 silver and 8 bronze.
• The team of 89 differently-abled sports persons of the Special Olympics Bharat (SOB) is participating in the competition. Over 2600 athletes from 105 nations are taking part in the event.

7. Upendra as Director General of ISA

• Govt decided to appoint Mr Upendra Tripathy, as the Interim Director General (IDG) of the International Solar Alliance (ISA) on a full-time basis.
• ISA was launched on 30th November 2015 as a coalition of the solar resource-rich countries jointly by PM Modi and Mr.Francois Hollande, President of France in the Paris Climate Conference or CoP21.

8. ISSF World Cup: Ankur Mittal wins gold

• Marksman Ankur Mittal has delivered India’s nine-member contingent its first medal at the International Shooting Sport Federation World Cup (Shot Gun) in Acapulco, Mexico by shooting gold in the men’s double trap.
• Mittal, who won silver at last month’s ISSF World Cup in New Delhi, beat the gold medalist at that event, Australian James Willet, on day three of the competition.

9. New vaccine against rotavirus

• A trial in Niger found that the new vaccine was almost 67% effective in preventing gastroenteritis caused by rotavirus.
• More than 500.000 children die each year from dehydration and complications of rotavirus.
• The vaccine, called BRV-PV, is manufactured by the Serum Institute of India.
• The new vaccine’s efficacy of 67% was higher than the RotaTeq vaccine, which was 39.3 percent effective.

10. WWF to undertake Ganges dolphin count

• The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Kolkata will start its Ganges river dolphin count in Nov after witnessing a dip in the number of the endangered species earlier this year.
• After the rains stop in Oct—Nov, survey will start along a 534 km stretch of Bengal in 6-7 spots, but with a difference from previous practice
• This dolphin, a national aquatic animal, is not seen during rains.

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