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Current Affairs 06 March 2020
4th Global Ayurveda Festival 2020 to be held in Kochi
- The Fourth Global Ayurveda Festival (GAF) is scheduled to be held at Kochi, Kerala from 16 to 20 May, 2020.
- The theme for the five-day event is “Ayurveda Medical Tourism: Actualizing India’s credibility”.
- GAF 2020 will be the largest Ayurvedic event ever to be held anywhere across the world
International Conference on Nano Science and Technology 2020 Begins in Kolkata
- The International Conference on Nano Science and Technology 2020 (ICONSAT-2020) is being held at S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata from March 5-7, 2020
- ICONSAT is the series of biennial international conference held in India under the aegis of Nano Mission, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.
- It provides a global platform of interactions among eminent scientists to bring to fore the recent advances in the area of nanoscience and technology.
India Pharma & India Medical Device 2020 Conference Organised from 5 -7 March at Gandhinagar, Gujarat
- The fifth edition of the India Pharma 2020 & India Medical Device 2020 Conference & Exhibition is being held at Gandhi Nagar, Gujarat from March 5-7, 2020.
- The three day conference was inaugurated by the Chemicals & Fertilizers Minister Shri Sadananda Gowda.
- The conference has been organised by the Department of Pharmaceuticals, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, in association with Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI).
- The Theme of the event is “India Pharma: Meeting Challenges of Affordable and Quality Healthcare and India Medical Device: Promoting Affordable responsible and Quality Medical Device for Universal Health Care”.
- The event is being organised for the first time in the State of Gujarat, which is also the partner state for this event.
India sign Rs 1200 cr deal with US for missile protection suites for new VVIP planes
- India has signed a Rs 1,200 crore deal with the United States to buy new anti-missile protection suites for the two new Boeing VVIP extended range planes to protect it from missile attacks.
- The two new VVIP Boeing 777 planes, to be code-named as ‘Air Force One’, will be used to ferry the President and the Prime Minister.
- The missile protection suites on the plane would provide it the capability to fend off any missile attacks.
- These two planes are expected to arrive in India by the middle of next year to begin the VVIP duties.
SEBI Launches Mobile App SCORES to help Investors Lodge Grievances Online
- The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has launched a mobile application “Sebi SCORES” for lodging investor grievances.
- The mobile app SCORES (Sebi Complaints Redress System) will enable the investors to conveniently lodge their grievances against a listed company/ intermediary registered with SEBI
- Through SCORES you can lodge your complaint online with SEBI and subsequently view its status.
Yes Bank Caps Withdrawal Limit at Rs 50,000 per Account
- The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has superseded the board of cash-starved Yes Bank and also capped the withdrawal limit for depositors to Rs 50,000 with effect from March 5 to April 3, 2020, or till further orders.
- This means that the Yes Bank customers will be able to withdraw only Rs 50,000 across all bank accounts at Yes Bank – savings, deposits or current accounts.
- The decision has been taken after the bank failed to raise capital to address potential loan losses.
- RBI has also said that interest will be paid on deposits at the bank.
- However, there are certain exceptions under which customers can withdraw more than Rs 50,000 but not more than Rs 5 lakh or the amount of money that is in the accounts (whichever is less).
- Exceptions cases include:
- -Medical treatment for account holder or dependants
- -Higher education costs for account holder or dependants in India or abroad
- -Marriage expenses
- -‘Unavoidable emergencies’
- Exceptions cases include:
RBI Deputy Governor NS Vishwanathan Quits ahead of Retirement
- Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Deputy Governor N S Vishwanathan has decided to step down on March 31, ending his 29 years of service, three months before the end of his extended one-year tenure, due to ill health.
- His one-year extension was to end on July 3, 2020.
- The 62-year-old was appointed deputy governor in June 2016, replacing H R Khan.
- He was re-appointed in June 2019 for one more year till July 3, 2020.
- Vishwanathan joined the Central Bank in 1981 and had been in-charge of the key supervisory and regulatory functions.
Janez Jansa Elected Prime Minister of Slovenia for Third Term
- Slovenia’s parliament has elected Janez Jansa as the prime minister-designate of the country on 3 March 2020
- Mr Jansa takes over from centre-left premier Marjan Sarec, who resigned in January 2020.
- The 61-year-old leader of the Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS), had also served as the prime minister of Slovenia from 2004 to 2008 and again from 2012 to 2013.