March 2012 world current affairs

1. March 2012 World Current Affairs
Major World Events
By - IBPS Zone

2. India and China to have maritime cooperation.
— March 1, News On AIR
India and China have decided to have maritime
cooperation to build confidence. This was
decided at the talks between the External Affairs
Minister S. M Krishna and his Chinese
counterpart Yang Jiechi in New Delhi yesterday.
— March 2, News On AIR

3. Voting is now on in the Russian Presidential
Elections; Trends put Vladimir Putin ahead of
others. — March 3, News on AIR
India and Egypt have agreed to carry forward
their relations to a new level. External Affairs
Minister S. M. Krishna met the top Egyptian
leaders in Cairo and said India will provide all
possible assistance to Egypt in its rebuilding
efforts. — March 4, News on AIR

4. The website of Russia’s Central Election
Commission came under hacker attack from
within Russia and abroad during the presidential
election, a top official said. — March 5,
Hindustan Times
Iran’s new parliament will be largely dominated
by conservatives who support supreme leader
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, according to latest
results Monday of last week’s election. —
March 6, Hindustan Times

5. Pakistani forces have killed at least 17 suspected
Taliban militants in Upper Orakzai tribal region
in the northwest of the country, officials said on
Wednesday. — March 7, Times of India
Obama congratulates Russia’s president-elect
Putin — March 8, Times of India

6. Some foreign companies in China exploit their
workers by forcing them to do overtime or
underpaying them, the labor minister said on
Wednesday, as controversy swirls over working
conditions at a plant that makes Apple Inc’s
iPhones and iPads. — March 9, Times of India
A surge in technology-industry hiring is helping
to spearhead a jobs-market revival as demand
swells for computer-software applications and
data. — March 9, Times of India

7. Leading software and technology companies
pressed President Barack Obama’s
administration for quick action on a new Indian
government policy that they said threatens
exports to the fast-growing economy. — March
10, Times of India
Asia Cup 2012 Tournament begins in Dhaka
today; inaugural match to be played between
host Bangladesh and Pakistan. — March 11,
News on AIR

8. The UN Special envoy to Syria, Kofi Annan has
arrived in the Qatar Capital Doha on the next leg
of his peace mission. Annan held second round
of talks with Syrian President Bashar Al Assad
in Damascus yesterday. — March 12, News On
AIR
International Cricket Council calls as baseless
and misleading the claim by a British newspaper
that the 2011 Cricket World Cup semifinal
between India and Pakistan was fixed. — March
13, News on AIR

9. In Syria, President Bashar al-Assad has issued a
decree setting 7th May as the date for
parliamentary elections even as 45 people
including 23 members of the security forces
were killed in violence on Tuesday. — March
14, News on AIR
Iran offers to hold talks with permanent
members of the UN Security Council and
Germany over its disputed nuclear programme.
— March 15, News On AIR

10. North Korea announced Friday it plans to launch
a long-range rocket mounted with a satellite next
month, a surprise move that comes weeks after it
agreed to nuclear concessions including a
moratorium on long-range missile tests. —
March 16, Hindustan Times
UN Special envoy Kofi Annan says situation in
Syria needs to be handled carefully to avoid
destabilization of the region. — March 17, News
on AIR
Pakistan win the toss and elect to bat against
India in the last league match of the Asia Cup

11. Cricket at Mirpur in Dhaka. — March 18, News
on AIR
US authorities have complained to Pakistan’s
foreign office about the alleged harassment of
American diplomatic staff and expressed
concern at “inaction” on an earlier complaint
lodged two years ago. — March 19, Hindustan
Times

12. A suspected serial killer shot dead three children
and a teacher at a Jewish school in France on
Monday, in what was branded an anti-Semitic
attack, plunging the nation into shock. — March
20, Hindustan Times
A Pakistani Parliamentary commission on
Tuesday demanded an end to CIA-operated
drone strikes and a civil nuclear deal similar to
the Indo-US agreement besides 38 other
demands. — March 21, Hindustan Times