Current affairs 12 March 2023

Vote Fest 2023 inaugurated in Bengaluru to create awareness on election.

• Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar and Election Commissioners Anup Chandra Pandey and Arun Goel has inaugurated Vote Fest 2023 to create awareness on the election process in Bengaluru.
• They also inaugurated Electhon 2023, which is a 30-hour hackathon for securing the electoral future.
• The fest seeks people's suggestions on improving voter turnout, ensuring the registration of new voters, and how to ensure the involvement of urban youth in the democratic process.

Women and Nation Building: 1857 to the Republic exhibition held at Delhi.

• Arjun Ram Meghwal has inaugurated the exhibition titled Women and Nation Building: 1857 to the Republic at National Archives of India, New Delhi on 133rd Foundation Day of National Archives of India.
• The exhibition highlights the contributions of women in nation building and freedom struggle from 1857 in an interesting manner like Durgawati Devi and Kasturba Gandhi.
• It also presents a selection of original documents drawn from the attics of the archival repository.

3rd Session of the National Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction concluded.

• Third Session of the National Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (NPDRR) has been concluded in New Delhi today.
• Organized by: Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), and National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM).
• NPDRR was comprised of 4 Plenary Sessions, 1 Ministerial Session, and 8 Thematic Sessions with more than 1200 subject experts, practitioners, academicians and delegates.

IIM Ahmedabad conference on "FinTech: Innovation, Inclusion and Regulation".

• Misra Centre for Financial Markets and Economy (MCFME) at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA), along with Centre for Advanced Financial Research and Learning (CAFRAL) has organized International Research Conference on FinTech: Innovation, Inclusion, and Regulation.
• It is a two-day conference for bringing top researchers, practitioners, and regulators from across the globe together to deliberate on key issues of FinTech.

IDFC Mutual Fund rebrands itself as Bandhan Mutual Fund.

• IDFC Mutual Fund has been rebranded itself as Bandhan Mutual Fund and its schemes will reflect the new name with effect from March 13, 2023.
• IDFC Mutual Fund has also unveiled a new logo as the company was acquired by Bandhan Financial Holdings-led consortium in April 2022.
• Scheme of the fund house will be renamed to replace the word IDFC with Bandhan.
• Unitholders of IDFC MF would continue to benefit from the same high‐quality investment approach.