Weekly One Liner Current Affairs 8 March to 16 March 2023

March Weekly One Liner Current Affairs Part 2

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National News

• Narendra Tomar inaugurated workshop on Bamboo Sector Development in New Delhi
• First meeting of Central Asia JW Group on Afghanistan held in India
• Yaoshang festival begins in Manipur
• UP to host the 8th edition of Indian Fharma Fair (IFF)
• ECI host the 3rd International Conference on ‘Election Integrity’
• Odisha CM unveiled Dakota aircraft for public viewing in Bhubaneswar
• Maharashtra to introduce 4th women’s policy
• J&K government launched plantation drive on International Women’s Day
• Army installed tallest Iconic National Flag in hilly Doda district, J&K
• Pune hosted the fourth Y20 Consultation Meeting
• West Bengal urged Centre to allow poppy cultivation
• India signed MoU with US for semiconductor supply chain
• Centre launched portal for women scientists for research grants & fund
• MoHUA launched 1st Edition of Women Icons Leading Swacchata Awards
• Amit Shah virtually inaugurated development project in Ahmedabad
• New health programme ‘Arogya Mahila’ launched for women in Telangana
• Piyush Goyal chaired the 6th meeting of National Startup Advisory Council (NSAC) in New Delhi
• Uttar Pradesh cabinet approved New Sports Policy 2023
• New initiative called ‘Beggar Free City’ launched in Maharashtra’s Nagpur
• IRCTC to start ‘Bharat Nepal Ashtha Yatra Tour’
• Nitin Gadkari unveiled first methanol run buses in Bengaluru
• Two-day G20 flower festival begins in New Delhi
• PM Modi unveils world’s longest railway platform in Hubballi-Dharwad
• SCO Supreme Courts Chief Justices’ meet held in New Delhi
• Ayush Ministry organized Yoga Mahotsav 2023 in New Delhi
• First Supreme Audit Institution (SAI20) meeting begins in Guwahati
• PM Modi inaugurated 118 Km long Bengaluru-Mysuru Expressway project
• World Food India-2023 to take place in New Delhi
• India & Australia sign audio-visual co-production agreement
• Kochi Metro becomes the first to accept digital currency for parking
• Asia’s largest tulip garden in J&K to open to the public on 19 March
• Utarakhand becomes 1st state to start insurance scheme for sericulturists
• Ashok Leyland unveils all-women production line at Tamil Nadu plant
• India signed MoC with Sweden to promote research networking
• Vande Bharat Express gets Asia’s first woman loco pilot Surekha Yadav
• International Conference on ‘Buddhist Heritage’ begins in New Delhi
• IIT Guwahati partnered with Sathya Sai Hospital for cardiac research
• Mahindra Auto becomes title sponsor of International Boxing Association (IBA) Women’s Boxing Championship
• Centre approved Rs 1816 crore to 5 states as disaster relief
• 2nd Education Working Group meeting of G20 countries begin in Amritsar
• 2nd G20 Sustainable Financial Working Group (SFWG) meeting to be held in Udaipur
• Anurag Thakur inaugurated 16th meeting of SCO Youth Council in New Delhi
• 3rd Divya Kala Mela inaugurated at Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh
• Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) launched ‘Learning Science via Standards’ initiative for students
• India to host SCO Tourism Ministers’ meet in Varanasi

International News

• Colombia opens military service to women for first time in 25 years
• Rajkumar Singh participated in 19th BIMSTEC Ministerial Meeting
• India world’s largest arms importer: SIPRI Report 2023

Banking and Financial

• Max Life partners with Ujjivan SFB to offer life insurance solutions
• Kotak AMC financial literacy campaign for women
• YES Bank, Aadhar Housing Finance enter into co-lending partnership
• Axis Bank partnered with ITC to offer rural lending products
• PNB signed MoU with Central Warehousing Corporation to facilitate farmers’ financing
• IDFC Mutual Fund rebrands itself as Bandhan
• Kotak Mahindra AMC launched Silver ETF Fund of Fund
• Suryodaya Small Finance Bank launched Blossom Women’s Savings Account
• India’s retail inflation drops to 6.44% in February 2023
• Wholesale inflation falls to two-year low of 3.85% in February
• RBI allowed banks from 18 countries to trade in rupee

Appointment and Resignation

• Arun Subramanian becomes 1st Indian-American judge at New York Court
• Manik Saha sworn in as chief minister of Tripura for second time
• Shalija Dhami becomes first woman officer to command a fighter unit in IAF
• Colonel Geeta Rana became the first woman officer to command a field workshop
• Neiphiu Rio became the CM of Nagaland for the fifth time
• Ram Chandra Paudel elected as new Nepal President
• B Gopkumar appointed as MD and CEO of Axis Mutual Fund
• Rohit Jawa appointed as CEO & MD of Hindustan Unilever Ltd.
• China’s Xi Jinping elected president for third term
• Citi India names Bhanu Vohra head of commercial banking in India
• Siddhartha Mohanty appointed as the interim chairman of LIC
• Sumant Kathpalia reappointed as MD & CEO of IndusInd Bank
• Mohit Joshi appointed as MD and CEO of Tech Mahindra
• Shreya Ghodawat appointed as India’s ambassador of ‘She Changes Climate’
• LIC appointed Tablesh Pandey and M Jagannath as new MDs

Awards

• India won Golden & Silver Star at ‘Golden City Gate Tourism Awards
• British Architect David Chipperfield won Pritzker Prize 2023
• Oscars 2023: RRR’s Naatu Naatu won Best Original Song award; ReadMore…
• Gyan Chaturvedi awarded Vyas Samman 2022 for ‘Pagalkhana
• RBI’s Shaktikanta Das named ‘Governor of the Year’ by Central Banking

Defence

• ISRO received Indo-US jointly developed NASA-ISRO synthetic aperture radar (NISAR) satellite
• Defence Ministry signed contract with HAL to procure 6 Dornier aircraft
• India & France conducts Maritime Partnership Exercise (MPX) in the Arabian Sea
• Centre signed Rs 934 crore deal with Hindustan Shipyard Limited (HSL) to Refit INS Sindhukirti Submarine
• Exercise ‘La Perouse’ between navies of India, US, Japan, France, UK and Australia begins

Science

• OpenAl launched ‘GPT-4’ with higher accuracy

Sports

• Khelo India Dus ka Dum tournament to be organized to celebrate International Women’s Day 2023
• Australia’s Shaun Marsh announced retirement from first-class cricket
• Virat Kohli becomes 2nd-highest run scorer against Australia
• Prithviraj Tondaiman won bronze in trap shooting in Doha
• Ashleigh Gardner & Harry Brook won ICC Player of the Month for February

Book and Author

• A book titled ‘Mundaka Upanishad: The Bridge to Immortality’ authored by Karan Singh released

Important day

• 8 March 2023 (Second Wednesday of March) – No Smoking Day
• 10 March – CISF Raising Day
• 14 March – International Day Of Action For Rivers (Theme 2023 – Rights of Rivers)
• 14 March – International Mathematics Day (Theme 2023 – Mathematics for Everyone)
• 15 March– World Consumer Rights Day (Theme 2023 – Empowering Consumers Through Clean Energy Transitions)

Obituary

• Veteran actor-director Satish Kaushik passed away
• Veteran actor Sameer Khakhsar passed away

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