Defense Ministry will host the 12th edition of the prestigious biennial defense exhibition, DefExpo 2022, at Gandhinagar in Gujarat from 10th to 14th March.

The correct answer is M Jagadesh Kumar. JNU Vice-Chancellor M Jagadesh Kumar has been appointed as Chairman of the University Grants Commission (UGC). This is the second time he has been given this charge. He earlier served as the Chairman of UGC from 14 January to 7 February 2017.

Indian Air Force (IAF) will conduct the Exercise Vayu Shakti that will take place at Pokharan range in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan on March 7.

Sanjiv Kapoor has been appointed as the CEO effective April 4, the consortium announced. Jet Airways, which has not flown since April 2019, is in the process of re-launching operations under its new promoters in the first quarter of 2022

Union Minister for Jal Shakti Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat inaugurated the 2nd edition of the ‘Roorkee Water Conclave’ today at IIT, Roorkee.
It is being jointly organized by the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, and National Institute of Hydrology, focusing on the theme, ‘Water Security for Sustainable Development’. National Institute of Hydrology is an autonomous society under the Ministry of Jal Shakti.

The United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) with 175 member countries, signed a mandate which makes it legally binding for the signatories to end plastic pollution.
The Global Plastics Treaty will be drafted and ratified in the next two years.  The mandate recommends measures to tackle plastic production and addressing the toxic burden of plastic.

Akshaye Widhani has been appointed as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Yash Raj Films.

BharatPe’s co-founder and managing director Ashneer Grover have resigned from the fintech startup as well as its board while alleging that he has been ‘vilified’ and treated in the ‘most disrespectful manner’, capping a high-decibel conflict that has raged for nearly two months.

The MeitY Startup Hub, an initiative of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), and Google have announced a cohort of 100 early to mid-stage Indian startups as a part of the App scale Academy program.

The US space agency, NASA, successfully launched the third in a series of four next-generation weather satellites, Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES), from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida on March 01, 2022. The satellite is named GOES-T.  Once the satellite gets positioned in its geostationary orbit it will be renamed from GOES-T to GOES-18.

Indian Air Force (IAF) will conduct the Exercise Vayu Shakti that will take place at the Pokharan range in Jaisalmer on March 7, 2022.

Integrated manufacturing solutions provider Sanmina Corporation and Reliance Strategic Business Ventures Limited (RSBVL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), have entered into a joint venture to create an electronic manufacturing hub in India

The Modi Government has approved the proposal for the continuation of the seven existing sub-schemes under the Umbrella Scheme “Relief and Rehabilitation of Migrants and Repatriates” for the period 2021-22 to 2025-26 with a total outlay of Rs. 1,452 crore.

On March 1st- 2nd, 2022, the 19th edition of the India-US Military Cooperation Group (MCG) meeting was conducted in Agra, Uttar Pradesh

China’s second Long March 8 rocket launched carrying a domestic record 22 satellites for a range of commercial Chinese space companies.

Physicist Professor, Deepak Dhar has become the first Indian to be awarded the Boltzmann Medal. The Commission on Statistical Physics of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) presents this medal once in three years for contributions in the field of statistical physics.

The President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind, inaugurated a newly developed ‘Arogya Vanam’ at the President’s Estate, (Rashtrapati Bhavan) in New Delhi

Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) commemorated its 20th Foundation Day by organising the National Innovation Conclave on Low Carbon Technologies.
Facility for Low Carbon Technology Deployment (FLCTD) is a project financed by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), implemented by the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) in association with the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE).

Google has announced the launch of the ‘Play Pass’ subscription service in India that will provide Android device users access to over 1,000 applications and games without ads, in-app purchases, and upfront payments. Play Pass will give users access to well-known games like Jungle Adventures, World Cricket Battle 2, and Monument Valley.