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India wins the Border-Gavaskar Trophy by a defeating Australia 4-0 in Test Series

India completed a historic 4-0 clean sweep against Australia by recording an emphatic six-wicket victory in the fourth and final cricket Test. Border–Gavaskar Trophy A Test cricket series...

March 29, 2013

West Bengal Govt to start monthly stipend for Old Writers & Litterateurs

The West Bengal Government has planned to commence from next month a monthly stipend/pension for Old Writers and Litterateurs. In the first phase of this plan: 170 people...

March 29, 2013

Arunachal Pradesh becomes the first state to introduce e-GPF facility

Arunachal Pradesh became the first state to introduce e-GPF. The state Finance department of Arunachal Pradesh will facilitate online access to 34,000 General Provident Fund (GPF) accounts via its redesigned...

March 29, 2013

2013 designated as the UN International Year of Water Cooperation by UNGA

Subsequent to a proposal initiated by Tajikistan, in 2010 UN General Assembly (UNGA) declared 2013 as the UN International Year of Water Cooperation via its resolution : A/RES/65/154....

March 29, 2013

Babasaheb Neelkanth Kalyani nominated as the Chairman of IJBLF

The Govt of India has nominated Babasaheb Neelkanth Kalyani (the Chairman and Managing Director of Bharat Forge Limited) as the Chairman of the India-Japan Business Leader’s Forum (IJBLF)....

March 29, 2013

GK & Current Affairs March 2013 – 28

March 29, 2013

Two-time Pulitzer winner Anthony Lewis passes away

Two-time Pulitzer winner Anthony Lewis (85) passed away. Anthony Lewis was a longtime New York Times columnist. He took up such causes as free speech, human rights and constitutional law. In...

March 29, 2013

Anil Ananthaswamy wins British Physics journalism prize

Anil Ananthaswamy, a London-based Indian-origin writer has won the inaugural Physics Journalism Prize. Anil Ananthaswamy, a consultant at New Scientist Magazine and author of ‘The Edge of Physics’. Anil’s article...

March 29, 2013

Justice (retd) Mir Hazar Khan Khoso takes over as Pakistan's 6th interim PM

Caretaker Prime Minister Justice (retired) Mir Hazar Khan Khoso took oath as sixth caretaker Prime Minister of  Pakistan. Justice Khoso held that the caretaker set-up was not going...

March 29, 2013

Tiger Woods Reclaims No. 1 Ranking with Win at 2013 Arnold Palmer Invitational

With his eighth career win at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, Woods reclaimed the world No.1 ranking for the first time since 2010. Woods replaces Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy atop the world rankings.

March 29, 2013

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