DAILY DOSE 25th MAR CURRENT AFFAIRS
1) More than 182 crore 23 lakh COVID vaccine doses administered so far under Nationwide Vaccination Drive.
2) Fifth edition of Pariksha Pe Charcha is going to be held on 1st April this year at Talkatora Stadium in New Delhi. Education Ministry said Prime Minister Narendra Modi will interact with students and share his insights on how to beat exam stress.
3) PM Modi will share his thoughts with the people in the country and abroad in the ‘Mann Ki Baat’ programme on All India Radio at 11 AM on 27th (Sunday) of this month. It will be the 87th episode of the monthly radio programme.
4) More than 26 crore unorganized workers have been registered on eSHRAM portal out of which 53 percent are female workers and 47 percent are male workers. This was stated by the Labour and Employment Minister Bhupender Yadav.
5) PUNJAB CM Bhagwant Mann sought a special financial package worth 1 lakh crore rupees from the Centre for the revival of the state’s economy besides ensuring holistic development and welfare of its people.
6) All five nominees of AAP, including former cricketer Harbhajan Singh and former Delhi Assembly MLA Raghav Chadha, were elected to the Rajya Sabha unopposed from Punjab on Thursday. The other three MPs are IIT Delhi Professor Sandeep Pathak, Chancellor of Lovely Professional University Ashok Mittal and founder of Krishna Pran Breast Cancer Care Charitable Trust Sanjiv Arora.
7) RAJASTHAN Assembly on 24 Mar passed the Rajasthan Public Examination (Measures for Prevention of Unfair Means in Recruitment) Bill, 2022 to curb irregularities and use of unfair means in public exams. The offenders will be jailed for five to 10 years and fined from ₹10 lakh to ₹10 crore. Offenders will be debarred from taking any public examination for two years.
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8) TELANGANA : Prestigious Wings India 2022 has been taken off at Begumpet airport in Hyderabad. The Union Civil Aviation Ministry and FICCI are jointly organizing the biennial event with India@75: New Horizon for Aviation Industry as the main theme. Business to Business and Business to Government deliberations are underway among various stakeholders as the conference cum exhibition is providing a platform for the same.
9) UTTAR PRADESH: Yogi Adityanath will be sworn-in as the UP CM for the second time in a row. The swearing-in ceremony will be held at Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow at 4 pm on March 25. Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP Chief JP Nadda, and many other high-profile politicians including past BJP state Chief Minister will also be attending the ceremony.
10) WEST BENGAL : National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, has taken suo motu cognizance of media reports that eight persons were allegedly burnt to death in Birbhum district of West Bengal after a TMC leader was killed in a bomb attack.
11) After Rampurhat TMC Block President Anarul Hossain was arrested on Thursday over Birbhum violence in West Bengal, the state government has suspended Rampurhat Sub-Divisional Police Officer (SDPO) Shayan Ahmed. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, during her visit to Bogtui, said that the incident at Birbhum could’ve been averted had the SDPO taken precautionary measures.
12) West Bengal Government on 24 Mar ordered a 10-day special clean-up drive, where-in it has directed the state police to uncover illegal arms and ammunition across the state. The announcement comes on the day when West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee visited Birbhum and said, “Police will ensure strictest punishment is handed out to culprits responsible for the Rampurhat carnage.
13) Trinamool Congress (TMC) MPs met Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday and demanded the removal of West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar, calling him a “threat to the parliamentary democratic system”. TMC also asserted that the Bengal Police will not spare anyone involved in Birbhum violence and will make arrests at the quickest possible time.
14) PM Modi has expressed happiness that Government e-Marketplace (GeM) has achieved an order value of one lakh crore rupees in a single year. He said, the GeM platform is especially empowering Minister for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, with 57 percent of order value coming from MSME sector.
15) The fourth edition of Chitra Bharati Film Festival of Bhartiya Chitra Sadhna to start today 25 Mar in Bhopal.
16) Prasar Bharti has shut down over one thousand 200 Doordarshan Analogue Terrestrial Transmitters in view of the emerging trends in the Broadcasting sector and availability of DD Free Dish in the country. This was stated by Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha.
17) Raksha Mantri inaugurates BRO Tourism website to promote tourism in border areas; Portal to facilitate guided tours for people to world famous BRO projects. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh lauds BRO for its incomparable role in encouraging tourism through projects like Atal Tunnel.
18) India abstains in UNGA on resolution blaming Russia for Ukraine humanitarian crisis : The UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution that blames Russia for the escalating humanitarian crisis in Ukraine and urges an immediate ceasefire. The resolution was adopted with 140 votes in favour of it, as opposed to 5 votes against it. There were 38 abstentions, including India. Only Belarus, Syria, North Korea and Eritrea joined Russia in opposing the measure.