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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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Novelist Ruchika Tomar receives Pen/Hemingway Award 2020

Ruchika Tomar
  • Ruchika Tomar has honored the 2020 PEN/Hemingway Award for her Debut Novel, for “A Prayer for Travelers”.
  • The Novel states about the friendship of 2 women which grows complicated until the relationship splits apart and one of the friends disappears.

Mayiladuthurai becomes Tamil Nadu’s 38th district

Mayiladuthurai
  • Tamil Nadu chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami on 24th March declared bifurcation of Nagapattinam district to make a new district with Mayiladuthurai as its headquarters.
  • Mayiladuthirai will be the 38th district of Tamil Nadu.

IRSDC is making 1st of its kind “Form-Based Codes”: Railway land

railways
  • Indian Railway Stations Development Corporation Limited (IRSDC) with Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation is making 1st of its kind “Form-Based Codes” for the development of railway land.
  • It is being planned for layout plans, building plans for station areas that will ensure a compact, pedestrian-friendly, market-responsive, transit-oriented & sustainable development.

COVID-19 will be checked and treated under Ayushman Bharat scheme

Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana
  • National Health Authority (NHA) has implemented Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY) for testing and treatment of coronavirus infection.
  • This scheme will be executed as soon as the government allows the treatment of COVID-19 patients in private hospitals.

ITU begins “Global Network Resiliency Platform”: COVID-19

ITU
  • The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) started a “Global Network Resiliency Platform” to serve global networks that remain “safer, stronger and more connected” during the COVID-19 crisis.
  • The platform will support the government & private sector to assure that networks are kept flexible and all telecommunication services.

After Covid-19 pandemic, “Hantavirus” death listed in China

Hantavirus
  • A death case has been found in China’s Yunnan province due to Hantavirus infection, a virus spread from rodents.
  • It causes hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS), and hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) to the infected person. It does not circulate from person to person.

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