OROP arrears case | Supreme Court asks Centre to pay ₹28,000 crore dues by February 2024. Saying the government is duty-bound to comply with its 2022 judgement on the matter.
1. Shriram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust to organisie ‘Ram Janm Mahotsav’ at Ayodhya (Uttar Pradesh), from March 21 to March 30 on Navratri.
2. First Bharat Gaurav Train Service for Northeast to start from Delhi Safdarjung railway station.
3. ISRO will be launching 36 OneWeb satellites aboard the Launch Vehicle Mark 3 (LVM3) from Sriharikota on March 26. This is the second mission for OneWeb under a commercial agreement with NewSpace India to launch 72 satellites to Low-Earth Orbits.
4. Ministry of Textiles, has issued a notification to set up 7 Mega Integrated Textile Region and Apparel (PM MITRA) Parks with a total outlay of Rs. 4,445 crore.
5. The Supreme Court on Monday said it would hear on March 21 the pleas challenging the amended law allowing extension of up to five years for the Enforcement Directorate (ED) director.
6. The Delhi Government’s Budget, which was supposed to be presented in the Assembly on Tuesday, has been put on hold, with the Arvind Kejriwal dispensation and the Central government trading charges over allocations in various heads.
Delhi Finance Minister Kailash Gehlot to present Budget for financial year 2023-24 in Assembly at New Delhi.
7. PM Modi on Monday attended the Ugadi Milan program at former Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu’s residence in New Delhi.
8. The Labour20 (L20) engagement group’s inception meet in Amritsar, Punjab ,as part of India’s G20 presidency, on Monday adopted two Joint Statements as the final outcome of the two-day deliberations.
9. A new bill in Jharkhand states anyone who assaults medical professionals or vandalises government and private hospitals will invite up to two years in jail and a fine of up to ₹50,000.
10. Telangana government has issued orders permitting all Muslim government employees, contract/boards/public sector employees to leave offices/schools early by an hour during the month of Ramzan to offer prayers. The order will be in force from March 23 to April 23.
11. West Bengal CM & All India Trinamool Congress’ National President Mamata Banerjee to be on a two-day visit to Odisha, likely to call on her counterpart & Biju Janata Dal (BJD) President Naveen Patnaik at Bhubaneswar.
12. Delhi receives light to moderate rainfall accompanied by thunderstorm. At least 11 flights were diverted at the Delhi airport in the evening on Monday due to bad weather.
13. Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, to formally release Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering or GATE 2023 scorecard.
14. An application process for Common University Entrance Test (CUET-PG) for admission in Postgraduate Programmes in Central and other participating Universities started.
15. Congress MP Rahul Gandhi announced the ‘Yuva Nidhi’ scheme, that offers a monthly allowance to unemployed youth in Karnataka, during the Yuva kranti rally in Belagavi on March 20. The rally is part of the preparations for the Assembly polls.
CRIME/MISHAP REPORT
1. The Kolkata bench of National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) to hear SREI group, Adisri Commercial ex-promoter plea.
2. A fire broke out in a power substation of the Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport in Mumbai on Monday night, but there was no report of any casualty.
3. The name of fugitive diamantaire Mehul Choksi wanted in a Rs 13,000-crore scam in the Punjab National Bank is understood to have been removed from the Interpol database of Red Notices on the basis of his plea to the Lyon-headquartered agency.
Red Notice is highest form of alert issued by the 195-member country-strong Interpol to law enforcement agencies worldwide to locate and provisionally arrest a person pending extradition, surrender, or similar legal action.
4. Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Monday ordered the initiation of disciplinary proceedings against former DGP S Chattopadhyaya and two other police officers over the security breach during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the state in January last year.
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1. RBI has imposed a fine of ₹2.27 crore on RBL Bank for not complying with certain provisions of RBI’s directions on the internal ombudsman scheme, fair practices code and recovery agents engaged by banks, among others.
2. FDIC to break up SVB, wants to sell private unit separately: After failing to find a buyer for Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) last week, The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) decided to break up SVB and hold two separate auctions for its traditional deposits unit and its private bank. It will seek bids for Silicon Valley Private Bank until March 22 and for the bridge bank until March 24.
3. ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund, SBI Mutual Fund, and Societe Generale bought shares worth ₹380.37 crore in PVR via open market transactions on Monday.
4. G Krishnakumar appoints as Bharat Petroleum Corporation’s chairman.
5. Lalit Kumar Gupta named as CMD of Cotton Corporation of India (CCI).
6. Luxor writing instruments pvt Ltd, a Stationery Manufacturing company Selects cricketer Virat Kohli as it’s Brand Ambassador.
7. Pune-born Laxman Narasimhan assumes charge as CEO of Starbucks.
ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
1. Hollywood Actor Paul Grant, who featured in ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Harry Potter’ movies, passes away at 56.
2. The first teaser of ‘Pushpa: The Rule’, the second part in the film’s franchise, will reportedly be released on Allu Arjun’s birthday on April 8.
3. Billionaire media tycoon Rupert Murdoch is set to marry for the fifth time. The 92-year-old got engaged to his 66-year-old girlfriend Ann Lesley Smith, whom he met in September of 2022.
DEFENCE
1. Over 26,000 defence items uploaded on SRIJAN Portal and offered to Industry for indigenisation: The government has said that defence imports have reduced from 46% to 36.7% since 2018-19.
2. Pune will host two strategically important events to boost defence ties between India and African nations – the India-Africa Army Chiefs Conclave on March 28-29 and the 10-day Africa-India Field Training Exercise (AFINDEX 2023) from March 21.
Main aim of the exercise is to enable the participating contingents to hone their tactical skills, drills and procedures in joint operations for peacekeeping under UN mandate, create synergy and better understanding with armies of African nations and promote Indian defence Industries.
3. Supreme Court has directed the Centre to pay arrears to eligible family pensioners and gallantry winners of armed forces. The payment has to be made as per One Rank One Pension (OROP) Scheme by April 30.
4. Paras Defence and Space Technologies Limited has been awarded a major contract by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) – National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL) for Avionics Suite for SARAS MK-2 Aircraft.The SARAS MK-2 Aircraft is the first Indian multi-purpose civilian aircraft in the light transport aircraft category being designed by the CSIR-NAL.
5. To ensure full-proof security to the Amarnath yatra, drone and mine-proof vehicles will be used, said Jammu and Kashmir Police.
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HIMACHAL: Capitals: Shimla (Summer), Dharamshala (Winter)
Union territory: 1 Nov 1956
Formation of state
25 January 1971
Districts : 12
Governor Shiv Pratap Shukla
CM : Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu (INC)
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