Current Affairs One-liners — March 2026

Thu, 12 Mar 2026

• The Karnataka Cabinet approved the Karnataka Freedom of Choice in Marriage and Prevention and Prohibition of Crimes in the name of Honour and Tradition (Eva Nammava Eva Nammava) Bill, 2026 on 12 March 2026.
• The Technology Development Board under the Department of Science & Technology announced financial support for OrbitAID Aerospace's satellite docking and refuelling technology on 12 March 2026.
• The National Highways Authority of India issued the letter of award on 12 March 2026 for a 7-km greenfield bypass around Gangaikonda Cholapuram on NH-81 in Tamil Nadu, whose foundation stone the Prime Minister laid on 11 March.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke by telephone with Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian on 12 March 2026, urging dialogue and diplomacy amid the West Asia conflict.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid homage on 12 March 2026 to those who took part in the Dandi March, which began on 12 March 1930, and invoked it at the NXT Summit the same evening.
• C-DOT's AI-driven fraud detection platform FraudPro was named among the top finalists of the GSMA's Global Mobile (Glomo) Awards at Mobile World Congress 2026 in Barcelona, the Communications Ministry said on 12 March 2026.
• The Publications Division of the Information and Broadcasting Ministry released 'Bharat 2026 – A Reference Annual' in English and Hindi on 12 March 2026.

Wed, 11 Mar 2026

• On 11 March 2026 in New Delhi, the Lok Sabha rejected by voice vote the Opposition's resolution under Article 94(c) seeking the removal of Speaker Om Birla, the first such motion in nearly four decades.
• NITI Aayog released the second Fiscal Health Index on 11 March 2026 in New Delhi; Odisha topped the 18 major states with a score of 73.1 and Arunachal Pradesh led the 10 North-Eastern and Himalayan states.
• On 11 March 2026 at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, President Droupadi Murmu graced the national event of Jal Mahotsav 2026, the first nationwide campaign of its kind under the Jal Jeevan Mission, running from 8 to 22 March.
• On 11 March 2026 in Paris, the 32 member countries of the International Energy Agency unanimously agreed to make 400 million barrels of emergency oil stocks available, and India welcomed the decision as an IEA Associate Member.
• On 11 March 2026 in Kochi, Kerala, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated and laid the foundation stones of development projects worth about ₹11,000 crore.
• On 11 March 2026 in New Delhi, Union Minister Pralhad Joshi addressed the International Solar Alliance's Foundation Day, noting that the alliance now has 125 member and signatory countries.
• The Railway Ministry said on 11 March 2026 that version 4.0 of Kavach, India's indigenous automatic train protection system, has been commissioned on 1,452 route km covering the high-density Delhi–Mumbai and Delhi–Howrah routes.
• On 11 March 2026 in Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched projects worth about ₹5,650 crore in clean energy, petroleum, highways, railways and rural roads.
• On 11 March 2026 at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi, Paralympic champion Praveen Kumar won the men's T44 high jump with 1.96 m and Preeti Pal won the women's 100m T35/T37 in 14.46 s on day one of the World Para Athletics Grand Prix.
• On 11 March 2026 at the GMC Balayogi Hockey Ground in Hyderabad, India beat Wales 4-1 at the FIH Hockey Women's World Cup Qualifiers, with a hat-trick from Navneet Kaur, to top Pool B.
• On 10–11 March 2026 at the Wildlife Institute of India in Dehradun, a national workshop by the Environment Ministry's Project Elephant Division prioritised 77 railway stretches across 14 states and recommended 705 mitigation structures to prevent elephant–train collisions.
• The Unique Identification Authority of India announced on 11 March 2026 its first structured bug bounty programme, with 20 security researchers testing the UIDAI website, myAadhaar portal and Secure QR Code app.
• Union Textiles Minister Giriraj Singh launched Bharat Tex 2026 in New Delhi on 11 March 2026; the third edition of the global textile fair will be held at Bharat Mandapam from 14 to 17 July 2026.
• Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan approved on 11 March 2026 the procurement of 1,25,855 tonnes of gram, urad, groundnut and sunflower worth over ₹894 crore at MSP in Telangana for Rabi 2026.

Tue, 10 Mar 2026

• The Union Cabinet on 10 March 2026 extended the Jal Jeevan Mission up to December 2028, raising its total outlay to ₹8.69 lakh crore and shifting its focus from building infrastructure to delivering water services under JJM 2.0.
• The Union Cabinet on 10 March 2026 amended the FDI rules for investments from countries sharing a land border with India, allowing non-controlling beneficial ownership of up to 10% under the automatic route and a 60-day decision timeline for specified manufacturing sectors.
• The Agriculture Ministry released the Second Advance Estimates of crop production for 2025–26 on 10 March 2026, putting Kharif foodgrain output at 1,741.44 lakh tonnes and Rabi foodgrain at 1,745.13 lakh tonnes, both higher than last year.
• The Department of Fertilizers said on 10 March 2026 that the Natural Gas (Supply Regulation) Order, 2026 places fertilizer plants in 'Priority Sector-2', assuring them at least 70% of their average gas consumption of the last six months.
• The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved on 10 March 2026 two railway multitracking projects worth about ₹4,474 crore in West Bengal and Jharkhand, adding about 192 km to the network.
• On 10 March 2026 in Lucknow, the Uttar Pradesh Cabinet chaired by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath approved the Mukhyamantri Gram Parivahan Yojana-2026 to extend bus services to all 59,163 gram sabhas in the state.
• The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved on 10 March 2026 the four-laning of the 80.45-km Badnawar–Petlawad–Thandla–Timarwani section of NH-752D in Madhya Pradesh at a cost of ₹3,839.42 crore, completing a four-lane link from Ujjain to the Delhi–Mumbai Expressway.
• Union Jal Shakti Minister C. R. Paatil inaugurated the new office of the National Dam Safety Authority in New Delhi on 10 March 2026 and launched its website and the AI-enabled platform NETRA.
• On 10 March 2026 at South Block, New Delhi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh released 'Defence Forces Vision 2047: A Roadmap for a Future-Ready Indian Military', prepared by Headquarters Integrated Defence Staff.