Current Affairs, March 2014
31st March:
• Supreme Court commuted
the death sentence of 1993 terror convict Devinderpal Singh
Bhullar to life imprisonment on the grounds of inordinate
delay in deciding his mercy petition and on the grounds of
mental illness.
30th March:
• The Bharatiya Janata Party
(BJP) expelled senior leader Jaswant Singh for six years after
his stand to contest as an independent candidate from Barmer in
Rajasthan.
29th March:
• Earth hour 2014 observed
across the world from 8.30 PM to 9.30 PM.
• Brendon McCullum
become the first batsman to cross 2,000-run mark in Twenty20
Internationals.
28th March:
• Supreme Court removed N.
Srinivasan as BCCI chief and asked Sunil Gavaskar to take charge
as an interim president for the duration of IPL 7.
• WHO has
certified India as a Polio Free country and making it one of the
11 countries of South-East Region to be free from polio virus.
• West Zone wins third successive Deodhar Trophy as they beat
North Zone by 133-run in the final.
27th March:
• 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 in place of its embattled president N. Srinivasan and also
suggested 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 Sri Lankan civil war against LTTE in 2009.
26th March:
• Supreme Court asked Sahara
Group chief Subrata Roy to deposit Rs.10,000 crore with the
market regulator SEBI for his release on interim bail from
judicial custody.
• Bayern Munich set a new record after
beating Hertha Berlin 3-1 to wrap up the quickest Bundesliga
title in 51 years of the league.
25th March:
• Bank of India today became
the first state-run Bank to allow withdrawal of funds from its
ATMs to individuals without an account in the bank.
• DMK
expels M.K. Alagiri from the party.
• Veteran bollywood
actress Nanda at the age of 75 in Mumbai.
24th March:
• Senior BJP leader Jaswant
Singh will contest as 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.
• An Egyptian court sentenced 529 members of
the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood to death for murder and other
offences.
• Sri Lanka bowled out the Netherlands for just 39,
the lowest ever Twenty20 International total in a Super 10 match
of the World Twenty20 in Bangladesh.
22nd March:
• 7 people were killed when
a tanker filled with highly inflammable material caught fire in
Thane.
• President Pranab Mukherjee confers gallantry awards
in Rashtrapati Bhavan.
21st March:
• An earthquake of magnitude
6.7 hits Nicobar Islands.
• Turkey restricted access to
Twitter hours following the leak of wiretapped recordings in
social media.
• India beats Pakistan by 7-wickets in the
first match of the T20 World Cup.
20th March:
• Renowned author and
journalist Khushwant Singh died at the age of 99 in New Delhi.
19th March:
• RBI has allowed five
domestic private sector banks to import gold which includes HDFC
Bank, Axis Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, IndusInd Bank and Yes
Bank.
• Italian judge has rejected a request by India to
recover more than 278 million euros in bank guarantees backing a
scrapped helicopter deal with Finmeccanica unit AgustaWestland.
18th March:
• France's inform that
leaders of the G-8 have suspended Russia's participation in the
club amid tensions over Ukraine and Russia's incursion into
Crimea.
17th March:
• India celebrates Holi.
• Crimea's regional parliament has declared independence and
applied to become part of the Russian Federation after 97% vote
in favour of joining Russia.
• European Union impose
sanctions including asset freezes and travel bans on 21
officials from Russia and Ukraine after Crimea applied to join
Russia.
16th March:
• Malaysia's Prime Minister
Najib Razak spoke to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seeking
India's help in the massive search for the Malaysian jet that
went missing with 239 people aboard over a week ago.
• People
of Ukraine's Crimea region are voting in a contentious
referendum on whether to split off and seek annexation by
Russia.
• Karnataka wins the Vijay Hazare Trophy 2013-14 by
defeating Railways by four wickets at the Eden Gardens, Kolkata.
• ICC World T20 Cup Cricket Tournaments starts in Bangladesh
from today.
15th March:
• BJP’s prime ministerial
candidate Narendra Modi will contest the Lok Sabha election from
Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh.
• Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar
has been voted with the Cricketer of the Generation by a
50-member jury in an award ceremony of ESPNcricinfo.
14th March:
• 7 people killed and 4
injured when a seven-storey building collapsed in Santacruz,
Mumbai.
• Now rail passengers can lodge a 'zero FIR' in any
railway station if they are victim of any offence during train
journey as per decision was taken at a high-level meeting.
•
Nandan Nilekani resigned as chairman of the Unique
Identification Authority of India as he has been named the
Congress candidate for Bangalore South constituency.
13th March:
• The Delhi High Court
confirmed the death sentence for four men convicted by a trial
court for the incident of 16th December, 2012.
• A US court
has dismissed visa fraud charges against Indian diplomat Devyani
Khobragade who is charged in New York with visa fraud and making
false statements about her domestic worker.
• Soma Mondal has
been appointed as the first woman Director (Commercial) of
Navratna PSU National Aluminium Company Ltd (NALCO).
12th March:
• United Arab Emirates will
host IPL 7 with India that scheduled from April 16 to June 1.
11th March:
• Maoist killed 16 policemen
in a remote part of Chhattisgarh.
10th March:
• Central Bureau of
Investigation (CBI) submitted a status report and filed the
first charge sheet in coal scam.
• FIFA World Player of the
Year Cristiano Ronaldo has become the wealthiest footballer in
the world with earnings of 122 million Pounds.
9th March:
• One worker killed and two
injured in an accident at shipyard building of a nuclear
submarine in Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh.
• 45 people
killed and 157 wounded in a suicide bombing in the southern
Iraqi city of Hilla.
8th March:
• International Women Day is
observed across the world.
• A Malaysian Airlines plane
crashed into sea near Vietnam with 239 people including 5
Indians.
• Congress releases first list of 194 candidates for
Lok Sabha elections.
• Sri Lanka wins the Asia Cup after
defeating Pakistan in the final by 5 wickets.
7th March:
• Supreme Court rejects the
Sahara Group's proposal to pay the entire amount to SEBI in cash
installments of Rs.2,500 crore each at regular intervals of
three months.
6th March:
• Crimea's parliament voted
to hold a referendum on March 16 to decide whether Crimea should
become part of Russia.
• Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) reaches
to an all-time intra-day high of 21,492.49 by rising 215.63
points.
5th March:
• Election Commission
announced today the schedule for the 16th Lok Sabha elections,
which will be held in nine phases April 7 and May 12 and involve
an electorate of 81.4 crore.
• Former chief minister of Delhi
Sheila Dikshit appointed as the 22nd Governor of Kerala.
4th March:
• Sahara Chief Subrata Roy
ordered to remain in police custody for a week in Delhi by the
Supreme Court.
• Bill Gates tops the Forbes magazine's annual
list of the world's richest people.
• South Africa captain
Graeme Smith announces retirement from international cricket at
the end of the ongoing third test against Australia at Newlands.
3rd March:
• The Reserve Bank of India
has extended the date for exchanging the pre-2005 banknotes to
January 01, 2015.
• 86th Academy Awards given today. Oscar
for Best Picture given to "12 Years a Slave". While Matthew
McConaughey and Cate Blanchett wins the Best Actor and Actress
in a Leading Role.
2nd March:
• Russian President Vladimir
Putin’s proposal to deploy armed forces in Crimea has been
passed by a unanimous vote in Russia’s upper house of
parliament.
1st March:
• President Pranab Mukherjee
signed the Telangana Bill and also signed the proclamation to
impose central rule in Andhra Pradesh.
• Former BJP president
Bangaru Laxman has died in Hyderabad at the age of 74.
•
Afghanistan Cricket Team beat Bangladesh by 32 runs to register
first win against Test-playing nation.
• South Africa wins
the ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup 2014 by defeating Pakistan by
six wickets at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium.
