Current Affair 16 March 2016 for Competition Exams

Mother Teresa to be granted Sainthood.
On 15th March 2016 Pope Francis announced that Mother Teresa will be made a saint of the Roman Catholic Church at a ceremony on 4th September 2016.
She is honoured with this status for her lifetime of service to the poor by establishing shelters for homeless, orphanages, kitchens and clinics around the world.


India Post payments bank.
India Post in the second week of March 2016 selected Deloitte (Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited) to advise it on setting up a payments bank. An agreement between the two was signed on 14 March 2016.
India Post will provide facility of payments bank in the areas where there are no banks. The focus of this policy is to provide simple deposits and money remittance services to the people living in that location.


90% of domestic workers excluded from social protection.
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) released its Social Protection Policy Paper 16. The title of paper is "Social protection for domestic workers: Key policy trends and statistics".
In this paper it has been mentioned that around 90 percent of domestic workers in the world are excluded from social protection. It means that 60 million of the world’s 67 million domestic workers still do not have access to any kind of social security coverage.
Most of their work is undervalued and unprotected. When domestic workers become old or injured, they are fired, without a pension or adequate income support.
The majority of domestic workers are women, accounting for 80 per cent of all workers in the sector globally.


Gandhi: An Illustrated Biography authored by Pramod Kapoor.
The book is a study of the evolution of a mischievous, fun-loving boy, into the Mahatma. The books covers all the important aspects of his life – schooling, early marriage in Kathiawar, his college days in London, employment in South Africa, train ride in Pietermaritzburg, etc.


ICICI's payment solution Touch & Pay.
ICICI Bank on 15 March 2016 announced a new mobile payment solution Touch & Pay. This solution is based on Near Field Communication (NFC) technology and will enable the bank’s customers to make secure contactless payments at retail stores using smartphones.


15 March 2016 World Consumer Rights Day 2016.
In India, National Consumer Rights Day is observed annually on 24 December and worldwide it is celebrated on 15th March.
This years theme was "Antibiotics off the Menu". Antibiotic resistance is rising to dangerously high levels in all parts of the world. Growing antibiotic resistance is driven by over use of antibiotics. Around half of the antibiotics produced globally are used in agriculture, meat etc.,.
The theme was taken up to ensure that fast food companies make a global commitment to stop the sale of meat raised with the routine use of antibiotics important to human medicine.


World Kidney Day 2016.
World Kidney Day (WKD) was observed globally on 10 March 2016 with the theme "Kidney Disease & Children. Act Early to Prevent It!".
The theme was taken up to inform parents, caregivers, young patients, policy makers and the general public of the importance of identifying and treating childhood kidney diseases.