The 86th Annual Academy Oscar Awards 2014 was announced on 2 March 2014 and the best

picture award was won by 12 Years A Slave of Steve McQueen. The film has portrayed
Americas slave in past.

Roger Federer on 1 March 2014 won singles title of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championship

Javad Zarif, the Foreign Affair Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran was on an official visit
to India from 27 February to 28 February 2014. During this visit he met with Salman
Khurshid, the Union External Affairs Minister of India and the two sides reviewed the
expanse of the bilateral relations between the two countries and emphasized to nurture the
relations also.

During the same meet in New Delhi, the two ministers on 28 February also agreed to take a
decision on Chabahar port by March 2014

Chandi Prasad Bhatt, the noted Gandhian environmentalist and social activist won the
Gandhi Peace Prize for the year 2013 on 28 February 2014

Mahindra entered Bhutan with the launch of electric car e2o

A music album entitled Raunaq based on the songs composed by music maestro AR
Rahman and written by Kapil Sibal, the Union Minister of Communications and Information
Technology was launched on 17 February 2014.

Union Minister of Road Transport & Highways (RT&H) R. Ramalinga Reddy inaugurated an
electric passenger bus in Bangalore on 27 February 2014

Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Gulam Nabi Azad inaugurated the All India Institute of Medical
Science (AIIMS), Bhubaneswar on 26 February 2014.

Sourav Kothari won the National Billiard Championships held in Lucknow on 26 February
2014. He beat Alok Kumar by 5-3

Dinesh Sarraf appointed next ONGC chief