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Mar 1, 2015
1. Roger Federer (Switzerland) won Dubai Open for
seventh time by defeating Novak Djokovic (Serbia).
2. Arun K Singh has been appointed as India's
Ambassador to USA.
3. Mufti Mohammed Sayeed ofPeople's Democratic
Party has been appointed as 12th ChiefMinister of
J&K Chief Minister.
4. Indian-origin lawyer Kannan Ramesh has been
appointed as a Judicial Commissionerto Singapore’s
Supreme Court bench for two years.
5. Siraj Hussain appointed as Secretary in Department
of Agriculture and Cooperation.
6. Ashok Kumar Angurana appointed as Secretary in
Department ofAnimal Husbandry in Ministry of
Agriculture.
7. Ranglal Jamuda appointed as Secretary in Ministry
of Food Processing Industries
8. Jugal Kishore Mohapatra is appointed as rural
development secretary.
9. S M Vijayanand is appointed as Secretary in Ministry
of Panchayati Raj.
Mar 2, 2015
1. National Day of Bulgaria (Southeast European
Country).
2. Election Commission ofIndia launched National
Electoral Roll Purification and Authentication
Programme(NERPAP) to bring an error free and
authenticated electoral roll by Linking ofAadhar
data with Electoral Database.
3. Baburam Bhattarai, former Prime Ministerof
Nepal Visited India.
4. Jagmohan Dalmiya has been elected as President of
the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).
5. Baldev Sharma has been appointed as chairman of
National Book Trust.
6. Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) approved buying
38 Pilatus trainer aircrafts from Switzerland at a cost
of 1500 crore for training Indian Air Force fighter
pilots.
7. Rafael Nadal (Spain) won Argentina Tennis Open
beating Juan Monaco (Argentina).
8. China launched massive Silk Road Infrastructure
project worth79.8 billion USD in northwest
provinceofGansu as part ofChina’s ambitious Silk
Route plan that will add more than 60000
kilometres ofroad network including 4070 km
expressways overnext six-years..
9. Namibian President HifikepunyePohamba won the
world’s most valuable individual award, the Mo
Ibrahim prizefor African leadership. Award is worth
$5m (£3.2m) awardand given each yearto a leader
who governed well,raised living standards and then
left office.
Mar 3, 2015
1. 3 March - World Wildlife Day.
2. Pradip Kumar Mohanty is appointed as chief
justice ofOdisha High Court.
3. Lok Sabha passed the Citizenship (Amendment)
Bill, 2015 by voicevote. The Bill seeks to amend
the Citizenship Act, 1955 which regulates the
acquisition and determination ofcitizenship and
details registration ofOverseas Citizens ofIndia
and their rights.
4. Forbes annual Global Billionaire’s 2015 list -

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a. Bill Gates - co-founderofMicrosoft
topped the list for the 16th time with
worth of7 9.2billion USD dollars.
b. United States topped list with 536
Billionaires, followed by China (213),
Germany (103) rich people and India
(90).
c. Carlos Slim Helu from Mexico
telecommunications mogul ranked
second with worth77.1 billion USD and
Warren Buffet, chiefof Berkshire
Hathaway Inc was ranked third with
7 2.7 billion USD.
d. Mukesh Ambani is ranked Richest
Indian with 21 Billion USD Worth and
overall rank 39.
5. President Pranab Mukherjee gave his assent to
Maharashtra Animal Preservation (Amendment)
Bill 1995 (as per provisions in Article 201 of
Constitution ofIndia) that aims to ban slaughter
of bulls and bullocks in Maharashtra.
6. Famous Indian Boxer Mary Kom announced to
retire from boxing after 2016 Brazil Olympics.
7. Growth ofeight core sectorindustries (coal,
crude oil, natural gas, refinery products,
fertilizer, steel, cementand electricity) in India
slowed to 1.8 % in January 2015 as compared to
3.7 %in 2014.
8. Atal Pension Y ojna (APY), announced in the
Budget, will be launched on 01 -06-2015 and will
focus on all citizens in unorganisedsector
entitling them to pension ofup to Rs 5,000 per
month after 60 years ofage.
9. Renowned ornithologist K.S. Lavkumar Khachar
Passed Away.
a. Ornithologist is someone who studies
ornithology - the branch ofscience
devoted to birds including bird songs,
flight patterns, physical appearance,
migration patterns and more.
10. World’s Largest and Tallest Indian Flag
Unfurled In Faridabad (Haryana).
11. Government inaugerated work on an Apparel &
Garment Making Centre and a Weavers’ Service
Centre in Nagaland as part ofNERTPS (North
East Region Textile Promotion Scheme) with
total outlay ofRs. 1038 crores in 12th Five Year
Plan.
12. Kewal K Sharma has beene appointed as Delhi
Chief Secretary.
13. Akram Chehayeb, Agriculture Ministerof
Lebanon Visited India.
a. On this occasion, IndiaInvites
Entrepreneurs From Lebanon to Invest
in Mega Food Parks and Cold Chain.
Mar 4, 2015
1. Lok Sabha passed InsuranceLaws (Amendment)
Bill, 2015 that will replace InsuranceLaws
(Amendment) Ordinance,2014. Proposed
amendments in the bill aim to bring
improvements in existing laws relating to
insurance business in India.
a. The Bill hikes Foreign Direct Investment
(FDI) cap in the insurance sector to 49
% from 26 %.
2. Lok Sabha Passed Coal Mines (Special
Provisions) Bill 2015 that provides for auction
and allocation ofcoal mines through a bidding
process.
3. Actress Rani Mukerji has been honored by
National Award for the Best Representation of
the Cause of Safety, Security and Protection of
Women and Girl Child by National Instituteof
Gender Justice (NIGJ).

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4. Maharashtra government approved issuing
Aadhar-linked ration cards to check fake
beneficiaries and bring in transparency in the
Public Distribution System (PDS).
5. Indian-American physician Rahul Jindal has
been selected for prestigious Fulbright-Nehru
Distinguished Chair to India. The Ahmedabad-
based HL Trivedi Institute ofTransplantation
Sciences will host Dr. Rahul Jindal for the
duration ofthe chair. This Institute performs
about 400 kidney transplants in a year and has
developed innovative transplanttolerance
models.
6. 15th African Ministerial Conference on
Environment heldin Cairo (Egypt)
7. Government set up task forces for development
of Ajmer (Rajasthan), Allahabad (UttarPradesh)
and Vishakhapattanam (Andhra Pradesh) as
Smart Cities.
Mar 5, 2015
1. Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh will
attend BRICS farm meet in Brazil from Mar 11 -
13, 2015.
2. RBI accepted to focus on inflation targeting as a
tool for Monetary Policy Framework as per an
agreement between Governmentand Reserve
Bank ofIndia.
a. In Inflation targeting, central bank
decides for a medium-term target
inflation rate.
b. RBI will have to maintain Consumer
Price Index (CPI)-based inflation targets
below 6 % by January 2016and 4 %
from 2016-17 with 2 % plus/minus
range.
c. New framework will make RBI more
accountable as it will explain to
government ifit fails to meet inflation
targets.
d. This transition from monetary targeting
suggested by Chakravarty Committee
(1988) to Inflation targeting suggested
by Urijit Patel Committee is similar to
the practice adopted by central banks in
developed countries.
3. Reserve Bank ofIndia (RBI) reduced repo rate
by 25 basis points to 7.5 %. This is the second
time since January 2015 that RBI reduced the
repo rate by 25 basis points. New Monetary
Policy Rates Are
a. Repo Rate - 7 .50 %
b. Reverse Repo - 6.50 %
c. Bank Rate - 8.50 %
d. Marginal Standing Facility (MSF) Rate -
8.50 %
e. CRR (Cash Reserve Ratio) - 4 %
f. SLR(Statutory Liquidity ratio) - 21.5 %
4. Three South Asian women - Niloofar Rahmani
(Afghanistan), Nadia Sharmeen (Bangladesh)
and Tabassum Adnan (Pakistan) were selected
for International Women ofCourage Award for
year 2015 given by USSecretary ofState.
5. Ministry ofShipping, Road Transport &
Highways launched website Shipping Samvad to
invite innovative ideas and suggestions from
public and experts ofIndian maritime sectorfor
improvements in shipping, ports and inland
waterways.
6. Sri Lanka suspended work on construction ofa
controversial USD 1.5 billion Chinese port city
project in Colombo.
7. Lok Sabha passed Motor Vehicles (Amendment)
Bill, 2015 that seeks to amend Motor Vehicles

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Act, 1988 to bring e-rickshaws and e-carts into
the ambit ofthe Act.
8. Maharashtra Governmentscrapped 5 %
reservations to Muslims in government jobs in
Maharashtra that was announced by the
erstwhile Congress-NCP government just before
2014 Assembly polls.
9. British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) released
documentary film India's Daughter directed by
Leslee Udwin and is based on Delhi gang rape of
the 23 year old Nirbhaya that took place on 16
December 2012.
10. Foreign Secretary SJaishankar completed his
SAARC Y atra and visited Afghanistan, Pakistan,
Bangladesh and Bhutan.
11. Shipping Ministry signed an agreement with
Toyota for export ofautomobile units through
Kamarajar Port Limited (KPL).
12. Australian cricket team created World Cup
record for highest score of417 in a match against
Afghanistan and broke Previous record of413
runs made by India against Bermuda in CWC
2011.
Mar 6, 2015
1. Union Minister ofState for Consumer Affairs,
Food and Public Distribution Raosaheb
Dadarao Danve resigned.
2. Indian PM Narendra Modi Among 30 Most
Influential PeopleOn Internet in a Time's
Survey.
3. Mercer’s Quality ofLiving Report 2015 -
a. Vienna, Austria’s capital is the city with
the best quality ofliving in the world.
b. Singapore is highest-ranking Asian city
c. Dubai ranks first across Middle East and
Africa
d. In South Asia - Colombo (132) ranks
highest followed by Indian cities
Hyderabad (138) and Pune (145).
4. Former Bihar Chief Minister (CM) Ram Sundar
Das passed away
5. Memorandum ofAgreement (MoA) signed
between Council for Research in Ay urvedic
Sciences (CCRAS) and National Research
Development Corporation (NRDC) to
commercialise ayurvedic medicines and
technologies developed at CCRAS.
Mar 7, 2015
1. National Payments Corporation (NPCI),
that manages retail payments system in
India, has linked 15 crore bank accounts
with Aadhaar numbers.
 Target is to link bank accounts
of 17 croreDBT (Direct Benefit
Transfer) beneficiaries with
Aadhaar by 30 June 2015.
2. Online Retailer Flipkart acquired mobile
ad network AdiQuity to increase
advertising reach ofFlipkart.
3. UST Global launched Women’s Safety
App iSafe for Thiruvananthapuram City
Police.
4. NASA's Dawn spacecraft completed
Orbit around DwarfPlanet Ceres and
became first spacecraft to orbit around a
dwarfplanet.
5. Pedro Morenes,Defence Minister of
Spain Visited India and signed an
agreement on Mutual Protection of
Classified Information to provide

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framework for cooperation in defence
research and development.
6. Kathmandu-Varanasi-Kathmandu bus
service flagged offjointly by India and
Nepal.
7. Kerala Assembly speakerGKarthikeyan
passed away
8. PM Narendra Modi inaugurated 2 units
of 600 Mega Watt (MW) each ofShree
Singaji Thermal Power Project Khandwa
district ofMadhya Pradesh.
9. Sunil Sabharwal, an Indian-American
investor has been re-nominated as an
Alternate Executive Director at the
International Monetary Fund (IMF) by
the United States (US).
10. Rajya Sabha passed Citizenship
(Amendment) Bill, 2015 that was passed
by Lok Sabha on 2 March 2015.
 Bill seeks to merge the Person of
Indian Origin (PIO) and
Overseas Citizenship ofIndia
(OCI) schemes and provide 30-
day break to person who applies
for Indian citizenship ifthey
leave Indian for sometime.
Mar 8, 2015
1. 8 March - International Women’s Day. Theme - Make it Happen.
2. Haryana Governmentlaunched a scheme for girl child - 'Aapki Beti Humari Beti' with an aim to
combat the declining child sex ratio in Haryana.
3. Famous journalistVinod Mehta Passed Away.
Mar 9, 2015
1. Marek Sawicki, Minister of Agriculture and Rural DevelopmentofPoland, visited India.
2. Government is setting up an Indian Culinary Institute (ICI) at Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh with a
Northern Region Centre at Noida, UttarPradesh.
3. Kerala Tourism won silver Golden Gate award for its global multimedia campaign for promoting the
backwaters ofKerala at InternationaleTourismus-Borse Berlin (ITB-Berlin) 2015, Germany.
4. Sri Lankan cricketer Kumar Sangakkara announced retirementfrom Test cricket
5. HRD ministry has launched a web-based digital gender atlas as a tool to map the progress on girl
education throughout the country In order to monitor how various education programmes are
working.
6. First Indo-Nepal Friendship Motor Rally concluded at India Gate in New Delhi aimed at
strengthening bilateral relations between India and Nepal and spreading the message ofroad safety.
7. President Pranab Mukherjee presented StreeShakti puraskars and Nari Shakti Puruskars 2014 on the
occasion ofInternational Women’s Day.
1. Stree Shakti puraskars are conferred on six women in the area ofwomen’s endeavorand
exceptional contribution each year. Award carries a cash prize of3 lakh rupees and a citation.
2. Awardees ofStree Shakti Prize 2014 -
1.

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Award Winner Cause
Rani Lakshmibai Seema Prakash,
Madhya Pradesh
Working for vulnerableandmarginalisedCommunities of
Madhya Pradesh Since 2000(particularly Korku tribe)
Rani Rudramma
Devi Award
Astha Sansthan
(NGO),
Rajasthan
For protecting women’s rights, gender
mainstreaming,issues relating to violenceagainst
women tribal rights, food security, transparency and
right to work and others.
Mata
JijabaiAward
Chandraprabha
Bokey,
Maharashtra
working in ruralareas since 1960for empowerment and
rehabilitation of destitute,divorced,disabled women and
rehabilitation of orphan children.
Kannagi Award Dr. P Bhanumati,
Kerala
founding Association for Mentally Handicapped Adults
(AHMA) working for welfare of the poor destitute
mentally challengedadults since 1996.
Rani Gaidinliu
Zeliang Award
Sister Mariola,
Rajasthan
working with the inmates at Ajmer Jail,Rajasthan since
1 997 and lobbying for Prisons Without Walls.
Devi Ahilyabai
Holkar Award
Anyay Rahit
Zindagi (NGO),
Goa
Works for combating trafficking of persons for commercial
sexualexploitation since 1997.
8. Government decided to movethe Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Y ojanafrom Labourand employment
ministry to the Ministry ofHealth and family welfare.
9. Government’s Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao (Save Girl-child, Educate Girl-child) programmehas been
formally launched in Northeast and the Saiha District in Mizoram has been selected for this unique
initiative.
Mar 10, 2015
1. PM Narendra Modi began his official Visit to
Three island countries in Indian Ocean -
Seychelles,Mauritius and Sri Lanka.
2. PM Narendra Modi launched first indigenously
developed Rotavirus vaccine named Rotavac to
boost India’s efforts to combat infant mortality
due to diarrhea.
a. vaccine will be available at a price of1
US dollar per dose making it the
cheapest vaccine available for rotavirus
globally.
3. Maharashtra government started helpline
18002332688 for social, physical and
psychological issues facedby adolescents.
4. Tripura Government launched Northeast India’s
first Kisan Call Centre in Agartala to give
immediate solutions and advisory to farmers
regarding seed procurement,agro-metric,
fertilizer, soil health, pesticides usage and
marketing ofthe produces.
5. Indian ITCompany TCS has been recognized as
top employer in Europe for the third consecutive
year by Top Employers Institute.
6. Pakistan successfully tested Shaheen-IIIsurface-
to-surfacenuclear carrying ballistic missile with
range 2,750 km.
7. 30th Aahar International Fair 2014 organized by
ITPO (Indian Trade Promotion Organization)
started in Pragati Maidan, Delhi.

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8. Former Union minister MVeerappa Moily has
been selected for prestigious Saraswati Samman
for 2014 for his famous Kannada poem
‘Ramayana Mahanveshanam’.
9. 10 Mar, 2015- 46th Foundation day ofCentral
Industrial Security Force.
10. Kumar P Barve, first Indian- American to be
elected to a USstate legislature, will run for the
US Congress in the 2016 elections.
11. Maharashtra Governmentlaunched
Bhagyashreescheme for girl child replacing
Sukanya scheme.
a. State governmentwill deposit21200
rupees in bank for girl child born in a
Below the Poverty Line family.
b. Bhagyashreescheme aims at providing
one lakh rupee on maturity after the girl
completes 18 years ofage.
c. The scheme will be joined with Beti
Bachao Beti Padhao scheme of
government.