Today’s Current Affairs Headline- 22 March 2022
Today’s Current Affairs headlines for 22 March 2022 by Miliposts.
National News
- Pushkar Singh Dhami will continue as the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, will take oath on March 23.
- Pramod Sawant was elected the leader of the BJP Legislature Party in Goa to get a second term as the Chief Minister of Goa.
- Central Employees PF body EPFO decides on interest rate on provident fund, proposes to raise PF rate to 8.1%.
- AAP nominated former Indian cricketer Harbhajan Singh, AAP MLA Raghav Chadha, IIT Delhi faculty Sandeep Pathak, teacher Ashok Kumar Mittal and industrialist Sanjeev Arora to the Rajya Sabha.
- Australia returned 29 antiquities to India, PM Modi inspected all the antiquities
- Indian carriers put Boeing 737 fleet on “advanced surveillance” after plane crash in China.
- Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett will make his first official visit to India on 2 April at the invitation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
- US Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland met Indian Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla at Hyderabad House.
- The Kerala government is planning to implement the Silverline project, a semi-high-speed rail project, despite protests.
- The price of 14.2 kg domestic LPG LPG increased by Rs 50 per cylinder, from today its price has gone up to Rs 949.50.
International News
- World Water Day It is being celebrated today with the theme “Groundwater: Making the Invisible Visible” to highlight the importance of water resources and encourage its sustainable use.
- The Chinese state broadcaster confirmed that no one was found alive in the wreckage of the China Eastern plane, which had 132 on board.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has insisted on meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin.
- Sri Lankan Army officers honor their Indian Army ‘guru’ who trained them 30 years ago to fight the LTTE.
- India ‘somewhat unstable’ on punishing Russia for attacking Ukraine: US President Joe Biden
- Russian chess grandmaster Sergei Karjakin was suspended from playing for six months for publicly supporting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
- Russian court bans Instagram, Facebook as ‘extremist’ organizations.
- US Secretary of State Antony Blinken declared Myanmar’s military persecution of Rohingyas in 2016-17 a ‘genocide’.
- 95 people were injured in a head-on collision of two passenger trains south of the Tunisia capital.
- Russia cancels peace talks with Japan over Ukraine war.
- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the world’s ‘sleepwalking’ towards a climate disaster, due to major economies allowing carbon pollution to increase, when drastic reductions are needed.