1) Union Minister for MSME, Shri Narayan Rane launched a Special Entrepreneurship Promotion Drive for Women -"SAMARTH" today at New Delhi On the occasion of International Women’s Day 2022.
➨The theme for International Women's Day 2022 is, “Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow.”
2) Legendary sarod exponent Ustad Amjad Ali Khan was conferred the Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia Lifetime Achievement Award.
3) President of India Ram Nath Kovind conferred the Nari Shakti Puraskar 2020 and 2021 on occasion of International Women’s Day.
➨ The award was conferred on 29 outstanding and exceptional women achievers in recognition of their exceptional work towards empowerment of women, especially the vulnerable and marginalised.
4) The Ninth edition of the India-Sri Lanka bilateral maritime exercise SLINEX is underway at Visakhapatnam with an aim to enhance interoperability and improve mutual understanding between the navies of the two neighbouring countries.
5) Odisha’s Sruti Mohapatra received the prestigious Nari Shakti Puraskar from President Ram Nath Kovind.
➨ She was conferred with the award for spreading awareness regarding rights of divyangs and her efforts towards their empowerment.
6) English version of Singer Usha Uthup’s biography ‘The Queen of Indian Pop: The Authorized Biography of Usha Uthup’, has been released.
7) Technology major Microsoft will establish its largest and fourth data centre in the country in Hyderabad with an investment of Rs 15,000 crore over a period of 15 years. The company already has data centres in Pune, Mumbai and Chennai.
8) Communications and IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw inaugurated the 3rd edition of National Informatics Centre (NIC) Tech Conclave in New Delhi.
➨The theme for Tech Conclave 2022 is “Next-Gen Technologies for Digital Government”.
9) National Mineral Development Corporation Ltd. (NMDC), Country’s largest Iron Ore producer, received 1st prize in the "Ispat Rajbhasha Award" for 2018-19 and 2020-21 and the "Ispat Rajbhasha Prerna Award" for 2019-20.
✸National Mineral Development Corporation Ltd. (NMDC) :-
Founded - 1958
Headquarters - Hyderabad, Telangana
Chairman & MD - Sumit Deb
10) National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has partnered with Yatra.com and SBI Cards and Payment Services to launch co-branded 'Yatra SBI Card' on the RuPay network.
◾️National Payments Corporation of India :-
➨Headquarters - Mumbai
➨Founded - 2008
11) In the women's 25m pistol team event final, India defeated Singapore 17-13 to clinch their third gold of the ISSF World Cup 2022.
12) Defence minister Shri Rajnath Singh virtually inaugurated four-day Indo-Pacific Military Health Exchange conference.
➨ The theme of the conference is ‘Military Healthcare in a Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous (VUCA) World’.
➨ Government aims to provide enhanced roles & responsibilities to women in Armed Forces.
13) Indian shooters won two medals on the final day of the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup 2022 in Cairo, Egypt.
➨In the last event of the ISSF World Cup, Rhythm Sangwan and Anish Bhanwala won the 25m rapid fire pistol mixed team gold medal match against Thailand by defeating them 17-7.
➨The Indian team finished on the top of the medals tally with a total of seven medals comprising of four gold, two silver and one bronze.
14) The government launched the Donate-a-Pension programme. It is an initiative under the Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi Maan-Dhan (PM-SYM) pension scheme where citizens can donate the premium contribution of their immediate support staff including domestic workers, drivers and helpers.
15) Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta Das launched UPI for feature phones called UPI123Pay.
➨ He also launched 24x7 helpline for digital payments – DigiSaathi.
◾️Reserve Bank of India:-
➨Headquarters:- Mumbai, Maharashtra,
➨Established:- 1 April 1935, 1934 Act.
➨Hilton Young Commission
➨ First Governor - Sir Osborne Smith
➨ First Indian Governor - Chintaman Dwarkanath Deshmukh
➨Present Governor:- Shaktikanta Das
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