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• National Vietnam War Veterans Day on March [latex]29^{th}[/latex] honors the men and women who served and sacrificed during the longest conflict in United States history.


• It was on March [latex]29^{th}[/latex], 1973, when combat and combat support units withdrew from South Vietnam. Generations later, Veterans of this time period are gaining the respect that was not so freely given upon their return.


• Involving five U.S. presidents, crossing nearly two decades and 500,000 U.S.military personnel, it left an indelible mark on the American psyche.

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• It would be their first meeting since Mr. Trump’s second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Vietnam last month.


• South Korean President Moon Jae-in will travel to the United States in two weeks for a summit with President Donald Trump on stalemated North Korean nuclear diplomacy.

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• OBOR, also called the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), is a multi-billion dollar project focused on improving connectivity and cooperation among Asian countries, Africa, China and Europe.


• Chinese projects around the world, including its One-Belt-One-Road (OBOR) initiative, have an element of “national security” and are less of an economic offer, according to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

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• Ms Ressa, the founder of news site Rappler, was also arrested last month over an alleged internet libel case.


• Press freedom advocates say the veteran reporter is being targeted by President Rodrigo Duterte because of Rappler's critical reporting on the government.


• Eleven legal cases have been filed against Rappler since January 2018.

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• MPs will be asked to vote again on Brexit but only on part of the deal negotiated with the EU.


• They will vote on the withdrawal agreement on the Irish "backstop", divorce bill and citizens' rights.


• But it will not amount to a third "meaningful vote" on the deal, as it will not include a vote on the UK's future relationship with the EU.

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• At UN, India’s permanent representative Syed Akbaruddin said ‘serial offenders’ will continue to support terrorism, in a veiled reference to Pakistan.


• Akbaruddin also said ‘serial offenders’ will continue to support terrorism, in a veiled reference to Pakistan.


• “Terrorists are going to be more creative in finding ways to violate the rule book also the unfortunate reality is the states which are apologists will continue to provide alibis to justify their actions and inactions to as was done by a serial offender earlier today,” he noted.

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• Shyam Saran Negi of Kinnaur district in Himachal Pradesh has voted in every Lok Sabha, assembly and panchayat elections and at 102, he is all set to vote again in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.


• Shyam Saran Negi exercised his franchise in Himachal Pradesh’s Kinnaur district in 1951, he created history by becoming Independent India’s first voter.


• More than 60 years on, he is a VIP of sorts as there is full media glare whenever he goes out to vote.

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• The Constitution Bench is hearing a clutch of petitions, including one by Member of Parliament Jairam Ramesh, challenging certain provisions of the Finance Act, 2017


• which modify the terms of appointment and functioning in various statutory tribunals, including the National Green Tribunal.


• The Centre defended the passing of the Finance Act, 2017 as a Money Bill.

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• NIA court that acquitted all the accused in the 2007 Samjhauta Express blast case, where 68 people were killed, said in its judgement that the NIA had miserably failed to prove the charges framed against the accused.


• Special Court judge Jagdeep Singh said the court had to “conclude this judgment with deep pain and anguish as a dastardly act of violence remained unpunished for want of credible and admissible evidence.”

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• The bank is on course of touching a mortgage portfolio of ₹2 lakh cr by March 2020, says a top official.


• Private sector lender ICICI Bank announced the launch of two instantaneous home loan facilities, one of which would enable instant and paperless home loan approval of up to ₹1 crore.

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• The government has given the latter a booster shot, announcing a capital infusion of ₹5,042 crore.


• The capital infusion will be by way of preferential allotment of equity shares (special securities/bonds) of the bank during FY2018-19 as the government’s investment, Bank of Baroda said in a stock exchange notice.

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• The 2017 champion Sindhu hardly broke a sweat to seal a 21-11, 21-13 victory over Joy Xuan Deng of Hong Kong in a women’s singles match.


• Indian shuttlers PV Sindhu, Kidambi Srikanth, B Sai Praneeth and Parupalli Kashyap advanced to the quarterfinals of the India Open badminton tournament at the KD Jadhav Hall, Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium in Delhi

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• Suresh Raina, became the first batsman to breach the 5000-run mark in the IPL. He got to the milestone with a single.


• RCB captain Virat Kohli became the first batsman to score 5,000 runs for one team in Indian Premier League, achieving the feat during his 32-ball 46-run innings against Mumbai Indians.


• The 30-year-old is the fastest batsman to reach the 5,000-run mark (157 innings)

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• March 2019, Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen has been honoured with the prestigious Bodley Medal, the highest honour bestowed by the University of Oxford’s world-famous Bodleian Libraries for his contribution in literature, culture, science, and communication.


• In 1998, He was awarded the prestigious Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his work in welfare economics and social choice theory.

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• Delhi government school teacher, Manu Gulati has been honoured with the Martha Farrell award for Excellence in Women’s Empowerment 2019 in the Most Promising Individual category with prize money of INR 1,50,000 for promoting gender quality and women’s empowerment.


• The Awards were first awarded in 2017 in the memory of Dr. Martha Farrell, a prominent activist for gender equality and women’s empowerment.


• The Award is co-sponsored by Rizwan Adatia Foundation (RAF) and Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA) and backed by Martha Farrell Foundation (MFF).

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• Sony Chairman and former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Kazuo Hirai will retire on June 18 after spending 35 years at the company.


• The Japanese multinational conglomerate announced. Hirai was appointed CEO and President of Sony in 2012, shortly after it lost $6.4 billion in 2011. He stepped down as the company CEO and became the Chairman in 2018.

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• Retired Justice DK Jain, ombudsman of the BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India) has been appointed as BCCI’s ad-hoc Ethics Officer till a permanent appointment takes place.


• He will look into all the conflict of interest cases. At present, he is looking into the chat show controversy of Hardik Pandya and K.L Rahul, due to which they served provisional suspension which was eventually removed.

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• Telangana government has launched a digital business networking portal for MSMEs – Telangana State GlobalLinker (ts-msme.globallinker.com).


• This networking portal will digitise over 2.3 million MSMEs of the State which would connect them to the global economy.


• It will also allow MSMEs to create a digital profile for their business, connect with other global MSMEs, enable them to find buyers and suppliers, gain visibility and receive up-to-date industry trends and news.

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• Russian cosmonaut Valery Bykovsky, who made the first of his three flights to space in 1963, passed away at the age of 84 years.


• He was born on 2nd August 1934 in Pavlovsky Posad, Soviet Union. In June 1963, He first flew to space as a member of the Vostok-5 crew.


• He was a recipient of the Hero of the Soviet Union and Order of Lenin awards.