CURRENT AFFAIRS

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 30, Mar 2021

United States is immediately suspending all engagement with Myanmar under a 2013 trade and investment agreement until the return of a democratically elected government, US Trade Representative Katherine Tai said. Saturday was the bloodiest day of protests in Myanmar since the February

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 27, Mar 2021

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Minister of Defence of Republic of Korea Suh Wook held bilateral talks on defence cooperation in New Delhi today. The leaders acknowledged that the bilateral defence cooperation has broadened significantly in scale and scope across Tri-Service as wel

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 26, Mar 2021

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be on a two day visit to Bangladesh from today. The visit is in connection with the commemoration of three epochal events including Mujib Borsho, the birth centenary of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The other events are 50 years of the establishment of diplo

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 24, Mar 2021

US Senate has voted to confirm Indian-American Dr Vivek Murthy to be President Biden's Surgeon General, handing the administration one of its top public health officials amid the coronavirus pandemic. The Senators voted 57-43 to confirm the Indian American as Biden's surgeon g

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 24, Mar 2021

Today is World Tuberculosis Day. The day is observed on 24th March every year to raise public awareness about the devastating health, social and economic consequences of Tuberculosis, TB, and to step up efforts to end the global epidemic. The day is observed to commemorate the anniver

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 17, Mar 2021

Cab aggregator Uber has said that it will give its UK drivers a guaranteed minimum wage, holiday pay and pensions, following a recent court ruling that said they should be classified as workers and entitled to such benefits.  The announcement yesterday comes after it lost an ap

• 16, Mar 2021

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will visit India at the end of April. His office said, it will be his first major international trip after Britain’s exit from the European Union. Mr Johnson had planned an Indian visit in January as part of efforts to speed up trade talks be

• 13, Mar 2021

The leaders of the US, Australia, India and Japan have agreed to deliver one billion doses of coronavirus vaccine to much of Asia by the end of 2022. The joint commitment was made following the first leaders' meeting of the  Quad countries held yesterday. The vaccines are exp

• 12, Mar 2021

The First Quad Leaders’ Summit will be held virtually today. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of Australia, Scott Morrison, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and US President  Joseph R Biden will participate in the first Leaders’ Summit of the Quadril

• 11, Mar 2021

The India - Uzbekistan joint military exercise DUSTLIK II commenced yesterday in Foreign Training Node Chaubatia, Ranikhet in Uttarakhand. This is the Second Edition of annual bilateral joint exercise of both armies. It will continue till the 19th of this month. The firs