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DateDayTheme
01 MarchZero Discrimination DayZero Discrimination against Women and Girls child
01 - 07 MarchJan Aushadhi Diwas week
03 MarchWorld wildlife daySustaining all life on Earth
03 MarchWorld Hearing DayHearing for Life. Don't let hearing loss limit you.
04 MarchNational Security Day
08 MarchInternational Women's DayI am generation equality : Realizing Women's rights.
10 March52st CISF Raising day
12 MarchWorld KIdney DayKidney health for everyone everywhere – from prevention to detection and equitable access to care
13 Marchworld Rotaract Day
13 MarchWorld Sleep dayBetter Sleep, Better Life, Better planet
14 MarchInternational day of Mathematics
15 MarchWorld Consumer rights dayThe Sustainable consumer
16 MarchNational vaccine day
18 MarchOrdnance Factories' Day in India
18 MarchGlobal recycling Day#RecyclingHeroes
20 MarchInternational Happiness DayHappiness for All, Together.
20 MarchWorld Sparrow Day
20 MarchWorld Frog Day
20 MarchUN French Language day
20 MarchWorld day of Theatre for children and Young People
21 MarchInternational day of ForestsForests and Biodiversity
21 MarchWorld Down Syndrome DayWe decide
21 MarchWorld Poetry Day
21 MarchInternational day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
21 MarchWorld Puppetry Day
22 MarchWorld Water dayWater and Climate change
23 MarchMartyrs day ( S. Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar, Shivaram Rajguru)
23 MarchWorld Meteorological DayClimate and Water
24 MarchWorld Tuberculosis DayIt's Time
24 MarchInternational Day for the Right to the Truth concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims.
25 MarchInternational Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
25 MarchInternational Day of Solidarity with Detained and Missing Staff Members
27 MarchWorld Theatre Day
28 March( Last Saturday of March)Earth Hour 2020
31 MarchInternational Transgender day of Visibility
31 MarchWorld Backup day
31 MarchInternational Drug Checking Day
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Canada retreats from Tokyo 2020 Olympics

March 24, 2020
Tokyo 2020 Olympics
  • Canada has become the first country in the world to retreat from the Tokyo 2020 Olympics due to coronavirus pandemic.
  • Tokyo 2020 Olympics was scheduled to be held in Japan from 24th July to 9th August 2020.

Gujarat Police become 1st state police to introduce taser guns

March 24, 2020
Taser guns
  • The Gujarat Police is now equipped with taser guns as a part of their modernization drive to ensure public safety and security.
  • Taser guns use compressed nitrogen to fire, by sending electricity through attached wires, which disrupt voluntary control of muscles.

Charges for ATM cash withdrawal abandoned for 3 months

March 24, 2020
ATM
  • Union Minister of Finance, Nirmala Sitharaman declared that cash withdrawal from other bank ATMs and penalties for non-maintenance of minimum balance has been ignored for 3 months.
  • This has been done to make sure that individuals don’t visit bank branches to avoid the spread of the coronavirus.

Karur Vysya Bank releases pre-paid card “Enkasu”

March 24, 2020
Karur Vysya Bank
  • Karur Vysya Bank has released India’s 1st pre-paid card Enkasu (My cash in Tamil) in Karur, Tamil Nadu under its Quit cash movement.
  • These cards are special in the sense that it can be accepted ‘online’ & ‘offline’ as well.

The Abel Prize Laureates 2020 declared

March 24, 2020
The Abel Prize Laureates 2020
  • The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters nominated Hillel Furstenberg from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel and Gregory Margulis from Yale University, the USA as winners of the Abel Prize 2020.
  • They are honored for their “pioneering use of methods from probability & dynamics in group theory, number theory, and combinatorics”.

A book named ‘Legacy Of Learning’ authored by Savita Chhabra launched

March 24, 2020
Legacy Of Learning
  • Savita Chhabra has released her first novel named ‘Legacy of Learning’. She is the chairperson at Hygienic Research Institute Private Limited (HRIPL).
  • The novel offers simplistic and relatable interpretations of the Bhagavad Gita in a try to connect the youth of India to the age-old, but relevant scriptures.

World Tuberculosis Day celebrated globally on 24 March

March 24, 2020
World Tuberculosis Day
  • World Tuberculosis (TB) Day is observed globally on 24th March to spread public awareness about the devastating health, social and economic consequences of TB, and to step up efforts to end the global TB epidemic.
  • The theme of World TB Day 2020 is ‘It’s time’.

Reliance initiates India’s 1st COVID-19 dedicated hospital in Mumbai

March 24, 2020
Reliance
  • Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) has started India’s first COVID-19 dedicated hospital in Mumbai.
  • All beds in the hospital are provided with the required infrastructure, bio-medical devices such as ventilators, pacemakers, dialysis machines and patient monitoring devices.

Tokyo Olympics officially delayed until 2021

March 25, 2020
Tokyo 2020 Olympics
  • The International Olympic Committee and Tokyo Olympic organizers agreed to move the Tokyo Games to 2021.
  • Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the head of the International Olympic Committee have postponed the Tokyo 2020 Games by a year due to coronavirus pandemic.

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