Current Affair March 12, 2021 at 05:33AM
1) Megastar Amitabh Bachchan will be honoured with an award by the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF).
Martin Scorsese and Christopher Nolan will felicitate MR Bachan with FIAF Award on march 19 2021.
He is first person of Bollywood to get this award .
The International Federation of Film Archives was founded in Paris in 1938.
2) A nine-year-old girl, Kadapala Rithvika, hailing from M. Agraharam village in Tadimarri Mandal of the district, scaled Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa, on Friday.
Daughter of a cricket coach for special Olympics, Kadapala Sankar, she is one of the youngest from the State to scale the mountain.
3) Anjali Bharadwaj, an Indian social activist working on issues of transparency and accountability, is one of the 12 anti-corruption champions announced by the Biden administration.
According to the State Department, Bhardwaj has served as an active member of the Right to Information Movement in India for over two decades.
4) The Odisha has been chosen as the host for the forthcoming Hero Indian Women's League (IWL) 2020-21 edition, by the All India Football Federation (AIFF).
Odisha CM - Naveen Patnaik
Governor - Ganeshi Lal
Shree Jagannath Temple
Lingaraja Temple
Bramheswara Temple
Maa Samaleswari Temple
5) The Central Silk Board (CSB) under the Ministry of Textiles and the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on a convergence model for implementation of Agro-forestry in the silk sector under the ongoing Sub-Mission on Agroforestry (SMAF) Scheme.
Recent News :- Textiles Minister Smriti Irani has inaugurated the 8th India International Silk Fair on Virtual Portal. The fair is considered to be India’s biggest silk fair, being held under one roof on Indian Silk Export Promotion Council’s virtual platform.
6) The Indian Army has laid the foundation stone of the tallest 'Iconic National Flag' at the famous ski-resort of Gulmarg in Jammu and Kashmir. The flag will be on a 100 feet-high pole, the highest Tricolour in the Valley.
Ministry of Defence :-
Headquarters - New Delhi
Founded - 15 August 1947
Chief of Defence Staff (CDS):- General Bipin Rawat
Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) :- General Manoj Mukund Naravane
Jammu and Kashmir :-
L. Governor of J&K - Manoj Sinha
Dachigam National Park
Salim Ali National Park
Dal Lake
7) Well-known Kannada poet, critic and translator N.S. Lakshminarayana Bhatta passed away in Bengaluru.
8) The first ‘Quadrilateral Security Dialogue’, also known as the Quad leaders' virtual summit, is all set to take place on March 12.
9) For effective implementation of various schemes and programmes of the Ministry of Women and Child Development, all major schemes of the Ministry have been classified under 3 umbrella schemes viz. Mission Poshan 2.0, Mission Vatsalya and Mission Shakti.
Ministry of Women and Child Development :-
Founded - 30 January 2006
Headquarters- New Delhi
Minister - Smriti Irani
Minister of State - Debasree Chaudhuri , Krishna Raj
10) The Siemens Limited has signed two separate MoU with the Indian Institute of Science and Central Manufacturing Technology Institute respectively to establish digital transformation labs.
Indian Institute of Science :-
Location - Bangalore, Karnataka
Director - Govindan Rangarajan
Established - 1909
Founders - Jamsetji Tata
Krishnaraja Wadiyar IV
11) The third edition of the Indian Sign Language (ISL) Dictionary will have 10,000 terms of daily use as well as academic, legal, administrative, medical, technical and agricultural terms.
Second edition of the dictionary released in 2019 had 6,000 terms and the first edition that was released in 2018 had 3,000 terms.
The Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment holds cabinet rank as a member of the Council of Ministers. The current minister is Thawar Chand Gehlot, who is assisted by a Minister of State, Rattan Lal Kataria, Krishan Pal Gujjar and Ramdas Athavale.
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