Current Affairs- Today’s Headlines: March 30, 2022
Here are Today’s News Headlines by GK Today for March 30, 2022.
INDIA
- Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma and Meghalaya CM Conrad Sangma sign agreement to end 5-decade-old border dispute between the two states
- PM inaugurates 5.21 lakh houses of beneficiaries of Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojna (PMAY)-Gramin in MP
- President Kovind launches Jal Shakti Abhiyan-Catch the Rain 2022 to ensure water security
- President presents 3rd National Water Awards; UP, Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu awarded first, second and third prizes respectively in Best State awards Category
- Goa: Indian Navy’s second Air Squadron 316 commissioned at INS Hansa; christened ‘The Condors’
- Defence Minister Rajnath Singh talks to Israel Defence Minister Benjamin Gantz
- CM Bhagwant Mann announces doorstep delivery of ration in Punjab
- Rajasthan: Wildfire spread over 10 sq km of the Sariska Tiger Reserve in Alwar district brought under control
- Bill tabled in Lok Sabha proposes to allow police and prison authorities to collect and store biological samples of certain accused and convicts
ECONOMY & CORPORATE
- IAF unveils new initiative for refuelling its convoys at fuel stations of Indian Oil Corporation
- Business Standard Annual Awards for Corporate Excellence 2021: Infosys CEO & MD Salil Parekh is ‘CEO of the Year’; Cipla is ‘Company of the Year’
- University of Glasgow names research centre after Biocon’s Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, husband John Shaw
- India-United Arab Emirates Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement to be effective from May 1: Piyush Goyal
- In a first, India opens up central govt procurement market to UAE
WORLD
- India and Sri Lanka have signed six agreements to boost bilateral cooperation in diverse sectors like technology, fisheries and hybrid power projects during Colombo visit of EAM S. Jaishankar
- Meeting of BIMSTEC (Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation) Foreign Ministers held in Colombo.
- BIMSTEC: India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Nepal and Bhutan
- Russia says, it will reduce military activities near Kyiv, after face-to-face talks with Ukraine
- Russia: Nobel Peace Prize-winner Dmitry Muratov’s newspaper Novaya Gazeta closes amid govt. pressure
- Taliban orders airlines in Afghanistan to stop unaccompanied women from flying
- Afghanistan: Taliban asks govt employees to grow beards or get sacked from job
- South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir declassifies files on civil war
- Democratic Republic of Congo set to join East African Community; Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda are other members
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