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| Current Affairs March2014 |
- India expects economy to grow at 5.5%
- RBI would keep its repo rate and lending rates unchanged at 8%.
- Sensex is at 22439.71 and Nifty at 6719.65
- Apple App would allow you to chat without data Connection.
30th March
- From today (last Sunday of March month) UK will have the Summer Correction Time.
- Microsoft promises not to snoop the emails.
- More than 2 lakh securityman, few thousand vehicles, some dozen choppers are for LS poll
- Hyderabad young tech savvy prefers Bitcoins for investment.
- AP 7 students and 2 brokers were arrested for PGMET scam.
- India is getting ready for slow and steady growth in Real Estate.
29th March
- China plane searching for Malaysian jet found three objects
- US appeals Russia to withdraw troops from Crimea
- New study shows Reservoirs of ice 'still hidden' below surface of Mars.
- RTE still not implemented in most schools: Survey
- New Zealand defeats Netherlands by 6 wkts in world T20 match.
- Nuclear-capabale Prithvi II with a range of 350 km missile test-fired
- GATE 2014 results are out.
- Kanpur Boy is a national topper in GATE
- Indian Naval Academy signs MoU with IIT Madras
- The Supreme Court has proposed that former India captain Sunil Gavaskar could take over as the interim chief of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)in place of its president N. Srinivasan and also made suggestion that Indian Premier League teams Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals should not be part of the seventh season.
- United Nations Human Rights Council(UNHRC) passed a resolution which seeks to authorise the body to set up an "independent international inquiry" in Sri Lanka to probe into human rights violations during its civil war against LTTE in 2009.
- Supreme Court asked Sahara Group chief Subrata Roy to deposit Rs.10,000 crore with the market regulator SEBI as interim bail for his release from judicial custody.
- Bayern Munich in 51 years of the league set a new record after beating Hertha Berlin 3-1 to wrap up the quickest Bundesliga title.
- Bank of India has became the first state-run Bank to allow withdrawal of money from its ATMs to individuals without an account in the bank.
- DMK expels M.K. Alagiri from the party.
- Veteran bollywood actress Nanda Died at the age of 75 in Mumbai.
- Sensex at 22k. Goldman Sachs forecast Nifty 7600 and Sensex about 25500 in a years time.
- Jaswant Singh a Senior BJP leader will contest as an independent candidate from Barmer after denied by BJP.
- Ukraine announced the evacuation of its military troops from Crimea acknowledging defeat in the face of Russian forces.
- 529 members were sentenced by An Egyptian court for the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood to death for murder and other offences.
- Sri Lanka defeated Netherlands for just 39, the lowest ever Twenty20 International total in a Super 10 match of the World Twenty20 in Bangladesh.
- Today is Shahid Divas. Bhagat Singh was Hanged today on 23/03/1931 at the age of 23.
- Pakistan has becomes the first Islamic republic on 23rd March 1956 in the world. (Republic Day in Pakistan)
- Elisha Otis, On 23rd March 1857, installed its first elevator at 488 Broadway New York City.
- when a tanker filled with highly inflammable material caught fire in Thane, 7 people were killed.
- In Rashtrapati Bhavan President Pranab Mukherjee confers gallantry awards .
- An earthquake of magnitude 6.7 hits Nicobar Islands.
- Twitter access is restricted in Turkey following the leak of wiretapped recordings in social media.
- India defeats Pakistan by 7-wickets in the first match of the T20 World Cup.
- At the age of 99, renowned author and journalist Khushwant Singh died in New Delhi.
- RBI has allowed five domestic private sector banks HDFC Bank, Axis Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, IndusInd Bank and Yes Bank to import gold.
- Italian judge has rejected a request made by India to recover more than 278 million euros in bank guarantees backing a scrapped helicopter deal with Finmeccanica unit AgustaWestland.
- France has report that leaders of the G-8 have suspended Russia's participation in the club amid tensions over Ukraine and Russia's incursion into Crimea.
- India celebrates Holi (very popular festival of colours)
- Crimea's regional parliament has declared Independence and confirms to become part of the Russian Federation after 97% vote in favour of joining Russia.
- After Crimea applied to join Russia,European Union impose sanctions including asset freezes and travel bans on 21 officials from Russia and Ukraine.
- Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak ask for a help from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India in the massive search for the Malaysian jet MH 370 which went missing with 239 people aboard over a week ago now.
- Ukraine's Crimea people region are voting in a delimma on whether to split off and seek annexation by Russia.
- Karnataka claims the Vijay Hazare Trophy 2013-14 by defeating Railways Team by 4 wickets at the Eden Gardens, Kolkata.
- Aircraft Giants hopeful on India Market.
- BJP’s prime ministerial candidate, present CM Gujarat, Narendra Modi will contest the Lok Sabha election from Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh.
- Indian popular batsman Sachin Tendulkar has been voted with the Cricketer of the Generation by a 50-member jury in an award ceremony of ESPNcricinfo (ESPN News).
- Rs.30000cr is expected from poll spending to inject into the market.
- 7 people killed and 4 injured in a seven-storey building collapsed in western suberbs Santacruz of Mumbai.
- Now rail passengers can lodge a 'zero FIR' in any railway station if they are victim of any offence during train journey according to decision taken at a high-level meeting.
- Nandan Nilekani has resigned as chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India and contesting the poll as a Congress candidate for Bangalore South constituency in the coming elections.
- Malaysia plane 'deliberately diverted' towards Andaman: Military radar reports.
- The Delhi High Court has confirmed the death sentence for four men convicted by a trial court for the incident happened in Delhi on 16th December, 2012.
- A US court has lifted visa fraud charges against Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade who was charged in New York months ago with visa fraud and making false statements about her domestic worker.
- Soma Mondal is appointed as the first woman Director (Commercial) of Navratna PSU National Aluminium Company Ltd (NALCO).
- Sachin Tendulkar can also be voted cricketer of the generation
- Retail inflation records 25-month low of 8.10% and industrial output at 0.1%
- United Arab Emirates will host Cricket match IPL 7 with India which is scheduled from April 16 to June 1.
- India's coastguard joins search of Missing jet MH370. It may have gone toward Andaman Sea.
- Maoist killed 16 policemen in a remote area of Chhattisgarh.
- Cristiano Ronaldo, FIFA World Player of the Year has become the wealthiest footballer in the world with earnings of 122 million Pounds.
- Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) submitted a status report and filed the first charge sheet in coal scam.
- 45 people were killed and 157 wounded in a suicide bombing incident in the southern Iraqi city of Hilla.
- One worker killed and two injured in an accident at nuclear submarine shipyard building station in Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh.
- International Women Day is celebrated across the globe.
- Congress releases today the first list of 194 candidates for Lok Sabha election.
- Sri Lanka wins the Asia Cup by defeating Pakistan in the final by 5 wickets.
- A Malaysian Airlines plane MH370 crashed into sea near Vietnam with 239 people including 5 Indians.
- Supreme Court rejects the Sahara Group's proposal to pay the entire amount to SEBI in installments of Rs.2,500 crore in 3 go of three months.
- Crimea's parliament opted to hold a referendum on March 16 to decide whether Crimea should become part of Russia.
- Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) touches to an all-time intra-day high of 21,492.49 by gaining 215.63 points.
- Former chief minister of Delhi,Sheila Dikshit is appointed as the 22nd Governor of Kerala.
- Election Commission announced today the schedule for the 16th Lok Sabha elections.This will be held in nine phases from April 7 and May 12 and involve expense of 81.4 crore.
- Sahara Chief Subrata Roy was given order to remain in police custody for a week in Delhi by the Supreme Court.
- Bill Gates stands top in the Forbes magazine's annual list of the world's richest person.
- Graeme Smith South Africa captain announces his retirement from international cricket at the end of the ongoing third test against Australia at Newzelands.
- The Reserve Bank of India has extended the date for exchanging the pre-2005 banknotes to January 01, 2015.(RBI Press Telease)
- 86th Academy Awards celebrated today. Oscar for Best Picture given to "12 Years a Slave". and Matthew McConaughey and Cate Blanchett receives the Best Actor and Actress in a Leading Role.
- Crimea Crisis: Vladimir Putin Russian President has put proposal to deploy armed forces in Crimea has been passed by a unanimous vote in Russia’s upper house in parliament.
- Telangana Bill was signed byPresident Pranab Mukherjee today and also signed the proclamation to start central rule in Andhra Pradesh.
- Bangaru Laxman Former BJP president, died in Hyderabad at the age of 74.
- Afghanistan Cricket Team beat Bangladesh by 32 runs. This has register them first win against Test-playing nation.
- ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup 2014 was won by South Africa by defeating Pakistan by 6 wickets at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium.
