Correct Answer :   96 Hour

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India & China remain in a stand-off at the Line of Actual Control (LAC), the Indian Army and Air Force have conducted a 96-hour multi-domain air and land exercise, ‘Vayu Prahar’, in the eastern sector.

* Sources in India’s defence and security establishment said the exercise was conducted in the second week of March 2023.

* Aim : The main aim, they explained, was to formulate plans that can lead to synergy in multi-domain operations.

* Essentially, multi-domain operations are used to coordinate activities across multiple branches of the military to achieve converging results.

* “The conduct of Vayu Prahar exercise enabled coordination and rehearsal among various agencies for quick mobilisation, transportation and deployment of forces within a theatre which can be executed across theatres,” a source said.

* The scope of the joint exercise included the “rapid mobilisation of a rapid reaction force from the hinterland”, according to the sources. This force was then tasked with air-land operations in a nominated advance landing ground (ALG).

Source : The Print

Correct Answer :   Isha Ambani

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Reliance Retail Ventures Ltd Director, Isha Ambani won the GenNext Entrepreneur Award at the 12th Forbes India Leadership Awards 2023.

She is the head of the $800 billion Reliance Retail Ventures Ltd and launched the JioMart.

* Larsen & Toubro veteran AM Naik on 24th March 2023 received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 12th edition of the Forbes India Leadership Awards.

Some of the other winners of FILA 2023 are :

* First-generation entrepreneur Abhay Soi “acquired and turned around Max Healthcare, making it India’s second-largest hospital chain. For this, he stands out as the ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’”.

* Pawan Kumar Chandana and Naga Bharath Daka, founders of startup ‘Skyroot Aerospace’, received the ‘Emerging Innovator’ award for making “Indian spacefaring history with the successful launch of their Vikram-S rocket—the first privately built space rocket from India”.

* Tata Communications was recognised as the ‘Turnaround Star’ for “transforming itself into an agile, profit-making digital solution commtech multination in three years, from the government-backed, loss-making telco”.

* The Regional Goliath award went to Star Cement’s Co-Managing Director Rajendra Chamaria for building a cement empire in the Northeast.

* Radha and NS Parthasarathy, Subroto and Susmita Bagchi received the Forbes India Leadership Award 2023 in the ‘Grassroot Philanthropists’ category.

* CK Venkataraman, the MD of Titan Company was named the ‘CEO of the year’.

* Gaurav Khatri and Amit Khatri, the co-founders of Noise, received the award in the ‘Bootstrapped Hero’ category.

* Raj Madangopal, co-founder and COO, and Mani Vajipeyajula, co-founder and CEO of Banyan Nation were awarded ‘Climate Warriors of the Year’.

* Zetwerk co-founders Ankit Fatehpuria, Vishal Chaudhary, Amrit Acharya (CEO), Srinath Ramakkrushnan (COO), and Rahul Sharma won in the ‘Outstanding Startup’ category.

* Amur Swaminathan Lakshminarayanan, MD and CEO of Tata Communications received the ‘Turnaround Star’ award..

Source : Money Control

Correct Answer :   Nitu Ghanghas

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Indian Woman boxer, Nitu Ghanghas clinched Gold in 48-kilogram category of the IBA Womens World Boxing Championship 2023 at  K.D. Jadhav Hall IG Stadium New Delhi.

Nitu defeated Mongolia’s Altantsetseg Lutsaikhan 5-0 via unanimous decision 25th March 2023.

She became the only sixth Indian boxer, male or female, to win a World championship.

In the semifinals, Commonwealth Champions Nitu Ghanghas had defeated Kazakh Alua Balkibekova.
 
In another match, Saweety Boora will take on her rival Lina Wang of China in the 81-kilogram category..

Source : AIR

Correct Answer :   Mumbai Indians

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Mumbai Indians defeated Delhi Capitals by seven wickets in the WPL 2023 final, at the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai on Sunday (26th March 2023).

Chasing a target of 132 runs, MI reached 134/3 in 19.3 overs, courtesy of an unbeaten half-century by Nat Sciver-Brunt. Sciver-Brunt smacked an unbeaten knock of 60 runs off 55 balls, packed with seven fours.

Meanwhile, captain Harmanpreet Kaur played a crucial knock of 37 off 39 balls, with five fours. Radha Yadav and Jess Jonassen bagged a wicket each for Delhi. Initially, DC reached 131/9 in 20 overs, with Meg Lanning top-scoring with a knock of 35 runs off 29 balls, packed with five fours.

But the DC didn't receive any support and lost her wicket in a freak run out. With wickets tumbling, tailenders Shikha Pandey and Radha put in a strong final partnership to remain unbeaten.

Shikha smacked 27 runs off 17 balls, including three fours and a six. Meanwhile, Radha hammered 27 off 12 deliveries, including two fours and two sixes. Meanwhile, Hayley Matthews clinched the Purple Cap race after taking three wickets, Issy Wong also bagged three and Amelia Kerr scalped two dismissals..

Source : Hindustan Times

Correct Answer :   Salima Tete

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National women’s hockey team midfielder Salima Tete was on Thursday (23rd March 2023) appointed the AHF Athletes Ambassador from India for a term of two years, starting March 25, 2023.

* Tete accepted the certificate and the position during the Asian Hockey Federation (AHF) Congress in Mungyeong, Korea.

* Tete, who led the Indian women’s junior hockey team to a fourth-place finish at the 2021 FIH Women’s Junior World Cup in Potchefstroom, South Africa, is among four players from Asia to be appointed for the position.

* As the AHF Athletes Ambassador, Tete, along with the other selected athletes from Asia, will play a leadership role in international representation, development, and advocacy of athletes.

* She will also be working towards promoting awareness about athletes’ rights and welfare from the region...

Source : News18

Correct Answer :   India

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The Asian Hockey Federation has conferred the 'Best Organizer Award' to Hockey India for the successful organization of the 2023 Hockey World Cup.

The event was held at Bhubaneswar-Rourkela. The award was received by Hockey India Secretary General Bhola Nath Singh during the FIH Congress held in Mungyeong, Korea.

The Asian Hockey Federation is the governing body for hockey sport in Asia. It is affiliated with the International Hockey Federation and was established in the year 1958..

Correct Answer :   India

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* India won a silver and a bronze while China retained its top spot by winning two gold medals on the second day of the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup shooting championship 2023 in Bhopal,Madhya Pradesh.

* India's world champion Rudraksh Patil and R. Narmada Nitin won bronze in the 10m air rifle mixed team event, while Varun Tomar and Rhythm Sangwan won silver in the second event of the day to take India's medal tally to three including one gold, one silver and one bronze.

* China topped the medal tally with three gold and two bronze medals.

* On Friday (24th March 2023), the third day of the competition, the finals of 10 meter air rifle men's and women's categories will be held..

Source : AIR

Correct Answer :   India

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* The host India clinched both men and women titles of the Asian Kho Kho Championship 2023 held at Tamulpur in Assam.

* In the women category, Indian Eves defeated Nepal by an inning and 33 points.

* On the other hand, the men's team too continued its brilliant form and defeated  Nepal by an inning and six points. India remained unbeaten in both categories throughout the tournament.

* A total of nine countries participated in the event. Assam Assembly Speaker Biswajit Daimary and minister U G Brahma distributed the prizes..

Source : AIR

Correct Answer :   Arabian Sea

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Konkan 2023, a joint maritime exercise, was conducted between the Royal Navy of Britain and the Indian Navy from the 20th of March to 22nd March 2023, off the Konkan coast in the Arabian Sea.

* The joint drill by the two navies demonstrated operational readiness, enhancing interoperability and improving the ability to conduct joint operations.

* The exercise will go a long way in bolstering the combined efforts of the Indian Navy and Royal Navy to strengthen maritime security and uphold a rules-based order in the region.

* INS Trishul, a guided missile frigate, and HMS Lancaster, a Type 23 guided missile frigate, participated in this edition and undertook multiple maritime drills to enhance interoperability and imbibe best practices. The exercises covered all domains of maritime operations, air, surface, and subsurface.

* India and UK agreed to significant new cooperation on Maritime Domain Awareness, which includes new agreements on maritime information sharing, an invitation to the UK to join India's Information Fusion Centre in Gurugram.

* India considers the defence sector as one of the major areas where the bilateral partnership could be expanded around the Make in India campaign.

* In maritime cooperation, the engagements between both countries are increasing. The UK will be deploying a Carrier Strike Group in the Indian Ocean region this year in line with its strategic tilt to Indo-Pacific...

Source : AIR

Correct Answer :   DALL-E

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Microsoft’s search engine Bing has a new artificial intelligence-powered image creator tool. It is called the "Bing Image Creator" which is powered by the advanced version of OpenAI’s text-to-image model DALL.E.

* Bing Image Creator allows users to create an image using text prompt. This means that from within the same chat, users can generate both text and image content.

* By typing in a description of an image, providing additional context like location or activity, and choosing an art style, Image Creator will generate an image from your own imagination. It’s like your creative copilot.

* The feature is out to Bing users in preview and can be accessed through the search engine’s Creative Mode. Microsoft plans on rolling out the feature to Balanced and Precise modes in Bing in future. The feature will also be available in Edge sidebar.

* Microsoft is also making Stories and Knowledge Cards 2.0 available for all Bing users to meet the demand for more visual search options.

* Stories are AI-generated images and short videos (like Instagram Stories) and Knowledge Cards offers facts and key information in the form of AI-powered infographics.

* The new version of Knowledge Cards includes interactive and dynamic content like charts, graphs, visual stories, and timelimes.

* Microsoft has also added guardrails to the feature to ensure responsible use of Image Creator. As per Microsoft, system can automatically detect potentially harmful image that could be generated by a prompt.

* In such cases, the prompt is blocked and a warning message is displayed to the user. All images created by Image Creator will include modified Bing icon to indicate that it is an AI-generated image..

Source : Tech Circle