Current Affairs Today Headline- 11 March 2022

National News

• India’s Saina Nehwal loses to Thailand’s Ratchanok Intanon 10-21 15-21 in women’s singles match of German Open
• PM Modi to visit Gujarat on March 11 and March 12 to attend various programmes.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated South Korea’s President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol on his victory in the Presidential elections. 
• Bhagwant Mann, Aam Aadmi Party’s CM candidate for Punjab to visit Delhi today to meet party convener Arvind Kejriwal.
• BJP confirmed its return to power in Uttarakhand, by winning 47 seats in the 70-member Assembly.
• Yogi Adityanath becomes first UP CM in 37 years to retain power after completing full term.

International News

• Sony Music says it’s suspending operations in Russia.
• Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting of the government to formulate a response to Western sanctions.
• Bank for International Settlements suspends Russian central bank.
• President Zelenskyy signs law allowing confiscation of Russian property in Ukraine without any compensation.
• Russian President Vladimir Putin warns sanctions on Russia could send global food prices soaring.
• Islamic State names new leader, confirms death of Abu Ibrahim al-Qurashi.
• G7 is looking at measures to halt gas price hike, and calls on oil and gas producers to increase deliveries.
• The US to give another $50 million through the UN’s World Food Program, to assist with humanitarian aid.
• Facebook eases rules to allow violent speech against ‘Russian invaders’.
• BAFTA President Prince William to skip this year’s Awards ceremony.
• Around 1,00,000 people evacuated from Ukraine cities in two days, said President Volodymyr Zelensky.
• War in Ukraine calls for international cooperation & solidarity to support everyone affected, and to overcome clear violation of international law, says UN Secretary-General António Guterres at UNGA.
• Ukrainian Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov has described Russia’s invasion as a “terrorist war”, says Russian troops have killed more Ukrainian civilians than soldiers.
• Two North Korean missile launches in recent weeks were test firings of a powerful new long-range Intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), full range tests to follow. 
• Russia promises to open daily humanitarian corridors from 10am every day, but only to Russia without the permission of the Ukrainian government.
• US Vice President Kamala Harris announces nearly $53 million in new humanitarian assistance from US government, through USAID to support innocent civilians affected by Russia’s unjustified invasion of Ukraine.
• Moscow has never wanted war and seeks to end the current conflict,” said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.