Current Affairs 2013 - March 26th

National

• In a move to enhance India’s under water fare abilities, INS Kalmat was launched at Kolkata. Its equipped with indigenously developed state of art weapons and sensors and is built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Ltd. (GRSE). Kalmat is name of an island in Andaman & Nicobar archipelago.
• In an initiative to bring down fatalities in road accidents, Minstry of road transport and highways signed an MoU with ICICI Lombard to jointly launch a pilot project that provides cashless treatment to road accident victims. Pilot project will be launched on Delhi-Gurgaon-Jaipur route by end of May.