Current Affairs 27 Mar 2015

 PRAGATI - platform launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for redressal of grievances

• PRAGATI is a durable system that will help in for bringing e-transparency and e-accountability with real-time presence and exchange among the key stakeholders.

Usha International Limited has won the Gold award at 6th Flame Awards 2015 

•  It was awarded in recognition of its rural marketing initiative to extend their footprint into small towns and villages.

National Super Computing Mission has approved by Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA)

•  The aim of the mission is bringing the High Performance Computing (HPC) facilities within the reach of the scientific community by augmenting indigenous supercomputing infrastructure.

The book "Faces and Places" - Prof. Deepak Nayyar

• The book is released by Vice president
•  Prof. Deepak Nayyar, former Vice Chancellor of Delhi University.

India’s first Polar Remotely Operated Vehicle operationalised in North Antarctica

• With the help of PROV Monsoon forecast and reading of pattern will become easier
• It will measure parameters like salinity in the Arctic, temperature and ocean currents.

 Gopaldas Neera has won the Rashtriya Kavi Pradeep Samman for the year 2012-13 

• Department of Culture of Madhya Pradesh (MP) government presented the award. 
• 90-year-old poet Neeraj won the award for his immense contribution in the field of literature.