MARCH

1.The 101st session of Indian Science Congress was held in Jammu.Prime Minister announced National
Mission on High Performance Computing with an outlay of Rs4500 crore.
2.16 Padma awards were given to Scientists this year.
3.China has hiked its military spending to $148 billion for this year.
4.Shushil Koirala becomes Nepals 37th Prime Minister.He belongs to the Nepali Congress Party.
5.The 2nd edition of Global Ayurveda Festival concluded in Kerala.Chief Guest was Mauritius President
Rajkeswar Puryaa.The theme of the event was Ayurveda in Public Health.
6.The largest Solar plant of India was launched at Bhagawanpur in Neemuch,Madhya Pradesh.The
Welspun Solar project is 130 MW plant.
7.Indias first minority cyber village was inaugrated in Chandoli in Alwar district of Madhya Pradesh.
8.V.V.Dongre and Guocheng Zhang were presented the International Gandhi Award 2013 for their work
in the field of Leprosy.
9.Karnataka won the Irani Cup cricket tournament defeating Rest Of India.
10.Karnataka won the Ranji trophy 2014.
11.Delhi Waveriders won the 2nd edition of Hockey India League(HIL) cup 2014.
12.India to host World Bridge Championship in 2015.
13.India is ranked 120th in Economic Freedom Index for 2014.
14.Marry Barra,General Motors CEO topped the list of Fortune 50 Powerful Business Women.2nd spot
went to IBM CEO Ginni Rommetty.3rd spot went to Pepsico CEO Indira Nooyi.The other Indian in the list
was ICICI Bank CEO Chanda Kochhar.

APRIL
1.Tripura tops the list for giving Rural jobs under MGNREGS.
2.Japan gives Rs960 crore loan for Agra Water Project.The loan will be provided by Japan International
Cooperation Agency(JICA).
4.India and Nepal armies held a joint military exercise named Surya Kiran VI.

5.The 3rd edition of the global Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) 2014 was held at the The
Hague,Netherlands.
6.Engineers India Limited(EIL),a leading engineering company has won its largest ever overseas
consultancy target for a 20-million ton oil refinery in Nigeria.
7.Coco-Cola is going to set up its biggest greenfield manufacturing facility in Asia in Nellore district of
Andhra Pradesh.It will cost about Rs1200 crore.

MAY
1.India has become the only country with legislated Corporate Social Responsibility(CSR).
2.Indian environmentalist activist Ramesh Agarwal won the prestigious Goldman Environment
Prize,popularly known as Green Nobel.
3.Koyal Rana was crowned the Femina Miss India 2014.
4.The Queen of Britian conferred the rank of Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the
British Empire(KBE) on former TATA group Chairman Ratan Tata.
5.India born US poet Vijay Seshadari won the prestigious 2014 Pulitzer Prize 2014 in the poetry category
for the collection of poem entitled 3 Section.
6.Cadbury India Limited,a subsidiary of Modolez International Inc.changed its name to Modole India
Foods Limited.However ,the popular products will be sold under Cadbury label only.
7.TCS and Mitsubishi signed an agreement to merge IT units in Japan.The new entity will have stake of
51% for TCS and 49% for Mitsubishi.

JUNE
1.Telengana becomes Indias 29th state.K.Chandrasekhar Rao will become the 1st chief minister of the
state.Telengana wil have 10 districts,with Hyderabad as Capital.
2.National Thermal Power Corporation(NTPC),the largest power company of India has been ranked 424th
among the worlds 2000 largest and the most powerful public companies.
3.24th ASEAN Sumit was held in Nay Pyi Taw,Myanmmar.
4.Indian Navy and Republic Of Singapore Navy participated in bilateral Naval Exercise named SIBEX 14.
5.Nripendra Mishra is the new principal secretary of PM.
6.ONGC Videsh Limited(OVL) and Russias largest oil and gas producer Rosneft have decided to jointly
explore hydrocarbon in the Artic Offshore.

7.Japan won the Thomas Cup 2014 and China won the Uber Cup 2014.
8.Now Minors above 10 years can operate saving account.They can also avail of ATM facility and Cheque
Book

JULY
1.PM Narendra Modi inaugrated the 240 megawatt Uri-II Hydro electric Project(HEP) in North
Kashmir,Baramulla district.
2.Air India became the 1st Indian airline to join the Global Airline Alliance.
3.Year 2014 is the 60th anniversary of Panchsheel.
4.Scientists announced to build world largest telescope named ATLAS(advanced technology largeaperture space telescope).
5.Mukul Rogtagi is the new Attorney General of India.
6.Ranjit Sinha is the new Solicitor General of India.
7.Bor wildlife sanctuary in Maharashtra became the 47th Tiger Reserve of India.
8.Jhanpith Award 2013 was given to noted Hindi poet Mr.Kedarnath Singh.
9.Camel is the new state animal of Rajasthan.
10.Apollo Hospitals and Emirates airline have joined hand to connect International patients seeking
health care in India.
11.Citibank is the largest foreign bank in India for FY14 in terms of assets.
12.Wipro bags $1.12 billion deal from Canadian energy and utility company ATCO.
13.Bharti Enterprises sold its major stake in Beetel Infotech to Brightstar Corp.