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National Ganga River Basin Authority- created in 2009 after widespread protests against
the earlier Ganga Action Plan (Phase I) launched by Rajiv Gandhi, in 1986 which had
failed to clean up the river.
The leaders of Kiribati are planning to move the whole population to Fiji fearing that
climate change could wipe out the entire Pacific archipelago. The Cabinet endorsed a plan
to buy nearly 6,000 acres on Fiji's main island, Viti Levu. Kiribati President - Anote Tong
The U.S. and Afghanistan entered into an agreement by which U.S will gradually
transfer control of Parwan (main U.S prison in Aghanistan) to Afghanistan
March 12
The Horticulture Research Station at Thadiyankudisai has been declared as the Nodal
Research Center for ‘hill banana'
A national award for sanitation and water has been constituted in the name of
Maharashtrian saint Sant Gadge Baba.
Amitabh Bachchan, will lend his voice and face to the character of Bheeshma Pitamah
in the animation film Mahabharat .
Darul Uloom Deoband has issued a fatwa against full body scans, ruling that the
exercise is against the Shariyat law.
The Tagore University for the Liberal Arts- first institution to be established under the
Universities for Innovation programme- will be set up in Pune. The aim of the
programme is to establish 14 such Universities for Innovation
An initiative has been launched under the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers (IEEE) to standardise virtual keyboards in Indian languages for use in smart
phones and tablet computers.
March 13
The government proposes to convert the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) into
a National Health Mission to provide health care to the urban poor also
A separate Department of Disability Affairs is proposed to be set up for greater focus
on addressing issues confronting persons with disabilities. At present, the disability sector
is under the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, and partially under the
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.