Weekly Current Affairs (Beepedia) 9th-15th March 2023

RBI, Banking and Economy

• IREDA gets ‘Infrastructure Finance Company’ status from RBI

• SIDBI’s VC arm invests Rs 30 crore in biotech company OmniBRx from its Ubharte Sitaare Fund

• Gold exchange-traded funds (ETFs) attracted a net flow of Rs 165 crore in February, 2023

SEBI and FINANCIAL AWARENESS

• SEBI puts restrictions on cos opting share buyback via stock exchange route

• 15 stock exchanges designated as Qualified stock brokers by NSE &BSE

• PNB Housing Finance's Rs 2,500 crore rights issue gets SEBI’s approval

NABARD & AGRICULTURE

• Bamboo Exhibition at the National Workshop of Bamboo Sector Development inaugurated in New Delhi

• Three Centers of Excellence for Horticultural crops approved under MIDH

• Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying initiated Animal Husbandry Infrastructure Development Fund with an outlay of Rs.15000 crore

NATIONAL

• India, U.S. to launch a semiconductor sub-committee

• India and Sweden signed a MoC to strengthen cooperation & promote research networking between research institutions from both countries

• Atal Innovation Mission launched ATL Sarthi

INTERNATIONAL

• UN inked first ‘High Seas Treaty’ to protect ocean bodies of the world

• Nepal elected Ram Chandra Poudel as new President

• Colombia opened military service to women for first time in 25 years

STATES

• Attukal Pongala celebrated in Kerala

• Prime minister Narendra Modi inaugurated world's longest railway platform in Indian state of Karnataka

REPORTS AND INDEXES

• India remains world’s largest importer of arms: SIPRI report

• Rudraprayag, Tehri In Uttarakhand Have Highest Landslide Risk Exposure In County: ISRO

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• Long-lost moth species caught on camera in Tamil Nadu forest

• Indo-US developed NISAR Satellite Reached ISRO

• Methanol-Fueled Buses Introduced by Nitin Gadkari

DEFENCE

• 400 Chattisgarh Tribes to be Selected by CRPF

• Home Ministry announced 10% Reservation for ‘Ex-Agniveers’

• MARITIME PARTNERSHIP EXERCISE (MPX) WITH FRENCH NAVY

EVENTS

• 5th ASEAN-India Business summit

• 2nd edition of WFI-2023’ to be organised by Ministry of Food Processing Industries from 3rd to 5th November 2023 in New Delhi

• First international conference on Shared Buddhist Heritage to begin in New Delhi

AWARDS AND REWARDS

• First Edition of Women Icons Leading Swacchata (WINS) Awards 2023 Launched By MoHUA

• Sir David Chipperfield Selected as the 2023 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize

• Sahitya Akademi Award winners feted at ‘Festival of Letters’

SPORTS

• Mirabai Chanu won BBC Indian Sportswoman of the Year for a second time

• India to host IBA Women's World Boxing Championships in New Delhi's Indira Gandhi Sports Complex