Current Affairs Today Headline- 14 March 2022
Current Affairs Today‘s headlines for 14 March 2022 by Miliposts.
National News
- Biju Janata Dal (BJD) registered a historic victory in Odisha’s Zilla Parishad elections, winning all 30 districts.
- West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee constituted a high power committee to probe the Tangra fire incident.
- Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi along with her family members Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra offered to resign, party members rejected the offer at the CWC meeting.
- The session of the Punjab Legislative Assembly is to be held on March 17.
- Newly elected MLA Sorokhaibam Rajen Singh took oath as the Pro-tem Speaker of Manipur Legislative Assembly at Raj Bhavan in Imphal.
- Punjab CM nominated Bhagwant Mann to resign from the post of MP of Sangrur Lok Sabha Constituency today.
- Rishabh Pant surpassed Kapil Dev to become the fastest 50 by an Indian in Test cricket.
- The Indian Embassy in Ukraine will be temporarily shifted to Poland.
- The new air-launched version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile has a range of 800 km. able to hit the target
- The meeting of the Business Advisory Committee (BAC) for both Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha will be held in Parliament today.
- Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu chaired the cabinet meeting on the budget proposals for 2022-23 this morning.
- Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the budget of Jammu and Kashmir in the Lok Sabha today.
- An earthquake measuring 4.1 on the Richter scale struck 225 km northeast of Diglipur, Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
International News
- Countries in the Middle East refrain from imposing sanctions on Russia.
- Former US President Barack Obama tested positive for COVID.
- President Joe Biden, French President Emmanuel Macron reviewed recent diplomatic activities and underlined their commitment to holding Russia accountable for its actions and supporting the government and people of Ukraine.
- Russia-Ukraine talks will begin today via video link at 10:30 (local time).
- Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky urged Ukraine to “fell Russian rockets” on no-fly zones, or NATO soil.
- The United States condemned the Russian Federation’s missile attack on the International Peace and Security Center in Yvoryev, close to Ukraine’s border with Poland.
- A 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck today, March 14, 504 km southwest of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
- According to the National Center for Seismology, a 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck 157km WSW of Manila, Philippines.
- Russia will not ask the US and EU member states to lift sanctions, because pressure from the West and around the world will not change Moscow’s stance.”
- Ukraine restored power supply to the Chornobyl power plant controlled by the Russian military.
- Teams from Ukraine have succeeded in repairing the power line needed to restart off-site power to the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant; The plant will be connected to the grid again tomorrow.
- China places 17 million residents of the city of Shenzhen under a COVID lockdown.
- Pope Francis says ‘genocide’ in Ukraine must stop, AFP news agency reports
- Russia kidnapped the head of another Ukrainian mayor, Dniprorudne Yevgen Matveyev.
- The US has approved $ 200 million for additional weapons, equipment to Ukraine.
- Zelensky sought Israel’s help for the release of the Melitopol mayor.