IMPORTANT CURRENT AFFAIRS

FOR CUET 2022

March 2022
• Total 12 Indian weightlifters have qualified for Commonwealth Games 2022
in Birmingham.
• Rafael Nadal has won the Mexican Open 2022.
• National Science Day 28 February.
• Operation Ganga was launched to bring back Indian nationals from Ukraine.
• Canada has authorized the use of a plant-based COVID-19 vaccine.
• Vietnam will host the 31st Southeast Asian Games.
• “One Among You” is an autobiography of MK Stalin.
• India’s first ambulance for street animals has been launched in Chennai.
• NITI Aayog will release the National Gender Index in India.
• Saurabh Chaudhary recently won gold medal in Men’s 10m Air Pistol event
at 2022 ISSF World Cup in Cairo.
• World Wildlife Day is an annual event, marked on March 03.
• Ujjain has created Guinness record by lighting 11.71 lakh clay lamps (diyas)
in 10 minutes, on the occasion of Mahashivratri 2022.
• Cricket legend Shane Warne has passed away. He played for Australia.
• The 2022 ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup is being held in New Zealand.
• Microsoft has recently opened its largest data centre in India in Hyderabad.
• 8th March is celebrated as the International Women’s Day (IWD) annually.
• The WHO Global Centre for Traditional Medicine (WHO GCTM) will come
up in Jamnagar, Gujarat.
• N Chandrasekaran has been appointed as the chairman of Air India.
• In India, the National Vaccination Day is observed annually on 16 March.
• India’s first Digital Water Bank ‘AQVERIUM’ has been launched in
Bengaluru.
• India’s First Artificial Intelligence & Robotics Technology Park (ARTPARK)
has been launched at IISc- Bengaluru.
• India’s first ‘World Peace Center’ will be established in Gurugram.
• India’s first Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle (FCEV) has been launched by Toyota
Auto Company under a pilot project.
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• Bhagwant Mann has been sworn in as the new Chief Minister of Punjab.
• Mumbai has announced its detailed framework to ‘zero out carbon emissions
by 2050’ and became the first city in South Asia to set such a target.
• Karolina Bielawska is the winner of Miss World 2021 beauty pageant.
• India’s rank in the United Nations’ World Happiness Report for the year 2022
is 136.
• World Water Day is observed by the United Nations on March 22.
• New Delhi has been adjudged as the world’s most polluted capital city in IQ
Air’s 2021 World Air Quality Report.
• March 23 is observed as the Martyrs Day to commemorate the death
anniversary of Indian freedom fighters Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar, and
Shivaram Rajguru.
• Kuwait became the hottest place on earth, that its temperature reaches 53.2
degrees on the last summer.
• Bangladesh has been adjudged as the world’s most polluted country in IQ
Air’s 2021 World Air Quality Report.
• Pushkar Singh Dhami has been appointed as the new Chief Minister of
Uttarakhand.
• Devendra Jhajharia has become the first Para-athlete to receive Padma
Bhushan award.
• Stephen Wilhite, the computer scientist, and the creator of GIF, has passed
away recently.
• Full form of GIF – Graphics Interchange Format.
• The headquarters of NATO is in Brussels, Belgium.
• PV Sindhu beat Busanan Ongbamrungphan to lift women’s singles title at the
2022 Swiss Open Badminton Tournament.
• Indian team has won the 3rd edition of SAFF U-18 Women’s Football
Championship.
• The Earth Hour Day is marked every year on Last Saturday of March.
• Deepika Padukone has been featured in the TIME100 Impact Awards 2022.
• Will Smith has won the “Best Actor in a Leading Role” Award at the 94th
Oscars Awards 2022.
• Jessica Chastain has won the “Best Actress in a Leading Role” Award at the
94th Oscars Awards 2022.