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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
7th March: Supreme Court rejects the Sahara Group's proposal to pay the entire amount to SEBI
in cash instalments of Rs.2,500 crore each at regular intervals of three months.
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.
9thMarch: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.
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.
11th March: Maoist killed 16 policemen in a remote part of Chhattisgarh.
12th March: United Arab Emirates will host IPL 7 with India that scheduled from April 16 to June 1.
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).
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.
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 ESPN cricinfo.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
bank guarantees backing a scrapped helicopter deal with Finmeccanica unit
AgustaWestland.
20th March: Renowned author and journalist Khushwant Singh died at the age of
99 in New Delhi.
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.
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
23th March: 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.
24th March:Senior BJP leader Jaswant Singh will contest as independent candidate from Barmer after
denied by BJP. Ukraine announced the evacuation of itsmilitary troops from Crimea acknowledging
defeat in the face of Russian forces.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.