CURRENT AFAIRS OF MARCH 2021

 1. ‘RIGHT TO REPAIR’ LAW TO COME IN THIS SUMMER 

Appliances such as fridges, washing machines and TV’s should last longer and be cheaper to run under new rules. 

Ministers have confirmed that from the summer consumers will have a right to repair on goods they buy. 

They are keeping a promise to implement EU rules aimed at cutting energy and bills ° and reducing the need for new materials. 

Many consumers have complained that goods don’t last long enough, then can't be fixed in the home. 

Manufacturers will be legally obliged to make spare parts for products Available to consumers for the first time a new legal right for repairs. 

The aim of the new rules is to extend the lifespan of products by up to 10 years, and officials estimate that higher energy efficiency standards will save consumers an average of $75 a year on bills over their lifetimes. . 

'Protectin: the Environment’

The new rules will be estimated to reduce the 1.5 million tonnes of electrical waste said by the government to be generated in the UK each year and to contribute to Reducing Carbon emissions overall. 

.

2 SPHIN MP’S PASS LAW LEGALIZING EUTHANASIA ASSISTED SUICIDE 

This makes Spain the fourth European nation to decriminalise assisted suicide, alongside the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg 

Spain’s Parliament voted through a law Legalizing euthanasia on Thursday, becoming one of the few nations to allow | terminally-ill or gravely-injured patients to end their own suffering. 

Thus, the country has become one among few nations that allow the terminally-ill or gravely-injured patients to end their life. Key Points Passing this law was the priority for Socialist Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez’s. Government.

3. WHAT IS THE DIATOM TEST DONE IN THE MANSUKH HIRAN DEATH CASE? 

WHAT IS A DIATOM TEST? 

. «Diagnosis of death bY drowning is | deemed as a difficult task in forensic pathology. A number of tests have been: developed to confirm the cause of such deaths with the diatom test emerging as one of the most important tests. The test enails findings if there are diatomsin the body being tested. 

GOVT UNVEILS HOMEGROWN App ‘MOBILE SEVA APP STORE’, TARGETS GOOGLE AND APPLE 

‘MOBILE SEVA APPSTORE’ INDIA’S FIRST INDIGENOUSLY DEVELOPED APP STORE’ 

The minister for electronics and IT, Ravi Shankar Prasad, in a written reply to Rajya Sabha has said that; India has developed its first indigenously developed app store called ‘Mobile Seva Appstore”.The app store hosts some 965 hive apps of several domains and categories of public services. This Indian app store will be available for ' free of cost in the initial phases. 

Mobile Seva Appstore: 

“It is a mobile application hosting platform which is owned by the government of India. The app store has been created to provide a hosting platform for the Indian mobile application developers. It will be based upon service oriented architecture and cloud based technologies. It is India’s first 

indigenously developed App Store of which | the central, state and UT ministries and 

4. WHY THE 2021 PRITZKER LAUREATES ARE REWRITING THE WAY ARCHITECTURE IS SEEN AND PRACTICED 

On 16 March 2021, French architects and educators Anne Lacation and Jean 

Philippe Vassal were selected as the laureates of the Pritzker Architecture Prize 2021, the highest honourinthefieldof _ architecture. The award was announced by Tom Pritzker, Chairman of the Hyatt Foundation. The Paris based duo won the award for their Paris based studio Lacaton & Vassal. 

1. Anne Lacaton became the first French Female Architect to win the prize and the 6 woman to receive the prize since it was established in 1979. . 

2. Anne Lacaton and Jean Phili pe Vassal became the first recipient of the award since 2008 when Jean Nouvel won the award. 

3. The first French person to win the award was Christian de Portzamparc, who won 

ABOUT THE PRITZKER ARCHITECTURE PRIZE: 

The Pritzker Architecture Prize, an annual award presented to living architect or architects to recognise | their talent,vision and commitment towards significant contributions to humanity and build the environment through the art of architecture. 

ABOUT THE PRITZKER ARCHITECTURE PRIZE: 

2. The Prize was established by the ' Pritzker family of Chicago through their Hyatt Foundation in 1979. 

PRIZES: 

The Pritzker Architecture Prize consists © Of 1,00,000 USD and a bronze medallion. Architect Balkrishna Doshi from India won the Pritzker Architecture Prize 2018 and became the First Indian to win the Prize. . 

9. INDIA TO TAKE UP WITH UK 'RACIAL ISSUE’ OF RASHMI SAMANT AT OXFORD 

NATIONAL NEWS . "A BJP leader raised the . : issue concerning IndianIndia can ‘never turn eyes origin Rashmi Samant, the first Indian woman to be away from racism’, says elected as the President of Jaishankar on Oxford Oxford University Students union University row Who stepped down from the post following 

ast month Rashmi Sawant res gned as acct sations and 2 the pres dent of the Oxford Un versity cyberbullying regarding’ Student un on after controversy on her her having made racist remarks when she wasn’t social media posts. even a teenager

India will take up with the UK when required the alleged incidents of racism in Britain, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said in the Rajyasabha on Monday. He also described India as the land of Mahatma Gandhi and said it can never turn it’s eyes away from racism. 

WHO IS RASHMI SAMANT? 

Samant, an alumnus of Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT), Karnataka was the first Indian Female, to be elected as the president of the OUSU and was dueto begin in June this year.