Current Affairs, March 2020

• President Ram Nath Kovind conferred the 61st annual awards of the National Lalit Kala Akademi to 15 artists at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi.  
•  S. No.              Award Winner                                                    State                                                1        Anoop Kumar Manzukhi Gopi                                    Thrissoor, Kerala                                  2                   David Malakar                                                   Kolkata, West Bengal                          3                  Devendra Kumar Khare                                    Vadodara, Gujarat                                  4                  Dinesh Pandya                                               Mumbai, Maharashtra                              5               Faruque Ahmed Halder                                     Kolkata, West Bengal                              6             Hari Ram Kumbhawat                                            Jaipur, Rajasthan                                  7             Keshari Nandan Prasad                                            Jaipur, Rajasthan                                8                 Mohan Kumar T                                             Bengaluru, Karnataka                              9                Ratan Krishna Saha                                        Mumbai, Maharashtra                             10             Sagar Vasant Kamble                                          Mumbai, Maharashtra                           11                   Satwinder Kaur                                                      New Delhi                                     12              Sunil Thiruvayur                                                Ernakulam, Kerala                                 13            Tejaswi Narayan Sonawane                                 Solapur, Maharashtra                             14                 Yashpal Singh                                                           Delhi                                             15                  Yashwant Singh                                                       Delhi                                              
• The 4th edition of TOISA (Times of India Sports Awards) awards honoured the best Indian in 2019 sports in New Delhi, India. The event was powered by BHIM-UPI (Bharat Interface for Money- Unified Payments Interface). Rohit Sharma was named as the Cricketer of the year and PV Sindhu was named as the Sportsperson of the year as she won gold at the World Championships in Basel, Switzerland
• Defending champions Australia wins Women’s T20 World Cup 2020.
• The International Olympic Committee and Tokyo Olympic organizers agreed to move the Tokyo Games to 2021
• The celebration of festival “Chapchar Kut”, the biggest and the most joyful spring festival of Mizos has commenced in the state of Mizoram.
• • ‘Namaste Orchha’ festival begins in Orchha, a town in Niwari district of Madhya Pradesh.
• • The state government of Uttarakhand has announced that “Gairsain” will be the summer capital of Uttarakhand
• Chilli Festival begins at Kasrawad in Khargone district of Madhya Pradesh.
• Antar Rashtriya Yog Mahotsav has been inaugurated in Rishikesh, 
• Uttarakhand Uttarakhand government has abolished reservation in promotion in the state government jobs.by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
• Sanjay Kumar Panda has been appointed as India’s Ambassador to Turkey.
• Government of India has appointed the present Revenue Secretary Ajay Bhushan Pandey as the new Finance Secretary
• The Election Commission of India (ECI) has appointed Hirdesh Kumar as the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of the Union Territory Jammu and Kashmir.
• Saurashtra won their maiden Ranji Trophy title after earning a 44-run lead in the first innings against Bengal which eventually ended in a draw in the final in Rajkot, Gujarat.
• World Wildlife Day is observed globally on 3rd of March every year to celebrate the beautiful and varied forms of wild fauna and flora present on earth. Theme for 2020 is "Sustaining all life on Earth".
• Pune will host the annual session of 108th Indian Science Congress in 2021 with the theme “Science and Technology for Sustainable Development with Women Empowerment”.
• Luxembourg has become the 1st country in the world to abolish fares for trains, trams and buses.
• Assam’s Environmental activist Jadav Payeng who is popularly called the ‘Forest Man of India’ has been named the winner of 128th Commonwealth Points of Light Award for his exceptional voluntary service to environmental conservation.
• PV Sindhu has won the inaugural edition of BBC Indian Sportswoman of the Year Award for 2019. BBC has also conferred former Indian sprinter PT Usha with the Lifetime Achievement award.
• Indian filmmaker Zoya Akhtar has been honoured with IIFTC Tourism Impact Award 2020 for her outstanding contribution to world tourism through her cinema.
• The 4th Global Ayurveda Festival will be held at Kochi, Kerala with the theme "Ayurveda Medical Tourism: Actualizing India’s credibility".
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