Your Daily Current Affairs - 25th March 📰
Lt. Gen. Vinod G. Khandare (retd.) has been appointed as Adviser in the Ministry of Defence.
1. EbixCash, a tech-based provider of digital products has partnered with Axis Securities for providing trading services to its customers on 24 Mar'22.
2. MS Dhoni, who has led the Chennai Super Kings since 2008, has stepped down as captain ahead of the IPL 2022 season on 24 March 2022.
3. Maharashtra Assembly has passed the bill by making the Marathi language mandatory for officials working under civic bodies, corporations, and local authorities.
4. Former State Bank of India (SBI) chairman Rajnish Kumar has joined the international strategic advisory board of Dun & Bradstreet on 24 March 2022.
5. AU Small Finance Bank has tied up with Tata Motors to offer finance options to customers on 24 March 2022.
6. Jasprit Bumrah and Dimuth Karunaratne have made big advances in the new ICC Test Rankings.
7. India's Ravindra Jadeja reclaimed the top spot from West Indies' Jason Holder in the latest ICC Test rankings for all-rounders released on 24 March 2022.
8. Lt. Gen. Vinod G. Khandare (retd.) has been appointed as Adviser in the Ministry of Defence.
9. Southern Power Distribution Company of Telangana Ltd has bagged two Green Energy awards in the 10th Green Energy Summit and 2nd Green Urja Energy Efficiency Awards in March 2022.
10. The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has awarded the Abel prize'22 to American Mathematician Dennis Parnell Sullivan.
11. Former Chief Justice of India (CJI) RC Lahoti passed away on March 23, 2022.
12. Avinash Sable made a new men's 3000m steeplechase national record in the Indian Grand Prix 2 Athletics competition in Thiruvananthapuram on 23 March 22.
13. Madeleine Albright, the first female U.S. secretary of state, has died of cancer on 23 March 2022.
14. Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has successfully test fired the surface to surface BrahMos supersonic cruise missile in the Andaman and Nicobar islands on 23 March'22.
15. Private lenders Kotak Mahindra Bank and Axis Bank have each acquired 7.84% stake in Open Network Digital Commerce (ONDC) for ₹10 crore.
16. ICICI Bank has announced that it has launched a co-branded credit card in partnership with Chennai Super Kings (CSK) on 23 March 2022.
17. Airtel Payments Bank announced its partnership with ICICI General Insurance Company to provide smartphone insurance on 23 March 2022.
18. Union Minister of MSME, Shri Narayan Rane, chaired the 17th meeting of the National Board of MSME (NBMSME) held on 23 March 2022.
19. PM inaugurates Biplobi Bharat Gallery at Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata on 23 March 2022.
20. NITI Aayog, in collaboration with the Institute of Competitiveness, will release the 2nd edition of the Export Preparedness Index (EPI) 2021 on 25 March 2022.
21. India has achieved the target of 400 billion dollars of goods exports for the first time ever in March 2022.
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