Weekly Current Affairs (13th March to 18th March 2023)

Weekly Current Affairs (13th March to 18th March 2023)

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Category : National Published on: March 19 2023

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  1. 8 State governments merged their DRDA with Zila Parishad or Zila Panchayat or Others Bodies
  2. 7th International Diabetes Summit 2023 inaugurated in Pune
  3. BCI Permits Foreign Lawyers & Firms to Practice Foreign Law, Diverse International Law and International Arbitration Matters In India
  4. Asia's first woman railway loco pilot Surekha Yadav operates Vande Bharat Express
  5. Country's first electric pilgrimage corridor to be built in Uttarakhand, facility of charging point for EVs
  6. First-of-its-kind Trans tea stall set up at Guwahati railway station by railways
  7. Border Roads Organisation (BRO) opens strategic Zojila Pass connecting Kashmir with Ladakh in record 68 days
  8. IREDA gets Infrastructure Finance Company status from RBI
  9. India’s forest, tree cover rose by 2,261 sq km in 2021: ISFR report
  10. Nitin Gadkari unveils first methanol-powered buses in Bengaluru
  11. Government presents a budget of Rs.1,18,500 crores for Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir for 2023-24 in Lok Sabha
  12. First international conference of SCO on Shared Buddhist Heritage begins in New Delhi
  13. Govt Removes Upper Age Limit of 65 Years for Registration to Receive Deceased Donor Organs
  14. India to host Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Tourism Ministers' meeting on March 17-18
  15. Kerala tops in literacy rate followed by Lakshadweep, Mizoram: MoE
  16. Central Railway achieves 100% electrification of entire Broad Gauge Network
  17. PM Narendra Modi Inaugurates World`s Longest Railway Platform in Hubballi, Karnataka
  18. Uttarakhand's Rudraprayag, Tehri top landslide index: ISRO report
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