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CURRENT AFFAIRS TODAY ENGLISH 2022 MAR 22

Suresh Raina felicitated with ‘Sports Icon’ award by Maldives govt.

Suresh Raina was felicitated with the ‘Sports Icon’ award at the Maldives Sports Awards 2022.
He was nominated alongside 16 international sportspersons, including former Real Madrid player Roberto Carlos, Jamaican Sprinter Asafa Powell, and more.
He is the first Indian player to score 6000 as well as 8000 runs in a T20 career and the first-ever cricketer to reach 5,000 runs in IPL.

Charles Leclerc of Ferrari won Formula One season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix on 20 March 2022 defeating Max Verstappen.
It was Ferrari’s first win since 2019.
Lewis Hamilton was in third place for Mercedes.
George Russell took fourth place to give Mercedes a score of 27 points.
Kevin Magnussen claimed fifth place.

Indian development economist Jayati Ghosh has been appointed by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to a new high-level advisory board on effective multilateralism.
She is a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
She was previously a professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University.
She is also a member of the UN’s highlevel Advisory Board on Economic and Social Affairs.

Jiya Rai has become the youngest and fastest female swimmer in the world to swim across the Palk Strait from Talaimannar (Sri Lanka) to Dhanuskodi (India).
She covered a distance of 29 km, in 13 hours and 10 minutes on 20 March 2022.
She achieved the feat at the age of 13 yrs and 10 months.
The record was earlier held by Bula Chowdhary who swam the distance in 13 hours 52 minutes in 2004.

Tata Consultancy Services has partnered with IIT Madras to launch an M Tech program in Industrial Artificial Intelligence (AI) for working professionals.
The 18-month-long course, designed in consultation with TCS, will be offered by IIT Madras in an online live teaching mode through virtual classrooms.
The program will have theoretical courses and lab work covering data science and AI.

The 13th Fazza International Championships World Para Athletics Grand Prix began in Dubai on 21 March
A 29-member Indian team, led by Paralympian Dharambir is taking part in it.
Dharambir will compete in men’s discus throw and club throw F51
Around 500 para-athletes from 43 nations are participating in it.

Devendra Jhajharia has become the first para-athlete to receive the Padma Bhushan, the country’s third-highest civilian award.
He has won many Paralympic medals, including his first gold at the 2004 Paralympics in Athens.
Avani Lekhara, a para-shooter, was also awarded the Padma Shri award in the sports category.
She is the first Indian woman to win two Paralympic medals in the same Games.

It aims at raising public awareness about the significance of fresh water and sustainable management of this significant resource.
‘Groundwater: Making The Invisible Visible’ is the theme for
Officially the idea of World Water Day was a resolution adopted by the UN General Assembly conference on Environmental and Development in Rio De Janeiro in
It was first observed in

The 9th Joint Military Exercise LAMITIYE-2022 between the Indian Army and Seychelles Defence Forces (SDF) is being conducted from 22-31 March
It is being conducted at Seychelles Defence Academy (SDA), Seychelles.
An Infantry Platoon strength each from both the Indian Army and Seychelles Defence Forces (SDF) along with Company Headquarters will be participating in this exercise.

PM Narendra Modi and PM of Australia Hon. Scott Morrison held the 2nd IndiaAustralia Virtual Summit on 21 March
They reviewed the multi-faceted relationship between the two countries and exchanged views on regional and global developments.
The first India-Australia virtual summit was held on June 4, 2020, when the relationship was elevated to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras has established a Sudha Gopalakrishnan Brain Centre for large-scale multidisciplinary effort to map human brains at the cellular level.
The state-of-the-art centre is a global project that focuses on high – resolution brain imaging, the institute said in a statement recently.
The Centre aims to become a world-renowned research centre, generating unprecedented human brain data, scientific output and technology tools.

Diebedo Francis Kere of Burkina Faso has been declared the 2022 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize.
Pritzker Prize is the highest and most prestigious honour in architecture field, founded in
Francis Kere is the 51st winner of the award and the first Black person to receive the honour.
He is also the recipient of the 2004 Aga Khan Award for Architecture.