March 2014 current affairs

Mar 1: The Bill to carve out Telangana received the assent of President Pranab Mukherjee who also signed the proclamation to impose central rule in Andhra Pradesh.

Mar 1: Government clears an ordinance making penal provisions more stringent to deter people committing crimes against members of SCs and STs .

Mar 1: A new potential scam has emerged with Defence Minister A K Antony ordering a CBI probe into allegations of bribery into a Rs 10,000 crore deal for supply of aircraft engines to state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) by London-based Rolls Royce company.

Mar 4: Sheila Dikshit, a former three-term Chief Minister of Delhi, is appointed Governor of Kerala

Mar 4: Calling him ""chor"", man from Gwalior threw ink on the face of Sahara chief Subrata Roy when he was brought to the Supreme Court

Mar 5: AAP workers fights running battles with BJP activists outside the saffron party headquarters in Delhi and Lucknow and Arvind Kejriwal's car was damaged in Gujarat in retaliation to protests against his brief detention in the state.

Mar 6: Around 60 Kashmiri college students studying in Meerut are charged with sedition by Uttar Pradesh police for cheering Pakistan's victory against India during a recent cricket match.

Mar 6: Election Commission introduces e-filing of affidavits by candidates for the Lok Sabha and Assembly polls.

Mar 7: The Indian Navy is hit by mishap with leakage of a deadly gas on an under-construction warship claiming the life of a Commander and hospitalisation of two others

Mar 8: One civilian worker was killed and two were injured in an accident at the under-construction nuclear submarine at the shipbuilding centre of Eastern Naval Command (ENC).

Mar 8: Senior Aam Aadmi Party leader Yogendra Yadav's face is smeared with ink during an event at Jantar Mantar here by a 28-year-old man who was later roughed up by AAP supporters.

Mar 9: Congress in Kerala opens formal dialogues with RSP a day after it quit LDF.

Mar 10: The DMK announces candidates for the 35 seats it would contest in the Lok Sabha elections in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, denying ticket to party supremo's son M K Alagiri while renominating 2G scam accused A Raja and Dayanidhi Maran.

Mar 11: Maoists ambush a security patrol killing 16 people including 11 of the CRPF in a daring daytime attack in the Sukma district of Chhattisgarh.

Mar 12: The formal process for the longest nine-phased general elections to 16th Lok Sabha is set in motion with the President issuing notification for polling in six constituencies of Bihar on April 10.

Mar 12: The much-hyped joint rally of Mamata Banerjee and Anna Hazare here turns out to be a disappointing affair with the anti-corruption crusader giving it a miss, triggering a blame game.

Mar 13: CBI carries out searches at 15 locations, including the residence of National Spot Exchange Limited promoter Jignesh Shah for alleged cheating in the investments of public sector undertaking PEC causing a loss of Rs 12 crore to the exchequer.

Mar 13: India deploys four warships along with six aircraft including the latest special surveillance P-8I plane and three helicopters under the 'Operation Searchlight' to rescue the missing Malaysian plane MH370.

Mar 13: India welcomes a US court dismissing visa fraud charges against senior diplomat Devyani Khobragade

Mar 15: Narendra Modi will contest the Lok Sabha election from Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh, BJP announces.

Mar 15: President issues notification for second and third phases of Lok Sabha elections.

Mar 18: The government under late Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and the then army leadership's ""Forward Policy"" has been blamed for India's humiliating defeat in the 1962 war against China in a top secret report accessed by an Australian journalist.

Mar 18: Environment Ministry issues draft notification on Western Ghats declaring an area of 56,825 sq km of the hills as ecologically sensitive.

Mar 18: In a setback to India, an Italian court has barred it from encashing bank guarantees worth over Rs. 2,360 crore of AgustaWestland as part of the penalties imposed after scrapping the scam-tainted Rs. 3,600 crore VVIP chopper deal.

Mar 19: Khushwant Singh died here today at the age of 99.

Mar 23: BJP is left red-faced as it inducts Pramod Muthalik, the controversial chief of Sri Rama Sene linked with the attack on women at a pub in Mangalore in 2009, only to dump him within hours after opposition from within and severe flak from other parties.

Mar 23: The viscera report of Sunanda Pushkar, Union Minister Shashi Tharoor's wife who died under mysterious circumstances two months ago, hints towards drug poisoning.

Mar 23: Top Indian Mujahideen terrorist Zia Ur Rehman alias Waqas, a Pakistani national wanted in connection with several bombings, and three associates are arrested from Rajasthan by Delhi Police.

Mar 24: Delhi Police arrests Indian Mujahideen chief of Indian Operations Tehsin Akhtar alias Monu, who was wanted in a number of bombings in the country, from near Kakarvitta Indo-Nepal border in Darjeeling.

Mar 25: Over Rs 80 crore of cash seized so far by the Election Commission appointed teams with Andhra Pradesh topping the list.

Mar 26: Two Indian Mujahideen terrorists from Pakistan have been arrested from Gorakhpur in eastern Uttar Pradesh.

Mar 28: Heavily-armed suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militants from Pakistan in combat uniform stricke in Jammu region in twin audacious attacks, killing three people including a soldier guarding an Army camp gate.

Mar 28: A recently acquired C-130J military transport plane (The C-130J is among the most agile aircraft in service today, and has an impressive safety record. The transport aircraft is meant for an array of operations including movement of Special Forces, and difficult landings. It was highly effective in rescue operations in Uttarakhand after the flash floods, and has proven its capability to carry out landings on remote airstrips close to China border. Both these have exhibited the flexibility and capability of the American aircraft, manufactured by Lockheed Martin ), one of the most modern US-made aircraft, crashes near Gwalior, killing all the five crew members.

Mar 29: Senior leader Jaswant Singh was expelled from BJP after he refused to withdraw his nomination as an independent candidate against the party's official nominee in Rajasthan's Barmer Lok Sabha constituency

Mar 31: US Ambassador to India Nancy Powell resigns in the midst of general elections in India.