Current Affairs, March 2024
28th March-2024, Current Affairs:
• All universities have been
directed to use NET score for admission to PhD programmes instead of
conducting entrance tests, starting from the academic session 2024-2025.
• Sunrisers Hyderabad broke the record for the highest innings total in the
Indian Premier League history. SRH posted 277/3 in 20 overs in Hyderabad
against Mumbai Indians.
27th March-2024, Current Affairs:
• Saudi Arabia officially joined the
Miss Universe pageant with Rumy Alqahtani as the Islamic country's
first-ever representative. This is the first time that Saudi Arabia will be
participating in the Miss Universe beauty pageant.
• Pavan Davuluri, an
IIT Madras alumni, was appointed the new head of Microsoft Windows and
Surface.
• Mumbai has overtaken Beijing to claim the title of the Asian
capital, with the highest number of billionaires for the first time, as per
the latest Hurun Research Institute's global rich list.
25th March-2024, Current Affairs:
• The festival of colours, Holi is
being celebrated throughout the country today.
• Bharat Biotech
International Ltd said it started clinical trials of the Tuberculosis
vaccine MTBVAC on adults in India. This is the first vaccine against
Tuberculosis derived from a human source by the Spanish bio-pharmaceutical
company, Biofabri.
24th March-2024, Current Affairs:
• Tuberculosis Day is celebrated
today to increase public awareness about Tuberculosis. The first World TB
Day was officially observed in 1983, and since then, it has become an annual
event.
• More than 115 people were killed after terrorists opened fire
and threw explosives at a concert hall near Moscow.
22nd March-2024, Current Affairs:
• King of Bhutan Jigme Khesar
Namgyel Wangchuck conferred Bhutan’s highest civilian award, the Order of
the Druk Gyalpo, on Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Thimpu.
• The Indian
Space Research Organisation (Isro) successfully carried out the landing
mission of its Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) named 'Pushpak' from the
Aeronautical Test Range (ATR) in Challakere near Karnataka's Chitradurga.
• World Water Day is observed today. World Water Day 2024 is being
celebrated under the theme ‘Water for Peace’.
20th March-2024, Current Affairs:
• Jharkhand Governor C.P.
Radhakrishnan took charge as Telangana governor this morning at a function
at Raj Bhavan in Hyderabad.
• Finland remained the world's happiest
country for a seventh straight year in an annual UN-sponsored World
Happiness Report published on Wednesday. India ranked 126, the same as last
year, in the happiness index.
• Union Minister Kiren Rijiju has been
given an additional charge of the Ministry of Food Processing Industries
after Union Minister and Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party Chief Pashupati Kumar
Paras resigned from the Union Cabinet yesterday.
17th March-2024, Current Affairs:
• The 2024 general election for 543
Lok Sabha seats will be held in seven phases that will begin from April 19
and continue till June 1, Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar said.
•
The Royal Challengers Bangalore wins the Women's Premier League 2024 after
defeating Delhi Capitals by 8 wickets in Delhi.
14th March-2024, Current Affairs:
• A high-level committee on 'one
nation, one election' today submitted its report to President Droupadi
Murmu. The high-level committee headed by former President Ram Nath Kovind
has recommended simultaneous elections in India in its over 18,000-page
report that it submitted to President Droupadi Murmu.
• The Prime
Minister Narendra Modi-led high-level committee Thursday picked retired IAS
officers Gyanesh Kumar and Sukhbir Singh Sandhu as the Election
Commissioners.
• Mumbai clinch the Ranji Trophy for 42nd time after
defeating Vidarbha by 169 runs in the final.
12th March-2024, Current Affairs:
• BJP leader Nayab Singh Saini was
sworn in as the new Chief Minister of Haryana, succeeding Manohar Lal
Khattar.
• The State Bank of India (SBI) on Tuesday submitted the data of
Electoral Bonds to the Election Commission of India (ECI).
11th March-2024, Current Affairs:
• The government on Monday evening
issued a notification for implementation of the contentious Citizenship
Amendment Act. The CAA - which makes religion, for the first time, a test of
Indian citizenship - was cleared by Parliament in December 2019.
•
Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully conducting
the maiden flight test of the indigenously developed Agni-5 missile, dubbed
Mission Divyastra with the Multiple Independently Targetable Re-entry
Vehicle (MIRV) technology.
• Oppenheimer triumphed at the 96th Academy
Awards winning seven of the 13 Oscars it was nominated for. It won Best
Picture, Best Director for Christopher Nolan, Best Actor for Cillian Murphy
and Best Supporting Actor for Robert Downey Jr. The film also won Best
Original Score and several technical awards. Best Actress award went to Emma
Stone for Poor Things which also scored three other Oscars.
• Renowned
art director Nitin Desai, known for his work in films like 'Lagaan' and
'Jodhaa Akbar', was honoured posthumously at the 96th Academy Awards held at
Dolby Theatre, Los Angeles, United States.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi
inaugurated the Haryana section of the Dwarka Expressway in Gurugram. The
eight-lane high-speed expressway is India's first elevated highway.
10th March-2024, Current Affairs:
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi
inaugurated the Sela Tunnel as part of his day-long visit to Arunachal
Pradesh. The Sela Tunnel will be the world's longest bi-lane tunnel at an
elevation exceeding 13,000 feet. The tunnel, constructed at a cost of ₹ 825
crore, connects Tezpur to Tawang, near the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with
China.
• Czech Republic's Krystyna Pyszkova won the coveted Miss World
2024 title at a grand event in Mumbai. Miss Lebanon Yasmina Zaytoun crown
the first runner-up.
9th March-2024, Current Affairs:
• Union Minister of
Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare and Tribal Affairs, Arjun Munda,
inaugurated the Agriculture Integrated Command and Control Center at
Krishi Bhawan, Delhi.
• President Droupadi Murmu Friday awarded
the prestigious President’s Standard to No. 45 Squadron and No. 221
Squadron, and the President’s Colours to 11 Base Repair Depot (BRD)
and 509 Signal Unit (SU) of the IAF in a ceremony at IAF station,
Hindan.
• India has won the fifth test match of the series
against England by an inning and 64 runs at Dharamsala today. With
this, India has clinched the five-match series 4-1.
• Veteran
England pacer James Anderson became the first ever pacer to pick 700
Test wickets. Anderson achieved his feat after he dismissed Kuldeep
Yadav on Saturday morning in Dharamsala.
8th March-2024, Current Affairs:
• International Women’s Day is being
celebrated today. The United Nations has designated this year's theme as
‘Invest in Women: Accelerate Progress’ with a focus on addressing economic
disempowerment, while the campaign theme for this year is ‘Inspire
Inclusion’.
• Maha Shivratri is being celebrated across the country
today.
• France inscribes the right to abortion in its constitution as
world marks International Women's Day.
7th March-2024, Current Affairs:
• Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi
Vijayan launched India’s first state-run over-the-top (OTT) platform named
‘CSpace’ in Thiruvananthapuram.
• Kuldeep Yadav became the fastest Indian
cricket team bowler to take 50 Test wickets with respect to ball taken.
Kuldeep took just 1871 balls to reach the milestone with Axar Patel (2205)
and Jasprit Bumrah (2520) behind him in the list. This was also the first
time in India's Test history that a bowler was able to complete 50 Test
wickets by bowling less than 2000 deliveries.
5th March-2024, Current Affairs:
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi
inaugurated India's first metro line "under any mighty river" in Kolkata
today. He unveiled the Howrah Maidan-Esplanade section of Kolkata Metro's
East-West corridor. The 4.8-km Howrah Maidan-Esplanade section has been
built at a cost of ₹4,138 crores.
• France has become the first country
in the world to enshrine abortion rights in its constitution. The amendment
states that there is a guaranteed freedom to abortion in France.
• A
Kerala school has introduced Iris, the first generative AI teacher in India.
Developed in collaboration with Makerlabs Edutech Private Limited, Iris
marks a significant advancement in the integration of artificial
intelligence in education. Unveiled at KTCT Higher Secondary School in
Thiruvananthapuram, Iris is a humanoid designed to enhance the learning
experience for students.
3rd March-2024, Current Affairs:
• Shehbaz Sharif became the Prime
Minister of Pakistan for a second time to lead a coalition government after
he comfortably won a majority in the newly-elected Parliament.
• World
Wildlife Day being observed today. For this year, the theme for World
Wildlife Day is "Connecting People and Planet: Exploring Digital Innovation
in Wildlife Conservation".
2nd March-2024, Current Affairs:
• The Central government appointed
former Supreme Court judge Justice Abhay Manohar Sapre as the new
Chairperson of the anti-corruption ombudsman, Lokpal.
• The Defence
Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has conducted two successful
flight tests of the Very Short-Range Air Defence System (VSHORADS) missile.
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