International Current Affairs – March 2023

  • 26th edition of ‘Elevate Expo’ held in Dubai
  • 26% of the world’s population does not have safe drinking water: UNESCO report
  • Oscars 2023: RRR’s Naatu Naatu won the Best Original Song award
  • Egypt joins BRICS bank as a new member
  • Passport Index Points 2023: India ranks 144th; topped by UAE
  • Colombia opens military service to women for the first time in 25 years
  • Rajkumar Singh participated in the 19th BIMSTEC Ministerial Meeting
  • India world’s largest arms importer: SIPRI Report 2023
  • After Singapore India’s UPI likely to extend to UAE, Mauritius, Indonesia
  • The Windsor framework: The deal between the UK and the EU
  • Bola Tinubu elected as the new President of Nigeria
  • Vietnam parliament elects Vo Van Thuong as the new President
  • Mumbai jumps to 37th place globally in price growth in luxury housing
  • Electoral Democracy Index 2023: India ranked 108; topped by Denmark
  • Former Brazilian Prez Dilma Rousseff was elected as the new President of the New Development Bank (NDB)
  • Manmeet Colon sworn in as Connecticut’s first assistant police chief
  • Srikanth Venkatachari appointed as CFO of Reliance Industries
  • UK Sinha & Dipali Goenka appointed as Independent Directors of NDTV
  • Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan was appointed as Vice-President of the UAE
  • Ajay Singh was appointed as President of the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM)
  • Pranav Haridasan appointed as MD and CEO of Axis Securities
  • Star Sports signs Ranveer Singh as its brand ambassador
  • Amitava Mukherjee assumed additional charge as NMDC CMD

  • Eric Garcetti appointed as US ambassador to India
  • Deepak Mohanty was appointed as Chairman of the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA)
  • K Krithivasan appointed as CEO of TCS
  • FSIB recommends Ashwani Kumar as MD and CEO of UCO Bank
  • G Krishnakumar appointed as CMD of BPCL
  • Deepak Bagla steps down as MD & CEO of Invest India
  • Ram Sahaya Prasad Yadav was elected Nepal’s third Vice President
  • Luxor appoints Virat Kohli as its Brand Ambassador
  • Ratan Tata appointed to ‘Order of Australia’ for bolstering bilateral ties
  • Lalit Kumar Gupta appointed as CMD of Cotton Corporation of India
  • Manmeet K Nanda appointed as MD & CEO of Invest India
  • Arnab Banerjee appointed as MD & CEO CEAT
  • Laxman Narasimhan assumed charge as the new CEO of Starbucks
  • M T Vasudevan Nair was awarded Kerala’s highest civilian honour
  • Luis Caffarelli wins Abel Prize for maths
  • Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman conferred a Special literary award
  • J&K’s Aliya Mir wins Wildlife Conservation Award 2023
  • Naveen Jindal was conferred with ‘The Lifetime Achievement Award by the University of Texas

  • Tamil writer Sivasankari to be awarded Saraswati Samman for 2022
  • India won Golden & Silver Star at ‘Golden City Gate Tourism Awards
  • Sheikh Ahmad Nawaf al-Sabah was re-appointed as Prime Minister of Kuwait
  • S. Dubey takes charge as Controller General of Accounts
  • Conrad Sangma was sworn in as Meghalaya Chief Minister
  • Savlon India names Sachin Tendulkar as world’s first ‘Hand Ambassador’
  • British Architect David Chipperfield won Pritzker Prize in 2023
  • Bengaluru received the ‘Healthy City’ award for smoking laws
  • Bombay Jayashri was chosen for Sangita Kalanidhi Award 2023
  • Nepalese batsman Aasif Sheikh won 2022 CMJ Spirit of Cricket Award
  • Singapore Changi Airport named the World’s Best Airport 2023
  • Indian-American Mindy Kaling was awarded the National Humanities Medals
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