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The Monthly Hindu Review | Current Affairs | March 2021 1 www.bankersadda.com | www.sscadda.com | www.careerpower.in | Adda247 App The Monthly Hindu Review | Current Affairs | March 2021 Contents The Most Important Current Affairs March 2021 .................................................................................................................. 3 Banking and Financial Current Affairs..................................................................................................................................... 10 Economy Current Affairs ............................................................................................................................................................... 12 Business Current Affairs ............................................................................................................................................................... 12 International Current Affairs ...................................................................................................................................................... 13 National Current Affairs ................................................................................................................................................................ 14 States Current Affairs ..................................................................................................................................................................... 16 Schemes/Committees ..................................................................................................................................................................... 18 Agreement/Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) .......................................................................................................... 18 Appointments/Resignations (National & International) .................................................................................................. 19 Ranks and Reports .......................................................................................................................................................................... 21 Sports Current Affairs .................................................................................................................................................................... 22 Summits And Conferences ............................................................................................................................................................ 23 Awards & Recognition .................................................................................................................................................................... 24 Important Days ................................................................................................................................................................................. 25 Defence Current Affairs ................................................................................................................................................................. 27 Science and Technology ................................................................................................................................................................ 29 Books & Authors............................................................................................................................................................................... 29 Miscellaneous Current Affairs ..................................................................................................................................................... 30 Obituaries ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 32 Static Takeaways .............................................................................................................................................................................. 33 2 www.bankersadda.com | www.sscadda.com | www.careerpower.in | Adda247 App The Monthly Hindu Review | Current Affairs | March 2021 The Most Important Current Affairs March 2021 Golden Globe Awards 2021 Announced Winners in the Television category: • Best TV Series – Drama: The Crown The Golden Globe Awards 2021 was held to recognise • Best TV Series – Musical/Comedy: Schitt’s Creek excellence in film, both American and international, and • Best Limited Series, Anthology or TV Film: The American television. This was the 78th edition of the Queen’s Gambit annual event, which honoured the best in American • Best Actress – Drama: Emma Corrin for The Crown television, as well as film in 2020 and early 2021, as • Best Actor – Drama: Josh O’Connor for The Crown chosen by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. • Best Actress – Musical/Comedy: Catherine O’Hara for American TV series “The Crown” won the most awards Schitt’s Creek for the ceremony with four awards. Late American actor • Best Actor – Musical/Comedy: Jason Sudeikis for Ted Chadwick Boseman won the Golden Globe award for Lasso Best Actor in Drama category, posthumously, for his • Best Supporting Actress: Gillian Anderson for The portrayal of Levee Green in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Crown • Best Supporting Actor: John Boyega for Small Axe Winners in the Film category: • Best Actress (Limited Series, Anthology or TV Film): • Best Film – Drama: Nomadland Anya Taylor-Joy for The Queen’s Gambit • Best Film – Musical/Comedy: Borat Subsequent Movie • Best Actor (Limited Series, Anthology or TV Film): film Mark Ruffalo for I Know This Much Is True • Best Director: Chloe Zhao for Nomadland • Best Actress – Drama: Andra Day for The United 10th Hurun Global Rich List 2021 announced States vs. Billie Holiday • Best Actor – Drama: Chadwick Boseman for Ma The 10th Edition of Hurun Global Rich List 2021 was released, which ranked 3228 billionaires from 2,402 Rainey’s Black Bottom companies and 68 countries. The report showed that • Best Actress – Musical/Comedy: Rosamund Pike for I despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the world added 8 Care A Lot billionaires every week in 2020 and 421 in a year, taking • Best Actor – Musical/Comedy: Sacha Baron Cohen for their total number to a record 3,288. Borat Subsequent Movie film The total wealth of all billionaires across the globe surged • Best Supporting Actress: Jodie Foster for The 32 per cent, an addition of $3.5 trillion, to take their total Mauritanian wealth to $14.7 trillion, during the period under review. • Best Supporting Actor: Daniel Kaluuya for Judas And The wealth calculations taken into account is as of January The Black Messiah 15, 2021. • Best Screenplay: Aaron Sorkin for The Trial of the Top three billionaires: Chicago 7 • Tesla chief Elon Musk bagged the top spot on the • Best Foreign Language Film: Minari Hurun Global Rich List for the first time after adding a • Best Animated Feature: Soul massive $151 billion during the year 2020 to take his • Best Original Score: Soul net worth to $197 billion. • Best Original Song: ‘Io Si (Seen)’ from The Life Ahead • Amazon.com Inc CEO Jeff Bezos ranked second with $189 billion in net worth. • Bernard Arnault, the chief executive of LVMH Moët Hennessy – Louis Vuitton SE, the world’s largest luxury-goods company ranked third with a net worth of $114 billion. India in the list • With 60 Billionaires from the Hurun India Global List 2021, Mumbai became the capital for India’s rich followed by New Delhi (40) & Bengaluru (22). • Asia’s richest person and Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani is ranked eighth on the Hurun Global Rich List 2021. The total wealth of Ambani surged by 24% to $83 billion (approximately Rs 6.09 lakh crore). 3 www.bankersadda.com | www.sscadda.com | www.careerpower.in | Adda247 App The Monthly Hindu Review | Current Affairs | March 2021 • Apoorva Mehta of Instacard & Nikhil Kamath of Who is an ombudsman? Zerodha (both 34 years) became the youngest Indian Ombudsman is an official who is appointed to investigate Billionaires with a net worth of USD 1.7 Billion. the complaints regarding the service or on an • Gautam Adani of Adani Group (Global Rank – 48) administrative authority. The ombudsman is usually appointed by governments however, the private • Shiv Nadar of HCL (Global Rank – 58) companies can also appoint them. The Indian government • Lakshmi N Mittal of ArcelorMittal (Global Rank – has appointed an ombudsman to resolve the grievances 104) with respect to income tax, banking and insurance. • Cyrus Poonawalla of Serum (Global Rank – 113) Economic Freedom Index 2021 Announced ASIA: Zhong Shanshan (Founder of Chinese Bottle Water The Heritage Foundation, a US Conservative think-tank, Maker – Nongfu Spring) with USD 85 Billion became recently launched the “Economic Freedom Index”. The Asia’s Richest person, followed by Mukesh Ambani. He index was prepared by covering 184 countries this time for the period of July 2019 to June 2020. This is the first also broke into the Hurun Global Rich List 2021 for the 1st time the index has been published since the COVID-19 time with a rank of 7. pandemic overturned lives as well as global economies and the scoring reflects a small extent how governments Government amends Insurance Ombudsman have responded to the health crisis. Rules 2017 Ranking: In the index, Singapore has topped the global ranking for The Government of India has notified comprehensive the second consecutive year. In the 2021 Index, India amendments to the