International Women's Day is a global day celebrated on 8 March that highlights the social, economic, cultural & political achievements of women. The theme for 2019 is “Think equal, build smart, innovate for change” & campaign theme is #BalanceforBetter.
Karnam Malleswari was first Indian woman to win Olympic medal.
The government released new Re 1, Rs 2, Rs 5, Rs 10 with refreshed design and attention towards the visually impaired citizens. The government also introduced new Rs 20 coins. Coins in this new series have been designed by the National Institute of Design.
The new Rs 20 coin will be in the shape of a 12-edge polygon.
The Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off the Nagpur Metro through video conference from New Delhi. The 13.5 km long, Khapri- Sitabuldi section of the Nagpur Metro was inaugurated through the digital unveiling of plaque.
Nagpur is considered the winter capital of Maharashtra.
The 63rd edition of the popular reference annuals ‘Bharat 2019’ & ‘India 2019’ were released by Amit Khare, Secretary, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting (MoI&B). These are published by Publications Division under the Ministry.
Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore is the Minister of State in M0I&B.
The Prime Minister, Narendra Modi released the Dictionary of Martyrs of India’s Freedom Struggle, at an event in New Delhi. 5 volume dictionary contains an account of the martyrs from India’s 1st War of Independence in 1857 to India’s Independence in 1947.
National War Memorial was inaugurated at Indian Gate Complex.
Hardeep Singh Puri, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Housing and Urban Affairs has launched e-Dharti app which is a new online system where all the three main modules i.e. Conversion, Substitution, and Mutation have been made online.
Hardeep S Puri is the author of the book Delusional Politics.
The National Council of Science Museums (NCSM) has collaborated with Google Arts & Culture for ‘Once Upon a Try’: Epic journeys of invention and discovery - the largest online exhibition about inventions and discoveries ever curated.
NCSM is the organization under the Ministry of Culture.
The Union cabinet chaired by the Narendra Modi has approved the Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) with 3 countries- UK (Cancer Research Initiative), Germany (Occupational Safety and Health) & Austria (Road Infrastructure Sector).
Country-Capital
Austria-Vienna
UK-London
Germany-Berlin
The Reserve Bank relaxed norms for White Label ATM (WLA) operators & allowed them to buy wholesale cash directly from RBI. It also permitted WLA operators to source cash from any bank, including cooperatives and regional rural banks.
WLAs are owned & operated by nonbank entities on behalf of banks
Google released Bolo App which is aimed to provide elementary school students access to technology like Google’s speech recognition and text-to-speech to help kids learn to read in both Hindi and English. It offers 50 stories in Hindi & 40 in English.
Alphabet Inc. is the parent organization of Google.