28th March, Current Affairs:
- Dr Pramod Sawant today took oath as the
Chief Minister of Goa for the second consecutive time.
- Minister of
State for Home Affairs Ajay Mishra today introduced the Criminal Procedure
Identification Bill 2022 in the Lok Sabha.
- The 94th Academy Awards were
held at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Will Smith won the first Oscar of
his career for his performance in King Richard. Jessica Chastain won Best
Actress for The Eyes of Tammy Faye. Best Supporting actress was won by
Ariana DeBose for West Side Story.
- In Swiss Open Badminton Championships 2022, two-time Olympic medallist
P. V. Sindhu has won the Women's Singles title beating Thailandand Busanan Ongbamrungpha 21-16 & 21-8
in straight games at Basel.
- H.S. Prannoy lost to Indonesian Jonatan
Christie 12-21 & 18-21 in the Men's Singles title clash today.
26th March, Current Affairs:
- International Flights to and from India
will resume from midnight tonight. The flight operations are going to
restart after a gap of two years.
- The 15th edition of the Indian
Premier League (IPL), begins in Mumbai today with Defending Champions
Chennai Super Kings taking on Kolkata Knight Riders in the opening game.
- The Ministry of Defence has approved setting up of 21 new Sainik Schools,
in partnership with NGOs, private schools and state governments for this
academic year.
25th March, Current Affairs:
- Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader
Yogi Adityanath took oath as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh today for
the second term.
- President Ram Nath Kovind awarded the prestigious
President's Colour to Indian Naval Ship- INS) Valsura in Jamnagar, Gujarat.
The President's Colour is bestowed on a military unit in recognition of
exceptional service rendered to the nation, both in peace and in war.
- The Finance Bill 2022 moved by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman was
passed in Lok Sabha today.
24th March, Current Affairs:
- The Andaman and Nicobar Command of the
Indian Armed Forces yesterday conducted a successful test firing of the
BrahMos supersonic extended range surface-to-surface cruise missile.
- UP
CM designate Yogi Adityanath has been elected as the leader of the UP BJP
legislative party.
- Sprinter Pranav Prashant Desai won India's first
gold medal at the 2022 World Para Athletics Grand Prix in Dubai.
- World
Tuberculosis Day is observed today.
23rd March, Current Affairs:
- World Meteorological Day is observed
today. The theme of this year's World Meteorological Day, is 'Early Warning
and Early Action'.
- India has scripted history by achieving an ambitious
target of 400 billion dollars of goods export within a single year.
- Pushkar Singh Dhami take oath as the chief minister of Uttarakhand for a
second term at Dehradun's Parade Ground.
- World no. 1 Ashleigh Barty
announced her shock retirement from tennis at the age of 25.
21st March, Current Affairs:
- Nongthombam Biren Singh will continue
as the Chief Minister of Manipur for the second straight term.
- Ace
Indian cueist Pankaj Advani lifted his eighth title at the 19th Asian
Billiards Championship 2022 in Doha, Qatar after beating compatriot Dhruv
Sitwala 6-2.
- Today is International Day of Forests. The day is
celebrated to raise awareness about the significance of different types of
forests
18th March, Current Affairs:
- Holi also
known as the festival of colours, is being
celebrated throughout the country today.
- The
U.N. General Assembly approved a resolution to
proclaim March 15 as the International Day to Combat
Islamophobia every year, starting from 2022.
- India’s first Artificial Intelligence & Robotics
Technology Park (ARTPARK) was launched in Bengaluru,
Karnataka.
- Finland has been named the world's
happiest country for the fifth year running, in an
annual UN-sponsored index.
17th March, Current Affairs:
- Karolina Bielawska from Poland has won the 70th edition of the Miss World pageant that took place in Puerto Rico. Shree Saini from the United States is the 1st runner-up and Olivia Yace from Côte d'Ivoire is the 2nd runner-up.
- Indian-American public health expert Dr Ashish Jha will take over as President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 Response Coordinator next month.
16th March, Current Affairs:
- National
Vaccination Day is observed today. On this day in
1995, the first oral polio vaccine dose was started
in the country.
- Aam Aadmi Party leader Bhagwant
Mann was sworn in as Punjab chief minister in
Khatkar Kalan village.
- Former Defence Secretary
Shashi Kant Sharma and former Air Vice Marshal
Jasbir Singh Panesar were charged by the CBI today
in the Agusta-Westland case involving corruption in
the purchase of VVIP choppers.
- India pacer
Jhulan Goswami today became the first women
cricketer to go past the 250 ODI wickets.
- Road
Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari will
inaugurate pilot project for Hydrogen based advanced
Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle in New Delhi today.
- India has won the bid to host the FIDE Chess
Olympiad 2022 in Chennai.
14th
March, Current Affairs:
- India’s Lakshya Sen
has lost the final fixture to Thailand’s Kunlavut
Vitidsarn in German Open Final. He lost the game
18-21 and 15-21.
- The second part of the Budget
Session of the Parliament has resumed today.
- Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday
presented the budget for the Union territory of
Jammu and Kashmir in the Lok Sabha
- Covid
vaccination for children aged 12-14 will begin from
March 16 as the government extends its vaccination
policy. Also, everyone aged 60+ will now be able to
get precaution doses.
- Finance Minister Nirmala
Sitharaman on Monday presented the budget for the
Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir in the Lok
Sabha.
- Natrajan Chandrasekarana, the chairman
of Tata Sons, has been appointed as the chairman of
Air India.
- India defeated Sri Lanka by 238 runs
in the second Test match at the M Chinnaswamy
Stadium in Bengaluru to clinch the series 2-0.
- India batter Shreyas Iyer today voted the ICC 'Men's
Player of the Month' for February.
13th March, Current Affairs:
- Cristiano
Ronaldo became professional football's all-time
leading scorer after he netted a hat-trick for
Manchester United in their 3-2 win over Tottenham
Hotspur in a Premier League clash at Old Trafford.
- India wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant scored the
fastest Test fifty by an Indian batter when he
completed his half-century in 28 deliveries on the
second day of the 2nd Test against Sri Lanka in
Bengaluru.
12th March, Current
Affairs:
- Employees' provident fund interest
rate for 2021-22 has been slashed from the existing
8.5 per cent to 8.1 per cent for 2021-22.
- The
Royal Challengers Bangalore appointed former South
Africa national team skipper Faf du Plessis as their
new captain for the upcoming edition of Indian
Premier League.
10th March, Current Affairs:
- BJP all set to retain power in Uttar
Pradesh and Uttarakhand. BJP is also emerging as
single largest party in Goa and Manipur. In
Punjab, AAP heading towards landslide victory.
- Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath
has become the first chief minister of Uttar
Pradesh to return to power after completing a
full tenure of five years.
- In South Korea, opposition candidate Yoon
Suk Yeol has been elected as country's new
President.
- Upper age limit for appearing in the
undergraduate medical entrance exam, NEET-UG,
has been removed for all candidates.
- Veteran Indian quick Jhulan Goswami today
equalled former Australia spinner Lyn Fullston's
tally of 39 scalps to become the joint-highest
wicket taker in Women's World Cup.
8th March, Current Affairs:
- President Ram Nath Kovind conferred
the Nari Shakti Puraskar 2020 and 2021 at a
special ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhavan on
occasion of International Women’s Day today.
- International Flights to and from India to
be resumed from 27th of March. The Civil
Aviation Ministry has suspended the regular
international flights in March 2020 in view of
the Covid-19 pandemic.
7th March, Current Affairs:
- Polling completed for the seventh and
final phase of elections in Uttar Pradesh. In
the phase, 54 seats of 9 districts of state went
for poll.
- The ninth edition of India-Sri Lanka
Naval Exercise, SLINEX, is scheduled at
Visakhapatnam from today to this Thursday.
- India's first indigenous Flying
Trainer HANSA-NG designed and developed by
CSIR-National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore,
has successfully completed the sea level trials
at Puducherry.
6th March, Current Affairs:
- India women's team captain Mithali Raj
became the first women's cricketer to feature in
six ODI World Cups. The veteran batter had made
her World Cup debut in 2000, before also
featuring in 2005, 2009, 2013, 2017 and now in
2022.
- All-rounder Ravindra Jadeja became the
sixth cricketer to register a score of 150+ and
take five wickets in the same Test.
- Ravichandran Ashwin became India's
second-highest wicket-taker, taking his 435th
Test wicket on Day 3 of the ongoing first Test
match between India and Sri Lanka at Mohali.
5th March, Current Affairs:
- Polling is underway for second and
final phase of assembly elections in Manipur.
- The Indian Navy successfully test-fired a
long-range version of the BrahMos cruise
missile.
4th March, Current Affairs:
- India has abstained in a vote in the
UN Human Rights Council that has decided to
urgently establish an independent international
commission of inquiry as a result of Russia’s
invasion of Ukraine.
- An anti-collision test - ‘Kavach’ System
conducted by the Indian Railways to check the
indigenous developed system to avoid rail
accidents is tested successfully today. The
indigenously developed Automatic Train
Protection (ATP) system, Kavach, was designed to
help the Railways achieve - zero
accidents.'Kavach' automatically stopped the
train before 380 metres of other Locomotive at
the front.
- Australian spin legend Shane Warne has
reportedly passed away of a suspected heart
attack. He was 52.
3rd March, Current Affairs:
- World Wildlife Day is being observed
today.
- In the poll-bound Uttar Pradesh, polling for
the Sixth Phase of Assembly Elections is
conducted today.
2nd March, Current Affairs:
- The United Nations General Assembly
voted in favour of Russian withdrawal from
Ukraine. A total of 141 countries voted in
favour of the withdrawal of Russian troops,
while 5 countries voted against the resolution.
- The European Union has banned seven Russian
banks from the Society for worldwide interbank
financial telecommunication (SWIFT) global
system that underpins cross-border payments.
1st March, Current Affairs:
- Maha Shivratri is being celebrated
across the country today.
- Talks between Russian and Ukrainian
officials began on the Belarusian border four
days after the war started.
- President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has signed an
application for membership of Ukraine in the
European Union.
- FIFA has suspended all Russian teams from
participating in all international events,
including the World Cup later this year. UEFA,
the governing body of European football has also
suspended Russian representation in club and
international competitions.
