Current Affair March 18, 2021 at 11:29AM

Daily one liner current affairs:18 March 2021

1) The Haryana Yog Aayog Bill, 2021 has been passed to establish Haryana Yog Aayog for the promotion, management, regulation, training of Yoga and to develop a system of Naturopathy system of medicine and to regulate the practice thereof and to deal with certain other matters such as training, promotion and Yogasana as a Sport in the state.
Recent News :-Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar inaugurated the country's first small aircraft air taxi service.

Haryana
Governor :- Satyadev Narayan Arya
Haryana Government has decided to develop Pipli in Kurukshetra as a world-class tourist hub.

2) The world's most powerful supercomputer Fugaku is now fully developed in Japan, and the machine is available for research use. Japanese scientific research institute RIKEN and Fujitsu began development six years ago with an aim to make the device core of Japan's computing infrastructure.

3) The IIT-Bombay has emerged as the best institutes in the country, as per the global ranking index.
The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay has cut into the elite group of top 50 engineering colleges of the world by securing 49th rank, globally. IIT-B is closely followed by IIT-Delhi at 54th spot.

4) Australian conservationists on Wednesday unveiled plans to build the world's first refuge for the platypus, to promote breeding and rehabilitation as the duck-billed mammal faces extinction due to climate change.

5) The Union Minister of Jal Shakti, Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat chaired a webinar with all States/ UTs Ministers in-charge of rural water supply and reviewed the progress made under the Jal Jeevan Mission - a flagship program of the Union Government for providing tap water connection in every rural household by 2024.
Jal Shakti Ministry :-
Founded - May 2019
Cabinet Minister - Gajendra Singh Shekhawat,
Minister of State - Rattan Lal Kataria

6) India skipper Virat Kohli has become the first-ever batsman to score 3,000 runs in T-20 International.
Board of Control for Cricket in India:-
President - Sourav Ganguly
Secretary - Jay Shah
Headquarters - Mumbai
Founded - December 1928

7) In a major boost to the textile industry and to enable forward and backward integration in the sector, the government of Gujarat has announced establishment of two mega textile parks.
Gujarat:-
CM :- Vijay Ramniklal Rupani
Governor :- Acharya Devvrat
Telangana :-
CM - Kalvakuntla Chandrashekhar Rao
Governor of Telangana - Tamilisai Soundararajan (First Women Governor of Telangana)
Nageshwar Temple
Somnath Temple

8) Madhya Pradesh Cabinet approved a Penal Law (Madhya Pradesh Amendment) Bill, 2021 to give life imprisonment to food adulterators.
Madhya Pradesh
CM - Shivraj Singh Chouhan
Governor - Anandiben Patel
Bhimbetka Caves
Buddhist Monument at Sanchi
Khajuraho Temple

9) Karnataka launched the country's maiden Engineering Research & Development (ER&D) Policy to raise its contribution to the sector in the country to 45% in the next five years.
Karnataka:-
CM :- Bookanakere Siddalingappa Yediyurappa
Governor :- Vajubhai Vala
Formation :- 1 November 1956
Language :- Kannada
Port :- New Mangalore Port
Bandipur tiger reserve
Nagarhole Tiger Reserve
Bhadra Tiger Reserve

10) The country's first centralised air-conditioned railway terminal in Bengaluru would be operational soon.
Named after one of the foremost civil engineers, Bharat Ratna Sir M Visvesvaraya, the nation's first centralised AC railway terminal in Bengaluru is set to become operational soon.
Karnataka:-
CM :- Bookanakere Siddalingappa Yediyurappa
Governor :- Vajubhai Vala
Formation :- 1 November 1956
Language :- Kannada
Port :- New Mangalore Port
Bandipur tiger reserve
Nagarhole Tiger Reserve
Bhadra Tiger Reserve

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