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1. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has gifted Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud a gold-plated replica of the Cheraman Juma Masjid of Kerala.Situated in Thrissur district, the mosque is believed to be the first mosque built in India by Arab traders around 629 AD.
2. All-women IT centre set up by India's Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) - "glory of Saudi Arabia".
3. Canadian PM Justin Trudeau's meeting with Modi.
4. Stand up India scheme
5. Science Express - a unique science exhibition mounted on a 16-coach AC train was flagged-off on October 30, 2007 by the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
6. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe will undertake a crucial visit to China this week amid controversies over Chinese investments in Sri Lanka, including the ambitious USD 1.5 billion Port City project.
7. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has approved fixation of Nutrient Based Subsidy (NBS) rates.
8. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has given its approval for extension of time period of the Scheme "Special Industry Initiative for J&K" (SII J&K) Udaan till 2019-20.
9. The Institute of Plasma Research scientists  are working on LIGO project.
10. NITI Aayog : The Planning Commission, which was established in 1950 was on 1st January 2015 replaced by a new body, NITI Aayog or National Institution for Transforming India, which will serve as a policy think-tank for the central as well as state governments and have Prime Minister as its chairperson. NITI Aayog will have a CEO and a vice chairperson, to be appointed by the Prime Minister, in addition to some full-time members and two part-time members, while four union ministers would serve as ex-officio.
    

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1. Pakistan and Iran aim to increase annual trade volumes between the two countries to $5 billion by 2021.
2. Former Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi was appointed as adviser for state oil firm Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas), replacing another former premier Mahathir Mohamad who was fired from the post two weeks ago.
3. The likely collapse of SunEdison Inc's solar project in India, the first of 32 planned "ultra mega" complexes, could delay Prime Minister Narendra Modi's goal to increase renewable energy .
4. National Safai Karamcharis Finance and Development Corporation (NSKFDC)
5. "Swachhta Udyami Yojana" - objective of the Scheme is to provide concessional loan for viable community toilet projects and sanitation related vehicles to collect the garbage, to consolidate the ongoing efforts for realising the objectives of the 'Swachh Bharat Abhiyan' launched by Prime Minister on 2nd October, 2014.
6. Nepal's ruling Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist) welcomed cooperation deals inked with China during the ongoing visit of Prime Minister K. P. Sharma Oli.
7. On March 31, 2016, the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) controversially acquitted Serbian nationalist Vojislav Seselj of war crimes. The verdict prompted immediate condemnations from Croatian Prime Minister Tihomir Oreskovic.
8. Cyclone Winston, a grade five tropical cyclone, hit the Fiji Islands.
9. Fijian Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama
10. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asked for integration of all land records with Aadhaar at the earliest, emphasising at his monthly PRAGATI meeting.

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1. Agartala - India's third Internet gateway after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bangladeshi Premier Sheikh Hasina inaugurated an Internet connectivity project between the two South Asian neighbours.
2. Agriculture minister Sigurdur Ingi Johannsson is the new prime minister of Iceland
3. A Malaysian parliamentary inquiry presented today said a state-owned fund linked to Prime Minister Najib Razak made more than USD 3 billion in unexplained overseas payments, calling for its former CEO to be investigated.
4. Anirban Lahiri , Nick Faldo and Angel Cabrera, who ?? ( sports )
5. First National Tribal Carnival will be held in Delhi from April 29 to May 02, 2016.
6. Harnessing the economic potential of India-Saudi Arabia ties, Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacted with business leaders in Riyadh.
7. In a fillip to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'Digital India' and 'Startup India' initiatives, software and cloud giant Oracle on Thursday announced it is opening its first 'Oracle Startup Cloud Accelerator' in Bengaluru on April 8.
8. In his first overseas trip this year, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi will board the special Air India One flight, he will be greeted by its crew members wearing khadi fabric.
   

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1. India Water Week-2016
2. President of the Maldives Abdulla Yameen arrived India for a private visit
3. Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev and with Swiss President Johann Schneider-Ammann on the sidelines of the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington.
4. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, who has endorsed Bernie Sanders' presidential bid, appears in an emotional new ad for the Vermont senator, talking about her military service and why she believes he is the best choice for the next Commander-in-Chief.
5. Babu Jagjivan Ram's 109th Birth Anniversary
6. Taiwan's China-friendly Nationalist Party has elected its first female leader after ousting her as its presidential candidate ahead of January elections that were won by pro-independence rivals.
7. Ambassador of Iraq - Mr. Fakhri Hassan Mahdi Al-Issa
8. Ambassador of Ukraine, His Excellency Mr. Igor Polikha
9. New CII President Naushad Forbes, who is the Co-Chairman of Forbes Marshall, has pegged India's GDP growth in the 8 per cent range in 2016-17.
10. International convention on Homoeopathy -World Homeopathy Day 2016 (April 9, 2016)
11. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Friday bemoaned the timing of an April 6 referendum in the Netherlands on a treaty on closer ties between the European Union and Ukraine saying it comes as Europe is debating its own future.
    

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1. Irish president Michael D Higgins
2. 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising - Ireland
3. South Africa's parliament will debate on Tuesday a motion to impeach President Jacob Zuma, why ?
4. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni had ordered security forces into the Rwenzori region near the border with Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to stem a descent into lawlessness there since February's elections
5. Malaysia's debt-ridden state fund 1Malaysia Developmnent Berhad (1MDB) will become a shell company once its rationalisation plan is fully implemented, according to its president Arul Kanda
6. Pat Farmer, Australian Ultra-marathon long-distance runner and Former member of the Australian Parliament
7. Former Honduran President Rafael Callejas is expected to plead guilty to U.S. charges stemming from his involvement in bribery schemes under investigation at soccer's world governing body FIFA.

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1. Russia has boycotted the global Nuclear Security summit
2. Dhirubhai Ambani Memorial House at Chorwad in Gujarat
3. New Myanmar President Htin Kyaw, Aung San Suu Kyi
4. BJP party president Vijay Rupani
5. Black Lives Matter protest
6. Bolivian President Evo Morales has said that his country has decided to file suit against Chile at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over a water dispute.
7. Book : THE 14th COLONY by Steve Berry
8. David Cameron has raised his concerns about the steel crisis with the Chinese President Xi Jinping.

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1. Credit Suisse Chief Executive Tidjane Thiam
2. AliSports World Electronic Sport Games
3. Hanan al-Hroub won the Global Teaching Prize.
4. Oxford professor wins Abel Prize for Fermat's Last Theorem proof
5. Raghu Karnad's book shortlisted for Hessell-Tiltman Prize
6. Adobe appoints Anandan Padmanabhan as vice president, Adobe Research
7. Alibaba Group president Michael Evans and global managing director K Guru Gowrappan met Communications and IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad underlined the companys interest in India.Discuss
8. An ally of embattled President Dilma Rousseff has filed an impeachment petition against Vice President Michel Temer, citing testimony that implicates him in the sprawling corruption scandal shaking Brazil's political class.
9. Argentine President Mauricio Macri pledges to assert his innocence when he appears before a prosecutor to explain his offshore interests.
10. As China continues to increase its engagement with Maldives, the president of the Indian Ocean archipelago nation, Abdulla Yameen, is to arrive in India on April 10 on a two-day bilateral visit.

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1. Gallantry Awards 2015
2. Defence Investiture Ceremony
3. The Sahithya Premi Award instituted by Kerala Sahithya Mandalam for the most eminent reader in the State was presented to literary critic and columnist Vaikom Murali by former judge C.N. Ramachandran.
4. Malpe Ramadas Samaga Award
5. The Union Cabinet chaired by the Honourble Prime Minister has today given its approval to Recommendations on Fiscal Deficit Targets and Additional Fiscal Deficit to States during Fourteenth Finance Commission (FFC) award period 2015-20.
6. Toonz Media Group CEO P Jayakumar has won the FICCI-BAF (best animated frames) special award for outstanding contribution to the animation industry.
7. Virat Kohli awarded 'Man of the Tournament' in World T20
   

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1. > NASA's Long March 3A
2. > Shijian-4 and the Kuafu-1
3. > iHeartRadio Music Award
4. > The Odisha government to set up a Kosli dialect and literature research center at Ghens village in Bargarh district of the State.The research centre will be named after the poet Padma Shri awardee Haldhar Nag.
5. > The Pentagon awarded a USD17 million contract to Raytheon for supply of state of the art thermal weapon sights and spares which improve targeting and surveillance capabilities.
6. > The Pentagon has awarded Bell Helicopter a contract to manufacture and deliver the choppers to Pakistan under its foreign military sales funds.
7. > Hackathon Coding Competition March 2016.
8. > National Geoscience Awards - 2014 - April 5, 2016.
9. > सूरजकुंड शिल्प मेले का आयोजन पहली बार वर्ष 1987 में भारत के हस्तशिल्प, हथकरघा और सांस्कृतिक विरासत की समृद्धि एवं विविधता को प्रदर्शित करने के लिए किया गया था। केंद्रीय पर्यटन, कपड़ा, संस्कृति, विदेश मंत्रालयों और हरियाणा सरकार के सहयोग से सूरजकुंड मेला प्राधिकरण तथा हरियाणा पर्यटन द्वारा संयुक्त रूप से आयोजित यह उत्सव सौंदर्यबोध की दृष्टि से सृजित परिवेश में भारत के शिल्प, संस्कृति एवं व्यंजनों को प्रदर्शित करने के लिहाज से अंतर्राष्ट्रीय पर्यटन कैलेंडर में एक महत्वपूर्ण स्थान एवं शोहरत रखता है|

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1. Nukkad Shops, startup facilitating local stores to be more efficient and competitive, has won the HYSEA Awards for Best Software Product, Consumer Solution - Early Stage
2. Padma Shree awardee Sudhir Parikh of New Jersey had been appointed the chair of fund raising and advisory Committee of "Indian-Americans for Trump 2016"
3. Sahithya Premi Award
4. Samaga Award for Narayana Shetty
5. Sharad Haksar - pictures of Iceland have won five nominations at the 9th Annual International Color Awards.
6. TCS, Infosys, Wipro, CA Tech win HYSEA awards
7. Tears and cheers marked the 51st annual Academy of Country Music Awards Sunday night.
8. Ted Hughes poetry award
9. National Golden Arrow awards
10. The Aryabhata Award is presented annually to an individual for outstanding lifetime contribution to the promotion of astronautics in India
11. Alejandro Araven won the Pritzker Prize, the "Nobel" of architecture.

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1. Zaha Hadid
2. Late Capt. Shankar Laxman : Lifetime Achievement Award
3. Wayne Pacelle, CEO of The Humane Society of the United States
4. Keiko: The Untold Story of the Star of 'Free Willy' - by Theresa Demarest
5. Tony Award winner Sarah Jones
6. Seventh annual DVF awards
7. Lucca the Marine dog awarded medal for service
8. Manoj Kumar honoured with Dadasaheb Phalke Award
9. Olivier Awards.
10. Miss World CEO Julia Morley
11. NASA Awards Second-Round Prizes in Cube Quest Challenge

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1. National Film Awards
2. IIA architecture awards event in Kozhikode 
3. Sri Lankan thavil exponent Yazhpanam Thedchinamoorthy Pillai
4. Kendrick Lamar took home his first Grammy for the Best Rap Album for his hit album, 'To Pimp a Butterfly.'
5. Carl Reiner, the creator behind the Emmy Award-winning "Dick Van Dyke Show"
6. Dhirubhai Ambani : Padma Vibhushan award posthumously
7. Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap, mountaineer Arunima Sinha and satirist Ashok Chakradhar were among 46 eminent persons honoured with Yash Bharti award on Monday by the UP government.
8. Harrisons Malayalam Limited-RP Sanjiv Goenka Group has won maximum awards in the 12th edition of The Golden Leaf India Award: Southern Tea Competition held at Dubai.
9. Hockey India Annual Awards: Sreejesh, Deepika walk away with honours

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1. Niti Aayog task force backs ‘Tendulkar poverty line’
2. Oxford professor wins Abel Prize for Fermat's Last Theorem proof
3. Pakistan exporting 2,700 tonnes gypsum daily to India
4. President Mukherjee greets Tunisia on National Day eve
5. Proton-M successfully launches first ExoMars spacecraft
   

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1. Text of PM’s address at the World Sufi Forum
2. Car & bike pooling app Liftiee raises seed funding from Rannvijay Singh, Anita Hassanandani
3. Dalit author gets Special Contribution on Earth Award
4. DeitY to pitch for ‘invest in India’ at CeBIT 2016
5. The Bottom Line: 'The Association of Small Bombs' By Karan Mahajan
6. World Water Day on March 22

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1. Government Notifies Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016
2. Government to bring new tenancy law to promote rental housing
3. Hulk Hogan wins sex tape lawsuit, Gawker asked to pay $115 million in damages
4. India Aviation 2016 open for general visitors from Mar 19
5. Indian student wins Noor Inayat Khan Prize
6. Krishi Unnati Mela
7. Lassa fever death rate higher than expected
8. Mother Teresa to be declared a saint September 4

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1. The Minister of State for AYUSH (Independent Charge) and Health & Family Welfare, Shri Shripad Yesso Naik being felicitated at the National Arogya Fair at Auto Cluster Development & Research Institute (ACDRI), PCMC, at Chinchwad, in Pune on March 19, 2016.
2. The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee inaugurating the 5th Edition of Binennial Aviation Event on the theme 'India's Civil Aviation Sector : Potential a Global Manufacturing & MRO Hub' at Hyderabad on March 16, 2016.
3. The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee launching online Portal ’SIDBI Startup Mitra’at the presentation on key Recommendations Emanating from the Round Table Discussions during the Festival of Innovation at Rashtrapati Bhavan Cultural Centre on March 17, 2016.
4. The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee with differently abled children from Agartala attending National Integratiion Tour organized by the 4 Assam Rifles at Rashtrapati Bhavan on March 15, 2016.
5. The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee Witnessing the Exercise Iron Fist-2016 at Air Force Field Firing Range, Pokhran at Rajashan on March 18, 2016.
6. Too Naked for Nazis wins odd book prize

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1. Vivian Ziherl, Curator of "Before and After Origins," the Qalandiya International (The Palestinian Biennial), 2016
2. A nod to The World Sufi Forum for peace must prevail
3. Army organises \91White Water River Rafting Expedition' in Arunachal Pradesh
4. Aurobindo Pharma gets final approval for Naproxen Sodium Tablets (OTC)
5. Aurobindo Pharma receives USFDA approval for osteoporosis drug
6. Beauty queens celebrate 10th anniversary of Beti Foundation
7. [Book Review] Back to nature
8. [Book Review] Blogging for beginners
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1. President of India congratulates ISRO for the successful launch of PSLV-C32 carrying IRNSS-1F
2. President of Indias message on the eve of 48TH anniversary of Independence Day of Mauritius
3. Rest of India beat Mumbai to lift Irani Cup Cricket Title
4. Septorhinoplasty
5. National Seminar on 'Public Investment and Subsidies on Agricultural Inputs and the Upliftment of Agrarian Economy', in Hyderabad
6. 47th Raising Day of Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), New Delhi on March 09, 2016.
7. Indian Postal Service
   

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1. Rafi Ahmed Kidwai National Postal Academy
2. Indian Telecom Service (ITS)
3. Building Works Service (BWS)
4. National Telecommunications Institute for Policy Research, Innovation & Training (NTIPRIT), Ghaziabad
5. Nari Shakti Puraskar
6. Neverware
7. BarrierBreak launched the first ever news portal for persons with disability, NewzHook.
8. Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has commisssioned its first 700 MW supercritical thermal unit at Bellary Thermal Power Project
9. +[Book] Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
10. +[Book] Pranab Mukherjee's wilderness years
11. +[Book] Risky business
12. +[Book] The future of memory
13. Lok Sabha Speaker P.A.Sangma
14.  Bud Collins, long-time US tennis authority, dead at 86

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1. Aligarh Muslim University Vice Chancellor, Lt. Gen. Zameer Uddin Shah
2. Rabha Hasong Autonomous Council
3. Minister of State for Youth Affairs and Sports (Independent Charge), Shri Sarbananda Sonowal
4. Andhra Bank has announced the opening of its sovereign gold bond scheme tranche-III, sponsored by the Government of India
5. Conquest of Jewish Jerusalem in 70AD.
6. Tortotubus
7. World Glaucoma Week
8. DE-STAR - or Directed Energy System for Targeting of Asteroids and exploRation
9. Geneva Motor Show