Library:Tata Institute of Social Sciences,Guwahati: Current Affairs-March 17, 2023

Friday, March 17, 2023

Two-day SCO Tourism Ministers’ meeting to begin at Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh.
Defence acquisition proposals valued at ₹70,500 crores were cleared by Defence Acquisition Council (DAC).
Union Ministry of Steel will sign MoUs with selected companies under the Production-linked Incentive (PLI) scheme for speciality steel
75 trucks were flagged off with TB awareness messages at the Partnership for Action against Tuberculosis (PAcT) event in New Delhi.
Border Roads Organisation (BRO) opened the strategic Zojila Pass in record 68 days.

RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das conferred with ‘Governor of the year’ Award at Central Banking Awards 2023
RBI and Central Bank of UAE sign MoU to promote innovation in financial products and services.
BIS grants 1,097 licences to domestic toy manufacturing units of which over 96 percent licences were granted to MSMEs.
Sri Lankan economy suffered the worst ever contraction of 7.8% in 2022 as per data released by the Department of Census and Statistics.

U.K. bans Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok on government phones over security grounds
China’s Communist Party releases a plan on reforming government institutions.
Poland to be first NATO member to give MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine.
Japan and South Korea renew ties at Tokyo summit, overcoming a century of difficult ties.
Technology Innovation Institute, Abudhabi, UAE has launched Falcon LLM, a large language model (LLM) with 40 billion parameters

All England Open Badminton Championships: Indian Women’s Doubles pair of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand enter quarterfinals
Boxing: Nikhat Zareen, Sakshi Chaudhary, Preeti and Nupur Sheoran win opening bouts of World Women’s Championships.