One Liner Daily-March 9-2022

  • Scientists say they have found the sunken wreck of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance, more than a century after it was lost to the Antarctic ice.
  • Tokyo Olympics bronze medallist Lovlina Borgohain defeated her main competitor and World youth champion Arundhati Choudhary 7­0 in the 70kg trials to make it to the Indian squad for the women’s World championship to be held in Istanbul in May.
  • S.Sreesanth retires from all forms of domestic cricket.
  • India’s Ravindra Jadeja climbed to the top spot in the ICC Test rankings for allrounders on wednesday after his match­winning performance against Sri Lanka in the opening Test in Mohali.
  • Ron Stander, famouos heavy weight boxer known as the “Bluffs Butcher” passed away in USA.
  • RBI launches 24/7 helpline for customers' digital payment queries called DigiSaathi.
  • RBI launches UPI123pay for transfer of money without data connectivity.
  • C-DAC installed a Made-in-India Petascale supercomputer called "PARAM Ganga" in IIT Roorkee.
  • Iran successfully test fired second missile satellite Noor-2.
  • A national-level shooter and an environmentalist hailing from Delhi, Aarushi Verma has been selected to represent India at the 2041 Climate Force Antarctica Expedition which is set to be held in March 2022.
  • India's first 100 percent women-owned FLO industrial park begins in Hyderabad.
  • T.Raja Kumar named President of the Financial Action Task Force.
  • The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the setting up of a new government-owned firm for pooling and monetising sovereign and public sector land assets.
  • Offering a chance to youth living in slum clusters in the Capital to acquire new­age skills that will help them seek employment, the Delhi government on Wednesday launched the Delhi Skill and Entrepreneurship University’s ‘Lighthouse Centres’. 
  • The upper age limit for appearing in the National Eligibility­cum­Entrance Test (Undergraduate) [NEET­UG] has been removed by the National Medical Commission.
  • The Hindu Group Publishing Private Ltd. has been named the “Publisher of the Year” for the second consecutive year at the WAN­IFRA South Asian Digital Media Awards, 2021with the highest number of tallies on the points table.
  • India’s drug regulator has granted restricted emergency use authorisation to the Serum Institute’s COVID­19 vaccine Covovax for the 12­17 age group subject to certain conditions.
  • The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Wednesday approved the establishment of the WHO (World Health Organization) Global Centre for Traditional Medicine (WHO GCTM) at Jamnagar in Gujarat.
  • David Bennett, who was the first person to receive a heart transplant from a pig has died, two months after the groundbreaking experiment, the Maryland hospital that performed the surgery announced on Wednesday.

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