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India win’s Women's FIH Hockey World League Round Two
India on 15 March 2015 has won FIH Women’s Hockey World League Round Two competition title. In the final match played at Major Dhyan Chan stadium in New Delhi, Indian women team defeated Poland team by score of 3-1 goals. ..
Month: Current Affairs - March, 2015
Kidambi Srikanth wins Swiss Open Grand Prix Gold 2015
India’s ace shuttler Kidambi Srikanth on 15 March 2015 won badminton’s prestigious $120,000 Swiss Open Grand Prix Gold title in Men’s singles category. In the final match he defeated Denmark’s defending champion Viktor Axelsen by score of 21-15, 12-21 and ..
Month: Current Affairs - March, 2015
Noted Gandhian Narayan Desai passes away
Noted Gandhian Narayan Desai on 15 March 2015 passed away in Surat, Gujarat. He was 90. He is son of Mahatma Gandhi’s personal secretary and biographer Mahadev Desai. About Narayan Desai He was born on 24 December 1924 at Valsad ..
Month: Current Affairs - March, 2015
Pioneer of Israeli cinema Lia van Leer passes away
Lia van Leer, pioneer of Israeli cinema passed away on 13 March 2015 in Jerusalem, Israel. She was 90. She was the founder of Israel Film Archive, Jerusalem Cinematheque, Haifa Cinematheque and the Jerusalem Film Festival. About Lia van Leer ..
Month: Current Affairs - March, 2015
Union Government merges Green India Mission merged with MGNREGA to reclaim forest cover
Union Government has merged Green India Mission (GIM) with the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) Scheme. By merging GIM with MGNREGA Scheme government seeks to increase 10 million hectares of forest cover. Key facts National Mission for ..
Month: Current Affairs - March, 2015
Cyclone PAM hits archipelago of Vanuatu
Powerful cyclone Pam on 14 March 2015 slammed the south Pacific archipelago of Vanuatu. The cyclone Pam is category five tropical storm and has brought destructive 270 kilometre-per-hour winds and torrential rain along with it after it had changed its course ..
Month: Current Affairs - March, 2015
Endophytic alga species found in Indian Ocean
Researchers have found Endophytic alga belonging to Ulvella leptochaete species thriving in the Indian Ocean. This species of alga is originally inhabitant to the seas around the British Isles and the East China Sea. It belongs to a type known ..
Month: Current Affairs - March, 2015
NASA’s Hubble telescope spots ocean on Jupiter's moon Ganymede
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has spotted massive saltwater ocean under the icy crust of Jupiter’s largest moon Ganymede. Scientists believe that this finding could potentially support life. Hubble Space Telescope’s finding was published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Space ..