Top 10 Current Affairs – 5 March 2021

Daily Current Affairs 4 March 2021 is the most important area from which a major share of questions come in SSC, Railway, state government recruitment exams, UPSC prelims and mains.

India Japan back in another Sri Lanka port project

Sri Lanka will develop the West Container Terminal (WCT) at the Colombo Port along with India and Japan. The decision comes a month after the Rajapaksa government ejected the two partners from a 2019 tripartite agreement to jointly develop the East Container Terminal (ECT), citing resistance to “foreign involvement”. Read More

Centre garners ₹77,814.80 cr after spectrum auction

The telecom spectrum auctions concluded after a day and a half of bidding, with the Centre garnering ₹77,814.80 crore in revenues. The amount exceeded the expectations of the government as well as analysts, as telcos focussed on renewing expiring spectrum and consolidating holdings in select bands. Read More

Karnataka launches engineering research policy

Karnataka launched the country’s maiden Engineering Research & Development (ER&D) Policy to raise its contribution to the sector in the country to 45% in the next five years. Read More

In a ‘first’, Himalayan Serow spotted in Assam

A Himalayan mammal, somewhere between a goat and an antelope, has been confirmed as the newest creature to be spotted in Assam. The Himalayan serow is a subspecies of the mainland serow native to the Himalayas. Read More

Merger of Lok Sabha-Rajya Sabha TV into Sansad TV finalised

The merger of the Lok Sabha TV and the Rajya Sabha TV has been finalised and will be replaced by a single entity Sansad TV. On March 1, retired IAS officer Ravi Capoor was appointed the Chief Executive Officer of the channel. Read More

Army to induct 6,000 new Light Machine Guns

The Army will begun inducting the first lot of 6,000 new Light Machine Guns (LMG) from Israel, with frontline troops on the borders set to receive them later this month. Read More

India added 1 billionaire every week in pandemic-hit 2020

India retained the third spot on the list of countries with a maximum number of billionaires. The country’s elite billion dollar club saw the addition of 55 new entrepreneurs in 2020 despite the Covid-19 pandemic. Read More

World Hearing Day 2021

The World Hearing Day is observed on March 3, every year to highlight and spread the message that timely and effective care can help people with hearing loss to achieve full potential. Read More

SEBI calls for mechanism to prevent market abuse

SEBI asked stock exchanges, clearing corporations and depositories to put in place a code of conduct and institutional mechanism to prevent fraud or market abuse by them and their designated persons. Read More

Freedoms in India have reduced

Freedoms in India have reduced, according to a report from a U.S. thinktank, Freedom House, resulting in India being classified as ‘partly free’. Read More

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