1. Independent investor Sunil Sabharwal has become the first Indian-American to occupy a key administration post at the IMF.
2. Andrew Holness sworn in as the new prime minister of Jamaica after his general election win.
3. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) CEO and managing director Natarajan Chandrasekaran and two others were on Friday appointed as non-official directors to the board of Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
4. Government will digitally connect all Post Offices in rural areas by March 2017 .
5. Japan International Cooperation Agency has pledged Official Development Assistance loan of Rs. 5700 crore in two installments for widening and up gradation of National Highway projects in North East India .
6. IT skills training company Technovations Services Private Limited has announced to collaborate with BRICS Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BRICS CCI) for Skill India.
7. Japan signed an agreement with the Philippines to supply defence equipment, the first such pact by Japan in the South Asian region.
8. Amazon India has announced the launch of ‘Women only’ delivery centres, starting from Trivandrum. Subsequent hubs will be opened in Chennai and Kochi .
9. A group of Harvard scientists reported that taking low-dose aspirin every day may lower the overall risk of cancer by 3 percent.
10. India and the US have agreed on a joint collaboration in standardisation and improving the quality of AYUSH products .
11. President Pranab Mukherjee presented 'President's Standard' to 119 Helicopter Unit and 'President's Colours' to 28 Equipment Depot of the Indian Air Force.
12. India's pioneering film archivist and film scholar P.K. Nair, the founder and former director of the National Film Archive of India (NFAI) died.
13. According to a report by Research Firm IDC, Delhi has beaten Mumbai to become the Biggest Smartphone Market in India .
14. The International Hockey Federation (FIH), has promoted Hockey India national-level umpire Nepoleon Singh as the International Outdoor Umpire.
15. Pat Conroy, Prince of Tides And Great Santini Author, Dies At 70 .
16. Ramesh Kymal, Chairman and Managing Director, Gamesa Renewable Private Limited has been elected as Chairman of Confederation of Indian Industry Tamil Nadu State Council for 2016-17.
17. The government announced that the application window for the third tranche of the Sovereign Gold Bond (SGB) scheme will be March 8-14 and the bonds issued on March 29.
18. Lifestyle and fashion television channel Fashion TV, which has lent its names to bars and residential projects in the country, is launching salons in India.
19. Telangana Congress Former Minister Ramreddy Venkat Reddy passed away .
20. A National Conference on Women Legislators will begin in New Delhi .
21. Youngest Billionaire Alexandra Andresen(19 years) from Norway with wealth 1.2 Billion Dollars : Forbes
22. Leading e-commerce company Flipkart launched its own advertisement platform, Brand Story Ads , with over 50 leading brands on board.
23. Fixed! Cash and Corruption in Cricket authored by journalist Shantanu Guha Ray was in news in the first week of March 2016.
24. Uttar Pradesh Assembly passed the UP Revenue Code (Amendment) Bill 2016 replacing an ordinance that will allow Dalits to sell their land to non-Dalits in the state.
25. The traditional festival of Chapchar Kut of the Mizos was celebrated across the north-eastern state of Mizoram .
26. Allepey, the Venice of the East, and a favourite tourism spot in Kerala is going to get India’sfirst 75-seater Solar Ferry, within three months.
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