TODAYS TOP NEWS
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1. Christians across the world observe Good Friday today, It is the day when Jesus Christ died on the cross for humanity so that he could save them from their sins and is observed as a public holiday in various countries including India.
2. Biju Janata Dal founding member and six-time Cuttack Lok Sabha MP Bhartruhari Mahtab joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in New Delhi on Thursday, dealing a big blow to the Odisha’s ruling party ahead of the Lok Sabha elections.
3. The Manipur government which had declared that March 31, which is Easter Sunday, as a “working day” has retracted its order on Thursday following protests by the Christian community.
The state government on Wednesday said in a notification that March 30 and 31 will be working days in government departments despite being Saturday and Sunday “for smooth functioning of offices in the last few days of financial year. The order was withdrawn later following protests.
4. Lok Sabha Election 2024: Supriya Shrinate Denied Lok Sabha Ticket Amid Kangana Ranaut Remarks Row. In its eighth list of 14 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, the Congress party has denied a Lok Sabha ticket to Supriya Shrinate from Maharajganj constituency in Uttar Pradesh.
5. The Congress will release its manifesto for the Lok Sabha polls in Jaipur on April 6. Former chief minister Ashok Gehlot and Congress state president Govind Singh Dotasra handed over responsibilities for elections to party leaders and workers.
6. Andhra Pradesh, Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy, leading the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP), has voiced concerns over a concerted opposition campaign against him. During a public meeting in Kadapa district, part of the ‘Memanta Siddham’ election campaign bus tour on March 27, Reddy highlighted the coalition of opposition parties, including TDP, Janasena, BJP, Congress, certain media houses, and notably, two of his sisters, united against him.
7. Telangana police’s new eagle squad is almost ready and will become operational soon. Recently, the smart eagles that have been trained to bring down drones gave a demonstration at the Integrated Intelligence Training Academy in Moinabad. Three birds painstakingly trained over the last three years intercepted drones with precision. One of the eagles was fitted with surveillance cameras to take images of targets.
8. In Telangana, BRS party secretary general K. Keshava Rao, declaring that he was leaving the BRS and will be joining the Congress soon.
9. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Wednesday that she has declined the offer extended by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to contest the upcoming polls, saying that she “doesn’t have the kind of money” to stand in the Lok Sabha elections 2024.
10. Piyush Anand, a 1991-batch IPS officer from the Uttar Pradesh cadre, has been entrusted with the responsibility of heading the NDRF.
11. Rajeev Kumar, an accomplished IPS officer from the Rajasthan cadre, has been appointed as the Director General of the BPR & D.
12. Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) inaugurated its Indian subsidiary, AeroSpace Services India (ASI), in New Delhi on Wednesday.
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LEGAL REPORT
#Chief Justice of India:
Shri Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud
#Minister Of Law & Justice : Arjun Ram Meghwal
#International Court Of Justice Prz. : Nawaf Salam
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1. A court in New Delhi on Thursday extended the Enforcement Directorate custody of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal till April 1 in the excise policy case.
Delhi high court on Thursday rejected a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking the removal of Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal from the Delhi chief minister’s post following his arrest in an excise policy-linked money laundering case and said it cannot declare a breakdown of the constitutional machinery in the national capital.
2. Jailed gangster-turned- politician Mukhtar Ansari died of a cardiac arrest at a hospital in Banda in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday, Ansari, 63, was a five-time MLA from Mau Sadar seat and was behind bars in UP and Punjab since 2005. He had over 60 criminal cases pending against him.
He was sentenced in eight cases since September 2022 by different courts of Uttar Pradesh and was lodged in the Banda jail.
3. Trinamool Congress leader Mahua Moitra campaigned in her Krishnanagar constituency of West Bengal on Thursday, giving a miss to the Enforcement Directorate summons that asked her to appear for questioning at the ED office in New Delhi.
4. The Delhi high court on Thursday rejected petitions by the Congress challenging the initiation of tax reassessment proceedings against it for a period of four years by tax authorities.
5. Baba Tarsem Singh, head of Karsewa at a gurudwara, is shot dead by two bike borne assailants at Nanakmatta in Uttarakhand.
6. Almost a month after a blast rocked the popular Rameshwaram Cafe in Bengaluru, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has identified the bomber seen in multiple CCTV grabs. The agency has named Mussavir Shazeeb Hussain as the man who placed the bomb in the waiting area of the eatery on March 1. The agency has also identified Abdul Matheen Taha as a key conspirator.
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FINANCE
#Minister: Nirmala Sitharaman.
#Commerce & Industry : Piyush Goyal
#RBI Gvrnr: Shaktikanta Das
#President of the World Bank : Ajay Banga
#IMF MD: Kristalina Georgieva
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USD ₹ 84
💷 GBP ₹ 106
€ Euro : ₹ 91
🇨🇳 Yen ¥ : ₹ 12
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GDP(PPP ) :
purchasing power parity (PPP)
$13.119 trillion
GDP (nominal)
: $3.73 trillion
(Nominal means total market value of all goods and services produced in a country’s economy) .
GDP growth : 8.4% (Q3 2023-24)
India is the fifth largest economy in the world.
Inflation rate : Retail Inflation 5.69% in Dec 2023
Population : 143.86 cr
(17.7% of the total world population).
Unemployment : 10.09% (Oct2023)
Per capita: This income is also known as average income as it is calculated by dividing the total income of the country by the total population of the country.
GDP per capita
$2,845 (Nominal; 2024)
$9,983 (PPP; 2024)
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BSE SENSEX
73,635.48 +639.16 (0.88%)🌲
NIFTY
22,326.90 +203.25 (0.92%)🌲
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Rates in Financial Capital Mumbai
GOLD : ₹ 67,310/10gm (24 krt)
SILVER : ₹ 77,500/KG
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⛽ FUEL in DELHI
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PETROL : ₹ 95/Ltr
DIESEL : ₹ 88/Ltr
CNG : ₹ 74/Ltr
LPG : ₹ 803/14.2 Kg
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⛽ FUEL in MUMBAI
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PETROL : ₹ 104/Ltr
DIESEL : 93/Ltr
Auto Gas : ₹ 60/Ltr
CNG : 74/Kg
LPG : ₹ 803/14.2 Kg
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ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
#Information and Broadcasting Minister: Shri Anurag Singh Thakur
#Chairman of The Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) :
R Madhavan
#Chairman of Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC): Prasoon Joshi
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1. Bollywood actor Govinda made a political comeback on Thursday after joining the ruling Shiv Sena in the presence of Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde in Mumbai. The actor had earlier won elections on a Congress ticket from the Virar constituency after defeating BJP stalwart Ram Naik.
2. CREW movie
Star Cast : Tabu, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Kriti Sanon
Director: Rajesh Krishnan
Review: Three actresses from different generations coming together for a movie titled Crew. Movie is about crew working in Kohinoor airlines, but from thepast six months, they haven’t received their salaries. One day, one of their crew members passes away on flight, these three come to know that the guy was doing the smuggling of gold. These three women, who are in need of money, also get involved in smuggling and then their lives have a lot of turbulence. What happens next? To know that you need to watch the film.
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DEFENCE
#Supreme Commander of Armed Forces: The President
#Def Minister: Rajnath Singh
#Def Minister of State :
Ajay Bhatt
#Union Home : Amit Shah
#National Security Advisor : Ajit Doval
#Chief of Defence Staff:
Gen Anil Chauhan, PVSM UYSM AVSM SM VSM
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1. The Indian Air Force (IAF) is set to conduct Gaganshakti-2024, a 10-day wargame starting from April 1st, aimed at testing its preparedness to counter potential threats from Pakistan and China simultaneously. This exercise, expected to surpass the scale of the 2018 all-air force drill, will evaluate integrated war-fighting strategies and tactics in collaboration with the Indian Army and the Indian Navy.
2. Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) conducted the maiden flight of the Tejas Mk1A light combat aircraft on Thursday. This advanced version of the LCA Mk-1, already in service with the Indian Air Force (IAF), is a significant milestone for the HAL. HAL announced that the Tejas Mk1A’s successful first flight, undertaken by Aircraft LA5033, took off from their facility in Bengaluru and lasted 18 minutes. Chief Test Pilot, Gp Capt K.K. Venugopal (retd), piloted the aircraft.
3. The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has extended the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) in certain districts of Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland for an additional six months, effective from 1 April 2024.
4. India and the US have participated in military-to-military exercise, “Ex Tiger Triumph 2024,” involving their tri-services. The 14-day exercise, which began on March 18, 2024 aims to enhance interoperability, strengthen bilateral relations, and refine capabilities in humanitarian aid, disaster relief (HADR), and sub-conventional operations.
5. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday defended the Agnipath scheme underlining that the future of youths joining as Agniveers would not be impacted, even as he said the government was ‘open’ to bring any change in it ‘if required’.
6. Amid border tensions, India and China exchanged views on ways of achieving complete disengagement and resolving the issues along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the Western Sector of India-China border areas, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said.
This comes as India-China held its 29th meeting of the Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination on India-China Border Affairs (WMCC) on Wednesday in the Chinese capital, Beijing.
29 Mar (Friday)
Vedic Ritu/ Shishir Ritu
Drik Ritu : Vasant (Spring)
पक्ष :: Krishnapaksh
Vikram Samvat – 2080
Shaka Samvat – 1945
Month : Phalguna 19 (Amanta)
Chaitra 4 (Purnimanta) Nakshatr: Vishaka (up to 8:36 pm) Anuradha
Tithi : Chaturthi (up to 8:21 pm)Panchami
Rahu : 11:00 AM – 12:31 PM
Yamaganda 03:34 PM – 05:06 PM
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In Bharat there are 28 states and 8 Union territories.
Population of Bharat:
142 cr (2023)
President of Bharat ,
Smt Droupadi Murmu
Vice President
Shri Jagdeep Dhankhar
Prime Minister : Shri Narendra Modi
Speaker Lok Sabha :
Shri Om Birla (BJP)
Rajyasabha Seats : 245 (233 Elected + 12 Nominated)
Loksabha : 550 members (530 States 20 Union Territories)
Chief Election Commissioner:
Shri Rajiv Kumar
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