Daily current affairs 14th March

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March 14, 2022

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# Srilanka

  • Adani group has signed a deal for two large power projects in Srilanka’s Northern province.
  • Earlier, it has bagged a strategic port terminal project in Colombo that it is now executing with majority stakes.
  • The two renewable energy projects, involving the Adani group, were aimed at generating combined capacity of 500 MW, at a cost of $500 million.
  • Both projects are in the the Northern province, where New Delhi objected to a Chinese energy project last year, citing proximity to the Tamil Nadu coast.

# Iran – Saudi Arabia

  • Iran has suspended talks with regional rival Saudi Arabia, a website affiliated to Iran’s top security body reported on Sunday.
  • The news comes a day after Saudi Arabia carried out mass executions that activists said included 41 shia Muslims, and amid stalled talks on an Iranian nuclear deal in Vienna.
  • Sunni majority Saudi Arabia and Shia majority Iran, which are locked in proxy conflicts, started direct talks last year to try to contain tensions.

# Cabinet committee on security

  • Prime minister Narendra Modi held a meeting of the Cabinet committee on security on Sunday to discuss India’s security preparedness.
  • The meeting dealt with the war in Ukraine and also the defence situation in the neighborhood.

# Ukraine

  • With the Russian forces stepping up their attack on Ukrainian cities and closing in on capital Kyiv, the Indian government has decided to temporarily relocate the Indian embassy to Poland.
  • The decision to move out of Ukraine came after the Russian attacks on the Western Ukrainian town of Lviv.

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