1. Exercise FORCE 18, the largest ground forces multinational field training exercise on Humanitarian Mine Action and Peacekeeping Operations concluded in Pune, Maharashtra.
2. On International Women’s Day, Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha announced that the nation will see its first batch of female fighter pilots on June 18 this year.
3. Private lender Yes Bank launched an all-women operated bank branch ‘Yes Grace’ on Cunningham Road here aimed at offering customised banking solutions to women.
4. Parliament has passed Bureau of Indian Standards Bill, 2015 to establish Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS). The Bill replaces the Bureau of Indian Standards Act, 1986.
5. NTPC has been conferred the Research Investor Communication Award among the “Large Corporates” category .Director Finance of the Company Shri K. Biswal, received the award at a ceremony held at BSE in Mumbai .
6. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has successfully test-fired several ballistic missiles from silos across the country.
7. Bombay House, the Tata group’s headquarters, on 08 Mar 2016 became the first heritage building in India to be awarded a platinum rating by the Indian Green Building Council (IGBC).
8. Telangana and Maharashtra governments will be signing Memoranda of Understanding to construct five barrages across Godavari and Pen Ganga rivers .
9. State-run telecom services provider Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) on 09 Mar 2016 has signed an agreement with DTH operator Tata Sky to offer video-on-demand.
10. Third-time Prime Minister and Nepali Congress senior leader Sher Bahadur Deuba has been elected as the new president of the country's largest Democratic Party.
11. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a case against several senior officers of Syndicate Bank and others for causing an alleged loss of 1,000 crore to the state-owned bank.
12. The Reserve Bank of India will share FDI-related information with country's intelligence agencies IB and RAW to check black money from entering the country.
13. Government has said that more than four lakh Jobs will be generated under Prime Minister’s Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP) during 2016-17.
14. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has adopted Nagepur, a village dominated by backward castes, in his Lok Sabha constituency of Varanasi under the second phase of Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY).
15. Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Limited has appointed Indian Cricketer and Captain MS Dhoni as the Brand ambassador for its top selling health supplement Revital H.
16. Combat operation of Meghalaya police, code-named 'Hillstorm 3',launched in the Garo Hills and West Khasi Hills districts of the state.
17. Tata Motors has signed a strategic agreement with Bharat Forge Limited and General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS) of the US, for the Indian Ministry of Defence (MoD’s) prestigious Future Infantry Combat Vehicle (FICV) program.
18. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Supervisory Cooperation and Exchange of Supervisory Information with Bank of Israel.
19. Indian Railways has appointed global consultancy firm Ernst &Young (EY) to help the utility mop up advertising revenues worth over Rs.5,000 crore in the next few years.
20. Mikaela Shiffrin from the United States won the slalom competition of the Women's Alpine Skiing World Cup in Jasna in the Northern Slovakia.
21. Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan announced inclusion of widow marriage under the state government Mukhyamantri Kanya Vivah Yojana.
22. The legendary music producer George Henry Martin died on 8 March 2016. He was 90 years old.
23. Telecom operator Reliance Jio will provide free WiFi services at six cricket stadiums during the upcoming T20 World Cup matches.
24. Microsoft Corp has planned to announce its move into a new business, unveiling a database software that works with a rival to its Windows operating system, a move that takes aim at a market long dominated by Oracle Corp .
25. The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the United Nations Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) jointly launched the Global Programme to Accelerate Action to End Child Marriage.
26. Gujarat has topped the list of 21 states with most investment potential that has been drawn up by economic think-tank NCAER
27. National carrier Air India successfully flew the World’s longest all-woman operated and supported flight from the national capital New Delhi to San Francisco (United States).
28. The Karnataka Government launched Mukhyamantri Santwana Harish Yojana to provide free treatment to road accident victims for the first 48 hours in the nearest government or private hospital.
29. President Pranab Mukherjee presented 2015 Nari Shakti awards .
30. Noted agriculture scientist and one of the key persons in India’s ‘Green Revolution’, M V Rao, passed away in Hyderabad.
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