Current Affairs 1 March 2016

The Highlights/Announcement of the Union Budget 2016-17

• Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presents his third Union Budget. To support the small tax-payer and the small investor, the Minister announced a slew of schemes, and income tax exemptions.
• - New scheme for BPL families for gas connections. Statutory backing for Aadhaar platform to ensure delivery of benefits. etc  

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Oscar Awards 2016 conferred; Film Mad Max: Fury Road won maximum awards

• Some of winners of 88th Academy Awards: Best Picture: Spotlight, Best Director:  Alejandro González Iñárritu for The Revenant, Best Actor: Leonardo DiCaprio for The Revenant, Best Actress: Brie Larson for Room, Best Animated Short Film:  Bear Story and Best Animated Feature Film: Inside Out etc. 

President of India to be the chief guest at the 40th anniversary celebrations of Indian Civil Accounts Service tomorrow

• The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee will be the Chief Guest at the 40th Anniversary Celebrations of Indian Civil Accounts Service tomorrow (March 1,2016). 
• The event will be celebrate in New Delhi.

Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat Programme to be Launched

• Ek Bharat Shrestha Bharat’ programme will be launched to link States and Districts in an annual programme that connects people though exchanges in areas of language, trade, culture, travel and tourism.

Former Maharashtra Minister Nihal Ahmed Maulavi Mohammed Usman died

• He was 90. Ahmed was the former Maharashtra Minister of technical and higher education, state president of Janata Dal (Secular) and former legislator in the state Assembly for nearly three decades.

Famous Tamil comedy actor Kumarimuthu died

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