March 23 is being celebrated as Martyrs Day (also known as Shaheed Diwas or Sarvodaya Day) to commemorate the death anniversary of the freedom fighters Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar, and Shivaram Rajguru, who laid their lives for the freedom of India.
'Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav' celebration, a "Green Triangle" named after Mahatma Gandhi, has been inaugurated in Antananarivo, the capital city of Madagascar.
The US space agency, NASA, successfully launched the third in a series of four next-generation weather satellites, Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES), from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.