March  

In a sudden move, Tejasvi Surya, was picked by the BJP for Bengaluru South. He edged out Tejaswini Ananth Kumar and filed his nomination on March 26 for the upcoming Lok Sabha election.

I am not scared of A Manju and I will not resort to hate politics, said Prajwal Revanna after receiving the blessings of former Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah.
 

Abhishek Banerjee’s wife Rujira, along with a woman companion, was caught with 2 kg unaccounted-for gold on March 16 at the Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport

Jet Airways is immersed in a crisis that it is struggling to get out of. With Jet’s inability to repay debts, most of the aircrafts in the fleet are grounded and about 41 aircrafts are currently operating. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation has said on March 19 that the fleet is expecting a further downsizing.
 

The Kerala health department, since the beginning of March, has reported that around 118 people have suffered due to sunstroke in the state. The department has also issued an advisory to people on how to tackle the heat.
 

Cyclone Idai made landfall in East and Southern Africa around March 15 causing widespread destruction and loss of human lives in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi

MyNation had first reported that Rujira Banerjee, wife of West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee, was allegedly caught with 2 kg unaccounted-for gold on March 16 at Kolkata airport. Local police had allegedly interfered and demanded her immediate release. Abhishek rubbishes charges

The Indian Air Force will commission first four of its 15 Chinook helicopters in their fleet in Chandigarh on March 25. The induction of these helicopters will bound to make Pakistan and Chinese army uncomfortable as it will give swift access to the forces. 

According to reports, two teenage girls were abducted by goons during Hindu festival Holi on March 21. The victims were identified as  Raveena (13) and Rina (15) and they were forced to undergo religion conversion.

AAP members, including Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia, Rajendra Pal Gautam, Kailash Gahlot and Pankaj Gupta, have been accused of burning copies of BJP’s 2014 election manifesto, which had photos of their leaders, on March 13. 

Kameela Nasser has been named as the MNM candidate for the Chennai Central Lok Sabha constituency. The Kamal Haasan-led party released its candidates’ list for Lok Sabha on March 20

On March 19, the ruling AIADMK and the DMK released their manifestos for the upcoming Lok Sabha election and promised the people of Tamil Nadu that they would release the convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi's assassination and scrap the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) for medicine entrance examinations