Weekly Current Affairs Quiz: April 4th week (24 April – 30 April)

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India is Second, replaced Japan. China is at top

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Haryana beat arch rivals Kerala after six years to win the team championship at the National Youth Athletics Meet

Dubbed as Asia’s largest Baptist Churchand Asia’s second largest Church, the new Sumi Baptist Church Zunheboto (SBCZ) in Nagaland was dedicated by Rev. Dr. Solomon Rongpi, general secretary of the CBCNEI

Mridul Gehlot- President-AKFI

Recognizing the contribution rendered by All India Radio (AIR) Aizawl for the over all progress & development of Mizoram, AIR Aizawl has been honoured with the prestigious “Lelte Award”.

Nobel laureate and social activist Kailash Satyarthi has been presented the P.C. Chandra Purashkar (award) for his global crusade against child slavery and exploitative child labour.

Total 6 person received the award of which one was India: Prafulla Samantara

Renowned filmmaker and actor Kasinadhuni Viswanath, best known for his award-winning movies in Telugu, Tamil and Hindi, has won the Dadasaheb Phalke award for the year 2016 for his outstanding contribution to the film industry.

Versatile playback singer Vani Jairam was presented the Ghantasala national award instituted by the Ghantasala National Art Academy

India’s largest financial marketplace for loans and credit cards Paisabazaar.com has announced a first of its kind strategic partnership with YES Bank, India’s fifth largest private sector bank.

Yes Bank

YES BANK, India’s fifth largest private sector Bank, has won the prestigious ‘Golden Peacock Innovative Product / Service Award 2017’ for its innovative mobile technology product, SIMsePAY at the Dubai Global Convention 2017 for the 27th World Congress on Leadership for Business Excellence & Innovation and Presentation of Golden Peacock Awards.

President of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades has arrived in India on a 5-day visit

SIPP was was in force till March 31 this year, now extended by 3 years till March 2020

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India’s first and longest ropeway will connect Mumbai with the Elephanta Island in the Arabian Sea. The proposed 8-km long ropeway will be constructed by the Mumbai Port Trust

The International Road Federation (IRF) has announced that India is set to host the 18th World Road Meeting (WRM 2017) on November 13.
The theme of this year’s edition is ‘Safe Roads and Smart Mobility: The Engines of Economic Growth’.
The 17th World Road Meeting (WRM 2013) was held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Uttar Pradesh

GMR Hyderabad International Airport Ltd has announced it has won the Golden Peacock Business Excellence Award 2017 in the large scale industry-Transportation-Aviation category.

India and France have began their week-long bilateral naval exercise Varuna

India and France have began their week-long bilateral naval exercise Varuna in France’s Toulon port.

The youngest ever chancellor of any university in the nation, Dileep K Nair, who currently is the Chancellor of the North East Frontier Technical University (NEFTU) in Arunachal Pradesh, received Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar International Foundation Kerala State award for the year 2016-17.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that it is ready to go-ahead with the testing of the first malaria vaccine, RTS,S in real-world settings in year 2018

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on May 24 inaugurate the country’s longest bridge over the Brahmaputra river (Dhola–Sadiya bridge) in Assam.

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Theme for 2017: Malaria prevention: let’s close the gap

Belgium has become the first country to open an honorary consulate office in Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City).

Unocoin is a leading Bitcoin Company in India. 1 Bitcoin will cost approximately Rs. 88,000.

Unocoin announced its partnership with PayU Biz, a leading payment gateway, to facilitate Unocoin users in buying Bitcoin using the net banking feature.

IDEAS- Innovations for Development of Efficient and Affordable Systems.

In a first, the Uttarakhand Forest Department has launched a drone for real-time monitoring of the forest fire and to take preventive measures. This is for the first time in India.

Bangalore International Airport Ltd (BIAL) has said the Airport Carbon Accreditation programme has upgraded Kempegowda International Airport, Bengaluru, to ‘Level 3+ Neutrality’, which is the highest level of environmental achievement available to airports.

Wikipedia’s co-founder Jimmy Wales is planning a news service that combines the work of professional journalists and volunteers. His goal is for Wikitribune to offer “factual and neutral” articles that help combat the problem of “fake news”.

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The Kerala government will examine the Centre’s proposal to hand over NTPC’s Rajiv Gandhi Combined Cycle Power Plant at Kayamkulam to the State,

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26 April; Theme 2017: “Innovation – Improving Lives“

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The Reserve Bank will soon put into circulation new Rs. 10 coins that have been minted to commemorate 125th year of National Archives of India.

Microfinance Institutions Network (MFIN), a self-regulatory organisation and an industry association of microfinance, has launched a financial literacy mobile app ‘MFIN Connect for microfinance clients. MFIN Connect’ is the first financial literacy app in India for microfinance education. MFIN is a self-regulatory organisation and industry association of the microfinance industry.

Mobile payment and commerce platform Paytm has announced that it has collaborated with MMTC-PAMP to launch Digital Gold, which will enable its customers to buy gold online and store it in MMTC-PAMPs secure vaults free of charge.

136 out of 180 country.

Shankha Ghosh is a Bengali Indian poet and critic.

Srishti Kaur, a resident of Noida, has been crowned Miss Teen Universe 2017 after beating 25 contestants from around the world at the annual beauty pageant event held at Managua, the capital of Central American country Nicaragua.
She also won an award for the best national costume, which featured a peacock – the Indian national bird.

Veteran Bollywood actor-turned-politician and former union Minister Vinod Khanna has passed awy after a prolonged illness
The actor was the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) member of the Lok Sabha from Gurdaspur in Punjab.
He was appointed the Minister of State for Culture and Tourism and later the Minister of State for External Affairs in the government of then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

Rajiv Rai Bhatnagar

The Reserve Bank has announced that all the existing Asset Reconstruction Companies (ARCs) must have a minimum net-owned corpus of Rs 100 crore by March 2019

The New Development Bank, jointly founded by the BRICS countries, and the Brazilian Development Bank have decided to give a loan of $ 300 million to develop the South American country’s renewable energy sector.

B B Vyas, a 1986-batch IAS officer, was appointed as the chief secretary of Jammu and Kashmir, replacing B R Sharma.

First ever Refugee Olympic Team swimmer Yusra Mardini, a Syrian who fled across the Mediterranean, has been appointed as a Goodwill Ambassador for United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR). With the appointment, she became the youngest Goodwiltl Ambassador working with the UN Refugee Agency.

Paris has been confirmed as the host city for the 2020 European Athletics Championships, European Athletics confirmed.

India and Cyprus signed four agreements on April 28, 2017, including on air services and merchant shipping, following delegation-level talks headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades in New Delhi.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will arrive New Delhi on 30th April 2017 on a two-day India visit.

Grameen Koota, a Bengaluru-based microfinance organisation has received the ISC-FICCI 2017 award for Best Financial Accessibility for Sanitation for its efforts in providing access to affordable credit to its customers to build toilets.

Department of Commerce, Government of India in collaboration with Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) and the National Accreditation Board for Certification Bodies (NABCB) and other knowledge partners is organizing the 4th National Standards Conclave on 1-2 May 2017 at New Delhi.

Bengaluru is set to play host to national and international cosmetic dermatologists at the 12th Edition of World Congress of Cosmetic Dermatology (WCOCD) from May 4th to 6th 2017 at Dr. Babu Rajendra Prasad International Convention Centre, GKVK.

Odisha’s capital city, Bhubaneswar, the first Indian city has won Pierre L’enfant Planning Excellence and Achievement Awards-2017 instituted by the American Planning Association.

Kerala organised the country’s first transgender one-day athletic meet here in which 132 participants from 12 districts participated.

According to the Randstad Employer Brand Research 2017, Search engine giant Google India has been named as the country’s most attractive employer brand, followed by Mercedes–Benz India at the second place, a survey says.

Building on the success of its first-generation AI platform, Infosys Mana and its Robotic Process Automation (RPA) solution, AssistEdge, Infosys launched ‘Infosys Nia’, the next-generation Artificial Intelligence (AI) Platform for businesses.

With an objective to support and mentor several initiatives, Google has announced ‘Solve for India’ program to aid the new wave of entrepreneurs and startups in emerging cities like Pune, Jaipur, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Kochi, Indore, Nagpur, Nashik, Madurai, Kanpur and Chennai.

Well-known Tamil actor and writer Vinu Chakravarthy, who had starred in over 1,000 films, died on April 27, 2017. He was 74.

Famous sufi singer and daughter of legendary Sitar Maestro (late) Ustad Vilayat Ali Khan, Begum Yaman K. Khan passed away at the age of 52.

28 April

Janalakshmi Financial Services, India’s largest microfinance company in terms of loan outstanding, has received the final approval from Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to set up small finance bank.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will unveil translated volumes of Vachana, penned by 12th century social reformer Basavanna and other saints in 23 Indian languages, on the social reformer’s birth anniversary today. The Prime Minister will also release the digital version of the work at the first ever celebration of Basava Jayanthi at the national level in New Delhi.

The Muktijodha Scholarship Scheme was started by India in 2006 for descendants of the 1971 freedom fighters. Up to now, more than 10,000 scholarships worth Tk150 million have been disbursed.

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Union Health Minister JP Nadda has launched the Test and Treat policy for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) patients. As per this new policy, anyone who is tested and found positive will get the necessary treatment free of cost. Anyone found positive will be provided with ART (Anti- Retroviral Therapy) irrespective of his CD count. The scheme will be a centrally sponsored scheme.

Karnataka is followed by Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Jammu & Kashmir and Punjab. The survey found Himachal Pradesh, Kerala and Chhattisgarh to be the le

Aymanam, Kerala

Coast Guard ship Varad , the eight in the Vikram Class Offshore patrol vessel, has been decommissioned in Chennai after being in service for 27 years. The ship, built by Goa Shipyard Ltd, was commissioned in 1990.

Hero MotoCorp, the India’s largest two-wheeler manufacturer, has been adjudged the ‘Indian MNC of the year’ by All India Management Association (AIMA).

El Salvador has become the first country in the world to ban the mining of metals in what campaigners called a landmark move for environmental protection.

Internationally renowned sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik from Odisha has won the jury prize gold medal at the 10th Moscow Sand art Championship held at Kolomenskoye, Moscow in Russia.

The long-awaited Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act (RERA) will be implemented from May 1, with the government calling it the beginning of a “new era”.

Japan has selected former union minister for Law and Justice Ashwani Kumar for this year’s Spring Imperial Decorations, for his contribution to strengthening of the bilateral ties and promotion of friendship between Tokyo and New Delhi.
Kumar will be conferred with the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun, the highest category of decorations among the Orders of the Rising Sun, in recognition of distinguished accomplishments of individuals.

The Union Environment Ministry has cleared the construction of an international greenfield airport at Bhogapuram, 45 km from Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh.

Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan has launched yesteryear actress Asha Parekh’s autobiography “Asha Parekh: The Hit Girl”, co-written with film critic Khalid Mohamed.

Aizawl FC won defeating Shillong Lajong FC to create history by becoming the first club from the north-east to win the I-League title

29 April

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