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OZiva signs Deepika Padukone as endorser Uttar Pradesh govt has launched a campaign
to make golden cards of the Ayushman
Plant-based nutrition brand OZiva has Bharat scheme across the state.
announced the appointment of actor Deepika
It aims to drive awareness about Ayushman
Padukone as its brand ambassador.
Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana
Recently, OZiva became the first nutrition (AB PM-JAY) across the state.
brand in India to be certified clean and
The campaign will run from 10-24 March'21.
received the Purity Award and Pesticide Free
Under this, a free Ayushman golden card will
certificate from the US-based Clean Label
be given to those families who have still not
Project.
taken the benefit of the scheme.
OZiva provides everyday fitness, skin and hair
nutrition products. Tirath Singh Rawat: New CM of Uttarakhand
Vi partners with Disney+ Hotstar Tirath Singh Rawat will be the new CM of
Uttarakhand.
Telecommunications company Vi has
He is a Member of Parliament from Pauri
partnered with video streaming platform
Garhwal.
Disney+ Hotstar to provide a year of free
content to its users. He was the first Education Minister after the
formation of the Uttarakhand state in 2000
This will include live sports such as the IPL
(Indian Premier League). Trivendra Singh Rawat stepped down from
the post of Chief Minister on 9 March 2021.
For Vi prepaid users, it is launching three new
unlimited recharge plans and a new data-only He has headed the state unit of the BJP in the
plan that will offer the one-year Disney+ past and has been a state legislator.
Hotstar VIP subscription as a bundled Koneru Humpy wins BBC ISWOTY for 2020
benefit.
Chess player Koneru Humpy from Andhra
Govt Polytechnic College signs MoU with GCET Pradesh has won the BBC Indian
In the Jammu and Kashmir, Government Sportswoman of the Year award (ISWOTY)
Polytechnic College, Jammu inked an MoU for 2020, following a public vote.
with Government College of Engineering & Humpy is the World Rapid Chess champion
Technology (GCET), Jammu on 9 March having won the title in December 2019.
2021. She received the Arjuna Award, one of India's
It has been signed for upskilling and top sporting honors, in 2003, and India's
enhancing employability of engineering fourth-highest civilian award, Padma Shri, in
students to the latest technologies at Center 2007.
for Invention, Innovation, Incubation and Ravichandran Ashwin: Player of the month
Training (CIIIT), Jammu established at
Government Polytechnic Jammu. Ravichandran Ashwin has been named the
ICC men's Player of the Month for February
Uttar Pradesh government launches a campaign 2021 for his stellar show against England in a
four-match Test series which India won to
qualify for the World Test Championship final.
1|Page England's Tammy Beaumont was adjudged Till February 2021, 222 LMTs of sugar have
the women's Player of the Month. been produced by the domestic sugar mills.
Ashwin who played in three Tests in the four- The government has allocated a mill-wise
match series scored a 106 in the second export quota of 60 Lakh Metric Tonnes for
innings. export during the current sugar season.
1st military exercises in space: France 3.77 cr rural households get water connections
France launched its first military exercise in 3.77 crore rural households have been
space on 8 March 2021 to evaluate its ability provided tap water connections under Jal
to defend its satellites and other defence Jeevan Mission.
equipment from an attack. Over seven crore families in rural areas now
The exercise, codenamed "AsterX" in the have an assured tap water connection.
memory of the first French satellite from 1965, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced
will be based on 18 simulated events in an the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) on 15th August
operations room. 2019, with an aim to provide a tap water
The US Space Force and German space connection in every rural household by 2024.
agencies are taking part in the exercises.
EV industry projected to be Rs 3,70,000 cr
157 new medical colleges approved under CSS
India’s Electric Vehicle financing industry is
The Government has informed that 157 new projected to be Rs 3,70,000 cr in 2030.
medical colleges have been approved under This was said in the report titled Mobilising
the Centrally Sponsored Scheme (CSS) in Electric Vehicle Financing in India, which was
three phases. released by NITI Aayog and Rocky Mountain
These new medical colleges are attached with Institute India.
existing district and referral hospitals. The report has also proposed a toolkit of 10
In phase-I of the scheme, 58 districts in 20 solutions that can be adopted in catalyzing
states and union territories have been the required capital.
approved for the establishment of medical
11 Shrimad Bhagwat Gita manuscripts released
colleges.
1 cr 11 lakh houses sanctioned under PMAY-U PM Narendra Modi on 9 March 2021 released
11 volumes of the manuscript with
The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has commentaries by 21 scholars on shlokas of
informed that so far 1 crore 11 lakh Houses Srimad Bhagavadgita at Lok Kalyan Marg,
have been sanctioned under Pradhan Mantri New Delhi.
Awas Yojana-Urban. The manuscript, published by Dharmarth
Of these, 73 lakh are grounded and over 43 Trust, is written with extraordinary variety and
lakh have been delivered. nuance of Indian calligraphy ranging from
The houses constructed or acquired under Shankar Bhashya to Bhasanuvada.
this scheme are in the name of the female
India crosses a landmark in COVID vaccination
member of the household or in joint name
with the lady's name at first. India has crossed a landmark in COVID-19
vaccination as more than 20 lakh COVID
Sugar production estimated to be 310 lakh MT
vaccine doses were administered across the
The sugar production in the country during the country in the last 24 hours.
current sugar season 2020-21 is estimated to The cumulative number of COVID-19 vaccine
be at 310 lakh Metric Tonnes (LMT) as doses administered in the country has
against the estimated domestic consumption crossed 2 crores 30 lakh on 9 March 2021.
of 260 LMT.
2|Page More than 43,74,000 beneficiaries aged more It will be set up in phases from April 2021 to
than 60 years have been vaccinated to date. December 2021.
India's GDP to expand by 12.6 percent J&K Govt launches super-75 scholarship scheme
The Organization for Economic Co-operation J&K Lt Governor Manoj Sinha announced the
and Development (OECD) has raised the launch of Super-75 scholarship scheme on 8
projection for India’s economic growth rate by March'21.
4.7% points at 12.6 per cent for 2021-22. The scheme aims to support the education of
That would enable India to retain its earlier meritorious girls from poor families, so that
tag of the fastest-growing large economy in they can excel in streams like medicine,
the world. engineering and humanity.
It, however, pegged the economic growth rate Governor also announced a new
to come down to 5.4 per cent in 2022-23. scheme 'Tejaswini' under Mission
Youth to provide financial assistance to the
CISF Raising Day 2021
girls to start their business.
CISF Raising Day is observed every year on Afghanistan receives COVID vaccine from India
March 10.
It was set up under an act of the Parliament of Afghanistan received 4,68,000 doses of the
India on March 1969 with a strength of around Made in India Covid-19 vaccine on March 9,
2,200 personnel. 2021.
CISF stands for Central Industrial Security Vaccines were dispatched under the 'Vaccine
Force, which is a Central Armed Police Force Maitri' programme of the Government of India.
in India. India's Vaccine Maitri programme aims to aid
It is governed by the Union Ministry of Home poor countries amidst global pandemic.
Affairs and its headquarters is in New Delhi. Under this programme, the country has
delivered around 56 mn doses of Made in
Andhra CM flags off Disha patrolling vehicles
India Covid-19 vaccine, as of 9 March 2021.
Andhra Pradesh CM YS Jagan Mohan Reddy New Chairman of UN Panel of External Auditors
virtually flagged off 900 Disha patrolling
vehicles from the CM’s camp office in The Comptroller and Auditor General of India
Tadepalli on 8 March 2021. Girish Chandra Murmu has been again
As many as 18 integrated crime scene appointed as the Chairman of the Panel of
management vehicles were also allocated to External Auditors of the United Nations for
each police unit. 2021.
These vehicles will help in physical evidence The CAG was elected as Chairman of the
recognition, collection and packaging of Panel in 2020 as well.
evidence, preservation and scene As of March 2021, CAG is also the External
reconstruction. Auditor of the WHO, Geneva and Food
and Agriculture Organization, Rome and Inter-
Odisha: District Investment Promotion Agency
Parliamentary Union.
The Odisha government on March 8, 2021, Russia, China sign MoU to build space station
announced the setting up of District
Investment Promotion Agencies (DIPA) in 30 Russia and China signed an MoU on 9 March
districts to promote and facilitate investment 2021 for the joint construction of a lunar
across the state. space station.
The DIPAs will be working as an extended The lunar station will be designed as a
arm of the Industrial Promotion and "complex of experimental research facilities
Investment Corporation of Odisha(IPICOL).
3|Pagecreated on the surface and/or in the orbit of NITI Aayog, along with the Department of
the Moon". Economic Affairs (DEA), organized a national-
The collaboration will promote international level virtual workshop on asset monetization
cooperation on the project and offer equal on 9 March 2021.
access to any nation that wants to take part. The workshop was chaired by the Finance
Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman.
IOCL, IDCO sign MoU for Paradip Plastic Park
The workshop elaborated the strategic
The state-run Odisha Industrial Infrastructure context of core and non-core asset
Development Corporation (IDCO) and Indian monetization, along with detailed discussions
Oil Corporation Limited signed an MoU on 9 on the need for and modality of such
March 2021, to develop a Plastic Park in monetization.
Paradip.
EC orders removal of West Bengal DGP
IOCL announced a special strategic incentive
scheme to attract investments in downstream Election Commission ordered the removal of
polymer industries at Paradip Plastic Park. West Bengal Director-General of Police,
With a project cost of Rs 107 cr, the park is Virendra with immediate effect on 9 March
spread over 120 acres of land. 2021.
P Nirajnayan has been appointed as Director-
Indian Navy, Suryadipta Projects ink an MoU
General of Police (DG) and Inspector General
The Indian Navy has signed a contract with of Police (IGP) in place of Virendra.
Suryadipta Projects to construct 11 The decision has been taken by the
ammunition-cum-torpedo-cum-missile commission after reviewing the poll
(ACTCM) barges. preparedness in the state.
The contract was concluded on March 5, 1% concession in stamp duty for women
2021.
Delivery of barges is scheduled to commence Maharashtra government has proposed a one
from 22 May 2021. percent concession in stamp duty if the
The ACTCM barges will be inducted in Indian transfer of house property or registration of
Navy to undertake the mission needs for sale deed is in the name of woman or women
embarking or disembarking ammunition, only.
torpedo, missile, etc. The proposal was made in the state budget
for 2021-22.
DoT launches certification course on 5G
Zero percent interest loans to farmers who
Secretary, Department of take crop loans up to a limit of Rs 3 lakh and
Telecommunications, Anshu Prakash make timely repayment, was also proposed.
inaugurated an online certification course on
Baton of Honour presented to Kiran Bedi
5G Technology for Government Officers on 9
March 2021. President Ram Nath Kovind on 8 March 2021
The course is being conducted by the presented a Baton of Honour and a letter of
National Telecommunications Institute for appreciation to former Puducherry Lieutenant
Policy Research, Innovation and Training Governor Kiran Bedi at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
(NTIPRIT). Kiran Bedi was removed as the Lieutenant
It is a 36-hour (12 weeks) online 5G Governor of Puducherry on February 16,
certification course to train and certify 2021, by the President of India and Tamilisai
Government Officers. Soundararajan took additional charge as the
Lieutenant Governor on February 18, 2021.
National-level workshop on asset monetization
Uttarakhand CM Trivendra Singh Rawat resigns
4|Page Uttarakhand CM Trivendra Singh Rawat on 9 President Ram Nath Kovind laid the
March 2021, submitted his resignation to foundation stone for the conservation works of
Governor Baby Rani Maurya just days before Singorgarh Fort in Singrampur village of
his government's fourth anniversary on 17 Damoh district in Madhya Pradesh on 7
March 2021. March 2021.
He served as the 8th CM of Uttarakhand. He also inaugurated the newly carved
Rawat was named the chief ministerial Jabalpur Circle of Archaeological Survey of
candidate by the BJP in 2017, winning 57 of India.
70 seats in the state assembly. He also addressed the State Level Tribal
He was appointed as the CM on 18 March Conference at Singrampur village in Damoh.
2017.
VS Parthasarathy resigns from Mahindra Group
State Bank of India leads in MeitY Scorecard
VS Parthasarathy, the President of Mahindra
The State Bank of India has topped the list of & Mahindra's Mobility Services Sector and
the Ministry of Electronics & Information Member of the Group Executive Board, has
Technology’s (MeitY) Digital Payment decided to leave the group effective close of
Scorecard for 3 consecutive months. April 1, 2021.
The scorecard tracks commercial banks’ Parthasarathy joined the Mahindra group in
performance on various digital parameters. 2000 and began with an HR stint.
SBI remained the top remitter bank by Anish Shah, who is the Deputy MD and Group
recording the highest UPI transaction volume CFO of M&M, will take additional charge of
of nearly 64 crores having a user base of 13.5 overseeing the Mobility Services Sector.
crores.
China's Meitu Inc. invests in cryptocurrency
Odisha has most number of contaminated sites
China’s Meitu Inc. has become the latest
Delhi stands third on the list of states and corporation to invest in cryptocurrency.
Union territories with the most contaminated Meitu, which makes an app that helps touch
sites, according to the Central Pollution up user-profile pictures, has bought 15,000
Control Board (CPCB) data. units of Ether for $22.1 million and 379.1
Odisha tops the list with 23 contaminated Bitcoins for $17.9 million in the open market.
sites, followed by Uttar Pradesh (21) and Those acquisitions are part of an overall plan
Delhi (11). to use as much as $100 million of its cash
There are 112 sites in India contaminated by hoard to fund crypto purchases.
toxic and hazardous substances.
Warburg Pincus to invest Rs 800 crore in Adani
Online training for women coaches launched
Windy Lakeside Investment Ltd, an affiliate of
Union Minister of Women and Child private equity firm Warburg Pincus, will invest
Development Smriti Irani and Union Minister Rs 800 crore in India’s largest private port
of Youth Affairs and Sports Kiren Rijiju jointly operator Adani Ports and Special Economic
launched an online training programme Zone Ltd (APSEZ) for a 0.49% stake in the
exclusively for women physical education company.
teachers and community coaches, on 8 March About 10 million equity shares of the face
2021. value of Rs 2 per share will be allotted to the
The initiative which is a convergence of the investment company at a price of Rs 800
Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao and Fit India each.
programmes, aims to empower women
Sikh Fighter Pilot Memorial in UK
teachers.
Conservation works at Singorgarh inaugurated
5|Page The design for a sculpture of an early 20th- An estimated 650 million girls and
century Sikh fighter pilot has been approved women were married in childhood, with about
for a new memorial to be erected in the half of those occurring in Bangladesh, Brazil,
England port city of Southampton Ethiopia, India and Nigeria.
Hardit Singh Malik first arrived in the UK in
Niger’s Presi wins African Leadership award
1908 and went on to become a member of the
Royal Flying Corps during World War I. Niger’s President Mahamadou Issoufou has
As the first Indian and turbaned pilot with a won the 2020 Ibrahim Prize for Achievement
specialised helmet, he became famous as the in African Leadership.
"Flying Sikh". Issoufou is the sixth recipient of the Ibrahim
UNICEF'S new analysis on child brides Prize, which is awarded on criteria of good
governance, democratic election and respect
According to a new analysis, five countries, of terms limits.
including India, make up for about half of the Issoufou was the Prime Minister of Niger from
total child brides in the world, informed the 1993 to 1994 and President of the National
UNICEF. Assembly from 1995 to 1996.
10 million additional child marriages may
occur before the end of the decade.
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