Weekly One Liner Current Affairs 18th March to 22nd March 2024

March Weekly One Liner Current Affairs Part 3

National News

• Government launches alternate Auto Fuel Ethanol100
• India & Singapore sign MoU on Law and Dispute Resolution
• Kashmir hosts first Formula-4 Car Racing Event along Dal Lake
• Election Commission launches ‘Know Your Candidate’ app
• India’s first integrated Oil Palm Processing Unit by 3F Oil Palm starts commercial operations
• Election Commission launches ‘Mission 414’ campaign in Himachal
• Guyana to acquire 2 HAL-Made Dornier 228 Aircraft from India
• Tata Sons announces sale of 0.6% Stake in TCS for over ₹9,300 crore
• ICRA forecasts Indian IT service industry growth at 3-5% in FY25
• Indian Navy & IIT Kharagpur signed a MoU to drive innovation through research partnership
• Meta partners with ECI to identify unlawful content from its platforms
• India’s First Ayurvedic Café Opens in Delhi
• Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) and Krishi Jagran signed MoU for the dissemination & promotion of ICAR’s initiatives for the growth of Indian Agriculture
• CCI Approves Ultra Tech Cement’s ₹ 7,600 crore buyout deal of Kesoram’s cement business
• India’s 1^st Battery Energy storage GigaFactory to be launched in J&K
• IIT Madras develops customisable ‘Electric Standing Wheelchair’
• GRID-INDIA is now a Miniratna Company
• 47^th Meeting of National Committee of Archivists held in Srinagar
• 4^th Shanghai Cooperation Organization Startup Forum organized in New Delhi
• ITU elects India as co-chair of its Digital Innovation Board

International News

• New Delhi ranked world’s most polluted capital city for 4^th consecutive year since 2018
• World Happiness Report – India ranks 126^th; topped by Finland
• 3^rd summit for Democracy hosted by South Korea

Banking and Financial

• SANY India signs MoU with J&K Bank to give finance solution
• Axis Bank to support Tata Memorial-supported National Cancer Grid
• YES Bank partners with Indian Olympic Association for Paris Olympics 2024
• FinMin notifies Rs 90 coin to commemorate 90 years of RBI
• RBI imposes ₹1.31 cr. Penalty on Tamilnad Mercantile Bank
• Gross Direct Tax collections for FY 2023-24 register a growth of 18.74%
• Airtel PB partners with Noise and Mastercard to unveil ‘A New Way To Pay’
• DBS Bank India unveils $250 mn lending support to start-ups and ‘new economy’ organizations

Appointment and Resignation

• Kotak Bank appoints Jaideep Hansraj as President of ‘One Kotak’
• Rahul Singh appointed as new chief of CBSE
• NK Sehgal becomes new chairman of Prasar Bharati
• EC announces Para Archer Sheetal Devi as National PwD icon
• Telangana governor Tamilisai Soundararajan resigns
• Vladimir Putin wins Russian presidential election with 87.97% of the vote
• Poonawalla Fincorp appoints Arvind Kapil as MD & CEO
• Sheyphali Sharan appointed government spokesperson
• Radhakrishnan assumes office as Telangana Governor
• Kumar Venkatasubramanian appoints as CEO of P&G India
• Vinay Kumar appointed Indian Ambassador to Russia
• Kiren Rijiju gets additional charge after Pashupati Kumar Paras resigns from Union cabinet
• Prabowo Subianto elected as new President of Indonesia
• M V Rao elected as chairman of Indian Banks’ Association
• Naveen Jindal elected the President of Indian Steel Association (ISA)
• Ruturaj Gaikwad named new CSK Skipper

Awards

• Uday Bhatia & Manasi Gupta honoured with Diana Memorial Award
• Ratan Tata awarded PV Narasimha Rao Memorial Award
• Carnatic vocalist TM Krishna to be conferred with the Sangita Kalanidhi award
• Renowned poet Prabha Varma selected for Saraswati Samman for the year 2023

Defence

• Army raises helicopter unit at Jodhpur to induct Apache attack choppers
• Defence Ministry contract with HAL for upgrade of 25 Dornier aircraft
• Indian Army contingent departs for Seychelles for Exercise “LAMITIYE-2024”
• India-US Joint Military Exercise “EX TIGER TRIUMPH 2024” on the Eastern Seaboard
• India, Mozambique, Tanzania Joint Maritime Exercise begins

Sports

• Matthew Wade retires from first-class cricket
• RCB triumphs over Delhi Capitals in WPL 2024 final
• Alcaraz beats Medvedev to win second straight Indian Wells title

Important day

• 18 March – Ordnance Factories Day
• 20 March – French Language Day
• 20 March – International Day of Happiness
• 20 March – World Sparrow Day (Theme 2024 – I Love Sparrow)
• 20 March – World Oral Health Day (Theme 2024 – A Happy Mouth is A Happy Body)
• 21 March – World Forestry Day (Theme 2024 – Forests and innovation: new solutions for a better world.)
• 21 March – World Poetry Day (Theme 2024 – Standing on the Shoulders of Giants)
• 21 March – International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (Theme 2024 – A Decade of Recognition, Justice, and Development: Implementation of the International Decade for People of African Descent)
• 21 March – World Down Syndrome Day
• 22 March – Bihar Diwas
• 22 March – World Water Day (Theme 2024 – Water for Peace)

Obituary

• Renowned Rabindra Sangeet Singer Sadi Mohammad Passes Away

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