Current Affairs - 20/03/2021

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  1. Power Grid Corporation India Limited (PGCIL) will buy Jaiprakash Power Ventures Limited's (JPVL) 74% stake in an electricity transmission joint venture that the two firms have together.
  2. World Sparrow Day is observed on 20 March every year to raise awareness about the bird.
  3. In view of the COVID spike in the state, the Punjab Government will start the crop procurement operations from April 10, 2021.
  4. President Ram Nath Kovind is on a three-day visit to Odisha beginning 20 March 2021.
  5. In Madhya Pradesh, keeping in view the recent increase in corona infection, new additional guidelines have been issued by the state government.
  6. NTPC Bongaigaon, Assam for the first time achieved more than 100% Plant Load Factor (PLF) since commissioning all of its units
  7. Embassy of India, Seoul launched the 'Festival of Independence' India @75 - the 75 weeks celebrations on 19 March.
  8. Under the Vaccine Maitri initiative of the Government of India, the Lao People's Democratic Republic has received the Made in India COVID-19 vaccines.
  9. Nepal has given emergency authorisation to India's COVID-19 vaccine COVAXIN.
  10. Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar informed that the implementation of the National Action Plan on Climate Change and other measures have led to a reduction in emmision intensity of GDP by 24 percent between 2005 and 2016.   

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