• Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 4 March 2016 launched the Setu Bharatam project that aims to make all national highways free of Railway crossings by - 2019


• The tenure of Lok Sabha Speakership of PA Sangma who died on 4 March 2016 - 1996 and 1998

• National Safety Day was observed across India on 4 March 2016 to commemorate establishment of - National Safety Council (NSC)

• Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) on 1 March 2016 cleared the proposal to acquire two more Phalcon Airborne Early Warning and Control Systems (AWACS) at an expense of 7500 crore rupees under a tripartite agreement with - Israel and Russia

• Union Government on 3 March 2016 signed a memorandum of agreement (MoA) to provide a loan of 1000 crore rupees to a Central Public Sector Undertaking (CPSU), named - Fertilizers and Chemicals Travancore (FACT) Limited

• To protect the growing numbers of children and others with specific needs arriving in Europe, UNHCR, UNICEF in February 2016 launched a Twenty Child and Family Support Hubs, known as - Blue Dots

• As per the Draft Directions for NBFC - Account Aggregator released by the RBI, the Net Owned Fund of a NBFC should not be less than – 2 crore rupees

• Honduran environmentalist leader and winner of the 2015 Goldman Environmental Prize who was shot dead at her home in the town of La Esperanza - Berta Caceres

• The organisation which launched its first Uridashi Masala bonds to promote private sector development in India is - International Finance Corporation

• The Ministry which hosted the first Raisina Dialogue 2016 between 1 March 2016 and 3 March 2016 - Ministry of External Affairs

• The U-23 cricket team that won the Col CK Nayudu Trophy 2015-2016 is - Mumbai

• The city where the world’s most expensive train station opened on 3 March 2016 is – New York

• The painkiller whose long-term use is linked to lower risk for certain cancers, as per a study published in Jama Oncology, is – Aspirin

• He was the veteran All-India Forward Bloc leader who died on 3 March 2016 in Kolkata - Ashok Ghosh

• Flipkart launched its own digital wallet that can be used for only Flipkart transactions on 3 March 2016 named as - Flipkart Money

• The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) unanimously adopted a resolution to impose new sanctions and tighten some of its existing measures on 2 March 2016 against - North Korea

• He authored the book Fixed: Cash and Corruption in Cricket" (HarperCollins) that was in news in the first week of March 2016 - Journalist Shantanu Guha Ray