*🎉💐HAPPY HOLI💐*
1. *People celebrate ‘Holika Dahan’ yesterday. On the first day, a bonfire is created which is also known as Holika Dahan (burning of demon Holika) or Chhoti Holi.* On the second day, Rangwali Holi is celebrated. However, in some places, Holi is played for five days- the fifth day is called Ranga Panchami. Holi is celebrated on different dates every year. This year Holi falls is on March 18, with Holika Dahan on March 17.
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2. PM Modi addresses valedictory function at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration; says, biggest goal of 21st century for India is to become modern and self-reliant.
3. National Capital Regional Transport Corporation (NCRTC) has unveiled the coaches of India’s first rapid rail for the Delhi – Meerut corridor. The Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS) train will run on the Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut corridor and cover a distance of 82 km in just 55 minutes. The new RRTS train is a completely new design of train designed to provide a good travelling experience for passengers.
4. Cyclone ASANI, a name suggested by Sri Lanka, is set to intensify in the Bay of Bengal on March 21 with wind speeds of 70-80 kmph gusting to 90 kmph and hit Andaman and Nicobar, further moving towards Bangladesh and Myanmar. It is going to be this year’s first cyclonic storm.
5. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Thursday explained that low-pressure area (LPA) over central parts of south Bay of Bengal become a well-marked low-pressure area (WML) on Saturday along and off Andaman and Nicobar islands before intensifying into a depression by March 20 and into a cyclonic storm on the next day.
6. Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) on Thursday launched a voice-based digital payment facility for its cooking gas (LPG) consumers, who do not have smartphones or internet. BPCL said it has partnered UltraCash Technologies Pvt Ltd to offer a voice-based digital payment facility that allows its BharatGas consumers, who do not have smartphones or internet, to book their LPG cylinders and make the payment through ‘UPI 123PAY’.
7. *ANDHRA PRADESH* : Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy on 16 Mar released Rs 709 crore under ‘Jagananna Vidya Deevena’ for the quarter October-December 2021, benefiting over 10.82 lakh students in their higher studies.
8. *CHANDIGARH* : Shiromani Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal on Thursday offered to resign from his post, owing moral responsibility for the party’s defeat in the Punjab Assembly elections.
9. *J&K* : police on Thursday said they arrested 15 persons allegedly involved in stone-pelting on security forces after an encounter in Srinagar where three militants were killed.
10. *KARNATAKA* : Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated the Flight Control System Complex at Aeronautical Development Establishment, in Bengaluru. Karnataka Chief Minister Badavaraj Bommai and others participated in the programme.
11. *KERALA*: High Court directs film industry to form Internal Complaints Committee as per provisions of Sexual Harassment of Women in Workplace.
12. *MADHYA PRADESH* , the Bhagoria Festival is being celebrated across tribal districts of the state. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has extended greetings and good wishes to the citizens of the state on the occasion of Holi, Rangpanchami and Bhagoria.
13. *TELANGANA:* Senior IAS officer Vikas Raj of 1992 batch has been appointed as the Chief Electoral Officer of Telangana state.
14. In Hyderabad, after Hussainsagar, Mir Alam Tank and Jeedimetla lake, the twin reservoirs would cease to be sources of drinking water in less than a year, if the GO 111 would be scrapped, claimed the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWSSB) officials.
15. *UTTAR PRADESH* : Last date of nomination for first-phase of biennial elections for MLCs extends till 21st March.
As per the new schedule, the date of scrutiny is March 21 and candidates can withdraw their names on March 23. The polling will be held on April 9. As March 17-18 are holidays, the nomination would be allowed only on March 15, 16 and 19 from 11am to 3pm.The counting will be held on April 12.
ENTERTAINMENT:
16. Director Vivek Agnihotri’s hotly-debated Hindi movie ‘The Kashmir Files,’ which received glowing endorsements from the ruling party and the Prime Minister himself, is racing towards the Rs 100-crore mark. The movie collected Rs 60.20 crore in the first five days. In comparison, one of the biggest recent Bollywood A-list releases, Alia Bhatt’s “Gangubai Kathiawadi”, took just Rs 57 crore in its first five days of sales last month.
17. The feature film, with a production budget of Rs 15 crore, is based on the exodus of Kashmiri Hindus from the Kashmir valley during the height of militancy in the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir. The movie has generated mixed reactions and has also led to aggressive and tense sloganeering in movie theatres.
18. PM Modi will inaugurate the year-long celebrations of the centenary year of the Malayalam Daily Mathrubhumi on 18 Mar at 11 AM through video conferencing. Mathrubhumi started functioning on 18th March 1923.
DEFENCE:
19. 2022’s First Cyclone Asani Set to Brew in Bay of Bengal; NDRF, Army on Alert for Andaman & Nicobar.
20. India is in the process of developing an indigenous 5.5 Gen Stealth fighter jet for the IAF. India is far behind countries like China and USA when it comes to spending on defence research
21. A parliamentary panel has expressed concern over India’s spending on defence research that continues to be stagnant over the last five years and accounts for less than one per cent of the country’s GDP.
22. The panel also expressed dissatisfaction over the budgetary allocation of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), the apex defence research body in the country. The report says that in 2021-22, DRDO had projected an amount of Rs 23,460.44 crore while the final allocation made was Rs 18,227.44 crore, which falls short of the initial projection made by Rs 5,122.56 crore.
23. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence has said that there has been a low selection rate of male NCC ‘C’ certificate cadets in the Indian armed forces. The report of the panel on demands for grants of the Defence Ministry for 2022-23 was presented in parliament on 16 Mar.
It has suggested that the Ministry should revamp training methods and also devise new methods to ensure that NCC cadets are trained in a professional way for their selection through Staff Selection Board.
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18 Mar (Friday)
Shishir Ritu
पक्ष :: Shukla
Month: Phalguna 30, (Purnimata)/ Phalguna 16 (Amanta)
Purnimanta calendar (Ujjain)
Vikram Samvat – 2078
Nakshatra : Uttara Phalguni, Hasta
Titi: Purnima (up to 12:47 pm) Pratipada
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