Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan inaugurated a two-day workshop on 'Human Factors Engineering in Military Platforms' in New Delhi.
The workshop has been organised by Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences (DIPAS), a Delhi-based laboratory of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).
Secretary Department of Defence R&D and Chairman DRDO: Dr Samir V Kamat.
Union Health Minister Mankush Mandaviya chaired a two-day Global Conference on Digital Health on March 20-21 in New Delhi.
Using India's Presidency of G20, the conference was organised by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and the WHO (World Health Organisation) South-East Asia Regional Office.
Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation, Shri Amit Shah laid the foundation stone of the District Bank Headquarters and inaugurated the APMC Kisan Bhavan at Krishi Shivir in Junagadh, Gujarat.
Shri Shah said that it has also been decided that a Cooperative Society will be formed in every Panchayat of the country.
For distinguished service to the Australia-India bilateral relationship, particularly to trade, investment, and philanthropy, Indian industrialist and philanthropist Ratan Tata has been appointed as an Honorary Officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia (AO).
Australia’s High Commissioner to India, Barry O’Farrell informed.
In Tennis, Indian Rohan Bopanna and Matthew Ebden of Australia have won the Indian Wells doubles title in California, United States.The unseeded champions upset top seeds Wesley Koolhof and Neal Skupski 6-3, 2-6, 10-8 in Indian Wells final, with the 43-year-old Bopanna becoming the oldest ATP Masters 1000 trophy-winner.
UBS agreed to buy rival Swiss bank Credit Suisse for 3 billion Swiss francs ($3.23 billion) and agreed to assume up to $5.4 billion in losses, in a shotgun merger engineered by Swiss authorities to avoid further market-shaking turmoil in global banking.
The Swiss central bank will supply substantial liquidity to the merged bank.
UBS was formerly known as Union Bank of Switzerland.
India’s Pankaj Advani retained his Asian Billiards title in the 100-up format, defeating fellow countryman Brijesh Damani 5-1 in the final played at Qatar Billiards and Snooker Federation (QBSF) Academy.
Advani is a 25-time International Billiards and Snooker Federation (IBSF) world champion.
This is the eighth Asian Billiards title in all for Advani.
The Government of India announced the sites for setting up of 7 PM Mega Integrated Textile Regions and Apparel (PM MITRA) Parks for the Textile industry. The Parks will come up in Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Gujarat, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, and Maharashtra.
The MITRA Scheme was first announced in the budget speech of 2021-22 by FM Nirmal Sitharaman.
World Oral Health Day is celebrated every year on March 20 to raise awareness about the importance of oral health and hygiene. This day was first observed in 2013 and is now celebrated in more than 140 countries around the world. The day is organised by the FDI World Dental Federation, which is the largest membership-based dental organization in the world.
New Zealand would ban TikTok on devices with access to the country's parliamentary network due to cybersecurity concerns, becoming the latest nation to limit the use of the video-sharing app on government-related devices.
Government agencies in the U.S. have until the end of March to delete the app from official devices.
Britain recently banned the app on government phones with immediate effect.
World Sparrow Day is observed every year on March 20 to raise awareness about the importance of sparrows and their conservation. The day was first celebrated in 2010 in India and has since been observed in several countries around the world.
World Sparrow Day was initiated by the Nature Forever Society of India in collaboration with the Eco-Sys Action Foundation of France.
The first World Sparrow Day was celebrated on March 20, 2010.
International Day of Happiness is celebrated on 20 March every year. The purpose of this day is to know the value of happiness in one's life and create awareness around it. The General Assembly of the United Nations passed a resolution on 12 July 2012 and proclaimed 20 March the International Day of Happiness.