Current affairs 10 March 2023

J&K govt launches plantation drive on International Women's Day 2023.

Jammu and Kashmir's government has celebrated International Women's Day 2023 (March 8) by organizing a plantation program under the theme Ped Lagao Beti Ke Naam.
The initiative involved women and girls in afforestation, environmental conservation, and creating awareness.
Over one thousand saplings of various species were planted along the National Highway Ring Road NH-44, at Chak Avtara Panchayat of Bishnah Tehsil of Jammu district.

Group Captain Shaliza Dhami (Ludhiana) has been selected by the Indian Air Force to take over a frontline combat unit's command in the western sector.
She becomes the first woman officer in the history of the IAF to be given the frontline combat unit command.
Currently, she is posted in the operations branch of a frontline command headquarters.
She also served as flight commander of a Chetak unit at the Hindon air base— both firsts for an IAF woman officer.

The Election Commission of India (ECI) hosted the 3rd International Conference in virtual format on 09 March 2023.
Theme: Inclusive Elections and Elections Integrity.
ECI is leading the Cohort on Elections Integrity which was established as a follow-up to the Summit for Democracy held virtually in December 2021.
Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar and Election Commissioners Anup Chandra Pandey and Arun Goel addressed the Conference.

PM Narendra Modi will inaugurate the 3rd Session of the National Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (NPDRR) in New Delhi on March 10, 2023.
Theme: Building Local Resilience in a Changing Climate.
It is jointly organized by the Home Ministry, National Disaster Management Authority, National Disaster Response Force, and National Institute of Disaster Management.
It will comprise four Plenary Sessions, one Ministerial Session, and eight Thematic Sessions.

ISRO has successfully carried out an extremely challenging controlled re-entry experiment of the decommissioned orbiting Megha-Tropiques-1 (MT-1) satellite.
The final impact region estimated is in the deep Pacific Ocean within the expected latitude and longitude boundaries.
The low Earth satellite was launched on October 12, 2011.
It is a joint satellite venture of ISRO and the French space agency, CNES for tropical weather and climate studies.