Current Affairs April 2017

30th April, Current Affairs: 

• Aizawl FC wins the I­League after drawing 1­1 with Shillong Lajong. They are the first club from north­east to wins the title. 

28th April, Current Affairs: 

• President Pranab Mukherjee conferred the Jnanpith award on eminent Bengali poet Sankha Ghosh in New Delhi. 

27th April, Current Affairs: 

• Bollywood actor and former BJP MP Vinod Khanna died of bladder cancer in HN Reliance Foundation and Research Centre, Mumbai at the age of 70.  
• India successfully test­fired intermediate­range ballistic missile Agni­III from Abdul Kalam Island off the Odisha coast.  
• PM Narendra Modi flagged off the first regional flights under the Ude Desh ka Aam Nagrik (UDAN) scheme. The three inaugural flights were launched in the sectors of Shimla­Delhi, Kadapa­Hyderabad and Nanded­Hyderabad. 

26th April, Current Affairs: 

• 1983 Uttar Pradesh cadre officer Rajiv Rai Bhatnagar appointed as the next chief of the Central Police Reserve Force.  
• The BJP has wins all the three civic bodies of Delhi in the MCD elections 2017. 

25th April, Current Affairs: 

• World Malaria Day is observed today.  
• Renowned filmmaker and actor Kasinadhuni Viswanath has won the Dadasaheb Phalke award for the year 2016 for his outstanding contribution to the film industry.  
• Indian environmental activist Prafulla Samantara announced as the Asia recipient of the Goldman Environmental Prize for safeguarding their land and culture. 

24th April, Current Affairs: 

• 26 Central Reserve Police Force personal died in an attack by Maoist in Sukma area of Chhattisgarh.  
• NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson creates the record by breaking astronaut Jeff Williams’ record for cumulative time in space by an American astronaut, which was 534 days, 2 hours and 48 minutes.

22nd April, Current Affairs:

• The 47th Earth Day is celebrated today. 

19th April, Current Affairs: 

• The cabinet today decided that from 1st May, red beacons will be banned for everybody including the President, Prime Minister and the Chief Justice of India. Only emergency vehicles like fire engines, ambulances and police vans can use beacons.  
• Real Madrid and Portugal star Cristiano Ronaldo create history by becoming the first player to reach 100 Champions League goals after he scored a hat­trick against Bayern Munich in quarter­final.  
• Chris Gayle became the first batsman in the world to reach 10,000 runs in Twenty20 cricket.

18th April, Current Affairs: 

• The World Heritage Day is celebrated today. 

16th April, Current Affairs: 

• B Sai Praneeth defeat K Srikanth to win the Singapore Open men's singles title Super Series trophy by 17­21, 21­17, 2112. 

14th April, Current Affairs: 

• The 126th birth anniversary of Dr BR Ambedkar celebrated today nationwide.  
• Prime Minister Narendra Modilaunched BHIM­Aadhar pay app which will allow people to make payments without using a smartphone. The app will enable payments through the fingerprint scanner which will be authenticating the biometric details of a user with Aadhaar database. 
• Bohag Bihu festival is celebrated in Assam from today. 

11th April, Current Affairs: 

• Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad," has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. 
• India's largest e­commerce firm Flipkart acquires eBay’s India business.  
• United Nations Secretary­General Antonio Guterres designated Malala Yousafzai as the youngest UN Messenger of Peace with a special focus on girls' education. 

9th April, Current Affairs: 

• India's first ever micro­drama festival was held in Delhi. The longest play running for not more than 10 minutes and the shortest one ending in 42 seconds.  
• Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull arrived in New Delhi on a four day visit. 

8th April, Current Affairs: 

• India and Bangladesh signed 22 pacts in various key sectors during the visit of Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. 

7th April, Current Affairs: 

• World Health Day observed today with theme Depression: Let's Talk.  
• The National Film Awards were announced today in New Delhi. Akshay Kumar has won National Award for Best Actor for the film Rustom. Rakesh Mapuskar won Best Director for the Marathi film Ventilator. Marathi film Kasav won Best Feature Film. Surabhi Lakshmi won Best Actress award.

6th April, Current Affairs:

• Raman Roy has been appointed as the chairman of The National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) for 2017­2018. 

5th April, Current Affairs: 

• The 10th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) starts with the opening match played between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Sunrisers Hyderabad at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium in Hyderabad. 

4th April, Current Affairs:

• Rama Navami is being celebrated across the country today. 

3rd April, Current Affairs:

• The Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore ranks as the top in the annual best national University rankings released by the HRD ministry.
• At least 10 people were killed and 50 others injured during an explosion in a subway train in St Petersburg, Russian.

2nd April, Current Affairs:

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi today inaugurate the country's longest road tunnel 'ChenaniNashri Highway Tunnel' in Jammu and Kashmir. The tunnel is also Asia's longest bidirectional highways tunnel. The tunnel is 9 km long which connects Jammu and Srinagar.
• PV Sindhu defeated Carolina Marin of Spain by 2119,2116 to win her maiden India Open Superseries title.