DAILY DOSE 27TH MAR CURRENT AFFAIRS
1) India’s COVID-19 vaccination coverage has crossed 183 crore 16 lakh mark. Health Ministry said.
2) Cabinet extends Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana till September 2022
3) New law on noise pollution to be enacted soon: Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari said.
4) PM Modi to interact with students, parents and teachers on ‘Pariksha Pe Charcha’ on April 1.
5) A joint forum of central trade unions has called for a nationwide strike on Monday and Tuesday to protest against Central government policies that affect workers. The banking sector will be joining the strike, the All India Bank Employees Association said
6) Jammu and Kashmir government is all set to launch a fleet of 200 electric buses equipped with state-of-the-art facilities, including a real-time tracking system, in both capital cities of the union territory
7) JHARKHAND: Security forces shot dead three Naxalites, who belonged to Tritiya Prastuti Committee, at a forest in Jharkhand’s Latehar district on Saturday morning, police said. According to an official, the Naxalites had opened fire at the police party, following which police retaliated in self-defence. Police have also recovered a self-loading rifle, cartridges and ammunition storage devices from the spot.
8) PUNJAB : Police seized around 80,000 litres of lahan, the raw material used to produce illicit liquor, along with 30 litres of illicit liquor in Punjab’s Ludhiana district on Saturday.
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9) TELANGANA : The country has crossed a milestone of 50 thousand open defecation free (ODF) Plus villages. Among the top performing States are Telangana with 13 thousand 960 ODF Plus villages followed by Tamil Nadu and Madhya Pradesh.
10) WEST BENGAL : Around 40 crude bombs were recovered from Margram near Rampurhat in West Bengal’s Birbhum district by police on Saturday. “The crude bombs were concealed in four buckets and kept in the back of an under-construction house,” police said. This comes after eight people were killed in the Rampurhat area earlier this week after a mob allegedly set houses on fire.
11) Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur arrived in Dubai to participate in Media and Entertainment Fortnight at India Pavilion in Dubai Expo 2020.
12) SS Rajamouli’s magnum opus RRR has received a unanimous thumbs up from the audience and film critics. Starring Jr NTR and Ram Charan in the lead roles, the film has already brought a ‘tsunami’ at the ticket windows. According to trade analyst Taran Adarsh, the film broke the previous record for the biggest first-day opening (set by Rajamouli’s Baahubali: The Conclusion) and made Rs 223 crore worldwide on day one of release. In India, the film made Rs 156 crore, and it added another Rs 42 crore from the US and Canada. By comparison, Baahubali 2 had made Rs 217 crore worldwide on its opening day.
13) Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) funds directed research through its DRDO Industry Academia Centre-of Excellence (DIA-COE), in the identified research areas. DRDO has established 10 Centres of Excellence in collaboration with various academia institutes all over the country to develop critical technology for enabling futuristic requirements of Armed Forces.
14) The 210-km Manali-Sarchu road, which is generally opened in the last week of April, was reopened by the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) on Saturday, the Defence Ministry said. ”The opening of the…road was premised on the successful conduct of snow clearance operations over one of the highest passes of the Zanskar Range, the formidable Baralacha La Pass,” the ministry added
15) Modi will attend the 5th BIMSTEC Summit on 30th of this month. The Summit Meeting, which is being held in a virtual mode, will be hosted by Sri Lanka which is the current BIMSTEC chair.
16) The first passenger train service on broad gauge line from India to Nepal is slated to be flagged off by Prime Minister Narendra Modi amid the presence of high-level Nepalese delegation including Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba here virtually on 2 April.
17) Pakistan PM Imran Khan, in the face of a no-confidence motion, said he is ready to resume talks with India only if New Delhi restores the special status of J&K (Article 370).
18) External Affair Minister S Jaishankar arrived in the Maldives on a two-day visit to boost bilateral relation from March 26 to March 27 after he got an invite from his Maldivian counterpart.
27 March – World Theatre Day
World Theatre Day is celebrated on 27 March annually across the world since 1962 to raise the importance of the art form “theatre” and to act as a wakeup call for governments, politicians, and institutions that have not yet recognised its value to the people and also have not realised its potential for economic growth.
