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SBI's digital transactions up by 7% millrace that lived during the Cretaceous Period at a time when dinosaurs ruled the land.  Adoption of e-commerce during the pandemic led  A bizarre plankton-eating shark has elongated to an increase in digital transactions on platforms wing-like fins that rendered its body wider than it of State Bank of India from 60% to 67%. was long.  This growth is mainly due to the wider currency  The fossil was unearthed in Mexico's state of and acceptability offered by SBI on e- Nuevo Leon. commerce platforms.  The lender’s digital lending platform – Yono (You ISSF WC: India's Yashaswini Deswal wins gold Only Need One App) – has also achieved  Yashaswini Deswal bagged the first gold medal for significant growth during the financial year 2020- India in the Women's 10 Meter Air Pistol final of 21. the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) Jharkhand Govt to give a month's extra pay World Cup on 20 March 2021 at the Dr. Karni Singh Shooting range.  The Jharkhand government's health department  Deswal accumulated 238.8 points to lead in her has decided to provide one-month extra pay to all category. frontline medical workers for their services.  Another Indian shooter Manu Bhaker won a silver  Extra pay will be given to frontline health workers medal with 236.7 points. who have been working round the clock since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. India beat England in 5th T20, win series 3-2  COVID-19 recovery rate in Jharkhand is almost 99  In Cricket, India beat England by 36 run in the fifth percent. and final T20 International at Narendra Modi India carrying out uranium exploration Stadium in Ahmedabad on 20 March 2021.  With this win, India have clinched the five-match  Uranium exploration has been taken up in series 3-2. Arunachal Pradesh by the Atomic Minerals  Bhuvneshwar Kumar, who took 2 wickets for 15 Directorate(AMD) for Exploration and Research. runs in 4 overs, was adjudged Player of the Match  AMD is a constituent unit of Department of while Virat Kohli was adjudged Player of the Atomic Energy. Series.  The AMD has a mandate to identify & evaluate mineral resources of uranium, thorium, India participates in Nowruz celebrations zirconium, titanium and others & rare earths  India participated in the Nowruz festivities at the containing uranium & thorium in the potential SCO Secretariat in Beijing on 19 March 2021. geological domains of country.  SCO is celebrating 2021 as ‘Year of Culture’. Fossil of shark with wing-like fins found  Nowruz is the Persian New Year and symbol of onset of spring in northern hemisphere.  Scientists announced the discovery of a nearly  complete fossil of the shark called Aquilolamna March 21 was officially recognized in 2010 as International Nowruz Day by the UN. In 2021, it falls on March 20. 1 | P a g e

Over 80 medicines under price regulation gravely-injured patients to end their own suffering.  National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA)  This makes Spain the fourth European nation to has brought 80 plus medicines under Price decriminalise assisted suicide, alongside the Regulation. Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg.  NPPA has fixed the price of 81 medicines  The Spanish legislation will permit euthanasia in including off-patent anti-diabetic drugs allowing which medical staff intentionally end a life to due benefits of patent expiry to the patients. relieve suffering.  NPPA has decided to regulate the price of these formulations as per provisions of the Drug Prices Sevilla, FC Bengaluru announce collaboration Control Order (DPCO), 2013.  Spanish football club Sevilla FC and FC Bengaluru US Secy of Defence meets EAM S Jaishankar United have announced a five-year collaboration.  Through this partnership, Sevilla FC will look to  External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar and US strengthen their presence in the Indian football Secretary of Defence, Lloyd J Austin on 20 March ecosystem. 2021 held meeting on wide-ranging talks.  As part of the agreement, fans will be able to see  In the meeting, assessments were exchanged on FC Bengaluru United as well as their academy the peace process and the ground situation in players in Sevilla FC’s traditional white and red Afghanistan and also concerns and interests of colours from the 2021-2022 season. regional powers and neighbors.  Conversation also covered changing global TPG's Rise Fund to invest in Airtel Africa scenario, including Europe and West Asia  Investment firm TPG's Rise Fund will invest USD New General Secretary of RSS 200 million (around Rs 1,450 crore) in Airtel Africa's mobile money business, Airtel Mobile  Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha of RSS has Commerce BV, at a valuation of USD 2.65 billion. elected Dattatreya Hosabale as its Sarkaryavah or  With this transaction, Rise Fund is estimated to General Secretary for a period of three years. get a 7.5 per cent stake in Airtel Mobile  He replaces Bhaiyyaji Joshi. Commerce (AMC) BV.  Dattatreya Hosabale was Sah Sarkaryavah of RSS  USD 150 million will be invested at the first close. since 2009.  He is hailing from Shivamogga district in Arindam Bagchi appointed MEA spokesperson Karnataka joined RSS in 1968.  Arindam Bagchi has been appointed as the new Rupee: Only Asian currency to strengthen MEA spokesperson.  The outgoing spokesperson Anurag Srivastava will  India’s rupee is the only currency in Asia to now be a Joint Secretary (north). strengthen amid March 2021's rout in risk assets  Bagchi is a 1995-batch Indian Foreign Service  The rupee has advanced 1.3% in March, boosted officer who had earlier served as Ambassador to by $2.4 billion of overseas purchases of local Croatia and Deputy High Commissioner in Sri stocks. Lanka, besides having served as a Director in the  Nine share-sale offers worth about 59 billion Prime Minister’s Office. rupees ($813 million) would have added to one of the highest inflows into emerging Asia, according Former SEBI Chairman Ramakrishna passes away to Emkay Global Financial Services Ltd.  G.V. Ramakrishna, who was the 1st chairman of Spain MPs pass law legalising euthanasia the Securities and Exchange Board of India after it became a statutorily empowered markets  Spain's parliament has voted through a law regulator, passed away in March 2021. legalising euthanasia, allowing terminally-ill or 2 | P a g e

 Ramakrishna was appointed in 1990 as the awarded a ‘World Record’ by the World Record second chairman of the then two-year-old Academy in Miami, U.S. Securities and Exchange Board.  The museum in Pune is the brainchild of Rohan  Starting his career as a biochemist doing research Pate, a former U-19 Maharashtra cricket player. in haematology, Ramakrishna joined the IAS in  It features over 51,000 items of cricket 1952. memorabilia and has been visited by nearly 500 cricketers across the globe. Adani Green to buy Telangana solar project UNDP launches 'Sahi Disha' campaign  Adani Green Energy Ltd (AGEL) will buy the 50 MW solar project in Telangana from SkyPower  The UNDP (United Nations Development Global. Programme) has launched the 'Sahi Disha'  The project was commissioned in Oct 2017 and campaign to celebrate women's livelihoods and has a long-term Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) entrepreneurship in rural India. with the Southern Power Distribution Company of  The campaign highlights issues and hurdles that Telangana. impact the opportunities for women in rural India  With this acquisition, AGEL will have an operating to access jobs and livelihoods, and establishes renewable capacity of 3,395 MW with a total enterprises that can help them become more self- renewable portfolio of 14,865 MW. reliant. Government to evaluate impact of NFSA Anne Lacaton wins 2021 Pritzker Prize  The government has roped in 12 monitoring  French architects Anne Lacaton and Jean- institutions for 2020-23 to assess the impact of Philippe Vassal have won the 2021 Pritzker the National Food Security Act (NFSA). Prize for architecture, considered to be the  During 2018-20, about 26 institutions and profession’s highest honour. universities were engaged as monitoring  The two are known to create sustainable buildings institutions for conducting the evaluation of the by using pre-existing structures in their work. implementation of the NFSA in states and Union  Lacaton and Vassal’s most recent work is the Territories. transformation of the Palais de Tokyo (Paris,  They submitted quarterly reports for any remedial France 2012). action. Jharkhand’s SAAMAR campaign launched NTPC conferred ‘Role Model’ award  The Jharkhand govt has announced the launch of  NTPC Ltd, a PSU under the Ministry of Power has the SAAMAR (Strategic Action for Alleviation of been conferred the ‘Role Model’ Award at the Malnutrition and Anemia Reduction) campaign. 11th CII National HR Excellence Award 2020-21.  The campaign aims to identify anaemic women  The award was presented in the virtual and malnourished children and converge various conference “Learn from the Achievers” held on 18 departments to effectively deal with the problem March 2021. in the state.  This award is the highest level of recognition in  Every second child in the state is stunted, as per the field of Human Resources by the National Family Health Survey-4 data. Confederation of Indian Industry. Manipur: Model state for Van Dhan Vikas Yojana Blades of Glory: Largest cricket museum  Manipur has emerged as the champion state  Blades of Glory, considered as a one-of-a-kind where the Van Dhan programme has emerged as museum in India dedicated to cricket, has been a major source of employment for the local tribals.

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 The Van Dhan Vikas Yojana is a programme for at fourth place, according to a research study value addition, branding and marketing of minor undertaken by international driver education forest produces by establishing Van Dhan company Zutobi. Kendras.  Among the list of 56 countries in the study,  Since the time the programme was launched here Thailand came in the second position and the US in Oct 2019, 100 Van Dhan Vikas Kendras have took up the third spot. been established.  The safest roads in the world can be found in Norway. South Africa has world’s most dangerous roads

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