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Mumbai won the Ranji Trophy 2024 by defeating Vidarbha by 169 runs at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. Mumbai has won the Ranji title after 8 years. With this, Mumbai also won its 42nd title in the first class tournament. Rahane has also become the 26th captain of Mumbai to win the Ranji Trophy.

World Consumer Rights Day is celebrated every year on 15 March to create more awareness about consumer rights. On this day, people discuss measures to create awareness about consumer rights. This is different from National Consumer Rights Day.

The 12th edition of the India-Italy Military Cooperation Group (MCG) meeting took place in New Delhi on March 12-13, 2024. The two-day meeting focused on new initiatives to enhance defense cooperation and military-to-military exchanges.

Naval forces of China, Iran and Russia recently launched a joint exercise named “Maritime Security Belt-2024” near the Gulf of Oman. The exercise, which began on March 11 and ended on March 15, is the fifth joint military exercise between the three countries in recent years. The exercise aims to safeguard regional maritime security and strengthen maritime cooperation.

The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting launched Prasar Bharati – Shared Audio Visual for Broadcasting and Broadcasting (PB-SHABD) as well as revised websites for DD News and All India Radio as well as an updated News on Air mobile app. PB-SHABD, a news sharing service of Prasar Bharati, provides daily news feeds in video, audio, text, photo and more formats across fifty categories.

Telangana Governor and Puducherry Lieutenant Governor Tamilisai Sundararajan have resigned from both their posts. He has sent his resignation to President Draupadi Murmu. Soundararajan served as the second Governor of Telangana state. He assumed charge on September 8, 2019.

Former Tata Sons Chairman Ratan Tata was honored with the prestigious PV Narasimha Rao Memorial Award for his outstanding philanthropic contributions. The PV Narasimha Rao Memorial Award is named after the former Prime Minister of India. This award is given to people dedicated to social and humanitarian welfare.

Senior bureaucrat Rahul Singh has recently been appointed Chairman of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) by the Central Government. The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has approved the appointment of Singh, a 1996 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Bihar cadre, as the Chairman of CBSE. He will replace Nidhi Chhibber, who has been named advisor in NITI Aayog.

Retired IAS officer Navneet Kumar Sehgal has been appointed as the new Chairman of Prasar Bharati, the post was vacant for four years. Sehgal replaced A Surya Prakash, whose tenure ended in February 2020. Prasar Bharati is India's largest public broadcasting agency. It was established in the year 1997.

Union Minister of Tribal Affairs; Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister Arjun Munda recently laid the foundation stone of 'Centre for Preservation and Promotion of Tribal Culture and Heritage' in Kharsawan district of Jharkhand through virtual medium. A budget of Rs 10 crore has been allocated for the establishment of this centre.