Your Daily Current Affairs - 22nd March 📰
Odisha observed the 'Pakhala Dibas' on 20 March 2022, marking the popularity of the state’s main staple food for ages.
1. World Puppetry Day is observed every year on March 21st, with the goal of promoting puppetry and honoring puppeteers all across the world.
2. Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi, an autonomous body under the Ministry of Culture, is organizing Putul Utsav, a puppet festival, on 21 Mar'22.
3. The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution on 26 October 1966 and proclaimed 21 March as this day to be commemorated annually.
4. ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund has announced the launch of its Housing Opportunities Fund.
5. 5 medals including two gold, two silver, and a bronze, were won by Uttar Pradesh athletes at the 19th Senior and 14th Junior National Para Powerlifting Championship held in Kolkata, in March 2022.
6. 'Shri Dharmajivan Gatha', the biography of Shastriji Maharaj was released on 20 Mar'22.
7. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg held delegation-level talks at Hyderabad House in Delhi on 20 March 2022.
8. President Ram Nath Kovind conferred 2 Padma Vibhushan, 8 Padma Bhushan, and 54 Padma Shri awards for 2022 at Rashtrapati Bhavan on 21 March 2022.
9. World Poetry Day is observed on 21 March every year.
10. The day was established by the resolution of the United Nations General Assembly on November 28, 2012.
11. The day is being observed since 2012. Down syndrome, a genetic condition was first described by British physician John Langdon Haydon Down in 1862.
12. Researchers at IIT Madras and the US-based Northwestern University have developed deep learning algorithms.
13. Odisha observed the 'Pakhala Dibas' on 20 March 2022, marking the popularity of the state’s main staple food for ages.
14. Taj Mahotsav, a 10-day festival of art, craft, and culture, was inaugurated at the Shilpgram in Agra on 20 March 2022.
15. The Himachal Pradesh Cabinet has given its approval to excise policy for 2022-23.
16. India and Japan on 19 March 2022 launched a Clean Energy Partnership (CEP).
17. Nagaland has created history by becoming the first State Assembly in the entire country to implement the National e-Vidhan Application (NeVA) programme to become completely paperless.
18. Manipur's Chief Minister Nongthombam Biren Singh was elected for the second term on 20 March 2022.
19. Pankaj Advani lifted his eighth title at the 19th Asian Billiards Championship 2022 in Doha, Qatar after beating compatriot Dhruv Sitwala 6-2, on 19 March 2022.
20. NITI Aayog’s Women Entrepreneurship Platform will organize the fifth edition of the Women Transforming India Awards on 21 March 2022.
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