1. Actor Chris Rock hosted the show for the second time .He hosted the 77th Oscar ceremony held in the year 2005.
In the Oscars 2016, Leonardo Dicaprio wins Best Actor for The Revenant , Brie Larson is Best Actress while the bollywood star Priyanka Chopra presents the Oscars and makes her Oscar debut.
The maximum number of awards is won by Mad Max:Fury Road (6 awards)
2. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presented his third Union Budget for 2016-17 citing the acceleration of GDP growth to 7.6% . CPI inflation has come down to 5.4% .
3. British national newspaper, The Guardian’s Tom Jenkins was named as the Sports Photographer of the Year at the 2015 Editor’s Guild awards.
4. OECD has published report "Going for Growth 2016.
5.Canara bank has set the target of 1000ATMs in this fiscal year.
6. Union GOVT has collected 1,917 crore under Swachh Bharath cess.
7.Tamil actor-comedian Kumarimuthu passes away.
8. Hashim Thaci elected President of Kosovo.
9. Prezelj elected Chairman of IAAF Athletes’ Commission.
10.Dinesh Sharma elected as Chairperson of  International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD).
11. ‘Ek Bharat Shrestha Bharat’ programme will be launched to link States and Districts in an annual programme that connects people though exchanges in areas of language, trade, culture, travel and tourism.
12. General Budget 2016-17 has proposed allocation of initial sums of Rs. 100 Crore each allocated for celebrating Birth Centenary of Pt Deen Dayal Upadhyay and 350th Birth Anniversary of Guru Gobind Singh.
13. Famous sound designer Resul Pookutty became the first Asian to win the award for Best Sound for documentary India’s Daughter at the Motion Picture Sound Editors’ (MPSE) 63rd annual Golden Reel Awards.
14. Socialist leader and former Maharashtra Minister Nihal Ahmed Maulavi Mohammed Usman passed away.
15. The Indian Railways is set to lay 7 km of tracks everyday in 2016-17 as against an average of 4.3 km per day in the last Six Years, as part of its capacity augmentation plan.
16. Punjab Government ban the sale of Army uniform in the state.
17. Ajay Shankar Committee recommendations on Prior Permission and Regulatory Mechanisms.
18. India and United States of America has set up bilateral mechanism for sharing information for tracking movements of satellites, avoiding collisions and identifying potential threads to space and ground assets.
19. Tata Sons Chairman Emeritus Ratan Tata has invested an undisclosed amount in home rental startup NestAway.
20. UltraTech Cement, part of the Aditya Birla Conglomerate is set to buy JaiPrakash Associates Cement plants for an enterprise value of $2.4 billion.
21. Foreign Direct Investment into the country has increased by 40 % to $ 29.44 billion in April- December in the current fiscal against $ 21. 04 billion in the same period of previous fiscal.
22.Indian Cricketer Sachin Tendulkar has joined ICC and UNICEF's 'Team Swachh' initiative to build a social movement for sanitation and toilet use, aiming for an open defecation-free India .
23. International Boxing Federations's (IBF) Super bantamweight World Champion Carl Frampton defeated World Boxing Association's(WBA) Super bantamweight World Champion Scott Quigg.
24. Twitter has launched a campaign for women called #position of strength to strengthen women’s role in the society also to eliminate discrimination against them.
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