Current Affairs of March 2014

Current Affairs of  March 2014

•NTPC to set up Kajra Thermal Project in Bihar
 •National Lok Adalat to be held in Nagpur on April 12, 2014
 •German Chancellor Ms. Angela Merkel awarded Israel’s highest civilian honor
 •Dr. Madan Babu won the Protein Science Young Investigator Award for 2014
 •Indian-origin men win Heinz Awards in US
 •Commeorative Postal Stamp of Maulana Hasrat Mohani released
 •Chennai’s Ennore Port officially renamed as Kamarajar Port
 •Zero AIDS Discrimination Day launched on March 1
 •President’s rule imposed in Andhra Pradesh
 •Braigo- a low-cost Braille printer invented by Indian-origin boy Shubham Banerjee
 •Global Ayurveda Festival Kerala 2014
 •MTDC and Mehair launched seaplane service
 •FNCCI & CII agree to organize Nepal-India Economic Summit every year
 •India – Saudi Arabia signed defense cooperation deal
 •Dr. Janumaddi Hanumath Shastry: Veteran Telugu litterateur passed away
 •India and Israel inked pacts on bilateral security relations
 •Eminent painter Prokash Karmakar passed away
 •“Venom GT”- world’s fastest car recorded 435 km/hr (270 Miles/hr)
 •CCEA approves opening of 54 new KVs in 12 FYP
 •CCEA nod for hiking fixed cost of Urea
 •‘M-Pesa’ launched in Odisha
 •ICICI Bank launched ‘branch on wheels’ in Odisha
 •India’s Largest Solar Power Plant launched in Madhya Pradesh
 •Ibrahim Mahlab: New Prime Minister of Egypt
 •Indian Navy Chief DK Joshi resigned
 •NASA announces discovery of 715 new worlds
 •Dinesh Sarraf appointed next ONGC chief
 •India and ADB inked an agreement to improve key road connectivity in Chhattisgarh
 •India’s first post office savings bank ATM inaugurated in Chennai
 •Sourav Kothari won the National Billiard Championship title
 •New Corporate Social Responsibility rules for companies notified by Union Ministry of Corporate Affairs
 •Turkish president Abdullah Gul approved the bill on restricting the judicial powers
 •500 endangered languages will be documented by CIIL
 •Govt. okayed Rs 1,000 minimum monthly pension under EPS-95
 •India’s first electric bus launched in Bangalore
 •Book: Ambedkar Awakening India’s Social Conscience
 •Music Album: Raunaq
 •Lt Gen P.R. Kumar appointed as the New Army DGMO
 •Assam: First Indian state to observe Child Protection Day
 •South Africa won ICC Under-19 World Cup 2014
 •Roger Federer won Dubai tennis championship
 •Gandhi Peace Prize 2013: Chandi Prasad Bhatt
 •Indian golfer Rashid Khan won SAIL-SBI Open golf title 2014
 •Earclip-type Wearable PC - Japanese researchers testing tiny ear computer
 •Workdays for tribals under MGNREGA raised from 100 to 150
 •1857 revolt: Remains of martyrs of 1857 Uprising exhumed in Punjab
 •Mexican Open 2014: Winners
 •Oscar Awards: 86th Academy Awards
 •RBI extends date of exchanging pre-2005 notes to Jan 1, 2015
 •Launched: Maulana Azad Sehat Scheme and Nalanda Project
 •Indian shuttler Arvind Bhat clinched German Open Grand Prix Gold title
 •Bill Gates tops Forbes’s 2014 billionaires list
 •Booklaunch: India at Risk by Jaswant Singh
 •Hockey India (HI) accorded status of National Sports Federation (NSF) status
 •Sheila Dikshit appointed as Kerala Governor
 •Interest rates on Post Office FDs hiked by 0.2%
 •International Women of Courage Award: Laxmi
 •NMDC launches Stri Swasthya Suraksha Yojna
 •Ex-Surya Kiran Drills VI
 •3rd BIMSTEC summit 2014 held in Myanmar
 •Sri Lanka won the Asia Cup Cricket Tournament 2014
 •Punjab: Cabinet approved the Backward Class quota for Jat community
 •First Indian-American judge in California: Vince Chhabria
 •World’s first 3D model of human fingerprint: Phantom
 •Stree Shakti Puraskar 2013
 •China hiked military budget by 12.2% for 2014
 •Winners: 64th National Basketball Championship
 •Government bans trucks from carrying protruding rods
 •Akron: Zero pressure tyre for US army developed
 •68th Santosh Trophy 2013-14
 •Windham Campbell Literature Prize 2014: Pankaj Mishra
 •Indian-origin kid Kush Sharma won epic spelling bee
 •CAPRISA discovered potent antibodies to neutralize HIV
 •Mysterious four new man-made Ozone-Killing gases discovered
 •Study: Volcanoes helped species survive ice ages
 •China launched a trial programme for private firms to set up banks
 •IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013
 •SC: Complete trial in criminal cases involving law makers within one year
 •US court dismissed visa fraud charges against Devyani Khobragade
 •India is Dubai’s largest non oil trading partner in 2013-14
 •Nokia-X
 •Oxadiazoles: New class of Antibiotics discovered
 •Ms Michelle Bachelet: Chile President for second term
 •IPL 7 (2014) to be held in UAE, Bangladesh & India
 •Rs 4,500 crore Assistance Package to Bhutan in 11th Five Year plan
 •CPI inflation falls to 8.10% in Feb 2014
 •India’s industrial output raised marginally by 0.1% in Jan 2014
 •ICICI Bank launched portable POS machines
 •Virat Kohli reclaims top slot in ICC Player Rankings for ODI Batsmen
 •Amitabh Kant: New DIPP Secretary
 •Mumbai police launched free SMS helpline for women travelling alone
 •Cricketer Shikhar Dhawan: Canara Bank’s Brand ambassador
 •National Compaign : ‘U & Me Against Dengue’ launched
 •First Women director of NALCO: Soma Mondal
 •President’s Standard and Colours Awards
 •EC sets up multi-agency grid to curb use of black money in polls
 •Assam and Nagaland became first States to get Plastic Photo Identity Card
 •SBI Life Insurance to appeal against the order of IRDA to refund Rs.275 crore
 •Karnataka won the Vijay Hazare Trophy 2013-14
 •SC to Law Commission: Regulate provocative speeches
 •Airbus launched new subsidiary Airbus India
 •Sahitya Akademi Award 2013
 •BN Srikrishna appointed as chairman of FPSB
 •Union Government mulls to build 200 low cost airports
 •Mr. Khushwant Singh: Noted writer & journalist passed away
 •RapiDot Diagnostic Kit
 •Great Eared Nightjar
 •ESPNcricinfo Awards 2013: “Sachin Tendulkar”- Cricketer of the Generation
 •HR 5171 A- the largest ever yellow hypergiant star discovered
 •BNP Paribas Open 2014
 •Indian soldiers of World War I to be honoured by UK
 •Rani-ki-Vav and GHNP nominated by India for UNESCO’s World Heritage Site Status 2014
 •SIPRI: India is the world’s largest arms importer
 •DoT issued new guidelines to tackle the threats of Cyber attack
 •Mr. Nandan Nilekani resigned as UIDAI chairman
 •Trade related remittance limit hiked from Rs.2 lakh to Rs.5 lakh per transaction
 •Lok Sabha elections 2014: EC issued detailed guidelines for political ads on social networking sites
 •Windows XP support ends on April 8, 2014, Concerns for ATMs
 •US FDIC sued 16 world largest banks for manipulating LIBOR rates
 •First women President of Indian Journalist’s Association: Aditi Khanna
 •Ekhon Nedekha Nadir Xipaare- Assamese thriller film bagged Audience Choice Award 2014 in North Carolina film festival
 •India Human Development Survey (IHDS) 2011-12
 •Study: Sea Anemone is genetically half-animal and half-plant
 •Hockey to become 60-minute game from Sept. 1, 2014
 •RBI extended 80:20 scheme to import gold to five private banks
 •Lok Sabha election 2014: EC ropes in Aamir Khan as national icon
 •U.S. – India Energy Dialogue 2014 to advance clean energy access
 •5 Indian languages reinstated in S. African schools curriculum
 •“HSP90”- New molecule discovered to kill malaria parasite without harming human red blood cells
 •Scientists develop an artificial heart
 •Tata Power And Wipro Emerged As Most Ethical Companies in India
 •Prof. Rajesh Gopakumar : G D Birla award for scientific research 2013
 •Shubranshu Choudhary : Google Digital Activism Award 2014
 •Gollapudi Srinivas National Award 2013: Gyan Correa
 •RBI Deputy Governor KC Chakrabarty gave early resignation
 •Govt. sold 9% stake in Axis Bank via SUUTI & raised Rs. 5500 crore
 •GEAC revalidated 10-GM crops for field trails
 •Environmentalist Ms. Almitra Patel
 •RBI: Unclaimed bank money to be used for depositors’ education
 •Kirti Chakra gallantry awards 2014
 •Book Release: Lal Bahadur Shastri: Lessons in Leadership
 •Stuart Oliver won first edition of Tata T1 Prima Truck Racing Championship
 •Aditya Puri committee recommendations
 •Study: Cosmic inflation no longer theory
 •SC directed Centre to withdraw all orders making Aadhar mandatory for any service
 •MoD got EC nod for appointment of new Navy chief
 •Saraswati Samman 2013: Govind Mishra
 •Deadly Ebola Virus detected in Guinea
 •Bank of India (BoI) launched Instant Money Transfer (IMT) scheme
 •“Nirbheek”- India’s first gun for women
 •Malaysia Airlines MH370 incident
 •Pritzker Architecture Prize 2014: Japanese architect Shigeru Ban
 •Historic MS-DOS and Word for Windows source code available to the public
 •RBI simplified foreign portfolio investment norms
 •Soon, Kotak Mahindra Bank link current accounts to Twitter
 •25th Arab summit 2014: Rejected Israel as ‘Jewish state’
 •WHO: Air pollution top environmental health risk
 •BofA-ML pricks poll bubble: India’s growth depends on global cycle
 •“Kolkata”- World’s 7th most riskiest city
 •Scientists discovered how to avoid a speeding ticket
 •WHO declared South-East Asia region polio-free
 •“Jammu and Kashmir”- First state to declare all Election booths as No Smoking Zones
 •Indian Rhino Vision (IRV) 2020
 •“Universal Account Number (UAN)”- will be provided by EPFO from Oct 2014
 •Internet transition to speedier Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
 •India’s spices export registered 41% increase in April-Dec 2013
 •Third Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) 2014
 •Newly acquired IAF aircraft C-130J Super Hercules crashed near Gwalior
 •SC awarded compensation for sewer deaths since 1993
 •India Rating: Extended Basel III deadline to ease pressure on banks
 •SEBI: To issue guidelines for FATCA compliance for fiscal year 2014-15
 •“Dendroid” -Android Malware targeting Indian Users
 •Bollywood actor Arjun Kapoor: New Brand Ambassdar of Earth Hour 2014
 •Mr. Sunil Gavaskar: Appointed by SC as interim BCCI chief for IPL 7
 •Amnesty International released Global death penalty report 2013
 •Axis Bank launches Electronic Kisan Card
 •2014 Ukraine crisis: UN General Assembly rejected Russian annexation of Crimea
 •SEBI extends time to implement FPI regulations to June 30, 2014
 •Parthasarathi Shome panel for tax administration reform set up
 •MoF: India’s external debt at $426 billion in December, 2013
 •India’s forex reserves near $300 billion mark
 •President Pranab Mukherjee re-promulgated SEBI ordinance
•“Iwao Hakamada”- World’s longest-serving death row-inmate freed by Japan