- State Bank of India has announced on 9th March 2020 that Chalasani Venkat Nageswar, Deputy Managing Director of the International Banking Group, has been given additional charge of deputy managing director and chief financial officer (CFO) of the bank with immediate effects.
- Former Law Minister H.R. Bharadwaj, India’s second longest-serving Law Minister (between 2004 and 2009) and former Karnataka Governor passed away after a cardiac arrest on 8th March 2020.
- Tamil Nadu has topped the list of the states in terms of the number of participants in the Union Government’s flagship programme Poshan Abhiyan for improving the nutritional status of Indian citizens.
- Attukal Pongala (popularly known as the Women's Sabarimala), one of the largest all-women religious congregations in the world (Guinness record holder) is to be held on 9th March 2020 in Thiruvananthapuram.
- A new political party named "Jammu Kashmir Apni Party", has been launched in Jammu and Kashmir by Altaf Bukhari (Finance Minister of the erstwhile J&K state) on 8th March 2020.
- Moody Slashed India’s GDP to 5.3% for 2020
- North Korea Fires Three Projectiles
- Mahatma Gandhi National Fellowship Programme
- Nari Shakti Puraskar
