INTERNATIONAL

1) Which country announced on 11 March 2014 a plan to lease Himalayan peaks to private companies to ease traffic on
Mount Everest and to boost tourism ?
Ans:- Nepal
2) The Supreme Court of - on 9 March 2014 sacked the Election Commissioner Fuwad Thowfeek and his deputy
Ahmad Fayaz ?
Ans:- Maldives
3) Who won the El Salvadors presidential election on 17 March 2014 ?
Ans:- Salvador Sanchez Ceren
4) Which country Forces on 17 March 2014 handed over its two important military bases in southern Helmand province to
Afghan security forces and closed down another base ?
Ans:- Britain
5) Which country and New Zealand announced a landmark deal on 18 March 2014 that allows the direct trading of the two
countries currencies ?
Ans:- China
INDIA & WORLD
1) India, Sri Lanka and Maldives on 6 March 2014 held national security advisor-level meet on maritime security
cooperation in - ?
Ans:- New Delhi
2) According to the latest data from the National Bomb Data Centre (NBDC) released on 5 March 2014, which country has
turned out to be the third most dangerous country in the world in terms of bomb blasts cases (per year) only ?
Ans:- India
3) What was Indias rank in the recently released report of the global anti-money laundering body Financial Action Task
Force (FATF) pertaining to progress in combating money laundering in the world ? Ans:- 34
4) Which country was recenlty ranked fourth in a Microsoft report in the list of the countries sending out spam e-mails ?
Ans:- India
5) Which country and India have signed on 18 March 2014 an agreement to work together in software, information
technology and infrastructure ?
Ans:- China
NATIONAL
1) The Union government has on 4 March 2014 launched the Maulana Azad Sehat Scheme a health scheme for ____?
Ans:- Minority Students
2) Recently, Union government has launched a nation-wide campaign awareness campaign to curb the spread of dengue
disease.The campaign has been named as ?
Ans:- U and ME against Dengue
3) Election Commission on 5 March 2014 announced the dates for Lok Sabha polls. Over 814 million voters constituting
the biggest electorate in the world will exercise their franchise to elect 543 members to the 16 th Lok Sabha in how
many phases?
Ans:- 9
4) The Government of India (GoI) recently announced to build how many low cost airports in the next 20 years ?
Ans:- 200
5) In the month of March 2014 government has approved to set up countrys second nuclear f uel complex to reprocess
atomic fuel in ?
Ans:- Rajasthan
STATES
1) The government has recently approved the National Mission for Sustaining the Himalayan Ecosystem (NMSHE) to
sustain the Himalayan ecosystem, continuously assess it s health status.The NMSHE covers how many states of India?
Ans:- Twelve
2) Name the new health scheme launched on 6 March 2014 by North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) for women?
Ans:- Stri Swasthya Suraksha Yojna
3) Which state government on 3 March 2014 launched a novel scheme Dial a doctor which will enable the public to seek
health-related advice over phone round-the-clock from doctors by dialling a toll-free number ?
Ans:- Kerala
4) Which state approved the Backward Class (BC) status for the Jat and Jat Sikhs of the State on 5 March 2014 ?
Ans:- Punjab
5) For how many years, Hyderabad is envisaged as the common capital for Andhra Pradesh and Telangana as per Andhra
Pradesh Reorganisation Act 2014?
Ans:- 10 years
CONFERENCES
1) The 3rd Summit meet of Bengal Initiative for Multi-sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) was held
from 1 4 March 2014 at ?
Ans:- Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar
AWARDS & HONOURS
1) Alfonso Cuaron won the Best director award in Oscars 2014 for which movie?
Ans:- Gravity
2) Who won the 2014 Templeton Prize ?
Ans:- Tomas Halik
3) Who has been selected for the 17th Gollapudi Srinivas National Award 2013 for his debut film as a director, The Good
Road in Gujarati ?
Ans:- Gyan Correa
4) What is the name of the Indian journalist who won the prestigious Google Digital Activism Award for 2014 beating likes
of Edward Snowden?
Ans:- Shubhranshu Choudhary
5) Which water-based initiative from India won the 2014 UN-Water Water for Life Best Practices Award as announced on
21 March 2014?
Ans:- International Water Management Institute (IWMI)-Tata Water Policy Programme
SPORTS & GAMES
1) Who won the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championship doubles title on 1 March 2014 ?
Ans:- Indo-Pak duo Rohan Bopanna and Aihsan ul Haq Qureshi
2) Which club won the Capital One football Cup in the final held at Wembley on 2 March 2014 ?
Ans:- Manchester City
3) Name the Indian shuttler won the German Open Grand Prix Mens singles title on 2 March 2014 ?
Ans:- Arvind Bhat
4) Which country won the Asia Cup 2014 title after defeated Pakistan by five wickets in the final at the Shere Bangla
National Stadium Mirpur, Bangladesh on 8 March 2014 ?
Ans:- Sri Lanka
5) Which country won the ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup 2014 ?
Ans:- South Africa
ECONOMY
1) Who is the Worlds top richest Billionaire with worth of 76 billion dollars according to Forbes magazines 28th Annual
World billionaires list released on 3 March 2014?
Ans:- Bill Gates
2) Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on 13 March 2014 hiked the trade related remittance limit from Rs. 2 lakh to Rs. 5 lakh per
transaction.What was the reason for this increase?
Ans:- Increase in the number of transactions handled by exchange houses
3) Bharti Airtel and which international telecom giant signed a pact on 4 March 2014 to set up a multi-service regional
network infrastructure node in India?
Ans:- Etisalat
4) Government of India on 4 March 2014 hiked the interest rates on fixed deposit scheme that is offered by post offices by
up to - percent?
Ans:- 0.2 %
5) Which state scored the highest in monthly per capita consumer expenditure (MPCE) for urban areas in the recently
released ranking by the by the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO)?
Ans:- Haryana
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
1) In the month of March 2014 World Longest aircraft Airlander or HAV304 was unveiled at - ?
Ans:- Cardington in Bedfordshire, Britain
2) Name the Indian-American scientist on 6 March 2014 developed the first 3D model of a human fingerprint called
Phantom ?
Ans:- Anil J ain
3) Scientists in the - community discovered a way to rebuild ears and noses using stem cells from body fat on 4 March
2014 ?
Ans:- British
4) Which seemingly impoverished country recently made a surprising entry into the high-tech world with its own
manufactured Android tablet named Surtab?
Ans:- Haiti
5) Name the student of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on 17 March 2014 developed a robot that can swim
like fish ?
Ans:- Andrew Marchese
PERSONS IN NEWS
A) APPOINTMENTS
1) Who assumed charge as the new Secretary General of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)
on 3 March 2014?
Ans:- Arjun Bahadur Thapa
2) Who was appointed as the Chairman of Financial Planning Standards Board India (FPSB) on 11 March 2014 ?
Ans:- J ustice (Retd.) BN Srikrishna
B)RESIGNS
1) Nandan Nilekani on 13 March 2014 resigned as Chairman of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI).When he
took charge as the first Chairman of UIDAI?
Ans:- In 2007
C) DEATHS
1) Name the the author of the Fatal Vision died on 10 March 2014 at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester,
Massachusetts, US ?
Ans:- J oe McGinniss
D) VISITORS
1) Name the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) President visited India from 19 22 March 2014 ?
Ans:- J ohn Ashe
E) MISCELLANEOUS
1) Misao Okawa, the oldest woman in the world, turned 116 on 6 March 2014. She is from which country?
Ans:- J apan
PLACES IN NEWS
1) What is the name of the proposed 70-storey temple, billed to be the tallest shrine in the world, which was inaugurated on
16 March 2014 at Vrindavan in UP?
Ans:- Vrindavan Chandrodaya Mandir
ABBREVIATIONS IN NEWS
1) What is the full form of IBRD ?
Ans:- International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
BOOKS IN NEWS
1) What is the name of another book written by Wendy Doniger, whose publisher on 10 March 2014 announced it will not
reprint this book until an acceptable resolution pertaining to the alleged controversies in this book are found?
Ans:- On Hinduism
COMMITTEES IN NEWS
1) Which committee has recently recommended an anti-discrimination law for Muslims on lines of SC/ST law?
Ans:- Amitabh Kundu Committee
DAYS & DATES
1) World Water Day was observed on - ?
Ans:- 22 March

Simon Santoso, Indonesian Shuttler won Malaysia Grand Prix gold
West Zone won cricket's Deodhar Trophy 2014
India won 3rd South Asian Handball Championship title
Karnataka won the Vijay Hazare Trophy 2013-14
Hsieh Su-Wei and Peng Shuai won BNP Paribas Open 2014
12 Years A Slave won the best picture award in the 86th Annual Academy Oscar Awards 2014.
Zubin Mehta won special jury award of Times Now NRI Awards 2014
World number two air pistol shooter, Heena Sidhu won a silver medal in 10m Air Pistol Women final of
ISSF World Cup
Jens Stoltenberg appointed as the Secretary General of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)
Sunil Gavaskar was appointed as the interim president of BCCI
General Sedki Sobhi sworn-in as the new Defence Minister and Army Chief of Egypt
The book entitled Rationalised Roman for Kashmiri written by Dr R L BhatWas released
Vice President of india released book entitled Akbar The Aesthete
Earth Hour was observed across the world
Tata Teleservices limited (TTL) launched new Wi-Fi business in Chennai
WHO certified India as a Polio Free country
Jammu and Kashmir became first state to Declare No Smoking Area in elections booths
The Third Nuclear Security Summit 2014 was held in The Hague, Netherlands
India successfully test-fired its nuclear-capable Prithvi-II missile