March, 2013
30th March:
• BJP announces core
team. Varun Gandhi, Amit Shah, Rajiv Pratap Rudy, JP Nanda
and Murlidhar Rao were elevated as the party's General
Secretary by the BJP president Rajnath Singh.
• Serena
Williams win Miami masters open Tennis Tournament for record
sixth time.
• Social activist Anna Hazare started his
‘Jantantra Yatra’ from Jallianwala Bagh.
29th March:
• North Korea declares
''state of war'' against South Korea.
• Former Pakistan
President Musharraf barred from going out of Pak.
28th March:
• Nelson Mandela admitted in
hospital with lung infection in Johannesburg.
• New Zealand
batsman Jesse Ryder is in hospital at Christchurch after
suffering serious head injuries in an altercation outside a
local bar.
27th March:
• India celebrates Holi.
• 2,290 rhinos found in Kaziranga National Park, Assam as per
the census conducted in the park.
• Tiger Woods regained his
world no. 1 spot in PGA rankings after he win The Arnold Palmer
Invitation at Orlando, Florida.
26th March:
• Italian Foreign Minister
Giulio Terzi resigned on Tuesday over his government's decision
to return two marines to India.
• The Securities and Exchange
Board of India (SEBI) asked Subrata Roy, the head of the Sahara,
to appear before it on April 10.
25th March:
• Indian PM Manmohan Singh
reach South Africa to attend 2013 BRICS Summit.
• Navneet
Kaur Dhillon from Chandigarh wins Femina Miss India 2013.
24th March:
• Former President Pervez
Musharraf return back to Pakistan.
• India wins Airtel Border
Gavaskar Trophy defiting Autralia 4-0 in the series. R Ashwin
declares as man of the series.
23rd March:
• Jodhpur Court frames fresh
charges against Bollywood actor Salman Khan and others.
•
Nikhil Kumar sworn in as ne Governor of Kerala.
• Earth Hour
2013 observed in more than 150 countries.
22nd March:
• Two Italian marines
accused of killing two Indian fishermen returned to India
Friday.
• Former President Pervez Musharraf gets bail ahead
of return to Pakistan.
• Fourth and Final test between India
and Australia start at Firoz Shah Kotla Ground, Delhi.
21st March:
• Bollywood actor Sanjay
Dutt sentenced for five years in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts
case. Supreme Court confirm death sentence of Yakub Abdul Razak
Memon.
• The Tamil Nadu CM Jayalalithaa presented a tax-free
budget for 2013-14.
• The UN Human Rights Council vote on a
US-sponsored resolution on Sri Lanka in Geneva.
• Anti-Rape
bill passed in Rajya Sabha.
20th March:
• Bangladesh President
Zillur Rahman dies after illness at a hospital in Singapore.
19th March:
• 37 people killed when a
Mumbai-bound bus plunged into the Jagbudi River in Ratnagiri
district.
• DMK withdraw support from UPA.
• Lok Sabha
passed the anti-rape bill.
18th March:
• India wins the third test
to take a lead of 3-0 in the ongoing Airtel Border-Gavaskar
trophy.
• National Film Award declared. Paan Singh Tomar
declare as the best film, while Irffan Khan and Vikram Gokhale
share the best actor Award. Usha Jadhav choosen as best actress.
17th March:
• Australia wins Sultan
Azlan Shah Hockey defeating Malaysia 3-2.
16th March:
• Shikhar Dhawan score
fastest test 100 by any batsman on debut.
• Bobby Ghosh
became the First Indian and Non-American to be appointed as
Editor of Time Magazine
• Founder of Dr. Reddy’s Lab, Kallam
Anji Reddy died.
• Pakistan Govt. complete 5 Year terms,
first government to complete after independence.
15th March:
• World Consumer Rights Day
observed for creating awareness in terms of consumer protection.
• Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's speech, which was
broadcast simultaneously at 53 locations across 26 cities in
Gujarat using 3-D hologram projection technology, has entered in
the Guinness Book of World Records.
• Xi Jinping has assumed
charge of President’s office in China.
• Chief Justice Khil
Raj Regmi sworn in as the new Prime Minister of Nepal.
•
Malaysian author Tan Twan Eng won the Asia’s top literary prize
“Man Asian Literary Prize” for his novel ‘The Garden of Evening
Mists’, for the year 2012.
• Petrol prices have been cut by
Rs. 2 per liter effective midnight in India.
• Third test
between India and Australia begins in Mohali. Australia ended
day 273/7.
14th March:
• Jorge Mario Bergoglio has
been elected as new pope of the Catholic Church in Vetican City.
• World Bank estimated India’s economy to grow by 6% in 2013-14.
• Five CRPF men killed in fidayeen attack in Srinagar.
13th March:
• West zone win Deodhar
Trophy, 2013 with a five-wicket win over North Zone in Guwahati
.
12th March:
• Ashwani Kumar and S.C.
Jamir appointed as new Governors of Nagaland and Odisha
respectively.
• Union Minister of Communications & IT Kapil
Sibal inaugurated India’s First All Women Employees Post Office
at Shastri Bhawan, New Delhi.
11th March:
• Australia cricket team
management drop four players ahead of third test for
disciplinary reasons.
10th March:
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8th March:
• Mukesh Ambani titled
India’s richest person for 6th year in a row with a net-worth of
$21.5 billion.
• Mukul Sangma sworn in as CM of Meghalaya for
second time.
7th March:
• Venezuelan President Hugo
Chavez died at 58.
6th March:
• India take 2-0 lead against
Australia in Airtel Border-Gavashkar Trophy, 2013.
• World
No.1 Novak Djokovic clinches ATP Dubai Open 2013.
• Neiphiu
Rio sworn as new CM of Nagaland for third time.
• Manik
Sarkar sworn as Chief Minister of Tripura for the fourth time.
• Rajasthani writer Hariram Meena chosen for Bihari Puraskar.
5th March:
• U.S. baby’s HIV
“functionally cured”.
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