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*Current Affairs : <ol> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-size:20px;">1.Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, the second‑eldest son of Ayatollah Ali Khamene, was chosen by Iran’s Assembly of Experts as his successor.</span></strong></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-size:20px;">2.The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has postponed all Class X and Class XII board examinations scheduled for Thursday (March 5) and Friday (March 6) in seven West Asian countries because of the ongoing conflict in the region.</span></strong></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-size:20px;">3.The BJP on Tuesday announced that Odisha unit president Manmohan Samal and Rajya Sabha member Sujit Kumar, whose tenure would end on April 2, would be the party’s candidates for the polls to the Upper House, scheduled for March 16.</span></strong></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-size:20px;">4.Indian companies on Tuesday reduced natural gas supplies to industries in anticipation of tighter supply from ​the Middle East after top producer Qatar halted production, four ‌industry sources with knowledge of the matter said.</span></strong></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-size:20px;">5.The Defence Ministry on Tuesday sealed contracts worth Rs 5,083 crore for the procurement of six Advanced Light Helicopters (ALH) and surface-to-air missiles.</span></strong></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-size:20px;">6.The average price for a gallon of gasoline jumped 11 cents overnight to about $3.11 in the US, according to motor club AAA.</span></strong></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-size:20px;">7.<span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Kalinga","sans-serif""><span style="color:black">India has ‘reasonably comfortable’ oil stocks, enough for </span></span></span><span lang="OR"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Kalinga","sans-serif""><span style="color:black">6-8 </span></span></span></span><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Kalinga","sans-serif""><span style="color:black">weeks </span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-size:20px;">8.An estimated 80 flights were cancelled in Delhi and 107 in Mumbai, followed by 42 services from Bangalore and 30 at Chennai airport.</span></strong></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-size:20px;">9.Russian President Vladimir Putin is making all possible efforts to de-escalate the crisis in the Gulf and is in close contact with the regional leaders as Iran is retaliating with massive strikes on the US facilities and infrastructure on their territories, the Kremlin said Tuesday.</span></strong></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-size:20px;">10.The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday announced its support for senior leader Dilip Ray, who has declared his candidacy as an independent for the upcoming Rajya Sabha election.</span></strong></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-size:20px;">11.The Odisha government has sanctioned over Rs 4.65 crore as compensation for violence-affected families in Malkangiri district, an official said Tuesday. He said Rs 20 lakh of the total compensation will be provided to the next of kin of a woman who was killed.</span></strong></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-size:20px;">12.Odisha forest department officers Monday rescued 210 live Indian flap shell turtles being allegedly smuggled in a vehicle in Malkangiri district, officials said. During a search operation, forest personnel intercepted an SUV inside a forest near MV-62 in the district and found the turtles.</span></strong></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-size:20px;">13.India’s national carrier Air India Tuesday brought back 149 stranded passengers from Dubai as part of special operations amid the ongoing situation in the Middle East.</span></strong></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-size:20px;">14.India and Canada have launched negotiations for a free trade agreement and look to finalise the pact soon, an official statement said Monday.</span></strong></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-size:20px;">15.India's current account deficit (CAD) rose to USD 13.2 billion, or 1.3 per cent of GDP, in the December quarter from USD 11.3 billion in the year-ago period, mainly due to a higher trade deficit caused by a decline in exports to the US.</span></strong></p> </li> </ol>