Indian Current Affairs -March, 2010

• Novak Djokovic won the Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships beating Mikhail Youzhny (7-5, 5-7, 6-3) in the final.
• Indian American Amy K. Singh is appointed by Obama Administration to serve on the US President’s Advisory Committee on the Arts for the prestigious John F. Kennedy Centre for Performing Arts.
• Xynthia of the winter storm that badly ruined the western coast of Europe on 28th February, 2010, battering France and four other countries and killing more than 50 people.
• Coach of Ivory Coast Vahid Halilhodzic was sacked from his job following their poor showing at this year’s African Nations Cup.
• An Indian-American senior executive Sanjay Gupta has been chosen by the World Economic Forum for its 2010 class of Young Global Leaders.
• A vast settlement surrounded by a fortified structure believed to be about 4,500 years old and belonging to the Harappan civilisation has been excavated at a village in Kutch district of Gujarat. Shikarpur is that village.
• Kathryn Bigelow (Film: The Hurt Locker) became the first female to win a Best Director Oscar award.
• Cricketer Ravindra Jadeja has been suspended for the third edition of Indian Premiere League as he was bargaining for more salary from the franchisees, without getting a clearance from his franchise e Rajasthan Royals for this season.
• Legendary painter M F Husain surrendered his Indian passport on March 7 to the Indian Embassy in Doha.
• Sachin Tendulkar has been named as the most influential person in Indian sports in the annual Sports Illustrated Power list.
• Former India captain and legendary all-rounder Kapil Dev was inducted into the Cricket Hall of Fame at a ceremony held at the ICC headquarters in Dubai.
• Pravinchandra V. Gandhi- He was chairman emeritus of the Saurashtra Trust, which publishes the Janmabhoomi group of newspapers and magazines.
• Sachin Tendulkar.cricketer who has been named the Goodwill Ambassador of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
• India country finished the 8th position in the recently concluded Hockey World Cup -2010.
• Sachin Tendulkar cricket Player’s autographed ticket to watch IPL action on the big screens of theatres across the country was auctioned and fetched Rs 11 lakh.
• Dr. Manmohan Singh, Prime minister, India has been declared World Statesman of the year 2010 by the Appeal of Conscience Foundation.
• Professor Shankar Balasubramanian has been named as the BBSRC (Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council) Innovator of the Year, winning £10,000 in recognition of his work on Solexa sequencing, the high speed genome sequencing technology that is revolutionising bioscience.
• Prithvi-II’ and ‘Dhanush’of India’s indigenously developed ballistic missiles which are successfully test-fired on 27-03-2010 from different locations off the Orissa coast, adding more firepower to the armed forces of India.
• Sonia Gandhi, Congress president is appointed as chairperson of the National Advisory Council (NAC).
• BrahMos supersonic anti-ship cruise missile – of the supersonic anti-ship cruise missile which has been successfully test-fired by the Indian Navy on March 21, 2010.
• Vishwast’ of Indian Coast Guard Ship, the first of the new generation Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPV) which was commissioned by AK Antony, Defence Minister on March 17,2010.
• India country claimed overall title in the fifth Commonwealth Boxing Championships held in Delhi.
• Mumbai Indian City host “FICCI Frames-2010”, a three-day mega media and entertainment industry event which is inaugurated by Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan on March 16, 2010.
• M A Yousuf Ali – is the only Indian who figured in the list of the most influential outside the ruling families in the UAE, published by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ).
• Doha resident and dedicated bird photographer Dileep Kumar has scored a major achievement – with a photo taken in Qatar recently being chosen as among the top five out of 39,387 entries in BirdGuide’s online “Photo of the Year 2009”.
• John Howard is set to become president of the International Cricket Council in 2012.
• Carlos Slim Helu- (Photo courtesy AP)He beat Bill Gates and Warren Buffett for the top spot on Forbes magazine’s annual list of billionaires, becoming the first person from outside the U.S. to lead the rankings in 16 years. Indians Mukesh Ambani (4th spot) and Lakshmi Mittal (5th spot) figured in that list.
• Laila Ghannam became the first ever Palestinian woman, who takes the governor’s post in the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) which was established in 1994.
• Mr. Suresh Kalmadi and Mr.Kodikunnil Suresh- Santosh Bagrodia is the new Secretary of Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP) in the Rajya Sabha.