- Great Stupa at Sanchi is in Madhya Pradesh.
- Megashtenes was an envoy of Seleucus.
- Maurya was the oldest dynasty of India.
- The division of Mauryan society into seven classes was particularly mentioned in The ‘Indica’ of Megasthenes.
- The valleys of Sindhu, Ganga and jamuna were brought together for the first time under one political authority by Chandragupat Maurya .
- Rajuka was appointed by Ashoka to administer justice in his empire.
- The Great Chandragupta Maurya was a contemporary of Alexander.
- King Ashoka also had the name Devanama Piyadasi Mauryan
- Max Muller was the first European to designate Aryan as a race
- The staple food of the Vedic Aryan was Milk and its products
- Panini wrote Sanskrit Grammar .
- Purushasukta is founded in the Rigaveda .
- Patanjali is well – known for the compilation of Yoga Sutra .
- The God who is the most prominent in ‘Rigaveda’ is Indra .
- The words Satyameva Jayate in the State Emblem of India have been adopted from Mundak Upanishad .
- Upanishad is books on Philosophy .
- The word Gotra occurs for the first time in Rigaveda.
- World Water Day is celebrated across the world on 22 March every year
- UN announced 20 March as International Happiness Day !
- March 20 is being observed as World Sparrow Day across the globe to raise consciousness in this regard.
- 21 March is observed as the World Forestry Day across the globe
- Neha Tripathi Won Sixth Leg of Hero Women's Pro Golf Tour 2013
- Bhaichung Bhutia Appointed as the Chairman of the AIFF’s Technical Committee
- Veteran Congress leader and former Nagaland Chief MinisterSenayangba Chubatoshi Jamir sworn-in as the Governor of Odisha
- Bangladesh President Zillur Rahman Passes away !
- S. Venkata Mohan a scientist of the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, won the National Bioscience Award for 2012 in Hyderabad.
- Sugathakumari, the Malayalam poetess was chosen for the Saraswati Samman 2012 for the poetry collection Manalezhuthu, which means The Writing on the Sand in English.
- Rajasthani author Hariram Meena was selected for the Bihari Puraskar for 2012 for Hindi novel Dhooni Tape Teer. The novel was published in 2008.
- Justice Sudarshan Reddy first Lokayukta of Goa
- Khil Raj Regmi sworn in as New Nepal PM
- Xi Jinping has taken over as China's new president and head of the military succeeding Hu Jintao.
- President of India, Pranab Mukherjee appointed Ali Mohd. Magrey and Dhiraj Singh Thakur as the Judges of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court.
- President also appointed Rabstan, Bansi Lal Bhat and Janak Raj Kotwal as the Additional Judges of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court, in their order of seniority.
- The US and South Korea started their annual military drills called Key Resolve on 11 March 2013.
- Former CBI Director Ashwani Kumar appointed Nagaland Governor
