19 March 2012

• Sushma Swaraj : Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha
• Arun Jaitley : Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha
• Sadananda Gowda : Karnataka CM
• BS Yeddyurappa : Former Karnataka CM
• Demanding BJP party legislature to replace him with Gowda as CM
• Naveen Patnaik : Odisha CM
• Maoists kidnapped two Italian tourists
• SM Krishna : Union Minister of External Affairs
• KM Mani : Kerala Finance Minister
• Dinesh Trivedi : To step down as Union Railway Minister
• Mamata Banerjee : West Bengal CM
• Tarique Rahman : Son of Former Bangladesh PM Khaleda Zia
• Indicted by a special court for a 2004 grenade attack killing 24 people
• Oommen Chandy : Kerala CM
• Flagged off Kerala's first Mainline Electrical Multiple Units (MEMU) service from Ernakulam to Kollam
• Ashish Bagga : President of Indian Newspaper Society (INS)
• Yasin Malik : Chairman of Jammu & Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF)
• Christine Lagarde : MD of International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• Pranab Mukherjee : Union Finance Minister
• Montek Singh Ahluwalia : Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission
• Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG) suggested election in Maldives at the earliest
• Federation Cup Basketball
• Men : Punjab Police bt ONGC
• Women : Southern Railway bt Chhattisgarh
• Australian Grand Prix : Jenson Button (UK; Team : McLaren) claimed the title
• World No.1 Sebastian Vettel (Germany; Team : Red Bull) finished second
• Lionel Messi : Argentine Footballer of FC Barcelona
• Scores 150th goal of Spanish league La Liga
• Oscar Pistorius : Double-Amputee Athlete of South Africa
• Swiss Open Grand Prix Gold Badminton : World No.5 Saina Nehwal (Ind) retained the title beating Shixian Wang (China)