Ministry of Commerce & Industry to organise the 14th edition of CII-EXIM Bank Conclave on India-Africa Project Partnerships, in association with Confederation of Indian Industry and EXIM Bank of India in New Delhi from March 17-19.
Minister of State for Commerce & Industry- CR Chaudhary.
Kavinder Singh Bisht (56kg) won gold while Shiva Thapa (60kg), Govind Sahani (49kg), Mohammed Hussamuddin (56kg) & Dinesh Dagar (69kg) won silver medals for India at the 38th GeeBee Boxing Tournament in Helsinki, Finland.
Finland Capital- Helsinki, Currency- Euro.
Mohammad Shtayyeh was named as the Prime Minister of Palestine by the President of Palestine Mahmoud Abbas. He replaced Rami Hamdallah who was Prime Minister since 2014.
Palestine Proclaimed Capital- Jerusalem
Dandi March Day or Salt March Day is celebrated on 12 March every year to commemorate the Salt Satyagraha, a non-violence campaign run by Mahatma Gandhi. Dandi March was started in 12 March 1930 at Sabarmati Ashram to 5 April 1930 at Dandi, Gujarat.
Rabindranath Tagore gave the title of Mahatma to MK Gandhi.
The new visa agreement between Maldives & India has come into force that will allow Maldivian tourists to stay in India for 90 days without a visa. Maldivians with tourist visas can also stay in India for treatment if they suffer a sudden medical issue.
Maldives Capital- Male , Currency- Rufiyaa.
USA’s cyclist Kelly Catlin passed away at the age of 23. She helped USA to win 3 consecutive world titles between 2016 & 2018 and also silver medal at 2016 Olympics.
Cycling Governing Body- UCI, President- David Lappartient.
Humsafar Trust inaugurated India’s first LGBTQ clinic and country’s first HIV treatment centre in Mumbai. The centre will provide free counselling and provide Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART).
Section 377 IPC was diluted to exclude consensual sex b/w adults
World Wide Web is celebrating its 30th anniversary today. On 12 March 1989, British physicist Tim Berners-Lee proposed a decentralized system of information management which led to the birth of www. He invented the 1st web browser WorldWideWeb in 1990.
Ray Tomlinson invented internet-based email in 1971 using ‘@’.
47 prominent personalities, including Malayalam actor Mohanlal, former foreign secretary S Jaishankar, Akali Dal leader Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa and renowned journalist Kuldip Nayar (posthumous), were conferred the Padma awards by President Ram Nath Kovind.
Padma Categories-Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan & Padma Shri.
Korea Exim Bank (KEXIM) will give a Rs 4,100 crore loan for Visakhapatnam Metro Rail project. The revised project is expected to cost ₹17000 crore for which funding is being tied up with German & French development banks KfW and AFD respectively.
South Korea Capital- Seoul Currency- Won