{"id":38464,"date":"2021-03-11T05:20:18","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T05:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=38464"},"modified":"2021-03-11T05:20:20","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T05:20:20","slug":"current-affairs-11-march-2021-current-affairs-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-11-march-2021-current-affairs-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Current Affairs 11 March 2021 | Current Affairs Today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Current Affairs 11 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/ev-financing-industry-to-be-worth-%e2%82%b93-7-lakh-crore-by-2030\/\">EV financing industry to be worth \u20b93.7 lakh crore by 2030<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>NITI Aayog and Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) India released a new report called \u2018Mobilising Electric Vehicle Financing in India\u2019. 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This was an e-budget which he presented from his tablet.<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/delhi-govt-unveils-%e2%82%b969000-crore-deshbhakti-budget\/\">Read More<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/sc-asks-centre-why-environment-regulator-has-not-been-set-up\/\">SC asks Centre why environment regulator has not been set up<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Supreme Courtroom requested the federal government to elucidate why it had not arrange an \u201cimpartial surroundings regulator\u201d to supervise inexperienced clearances.<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/sc-asks-centre-why-environment-regulator-has-not-been-set-up\/\">Read More<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/modi-inaugurates-maitri-setu-between-india-and-bangladesh\/\">Modi inaugurates \u2018Maitri Setu\u2019 between India and Bangladesh<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually inaugurated the India-Bangladesh Friendship Bridge (Maitri Setu) over the Feni river at Sabroom in south Tripura. 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