ENGLISH CURRENT AFFAIRS FOR TNPSC GROUP 4 MAR 15

ENGLISH CURRENT AFFAIRS FOR TNPSC GROUP 4 MAR 15 – TNPSC DAILY CURRENT EVENTS – ALL THE MAJOR EVENTS OF 15 MARCH 2022 ARE COMPILED AND UPLOADED HERE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE STUDENTS THOSE WHO ARE PREPARING FOR THE COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION

Motor Vessel Ram Prasad Bismil becomes longest vessel ever to sail on Brahmaputra river

• Motor vessel (MV) Ram Prasad Bismil HAS became the longest vessel ever to sail on the Brahmaputra river on Tuesday. The 90 meters long flotilla is 26 meters wide.
• The 90-meter-long flotilla started from Haldia Dock in Kolkata and anchored at Pandu port in Guwahati.
• The vessel along with two barges – DB Kalpana Chawla and DB APJ Abdul Kalam – were flagged off from the Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port in Haldia on 16 Feb.

Ranjit Rath appointed as CMD of Oil India

• Public Enterprises Selection Board has picked Ranjit Rath to head India’s secondlargest state oil and gas producer, Oil India Ltd.
• He is currently the Chairman and Managing Director of Mineral Exploration Corporation Ltd (MECL).
• Oil India’s current Chairman and Managing Director Sushil Chandra Mishra will superannuate on June 30 2022.
• Oil India Headquarters: Noida

Five Indian women boxers grab gold medals in boxing

• Five Indian women boxers grabbed gold medals in the youth competition of the Asian Youth and Junior Boxing Championships in Amman, Jordan on 14 March
• Tamanna in 50 kilograms and Nivedita Karki in the 48-kilogram category won gold medals while Shaheen Gill in 60 kilograms, Ravina in 63 kilograms and Muskan in 75 kilograms also bagged gold medals.

Pramod Bhagat wins two silver, one bronze in ParaBadminton

• World No 1 Pramod Bhagat won two silver and a bronze medal at the recently concluded Iberdrola Spanish Para Badminton International
• World No 2 Sukant Kadam also ended up with a bronze.
• Pramod won the men’s singles SL3 Silver and mixed doubles SL3 – SU5
• England’s Daniel Bethell won gold by defeating Pramod 9-21 13-21.

India’s new ambassador to China, Pradeep Kumar Rawat assumes charge

• India’s new ambassador to China, Pradeep Kumar Rawat assumed charge on 14 March
• He succeeds Vikram Misri, who was appointed as Deputy National Security Advisor.
• Rawat, a 1990 batch Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer, was India’s ambassador to the Netherlands before this.
• He also served as the ambassador of India to Indonesia and Timor-Leste from September 2017-December

BAFTA Awards 2022

• Hosted by actor-comic Rebel Wilson, the award ceremony took place on 13 March 2022 at the Royal Albert Hall, London.
• Lata Mangeshkar was featured in the ‘In Memoriam’ segment at the 2022 edition of the British Academy of Film and Television Awards (BAFTA).
• The Power of the Dog won the Best Film.
• Jane Campion won the Best Director.
• Joanna Scanlan won Leading Actress for ‘After Love’

World Contact Day: 15 March

• The day brings all alien life enthusiasts together to attempt to contact extraterrestrial beings.
• It was initiated by the International Flying Saucer Bureau (ISB) in
• In 1953, members of the IFSB sent a telepathic message to extraterrestrial life outside of Earth asking for peaceful communication.
• IFSB is the world’s first civilized Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) club.

World Consumer Rights Day: 15 March

• The day aims to protect customers from abuses and social injustices which undermine their rights.
• The day was inspired by US President John F Kennedy, who sent a special message to the US Congress on 15th March 1962, in which he formally addressed the issue of consumer rights.
• He was the first world leader to do so.
• The theme for 2022 is “Fair Digital Finance”.

ISRO successfully tests solid booster stage for new SSLV

• ISRO, on 14 March 2022 successfully conducted the ground testing of the newly developed solid booster stage (SS1) for its new Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV).
• The test was conducted at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota.
• The remaining stages of SSLV (SS2 & SS3) have successfully undergone necessary ground tests and are ready for integration.

India’s first ever digital water data bank ‘AQVERIUM’

• The IT Minister for Karnataka, C N Ashwath Narayan, on 14 March 2022 in Bengaluru launched India’s first ever digital water data bank ‘AQVERIUM’, formed by AquaKraft Group Ventures.
• It aims to enhance the water management system.
• It is a a curated list of water data from all institutions and sources, that will help tackle some common development challenges.

1st South Asian City to Detail Net-Zero Carbon Emissions by 2050

• Mumbai, Maharashtra announced its detailed framework to ‘zero out carbon emissions by 2050’ and became the first city in South Asia to set such a target.
• Mumbai’s target is 20 years ahead of India’s target to reach net zero emissions by
• Targets also include a 30 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and a 44 percent reduction by

Children’s Budget

• The Madhya Pradesh government for the first time presented a ‘Child Budget’ as part of its annual financial plan.
• The government has allocated Rs 57,803 crore for 220 schemes which will be implemented under 17 departments, including education, targeted at children aged below the age of
• The Child Budget will enable the government to deal with schemes that will be child-oriented including infant mortality and malnutrition.

 

 

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