Current Affairs 13 March 2021 is the most important area from which a major share of questions come in SSC, Railway, state government recruitment exams, UPSC prelims and mains.
Railways ensures 100% minimum wage payment to contract workers
The Indian Railways on March 11, 2021 has ensured 100 percent compliance of payment of minimum wages to contract workers through its e-application. Indian Railway Shramik Kalyan e-application has been developed and launched on 1st October, 2018. Read More
Tirath Singh Rawat sworn-in as new Uttarakhand CM
BJP’s surprise choice for the top job in Uttarakhand Tirath Singh Rawat was sworn-in as the state’s new chief minister, replacing Trivendra Singh Rawat ahead of next year’s Assembly polls. Read More
Uttarakhand wants Centre to withdraw ILP from Niti valley
The Uttarakhand government had sought withdrawal of “inner-line permit” (ILP) system in Niti Valley of Chamoli district and Nelang Valley of Uttarkashi district for better border management and expansion of tourism and other economic activities in villages located there. Read More
Defence, security new criteria for ‘trusted sources, products’
The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) amended licensing conditions for telecom companies by including defence and national security as parameters in purchase of telecom equipment for trusted sources. Read More
NIO scientists mapping genomes in the Indian Ocean
A 30-member team of scientists and researchers from the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) in Panaji and another 30 crew members on board its research vessel Sindhu Sadhana will spend the next three months traversing the course of over 10,000 nautical miles in the Indian Ocean on a research project to reveal the internal working of the body of the ocean at a cellular level. Read More
Gujarat High Court’s guidelines to end menstruation taboo
The Gujarat High Court last month passed an order proposing nine guidelines that the state should follow to end menstruation taboo and discriminatory practices pertaining to it. The guidelines call for Prohibiting social exclusion of women on the basis of their menstrual status at all places, be it private or public, religious or educational. Read More
Afghan buddha’s virtual return 20 years after being destroyed by Taliban
Twenty years after being blasted out of Afghanistan’s rugged central highlands, one of the country’s famed Buddha statues made a brief virtual return as a three-dimensional projection. In March 2001, the Taliban began blowing up two monumental Buddha statues in Afghanistan’s Bamiyan Valley. Read More
Kindle Version of Swami Chidbhavananda’s Bhagvad Gita
Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Kindle version of Swami Chidbhavananda’s Bhagavad Gita. Swami Chidbhavananda (1898 – 1985) was the founder of Sri Ramakrishna Tapovanam Ashram at Thirupparaithurai, Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu. Read More
India, Japan space agencies review cooperation
Indian and Japanese space agencies reviewed cooperation in earth observation, lunar cooperation and satellite navigation, and also agreed to explore opportunities for cooperation in “space situational awareness and professional exchange programme”. Read More
PM attended first Quad Summit on March 12, 2021
Access to COVID-19 vaccines, cooperation on technology, and climate change are at the top of the agenda as Prime Minister Narendra Modi joined U.S. President Joseph Biden, Australian PM Scott Morrison and Japanese PM Yoshihide Suga for a virtual summit of the Quadrilateral Framework (Quad) on 12th March, 2021 — the first time leaders of the Indo-Pacific grouping are meeting. Read More
