UN General Assembly convenes against Russia's war
- This emergency UN General Assembly meeting was convened against the war in Russia. This is the 11th emergency meeting of the UN General Assembly in the history of the world. The meeting comes amid ongoing peace talks between Ukraine and Russia.
- This is the second emergency meeting between Russia and Ukraine in the 77 - year history of the United Nations. Earlier in the day, an emergency meeting was held on the Crimea issue. At the meeting, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres sharply criticized Russia. The war in Ukraine must end immediately. Russia must respect international rules.
- Russia's occupation must stop. The economies of the nations of the world are already bad. Enough. Do not sacrifice people over this. Do not let the nations of the world be affected by this. Players must move to their boundary immediately.
- Leaders must come before peace talks. He said people should be protected. Each country will speak in succession in the coming days at the 193-nation UN General Assembly. The referendum on the Russia-Ukraine war will follow on Wednesday. Most of the more than 100 countries are expected to vote against Russia.
- Ajay Tyagi, who was the chairman of the Stock Exchange Regulatory Commission of India, ended his five-year term last February. He took over as Chairman of SEBI in March 2017 for a period of 3 years. After that, he received a 6-month extension until August 2020. Subsequently, his tenure was extended again for 18 months.
- Following this, the Union government yesterday appointed Matabi Puri as its new chairman. This is the first time a woman has headed SEBI. His appointment was approved by the Union Cabinet.
- He has been the Chairman of various committees in SEBI for over 30 years. Finally, he served as chairman of the Advisory Committee on Data Access and Privacy in the Securities Market.
- Russia launched an offensive against Ukraine last Thursday. Russian ground forces infiltrated Ukraine, launching attacks with missiles, rocket-propelled grenades and Bo planes. In this context, Russia announced on Sunday that it was ready to hold talks with Ukraine.
- Accordingly, negotiations began on the Belarusian border. On the Ukrainian side, a delegation led by its Ministry of Defense and on the Russian side, a delegation led by Adib Putin's adviser, took part in the talks.
- At the meeting, the Ukrainian side called for the withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine. After 5 hours of talks, the Russian side said that there was some opportunity to reach a consensus.
- Ukraine's Prime Minister and Speaker of the European Parliament have signed an application to join the 27 - nation European Union. The application was taken to Brussels, where the European Union is headquartered, sources said.
- Prime Minister Modi attended an online seminar on the Prime Minister's Kathi Shakti project. Speaking at the time, he said the Prime Minister's Kathi Shakti project would play a huge role in improving infrastructure.
- He said that ways to build quality structures should be explored and that it should be affordable and sustainable to withstand disasters. He said the central government had decided to allocate Rs 1 lakh crore to the state governments to strengthen the integrated federation and asked the state governments to use the funds to upgrade multimodal infrastructure.
- He said the government has decided to increase investment in every sector, including highways, fiberglass pipelines and renewable energy.
- The Solar Power Corporation (SECI) and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (HPCL) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on March 24 to realize the federal government's green energy objectives and carbon-balanced economic initiatives.
- HPCL plans to diversify these sectors and undertake environmental and community initiatives in line with the federal government's goal of developing renewable energy capacity in the country and accelerating the transmission of electric vehicles.
- The consolidated growth index of eight major industries was 144.4 points last January. This is an increase of 3.7 per cent (provisional) over the January 2021 list. Growth in the coal, natural gas, refining, steel, cement and electricity industries was higher in January than in the same period last year.
- The final growth rate of 8 key industries for the month of October 2021 has been changed to 8.7 percent. The growth rate of key industries was 11.6 per cent in 2021-22.
