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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