TNPSC Daily Current Affairs - March 21, 2017 - TNPSC Current Affairs - TNPSCGURU.IN

TNPSC Daily Current Affairs - March 21, 2017 - TNPSCGURU.IN for TNPSC Exams

• Vodafone and Idea Merger
• Vodafone and Idea Cellular has planned to merge together
• The merger will make it the India's largest Telecom Service provider with 39.25 Crore Customers

• Ganga and Yamuna - Living Entity
• The Uttarakhand High court declared the river Ganga and Yamuna as Living entities.
• This is the first time in India, that a river being declared as a living entity.
• Newzealand became the first country to declare a river as living entity.
• Newzealand declared River Whanganui as a Legal entity.

• Pyarimohan Mohapatra

• He is the former Rajya Sabha MP and also known as Chanakya of Odisha Politics passed away recently.


• Kirti Chakra Award
• Major Rohit Suri was awarded the Kirti Chakra Award by the President of India.
• It is the second highest peacetime gallantary award of India.
• It was awarded for Rohit for his contributions in the Surgical strikes.

• World Happiness Index 2017 
• It is released by United Nations
• Rankings
• 1st - Norway
• 2nd - Denmark
• 3rd - Iceland
• 122nd - India

• Indian Well Master 2017
• Roger Federer won the title in the Men's Single Category
• With this title he became the oldest person in the world to win the ATP Masters Title.

• Vijay hazare Trophy 2017 (Cricket)
• Tamil Nadu won the final match against Bengal.

• Global Teacher Prize
• Maggie MacDonnell, a canadian teacher who won the Global Teacher Prize.