1. The 67th National Film Awards were announced on March 22, 2021. Malayalam film ‘Marakkar: Arabikkadilinte Simham’ directed by Priyadarshan won the national award for Best Feature Film Award.
2. Nitesh Tiwari’s Chhichhore won the Best Hindi film award at the 67th National Film Awards. Asuran won the best Tamil film award and Jersey won the best Telugu film award.
3. Kangana Ranaut won the Best Actress award at the National Film Awards 2019 for her movies Manikarnika -The Queen of Jhansi and Panga, while Manoj Bajpayee and Dhanush won the Best Actor award jointly for their films ‘Bhonsle’ and ‘Asuran’ respectively.
4. The Indian government informed on March 13, 2021 that all those above 45 years can get vaccinated against Covid-19 starting from April 1st.Till now, only those above 65 years and those above 45 years with comorbidities were eligible for vaccination.
5. The Delhi Cabinet on March 22, 2021 approved the setting up of 100 schools that would mainly focus on providing specialised excellence education such as in the field of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), Performing and Visual Arts and Humanities.
6. South Korean Defence Minister Suh Wook is scheduled to visit India this week to hold high-level talks with Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh. Suh Wook is expected to visit India from March 25-27 to hold talks with Indian Defence Minister regarding joint collaboration on military technologies.
7. Delhi’s Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia announced on March 22, 2021 that the state government has decided to lower the legal age to consume alcohol in the national capital to 21 years. Previously, the legal drinking age in the national capital was 25 years.
8. The central government has asked the state and UT governments to increase the gap between two doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca’s Covishield vaccine from 28 days to six-eight weeks for better results. The revision of the dosage gap applies only to Covishield, which is being manufactured by Serum Institute of India and not to Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin.
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