GK & CA
Collection of weekly GK & CA since year 2016.
March, 2023
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ISRO's LVM3
ISRO's heaviest rocket LVM3 carrying 36 satellites belonging to UK-based OneWeb Group lifted off from Sriharikota (Source: The Hindu)
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Salima Tete
National women’s hockey team midfielder Salima Tete was on Thursday appointed the AHF Athletes Ambassador from India for a term of two years, starting March 25. Tete accepted the certificate and the position during the Asian Hockey Federation (AHF) Congress in Mungyeong, Korea. (Source: The Indian Express)
Sun, 26 Mar, 20235654
DigiClaim
Union Minister of Agriculture launched the National Crop Insurance Portal’s digitized claim settlement module ‘DigiClaim’ under the ambit of Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY). With the launch of the module, claims will be disbursed electronically, which will benefit the respective farmers of six states (Source: The Print)
Sun, 26 Mar, 20235653
NGT slaps ₹10 crore penalty on Kerala government
The Principal Bench of the National Green Tribunal in New Delhi has slapped a penalty of ₹10 crore on the Kerala government for its failure to check the indiscriminate pollution of the Vembanad and Ashtamudi lakes, listed as Ramsar sites. (Source: The Hindu)
Sun, 26 Mar, 20235652
Gordon Moore
Gordon Earle Moore (January 3, 1929 – March 24, 2023) was an American businessman, engineer, and the co-founder and emeritus chairman of Intel Corporation. He proposed Moore's law, the observation that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit (IC) doubles about every two years (Source: Wikipedia)
Sun, 26 Mar, 20235650
Mario Molina
Mario José Molina Henríquez known as Mario Molina, was a Mexican chemist. He played a pivotal role in the discovery of the Antarctic ozone hole, and was a co-recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his role in discovering the threat to the Earth's ozone layer from chlorofluorocarbon (ClFC) gases (Source: Wikipedia)
Sun, 19 Mar, 20235649
Arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin
The International Criminal Court on Friday issued an arrest warrant for war crimes for President Vladimir Putin and a second Russian official. The court says Putin bears individual criminal responsibility for the abduction and deportation of Ukrainian children since Russia’s full-scale invasion began in February last year (Source: The Indian Express)
Sun, 19 Mar, 20235648
Barda Wildlife Sanctuary
Gujarat’s Barda pitched as new home for lions, to be moved from Gir - The Gujarat government has proposed a second home for Asiatic lions in Gujarat at Barda Wildlife Sanctuary, about 100km away from their present home which is over-crowded at Gir National Park (Source: The Hindustan Times)
Sun, 19 Mar, 20235647
UN Water Conference
he first UN Water Conference in almost five decades is taking place in New York on 22-24 March, co-hosted by the Netherlands and Tajikistan. The goal of the conference is to ensure the sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.
Sun, 19 Mar, 20235646
Cyclone Freddy
Very Intense Tropical Cyclone Freddy was an exceptionally long-lived, powerful, and deadly storm that traversed the southern Indian Ocean for more than five weeks in February and March 2023. Freddy is both the longest-lasting and highest-ACE-producing tropical cyclone ever recorded worldwide (Source: Wikipedia)
Sun, 19 Mar, 20235645
Everything Everywhere All At Once
Oscars 2023: Everything Everywhere All At Once cleans up with seven awards. Michelle Yeoh became the first Asian woman to win best actress. (Source: bbc.com)
Sun, 19 Mar, 20235644
Arctic Seed Vault
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is a secure backup facility for the world's crop diversity on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen. The Seed Vault provides long-term storage of duplicates of seeds conserved in genebanks around the world (Source: Wikipedia)
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HUID
The government has announced that the sale of gold jewellery without a HUID (Hallmark Unique Identification) number will not be allowed from April 1 onwards. ust like the unique chassis number of the vehicle, this six-digit HUID will be unique to each piece of jewellery and users can easily check the details using BIS Care A. (Source: Zee business)
Sun, 12 Mar, 20235641
Mimeusemia ceylonica
Moth Mimeusemia ceylonica, which was rediscovered in Tirunelveli district in 2020 after 127 years by two researchers (Source: The Hindu)
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Illegal Migration Bill
The Illegal Migration Bill is a proposed act of the United Kingdom House of Commons, introduced by the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in March 2023. The main focus of the bill is to reduce or end "small boat crossings", across the English Channel, by ways described as "pushing against international law" (Source: Wikipedia)
Sun, 12 Mar, 20235639
TROPEX 2023
The Indian Navy’s major Operational level exercise for the year 2023, conducted across the expanse of the Indian Ocean, over a duration of four months. The overall exercise construct included coastal defence exercise Sea Vigil and the amphibious exercise AMPHEX, from the Indian Army, the Indian Air Force and the Coast Guard (Source: The Hindu)
Sun, 12 Mar, 20235638
Salhoutuonuo Kruse
Salhoutuonuo Kruse is an Indian politician from Nagaland. In 2023, She along with Hekani Jakhalu Kense became the first women from Nagaland to be elected to the Nagaland Legislative Assembly (Source: Wikipedia)
Sun, 12 Mar, 20235636
Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar and Dharashiv
Maharashtra’s Aurangabad and Osmanabad cities have been renamed as Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar and Dharashiv respectively (Source: The Indian Express)
Sun, 05 Mar, 20235635
Bird Survey Dharoi 2023
Fifteen teams of birdwatchers from Gujarat, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh completed the second two-day Bird Survey Dharoi 2023 on the wetland spread over 107 square kilometres at the trijunction of Mehsana, Sabarkantha and Banaskantha districts in north Gujarat on Sunday (Source: The Indian Express)
Sun, 05 Mar, 20235634
Global Responsible Tourism Summit
The Global Responsible Tourism Summit was held at scenic village of Maravanthuruthu in Kerala from February 25-28. The four-day conclave vowed to implement proposals to boost the state’s vital travel and tourism industries (Source: The Outlook)
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India G20 Foreign ministers meet
The group's foreign ministers - including Russia's Sergei Lavrov, Antony Blinken of the US and China's Qin Gang - were meeting in Delhi under India's presidency (Source: bbc.com)
Sun, 05 Mar, 20235632
Windsor framework
The Windsor Framework is a proposed post-Brexit legal agreement between the European Union and the United Kingdom which was announced on 27 February 2023. It is designed to address the problem of the movement of goods between the European Single Market and the United Kingdom in the current Northern Ireland Protocol. (Source: Wikipedia)
Sun, 05 Mar, 2023