Important Current Affairs 26th & 27th March with PDF download

Hello friends, This is the Updates of Current Affairs  26 & 27 March 2017. This will helpful for tackling General awareness section in SBI, IBPS, SSC, UPSC Exams.

1.Earth Hour 2017

• Earth Hour is the world’s largest movement for the environment, organised by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).
• The event is held annually encouraging individuals, communities, households and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights for one hour, from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. towards the end of March.
• In 2017, it will be held from 8:30 pm and 9: 30 pm on Saturday, March 25.

 

2.Bangladesh celebrates 46th Independence Day

• On March 26 Bangladesh celebrates its Independence day.
• Bangladesh’s President Md Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina placed wreaths at National Memorial in Savar paying respects to those who sacrificed their lives for the freedom.

 

3.Navy gets three naval systems from DRDO

• Defence Minister handed over three naval systems, developed by premier defence research organisation DRDO to the navy.
• The naval systems, given to Indian Navy, are USHUS-II submarine sonar, directing gear for hull-mounted sonar array, and inertial navigation system for ship applications.
• Sonars detect objects on or under the water.

 

4.NASA working on high speed space internet

• NASA is working on a laser communications technology that could become the high-speed ‘internet’ of the sky by enabling much higher data rates for connections between spacecraft and Earth.
• Laser communications, also known as optical communications, encodes data onto a beam of light, which is then transmitted between spacecraft and eventually to Earth terminals.

 

5.India’s first vertical garden

• Emulating China and Italy’s vertical forests, Bengaluru got its first vertical garden, which it hopes will help in curbing pollution and in beautifying the city.
• An NGO, installed the first vertical garden in the city on one of the pillars of the Hosur Road flyover.
• An automated drip irrigation system has been installed that will water these saplings every day.

 

6.Aadhaar mandatory for mobile connection

• The Department of Telecom (DoT) has sent a notice to all telecom operators that all mobile phone subscribers -prepaid and postpaid — will have to be verified using e-KYC.
• The Telecom department has directed mobile service providers to finish the e-KYC re-verification of existing subscribers by February 6, 2018
• The telecom operators will have to re-verify its existing users through Aadhaar.

 

7.Bhattacharya among top 50 leaders

• SBI chief Arundhati Bhattacharya has been ranked 26th in the Fortune’s top 50 greatest leaders.
• She is the only Indian corporate leader in the list.
• By this, Arundhati Bhattacharya becomes the only Indian corporate leader to be featured in the list
• Bhattacharya is the first-ever woman to chair the country’s largest lender.

 

8.Airtel acquires Tikona’s 4G

• The ongoing consolidation in the telecom space has forced Tikona Digital Networks to sell its 4G spectrum to Airtel seven years after acquiring it.
• Though both companies declined to share the financial details, investment banking sources pegged the deal at around ₹1,600 crore.
• The deal, which is expected to be completed in 60 days, includes 350 telecom towers owned by Tikona.

 

9.India, Pakistan to review Miyar project

• India and Pakistan agreed on redesigning the Miyar Hydroelectric project, at the end of two-day talks of Indus Water Commissioners in Islamabad
• They raised concern over 1000 MW Pakul Dul on Chenab, 120 MW Miyar, located across Miyar Nalla which is a right bank main tributary of River Chenab and the 43 MW Lower Kalnai hydro project on Lower Kalnai Nalla, a tributary of river Chenab.

 

10.World’s largest artificial Sun rises

• Germany isn’t exactly famous for its sunshine, so to help with the country’s commitment to investigating renewable energy, the German Space Center (DLR) has constructed the world’s largest artificial Sun.
• In addition to solar-generated hydrogen, DLR sees Synlight has having other applications, including studies of how materials age under extreme UV rays.

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