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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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North Macedonia becomes 30th member of NATO

North Macedonia
  • The Republic of North Macedonia has joined as the 30th member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization(NATO).
  • North Macedonia’s accession increases “security and stability” across the Western Balkans and is a mark of NATO’s “open door policy“, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas stated.

UP CM Yogi Adityanath makes ‘Team-11’ to fight Coronavirus

Yogi Adityanath
  • Uttar Pradesh (UP) Chief Minister, Yogi Adityanath, made “Team-11” consisting of inter-departmental committees with over 2 dozen senior officials to combat the COVID-19.
  • Each of the committees will be led by a senior bureaucrat of the state while the CM will be the leader of the Team-11.

Global economy now in slowdown said IMF head said

Kristalina Georgieva
  • The Chief of the International Monetary Fund said it is clear that the global economy has now entered a slowdown that could be as bad or worse than the 2009 downturn.
  • IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said the 189-nation lending agency was projecting a recovery in 2021.

Report ‘Boom & Bust 2020’: 4 New Coal projects added in India

Boom & Bust 2020
  • “Boom and Bust 2020:Tracking the Global Plant Pipeline” 47.4 GW coal-fired power projects at different stages were removed in India in 2019 which lessened total under development coal capacity to 66 GW.
  • The report is the fifth annual survey of the coal plant pipeline.

German Minister Thomas Schaefer committed suicide

Thomas Schaefer
  • Thomas Schaefer, Finance Minister of Hesse (Germany) has committed suicide possibly after becoming “deeply worried” over how to cope with the economic fallout from the COVID-19.
  • Mr. Schaefer, 54, was found deceased near a railway track on 28th March.

Nagaland CM releases Self Declaration COVID-19 Nagaland App

Nagaland CM releases Self Declaration COVID-19 Nagaland App
  • Chief Minister of Nagaland, Neiphiu Rio has started the Self Declaration COVID19 Nagaland App which will be obligatory for everyone who has come into Nagaland after 6th March 2020.
  • The app is vital for tracking and surveillance of high-risk cases and can be downloaded from the following website “nagalandhealthproject.org.

ICICI Bank releases banking services on WhatsApp

ICICI Bank

  • ICICI Bank has released the banking services on WhatsApp which will allow the banks’ retail customers to undertake a slew of banking demands from their home amid lockdown.
  • Customers have to send ‘Hi’ from their registered mobile number to the Bank’s verified profile number in order to initialize instantly.

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