| The team which has the 2016-17 Deodhar Trophy cricket tournament defeating Indian B in the finals | Tamil Nadu |
| The 85-year old cinema theatre in New Delhi which has closed down permanently on 30 March 2017 with the screening of Raj Kapoor's films Mera Naam Joker and Sangam | Regal Cinema |
| The first woman to be commissioned as a combat officer in the Border Security Force in its 51-year history | Tanushree Pareek |
| The team which has won the 71st edition of Santosh Trophy footbal tournament defeating Goa in the finals | West Bengal |
| The Long Range Maritime Patrol aircraft of the Indian Navy which has been de-inducted at a ceremony held at INS Rajali, Arakkonam | TU-142M |
| The venue of World Conference on Environment 2017 organised by National Green Tribunal from 25 to 26 March 2017 | New Delhi |
| The rank of India in the Global Architecture Performance Index 2017 released by World Economic Forum (Switzerland, Norway and Sweden ranked 1, 2 and 3 respectively) | 87 |
| The private sector bank which has launched a mobile banking app for rural customers named Mera iMobile (available in eleven Indian languages) | ICICI Bank |
| The French mathematician who has been awarded the 2017 Abel Prize for his work on wavelets, a mathematical theory with applications in data compression, medical imaging and the detection of gravitational waves | Yves Meyer |
| The city in which the Indian Space Research Organisation has commissioned world's third largest hypersonic wind tunnel which will help in the launch of aerospace vehicles at hypersonic speed | Thiruvanantapuram |
| India's rank in the World Happiness Report 2017 published by United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (with Norway, Denmark and Iceland in the top 3 positions) | 122 |
| The team which has won the 2016-17 Vijay Hazare Trophy defeating Bengal in the finals becoming the only team to win it five times | Tamil Nadu |
| The joint military exercise conducted by the armies of India and Oman in Himachal Pradesh from Mar 6 to Mar 19 was named | Al-Nagah-II 2017 |
| The Indian cricketer who has set a new Indian record for having played the longest innings by facing 525 balls in a test match against Australia (Rahul Dravid held the record of facing 495 balls in 2004) | Cheteswar Pujara |
| The former director of the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, (he first proposed a link between the El Nino phenomenon and the Indian monsoon and was known as Father of Indian Meteorology), who passed away on 18 March 2017 | Dev Raj Sikka |
| The venue of 3-day International Conference on Buddhism in the 21st Century – Perspectives and Responses to Global Challenges and Crises held from 17 to 19 Mar 17 (Inaugurated by His Holiness Dalai Lama and closing address by the Indian President Shri Pranab Mukherjee) | Rajgir, Bihar |
| The place in Himachal Pradesh at which India's first Pristine air-quality monitoring station has been dedicated to the nation by National Physical Laboratory | Palampur |
| The Indian cricketer who has been appointed United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) Cricket for Good ambassador for the upcoming ICC’s Women’s World Cup 2017 which is scheduled from June 24-23 July | Sachin Tendulkar |
| The rank of India in the Women in Politics (Women in Ministerial Positions) report released by UN Women and Inter-Parliamentary Union recently (first position - Bulgaria) | 88 |
| The rank of India in the Women in Politics (Women in Parliament) report released by UN Women and Inter-Parliamentary Union recently (frist position - Rwanda) | 148 |
| The eminent Indian scientist who has been conferred Honorary D. Litt by Mumbai University (presented by the President Shri Pranab Mukherjee) | M.S. Swaminathan |
| The river in New Zealand which has been granted the legal status of a person for the first time in the world | Whanganui River |
| The Chairman of International Cricket Council who has resigned from his post after being in office for less than a year | Shashank Manohar |
| The theme of Commonwealth Day observed on 13 March 2017 (second Monday of March) by Commonwealth of Nations | A Peace-building Commonwealth |
| The Indian golfer who has won the Indian Open Golf tournament for the second successive time | SSP Chawrasia |
| The place in Kerala where NTPC has installed India's largest floating solar photo voltaic plant | Kayamkulam |
| The badminton player from Taiwan who has won the All England Open Badminton Championship Women's Singles title | Tai Tzu-ying |
| The Malaysian player who has won the All England Open Badminton Championships Men's Singles title | Lee Chong Wei |
| The mission launched by the Central Government to achieve Blue Revolution (development of fisheries) is named | Mission Fingerling |
| The Konkani writer who has been awarded the Saraswati Samman 2016 for his novel Hawthan | Mahabaleshwar Sail |
| The only black woman to be nominated for three Academy Awards who has been named Harvard's Artist of the Year 2017 | Viola Davis |
| The period of maternity leave which has been allowed under the Maternity Benefit Act, 1961 with the Materntiy Benefits (Amendments) Bill, 2016 passed by the Parliament recently | 26 weeks |
| The theme of International Women's Day observed on 08 March 2017 | Be Bold for Change |
| The Bengaluru based institution which has become the first Indian institute to be ranked (at 8th position) in the Top-10 list of Times Higher Education list of best small universities | Indian Institute of Science |
| The place in gujarat where India's longest Extra-dosed bridge (across Narmada) was dedicated to the nation by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi | Bharuch |
| The 11th edition of 14 day Indo-Nepal Joint Military Exercise being conducted at Pithoragarh (Uttarakhand) with the participation of elite DURGA BAKSH Battalion of Nepal and the EKTA SHAKTI Battalion of The Punjab Regiment | Surya Kiran - XI |
| The second edition of joint exercise between the Indian and Oman Army which commenced at Bakloh, Himachal Pradesh | Al Nagah-li 2017 |
| The place in Punjab where country's largest national flag measuring 120 x 80 feet has been hoisted atop a 360-feet tall flag post | Attari (Amritsar) |
| The venue of 3 day festival Destination North East 2017 being organised by Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region from 6 to 8 March 2017 | Chandigarh |
| The American physician and researcher who passed away on 04 March 2017 (He had performed the first human liver transplant in 1963, and the first successful human liver transplant in 1967) | Thomas E Starzl |
| The Weapon Locating Radar (WLR) developed by DRDO and handed over to Indian Army for induction is named | SWATHI |
| The State which is scheduled to hold India's biggest river festival Namami Brahmaputra from March 31 to April 4 | Assam |
| The Pakistan diplomat who has been elected to the post of Secretary General of SAARC succeeding Nepal's Arjun Bahadur Thapa | Amjad Hussein B Sial |
| The former Portuguese footballer who has been appointed the head coach of India's U-17 football team by the All India Football Federation | Luis Norton De Matos |
| The Telecom Secretry who has been chosen to be India's permanent representative to the World Trade Organisation with effect from 01 June 2017 | J.S. Deepak |
| The place in Haryana from which Swachh Shakti Saptah was launched by Union Minister of Drinking Water and Sanitation, Shri Narendra Singh Tomar | Gurugram |
| The columnist, humorist, writer and playwright famous for his column Duniya Ne Undha Chasma in Gujarati who passed away on 01 Mar 2017 | Tarak Mehta |
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