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MIXTURES of Eco/Banking/
RBI
April 01 : Vodafone m-pesa has partnered with
Mumbai-based radio taxi service provider
TABcab for providing cashless transactions
to commuters in the city.
April 01 : Japan will provide
Rs 14,251 crore in
loans to India for
finance power, rail,
road, sanitation and
irrigation projects.
Loan documents were exchanged between
the two sides.
April 01 : In a bid which further
strengthen
and
promote
business
ties with Australia,
Federation
of
Indian Chambers of
Commerce and Industry (FICCI) announced
inking an MoU with Australia India Business
Council (AIBC).
April 02 : German Governments
Development
Bank
KfW will provide a
loan assistance of EUR
500 million (about
Rs.3,750 cr) for the modern and sustainable
metro system for Nagpur city being executed
by Nagpur Metro Rail Corporation Limited
(NMRCL).
April 02 : Flipkart
announced
the acquisition of
PhonePe, a city-based
mobile
payment
company co-founded
by the e-commerce giant's two former
employees.
PhonePe, co-founded by Sameer Nigam and
Rahul Chari, is building India's first Unified
Payments Interface (UPI) based product.
April 07 : Reliance
Industries
director Nita Ambani
and State Bank of India
chairman Arundhati
Bhattacharya
have
been ranked top two
in Forbes Asia 50
Power Businesswomen 2016 list, which
acknowledges the inroads women are
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chief executive officer Uday Shankar to
chairman and CEO.
April 16 : Apollo
Hospitals
has entered into a
tie-up with Google
in providing health
information as part
of the search engine's
launch of Health Card in India.
April 20 : Intel
Corp.
is
planning to slash
12,000 jobs, 11%
of its workforce, a
consequence of the
shrinking personalcomputer
market
and the chip makers
failure to take advantage of the industrys
transition to smartphones.
April 21 : According
to
Randstad
report:
Google
India
remained the most
attractive employer
in the country in
2016, followed by Mercedes-Benz at the
second spot, human resource consultancy.
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According to the 6th edition of Randstad
Award, Google India emerged as the most
attractive employer for a second consecutive
year.
April 21 : According to the head
of the Russian state
technology corporation
Rostecs
international
cooperation department :
Russia will sign a joint
manufacturing contract
with India for 200 Ka226T light utility multirole helicopters
before the end of the year.
The agreement, signed during Prime Minister
Narendra Modis visit to Russia, details the
production of at least 200 helicopters.
April 21 : India's largest IT
services firm TCS
has been recognized
as one of the UK's
leading employers
for women in a list
published by The
Times.
TCS' rank in The Times Top 50 is recognition
of its continued drive to make gender equality
a central part of its business strategy.
April 21 : India has replaced
China
as
top
destination
for
foreign
direct
investment
by
attracting
$63
billion worth FDI
projects in 2015.
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April 26 : New Delhi: The
Finance Ministry
approved
8.7
percent interest
on Employees
Provident Fund
(EPF) deposits
for
2015-16,
labour minister
B a n d a r u
Dattatreya said.
April 29 : A
Memorandum
of
Understanding (MoU) was
signed between Mahindra
Intertrade Ltd and MSTC
Limited, a PSU under
the Ministry of Steel, for
setting up a Joint Venture Company for
establishing first of its kind Auto Shredding
Plant in India in New Delhi.
April 29 : Indra Nooyi, Satya
Nadella, Bhavesh
Patel among highest
paid CEOs in world
(Business)
As many as three
Indian
origin
persons have been
named among 100
highest-paid CEOs globally with PepsiCo's
Indra Nooyi and LyondellBasell's Bhavesh
Patel making it to the top ten list compiled
by Equilar.
April 28 : Panama
and
the
United States have
signed an agreement
on sharing of back
account information
in a step Panama's
finance minister hailed as proof of his
country's cooperation in fighting tax evasion.
BANKING
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The application, which can be downloaded
from Google Play and Apple app stores,
was launched by SBI Chairman Arundhati
Bhattacharya .
April 08 :
:
India retained its top spot in 2015,
attracting about $69 billion in remittances,
down from $70 billion in 2014, the World
Bank said in its annual report "Migration and
Development Brief".
Other large remittance recipients in 2015
were China, with $64 billion, the Philippines
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and Rehabilitation for Food Security'. A
high-level delegation from the Economic
Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
Ministry of Germany, led by Stefan Schmitz,
Commissioner, was here in connection with the
programme, a release said.
RBI
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Russian origin
Su30 MKI, will
fly to Alaska
to take part in
the prestigious
'Red
Flag'
air exercise that will see them in action
alongside NATO forces during war games.
April 05 : The
Gatiman
Expres is India's
first semi-high
speed train and
according
to
Indian Railways,
will cruise at a
top speed of 160
km per hour.
Gatimaan Express, Indian Railways first
semi-high speed train, completed its maiden
200 km journey to Agra, Uttar Pradesh from
Delhi within the targeted 100 minutes.
April 05 : Prime Minister
Narendra Modi
will launch the
'Stand up India'
scheme under
which
banks
will give loans of up to Rs 1 crore to SC/ST
and women entrepreneurs.
The 'Stand up India Scheme' is aimed
at promoting entrepreneurship among
Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes and
women by giving loans in the range of Rs
10 lakh to Rs 1 crore for setting up a new
enterprise.
There would be a Rs 10,000 crore
refinance window through Small Industries
Development Bank of India (SIDBI) and
the National Credit Guarantee Trustee
Company Ltd (NCGTC) will create a
corpus of Rs 5,000 crore.
April 06 : In the quest to
align
to
skill
standards which are
recognised globally,
Union
Skill
Development and
Entrepreneurship
Minister,
Rajiv
Pratap Rudy along with National Skill
Development Corporation and UKIndia Education and Research Initiatives
announced the launch of "Transnational
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Skill Standards" in India. These standards
in skill development are benchmarked to
United Kingdom across 82 identified job
roles.
April 06 : The Union Minister
of Road Transport
& Highways and
Shipping
Shri
Nitin
Gadkari
inaugurated
the
Manesar-Palwal section of the KundliManesar-Palwal Expressway in the presence
of Haryana Chief Minister Shri Manohar
Lal Khattar and Minister of State for Social
Justice and Empowerment Shri Krishna
Pal Gurjar in Palwal. The Manesar Palwal
section of the express way has been built at
the cost of Rs. 457.81 crore.
It is an access controlled, six-lane, divided
road with 1.5 metre wide paved shoulder
on each side. It intersects with Delhi-Jaipur
NH8 near Manesar, Palwal-Sohna-Rewari
NH 919, Sohna-Nuh-Alwar Road NH 248A
and finally joins NH2 near Palwal. The road
will provide uninterrupted high speed link
for traffic, especially commercial traffic
from Haryana to neighbouring states.
April 06 : Union Minister Santosh
Kumar
Gangwar
inaugurated
three
mega textile projects in
Nagaland.
These three projects
included
Apparel
and Garment Making Centre in Dimapur,
Muga P3 Basic Seed Station Kobulong in
Mokokchung district and newly approved
Integrated Eri Silk Development Project
under North East Textile Promotion Scheme
(NERTPS).
April 06 : THE FIRST-EVER
air-conditioned
suburban train for
Mumbai rolled into
the city.
The blue-grey train
rake with a stainless
steel body has 12 coaches with a capacity to
seat 5,964 passengers, as opposed to 4,984 in
the old Siemens rake.
April 07 : In a resounding testimonial to the
government's public diplomacy efforts, India
has been ranked among the top 10 countries
in terms of its
digital diplomacy
performance,
according to a
global
research
and
advocacy
platform.
India and Mexico are the only two countries
from the developing world in this list
April 07 : The Minister of State (Independent
Charge) for Petroleum & Natural Gas Shri
Dharmendra Pradhan dedicated 36 new
CNG stations located in Delhi and NCR to
the public. 30 out of these stations have been
installed by Indraprastha Gas Limited (IGL)
April 08 : The Union Minster
of Human Resource
Development Smt.
Smriti Zubin Irani
launched a portal
for
registration
and
allotment
of International Standard Book Number
(ISBN).
April 08 : Raja Rammohun Roy National Agency for
ISBN, (Book Promotion and Copyright
Division), under Department of Higher
Education had organized the event for launch
of ISBN portal.
April 09 : Government
has
roped in cricketing
legend
Sachin
Tendulkar to endorse
the 'I Support Skill
India' campaign, in
an attempt to reach
out to the youth and build awareness on the
importance of skill development.
April 09 : Shri Suresh Prabhakar
Prabhu Inaugurates
Fitment of CCTV
In Amritsar- New
Delhi Shan-E-Punjab
Express
Through
Video-Conferencing
In keeping with the budgetary proposal to step
up security measures in Railways, Minister
for Railways Shri Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu
inaugurated the Train No.s 12497/12498
Shan-e-Punjab Express. Referring to the
Shan-e-Punjab train becoming the first train
fitted with surveillance security cameras.
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April 11 : Central
Council
for Research in
homoeopathy
(CCRH) has signed
two MOUs with institutions of higher
education of Canada and Armenia. These
MOUs between CCRH and College of
Homeopaths of Ontario, Canada and another
Between CCRH and Yerevan State Medical
University, Armenia, were signed during
two day International Convention on World
Homoeopathy Day organized at Vigyan
Bhawan, New Delhi.
Shripad Yesso Naik, Hon'ble Minister of
State (IC) for AYUSHin his valedictory
address greeted the people of India on the
occasion of World Homoeopathy Day and
appreciated that Homoeopathy has taken
major scientific leaps in the past and its body
of evidence is growing by the day.
April 12 : The number of wild tigers across the world
has increased for the first time in over a
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of India and Mr. Kim Young Suk, Minister
of Oceans and Fisheries, Government of the
Republic of Korea in Mumbai
This MoU is for cooperation and mutual
assistance between India and Republic of
Korea in port related matters.
April 14 : Prime
Minister
Narendra
Modi
inaugrated
the
first-ever
threeday Maritime India
Summit
(MIS),
aimed at attracting global investors to the
huge opportunities in the maritime sector.
Deals worth over Rs.82,000 crore are
expected to be signed during the event, in
which delegates, CEOs and experts from 41
countries will participate, in which South
Korea is a partner.
April 15 : The Prime Minister,
Shri Narendra Modi,
launched the pilot
of e-NAM - the
e-trading platform
for the National
Agriculture Market.
Under this Project, Government of India
is providing a grant of Rs. 30 lacs to the
proposed agriculture mandis of the states.
The farmers will be provided farmer
helpline services round the clock for
obtaining information related to this portal.
April 15 : The Indian Navy
has tied up with
Jamia Millia Islamia
for
awarding
graduation degrees
to naval personnel
for their in-service
training. Navy conducts training programmes
for its sailors at centres across the country.
Jamia Milia Islamia to give degrees for naval
trainees. A Joint-Equivalence Committee,
with members both from Jamia and Navy,
was constituted for credit determination for
Reuters.
April 16 : E m p l o y m e n t
generation
in
eight key sectors,
including
gems
&
jewellery,
handloom, leather
and automobiles,
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April 20 : Ministry of Road
Transport
&
Highways
sets
steep targets for
2016-17 : Aims at
2.5 times increase
in award and
construction of National Highways
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Shri J P Nadda,
Union Minister for
Health and Family
Welfare inaugurated
the first of its kind
Current Good Manufacturing Practise
(CGMP) compliant facility within the Central
Government for manufacture of DPT and
TT vaccine at the Central Research Institute
(CRI), Kasauli in Himachal Pradesh.
April 26 : Madhya
Pradesh
Assembly Speaker
Sitasharan Sharma
has been nominated
as a member of the
Commonwealth
Parliamentary
Association.
April 27 :
International News of
the Month
April 02 : Vietnam's National
Assembly
elected
Tran Dai Quang as
the country's new
president.
Truong Tan Sang
was relieved from duty as the president.
April 07 : Marking the 60th
anniversary
of
establishment
of
diplomatic relations
with India, Oman has issued special postal
stamps depicting the Taj Mahal and the Gulf
country's iconic Grand Mosque.
Oman Post issued the stamps in a ceremony
at the Indian Embassy in Muscat.
The Guest of Honour was Under Secretary
for Diplomatic Affairs at Ministry of Foreign
Affairs of Oman, Ali bin Ahmed Al-Isa'eei.
April 07 : The ruling centerright coalition of
Iceland approved a
new Prime Minister,
the
Minister
of
fisheries of Sigurdur
Inga Johansson.
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delegation-level
talks with visiting
Maldivian President
Abdulla
Yameen
Abdul
Gayoom
and Prime Minister
Narendra Modi.
April 20 : India
and
Mauritius
sign
MoU to promote
cooperation in the
field of Traditional
Medicine
and
Homoeopathy
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Chad's incumbent president, Idriss Deby, an
important ally of the West in the fight against
Islamist militants, won a fifth term in office
in a lopsided first-round victory, the Central
African country's elections commission
announced
April 22 : Anti-slavery crusader
Harriet Tubman will
become
the
first
African-American on
the face of U.S. paper
currency, and the first
woman in more than a
century, when she replaces former President
Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill.
Lew said the designs should be unveiled by
2020 and go into circulation
April 22 : Chinese state media
have unveiled a
new title for the
countrys president,
Xi Jinping, calling
him commander in
chief of the nations
new joint forces battle command centre as he
seeks to consolidate power over the military.
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Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) B
B Tandon, to see that guidelines set for
government advertisements by the Supreme
Court are followed.
Appointments of the
Month
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April 15 : L&T Finance Holdings
elevated
Dinanath
Dubhashi as its deputy
managing director.
Dubhashi has been in
the industry for a quarter of a century with
experience across multiple domains such as
corporate banking, cash management, credit
ratings, retail and rural lending.
April 15 : President
Barack
Obama appointed Indian
American MasterCard
CEO Ajay Banga to
a key administration
post as a member of
the Commission on Enhancing National
Cybersecurity.
Banga is one of the nine members of
the Commission on Enhancing National
Cybersecurity appointed by Obama
April 15 : Susmita Pande,
a professor at
Ujjain's Vikram
University,
has
been appointed
as the new chairperson of the National
Monument Authority (NMA).
NMA, under the Culture ministry,
is responsible for the protection and
preservation
of
centrally
protected
monuments and sites
April 16 : Adille Sumariwalla was
re-elected unopposed
as the president of
Athletics Federation of
India (AFI) for a second
term at its Annual
General Body Meeting .
Sumariwalla was the lone nomination
received for the top post and was declared
elected president for the term 2016-2020 by
the returning officer Justice (Retd) Kailash
Gambhir on the first day of the AFI AGM.
April 18 : Justice Rao, along
with Justices Huluvadi
G Ramesh and Rajiv
Shakdher
from
the Allahabad and
Delhi High courts
respectively, had been
transferred to the High
Court.
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April 23 : Indian
Information
Service (IIS) officer
Bhupendra
Kainthola
was appointed as Director
of Pune-based Film and
Television Institute of
India (FTII).
A seasoned global
marketing professional
with a career spanning over 12 years, Kanika
joined Snapdeal after several triumphant
stints at Hindustan Unilever limited, Pepsico
and GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare
Limited.
April 28 : Rajeev
Sharma
appointed as Chairman
and Managing Director
of Power Finance
Corporation (PFC), a
Navratna Public Sector
Undertaking. S harma
is presently CMD of Rural Electrification
Corporation Ltd.
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Till date (i.e. up to NGA-2013), seven
hundred twenty one geoscientists have been
honoured with the National Geoscience
Awards.
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second award from the Foundation after she
received her first award for 'Most Memorable
Performance' for 2011 film Saath Khoon
Maaf.
April 11 : Khadija Ismayilova,
an
investigative
journalist
from
Azerbaijan, has been
chosen to receive
the 2016 UNESCO/
Guillermo
Cano
World Press Freedom
Prize.
April 18 : Veteran
actor
Jeetendra and Anil
Kapoor were named
for
Maharashtra
governments awards
in memory of late Raj Kapoor.
Jeetendra, 74, will be given Raj Kapoor
Lifetime Contribution Award and the
59-year-old Virasat star will receive the
Raj Kapoor Special Contribution Award,
Maharashtra Cultural Affairs Minister Vinod
Tawde said in a statement.
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Veteran actor Jeetendra, filmmaker Sanjay
Leela Bhansali and Bollywood star Ranveer
Singh were honoured with '74th Master
Dinanath Mangeshkar Awards'.
Jeetendra, 74, got the lifetime achievement
award while Bhansali and Ranveer got
special award for direction and acting for
their magnum opus "Bajirao Mastani".
The top honour was given by legendary
singer AshaBhosle.
April 27 : New Zealands fivedollar note has been
named the banknote
of the year for 2015, a
clear winner among
nearly
40
eligible
designs from a record
20 countries.
International Plant
Nutrition Scholar
Award.
The award was
recently
given
by the US-based
International Plant
Nutrition Institute
to K Ashok Kumar, research scholar at
the department of agricultural and food
engineering, IIT Kharagpur.
The award carries a cash prize of USD 2,000
and a recognition certificate.
April 29 : Senior
journalists
Manoj Sharma and
Sarika Malhotra have
been jointly awarded
the inaugural Aster
Media Awards for
writings that have
helped create public
awareness and drive action on social issues.
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Paliwal along with her
companion Dipesh Tanwar
was on a nationwide tour on
her Harley Davidson when
the accident happened.
He was 86 and
is survived by
wife Vijay and
daughters Kalika and Purva.
April 12 : One of India's top female bikers, Veenu
Paliwal died in road accident in Madhya
Pradesh's Vidisha district.
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April 25 : Papa Wemba, one
of Africa's greatest
music stars, has died
after collapsing on
stage during a festival
in the Ivory Coast.
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April 04 : West
Indies
converted
their
maiden appearance
in
a
World
Twenty20 final into
a historic victory
in Kolkata, beating three-time defending
champions Australia for the first time in a
T20 international by pulling off the second
highest chase in the tournament's history.
The heroes of the daunting pursuit were 18year old Hayley Matthews and the captain
Stafanie Taylor, whose half-centuries and
120-partnership came at more than a run a
ball.
April 04 : World number one
Novak Djokovic
surpassed Roger
Federer as the
highest-earning
player in ATP
Tour history, after
capturing a third consecutive Miami Open
crown with a 6-3, 6-4 victory over Japan's
Kei Nishikori.
Djokovic's win -- his sixth career victory in
Miami to equal Andre Agassi's record -- saw
him pocket $1.028 million (902,000 euros),
taking him past Federer as the all-time ATP
earnings leader with $98,199,548 to the
Swiss great's $97,855,881.
April 04 : Judd Trump beat
fellow Englishman
Ricky Walden to win
the China Open for
the second time in his
career.
The world number seven claimed eight
consecutive frames on his way to a 10-4
victory over Walden, 33, who is three places
below him in the rankings.
Trump claimed the 85,000 top prize, while
Walden picked up 35,000.
April 05 : Underfire
Waqar
Younis
resigned
as Pakistans head
coach in the wake
of teams early exit
from the World
Twenty20 in India.
Shahid Afridi had quit T20 teams captaincy
due to their poor performance at the
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prestigious event, where they managed just
one win at the Group stage.
The 44-year-old, who first coached the side
in 2010-11, wants his recommendations
to be implemented by the Pakistan Cricket
Board.
April 07 : Australia's
football
federation has announced
a collaboration with the
Australian government
to provide a number
of football-based grassroots development
programmes in India.
The FIFA has said it had held talks with
the All India Football Federation (AIFF)
and the Sports Authority of India to secure
access to national facilities in the event that
the programme expands beyond the state of
Kerala.
"Just Play" is a joint venture between the
Australian government, the Oceania Football
Confederation (OFC), Unicef and UEFA
Foundation. FIFA has been an official partner
since the programme was inaugurated in
2009.'
April 07 : The Indian men won
the Asian Nations Cup
chess championship
while the women's
team just missed out
on a podium finish to finish fourth in Abu
Dhabi.
India won 3-1 to annex the title for the third
time with a tally of 17 points.
Eight-time champions China blanked hosts
UAE 4-0 in the last round, but could not
dislodge India from the top and had to settle
for second place with 15 points.
Except drawing unexpectedly versus
Mongolia, India won all their matches,
including against a strong Chinese side.
April 08 : Failure to defend
their individual
titles at the India
Open
Super
Series
last
week cost Saina
Nehwal
and
Kidambi Srikanth dearly as the top Indian
shuttlers slipped down the order in the latest
BWF World rankings
Saina, who had to deal with a nagging ankle
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Leading Women's Cricketer in the World for
2015.
Gael Monfils in
final by three sets.
It has taken Nadal
four years to wait
for crowning in the
Principality
and
almost two years for an ATP 1000 Masters
title, Xinhua news agency reported.
For the first time two New Zealand players Williamson and Brendon McCullum - were
named among the Wisden Almanack's Five
Cricketers of the Year.
April 18 : Bengaluru
FC
were crowned as
I-League football
champions for the
second time in
three years as they
blanked Salgaocar
2-0 in their penultimate league match in
Bengaluru.
They had won their maiden crown in 201314 season and had finished second last
season (2014-15) behind Mohun Bagan.
The unfancied Kuncoro, who stunned twotime Olympic champion Lin Dan in the
semi-finals, took the first game 21-16.
April 18 : Dipa Karmakar
created history
by
becoming
the first Indian
woman gymnast
to qualify for
Olympics as she
booked a berth for the Rio Games after a
strong performance at the final qualifying
and test event.
The 22-year-old garnered a total score of
52.698 points in the Olympics qualifying
event to book a berth for artistic gymnastics
in Rio Games to be held here in August.
Apart from being the first Indian woman, she
will also be an Indian gymnast qualifying for
the quadrennial extravaganza after 52 long
years.
April 18 : Rafael Nadal claimed his ninth Monte Carlo
Masters title, his first ATP crown since July
2014, as the Spaniard defeated Frenchman
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Hawk-Eye (GLT), which deploys seven
cameras in each goal, is already used in
the English Premier League, the German
Bundesliga and Italy's Serie A and was also
used by FIFA for last year's women's World
Cup in Canada.
It will be used along with the alreadyexisting system of additional assistant
referees behind each goal.
April 21 : TVS Tyres announced
that they would be
principal
sponsor
of franchise Gujarat
Lions in the ongoing
Indian
Premier
League (IPL) cricket
tournament.TVS in
the past have been associated with sporting
events like Pro Kabaddi League, Hockey
India League and Cricket All Stars Series.
April 21 : Brazilian swimmer
Larissa Oliveira set
her second South
American
record
in three days when
she won the 100
metres freestyle at an
Olympic test event
here.
In the 200m backstroke, Leonardo de Deus
secured a Games spot by winning the final in
1 minute, 56.57 seconds.
April 23 : Rio Olympics 2016: Salman Khan to
be Goodwill Ambassador for Indian
contingent.
Superstar Salman Khan will represent India
in the 2016 Olympics to be held in Rio as
he has been nominated as the Goodwill
Ambassador for the Indian Contingent.
This is the first time that a Bollywood
superstar has been chosen to as a Goodwill
Ambassador for the games.
April 25 : Bob and Mike
Bryan won the
Barcelona
Open
doubles tennis title
after
defeating
Uruguay's Pablo
Cuevas and the
Spaniard Marcel Granollers.
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for the ninth time,
equaling Guillermo
Vilas record of 49
career
clay-court
titles.
Nadal added this title to his trophy from
Monte Carlo last week as the 14-time Grand
Slam winner regains form on his favorite
surface ahead of next months French Open.
Nishikori had won the tournament for the
last two years after early exits by Nadal.
April 26 : The Judo Federation
of
India
(JFI)
announced that it
has been allotted
the Commonwealth
Judo Championships
2018 which will be
organised in Jaipur.
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The missile targeted an unmanned air
vehicle (UAV) named 'Banshee', an official
of the Defence Research and Development
Organisation (DRDO) said. The missile,
with a strike range of 25 km and capability to
carry warhead of 60 kg, was test fired from
the launch complex-3 of the ITR.
April 14 : This cutaway shows
a concept B330 space
habitat for astronauts
designed by Bigelow
Aerospace.
The
private spaceflight
company has teamed up with launch provider
United Launch Alliance to put a huge private
space habitat. Bigelow Aerospace will loft
its giant, expandable B330 modules each
of which will provide one-third as much
usable volume as the entire International
Space Station (ISS) aboard United
Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rockets,
representatives from both companies
announced.
April 19 : The returning capsule
from SJ-10, Chinas
first
microgravity
satellite,
landed
safely at 4:30 pm on
April 18 in Siziwang
Banner, in the Inner Mongolia autonomous
region.
April 21 : China is set to
launch a core module
belonging
to
its
first space station
around 2018, a China
Aerospace Science
and
Technology
Corporation official
said
Two space labs will be launched later and
dock with the core module, "Tianhe-1," said
Wang Zhongyang, spokesperson with a key
research institute attached to the corporation.
Construction on the space station is expected
to finish around 2022
April 22 : 150 Long March
rocket
launches
scheduled 2016-2020.
China will launch
about 150 of its Long
March carrier rockets
over the next five
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in recognition of the contributions made
by the Indian social activist and Sulabh
International founder for improving the
lives of people engaged in the most
dehumanising situation.
April 18 :
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IMPORTANT DAYS
CCRH
Homeopathy
CGRBMS
Centre
CAMPA
14th April
NHIDCL
17th April
Development Corporation
18th April
WAPCOS
LIGO
Wave Observatory
BMC
NERTPS
MSDE
Entrepreneurship
SHC
STCR
USIS
NSTSS
AAY
SFAC
2nd April
5th April
7th April
Earth Day
23rd April
24rth April
25th April
26th April
ABBREVIATIONS
UNIDO
Organizations
NCGTC
Company
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SPECIAL FEATURES
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Poverty Line(BPL) and Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY)
families. Under this scheme free LPG cylinder and a
regulator worth Rs. 1600 have provided to these families.
The second scheme is interest free loan scheme. This
scheme includes the other families using kerosene oil that
does not come under below poverty line. These families
will be provided one gas cylinder, a regulator and a
suraksha pipe worth Rs. 1750.
During this campaign 15,249 LPG connections were
provided in Chandigarh out of which 1,574 were for BPL
households.
Kerosene, when used as a cooking gas causes many health
related problems like coughing, difficulty in breathing
and increases risk of asthma, TB and cancer.
It may also cause various skin problems like dermatitis.
Burning of kerosene oil also causes the air to be polluted
and harms people living nearby. All major cities of India
will soon be made Kerosene free. Our beautiful city
Chandigarh has taken the lead by becoming the first
kerosene free city of India.
After two years of wait, Indias fastest train, the semibullet Gatimaan Express, is set to begin its inaugural run
in April. But instead of New Delhi, it will depart from
Hazrat Nizamuddin and reach Agra in 100 minutes.
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real-life needs in infrastructure and human development
will continue to go remain undeveloped for want of funds.
Official said the name Gurgaon is a corruption of Guru
Gram, ie, village of a spiritual leader.
Umesh Aggarwal, the BJP MLA from Gurgaon, said,
The demand to change the name to Gurugram has been
on for the past 12 to14 years.
This place never was Gurgaon. It always was Guru Gaon
village of the Guru. People distorted the name. Guru
Dronacharyas ashram was here where Kauravas and
Pandavas gained their gurukul. Mata Sheetla was his
wife. We have a temple in her name in old Gurgaon.
Khelo India
Politics and sports always go hand in hand. The ruling
National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government
has purged yet another scheme Rajiv Gandhi Khel
Abhiyan named after former prime minister Rajiv
Gandhi, by merging it with Khelo India.
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The government is effectively marching in quite
ambitiously for a grand success of the Soil Health Card
scheme and proposes to ensure that all farmers in the
country have their respective Soil Health Cards by the
year 2017.
National Agricultural Market A Harbinger of
Change
The Government realises the importance of agricultural
sector for the growth and development of the nations
economy. Nearly 58 per cent of its people continuing to
depend upon agriculture for their livelihood. Agriculture
sector is also highly vulnerable to the vicissitudes of
nature that impact the crop enterprise at its production
stage. Only when the market is integrated over space and
time, can market efficiency be realised.
The Department of Agriculture & Cooperation in the
Union Governments Ministry of Agriculture is keen to
increase the net returns of the farmer. Hence, its emphasis
is on creating an unified market, that is well integrated
across the nation.
Integration of agri-markets across the country through
the e-platform is seen as an important measure for
overcoming the challenges posed by the present agrimarketing system namely - fragmentation of State into
multiple market areas, each administered by separate
APMC, multiple levy of mandi fees, requirement for
multiple license for trading in different APMCs, licensing
barriers leading to conditions of monopoly, poor quality
of infrastructure and low use of technology, information
asymmetry, opaque process for price discovery, high
level of market charges, movement controls, etc. The
need to unify the markets both at State and National level
is, therefore, clearly the requirement of time, in order to
provide better price to farmers, improve supply chain,
reduce wastages and create a unified national market.
The Scheme envisages implementation of the National
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## The Government is all set to launch a master application, which is being hailed as Mother of all App.
## The app, UMANG will consolidate 200+ services
offered by Central, State and Local administrations
under one single platform.
## The Government has invited bids from partner agencies to develop an app that will incorporates services
like applying for a passport, filing income-tax returns and paying various bills or to access any other
government services through just one mobile app.
What is UMANG?
## UMANG stands for Unified Mobile Application for
New-age Governance.
## The project is being developed by the union ministry of communications and information technologys
National e-governance division (NeGD).
What will UMANG do?
## Some of the services which will be available under UMANG are, National scholarship, Healthcare
applications, Passport Seva, Women Safety (Nirbhaya), E-Post, Crime and criminal tracking, Network and systems, Commercial tax/GST, Income
tax, CBSE/State education boards, E-Municipality,
IRCTC, Utility bills, Mother and child tracking,
Public distribution system, Transport Vahan/Sarathi,
e-Court, m-Kisan, Land records, PF/NPS.
## The government plans to have at least 50 services
this year and gradually scale up to 200 in three years.
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## SLR 21.25%
Important Highlights
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IRNSS-1G
## PSLV-C33 Successfully Launches India's Seventh
Navigation Satellite IRNSS-1G
## In its thirty fifth flight (PSLV-C33), ISRO's Polar
Satellite Launch Vehicle successfully launched the
1425 kg IRNSS-1G, the seventh satellite in the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS)
on April 28, 2016 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre
SHAR, Sriharikota.
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MCLR II (Simplified)
## All rupee loans sanctioned and credit limits from 1
April 2016 will be priced with MCLR which will be
the internal benchmark
## The MCLR will be a tenor linked internal benchmark.
## Actual lending rates will be determined by adding
components of spread to the MCLR
## Bank will review and publish their MCLR of different maturities every month on a pre-announced date
## Banks may specify interest dates on their floating
rate loans. They will have the option to offer loans
with reset dates linked either to the date of sanction
of the loan/credit limits or to the date of review of
MCLR
## The periodicity of reset shall be one year or lower
## The MCLR prevailing on the day the loan is sanctioned will be applicable till the next reset date, irrespective of the changes in the benchmark during
the interim period
## Existing loans and credit limits linked to the base
rate may continue till repayment or renewal, as the
case may be. Existing borrowers will also have the
option to move to the MCLR linked loan at mutually
acceptable terms
## Banks will continue to review and publish base rate
as hitherto
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