Current Affairs March, 2016

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has suspended Bangladesh bowlers Taskin Ahmed and Arafat Sunny for bowling with an illegal action with an immediate effect.

• Indian Railways, ISRO ink MoU for Remote Sensing
• Union Government unveils Model Building Bye-Laws, 2016
• Surat cleanest A-1 Railway Station in India: IRCTC Survey

The Union Government has unveiled a Model Building Bye-Laws, 2016 for granting permission for construction of buildings.

United States (US) Air Force General Lori Robinson has been selected as the next head of the US military�s Northern Command.

Acclaimed humanitarian, actor, writer and political activist Ashley Judd from US has been appointed as Goodwill Ambassador of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).

Union urban Development, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation and Parliamentary Affairs Minister M Venkaiah Naidu has been conferred with the Skoch Lifetime Achievement Award.

The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has scrapped repeat tests on animals for drugs which already have been approved by other countries.

The Indian Air Force (IAF) has conducted its flagship day-night exercise �Iron-fist 2016� at Pokhran firing range in Rajasthan.

As per recently published survey of Indian Railways Surat (Gujarat) was declared the cleanest railway station in the country.

An Indian student Geetakshi Arora has been awarded the inaugural Noor Inayat Khan Prize for her excellent dissertation on �Goddess Myths in Graphic Novels: Reimagining Indian Feminity�.

The Union Ministry of Railways and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) have signed a MoU for Effective use of Space Technology in Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System (GIS) based Governance Application for Indian Railways.

• Small savings rates slashed, PPF rate cut to 8.1% from 8.7%
• Former Mossad Director Meir Dagan passes away
• SC allows pictures of CMs, Governors, Ministers in Government Advertisements