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- 100th birth anniversary of DK Pattammal, a doyen of Carnatic Music will be celebrated on March 19,
- She was the first woman to perform Ragam, Talam and Pallavi in concerts.
- Vastradaan Campaign - Free clothes donation campaign conducted by a member of the erstwhile royal family of Udaipur has received over 3 lakh items of clothing and created a Guinness world record for the largest collection of clothes for donation.
- Tibetan activists observed 60th anniversary of their National Uprising Day.
- This day on which thousands of Tibetans took to the streets of Lhasa rising up against the Communist China’s occupation of their homeland.
- Supreme Court has ruled that IPS officers even with a minimum residual tenure of 6 Months are also eligible for the post of DGP (Director General of Police). Earlier minimum 2 years residual tenure was compulsory.
- Wildlife officials spotted 31 blackbuck and 87 spotted deer during the annual wildlife estimation at Guindy National Park and Raj Bhavan reserved forest in Chennai.
- 12th March 2019 marks the 89th anniversary of the Dandi Satyagraha or Salt Satyagraha, an act of nonviolent civil disobedience in colonial India led by Mahatma Gandhi.
- Corporation Bank celebrated its 114th Foundation Day on 12th March at various centres of the bank across the nation. It is the day in 1906 when it started functioning in Udupi of Karnataka under the leadership of Khan Bahadur Haji Abdullah Haji Kasim Saheb Bahadur.
- Famous Novelist and Film Director Ved Rahi will be awarded with prestigious Kusumagraj Rashtriya Sahitya Puruskar.
- Kusumagraj award is named after Marathi Poet and playwright, late V V Shirwadkar who was popularly known as Kusumagraj.
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