Yak April 2017 Electrical Flow Affairs Highlights (One-Liners)
Apr 2017 Current Affairs Highlights (One-Liners)
- 12th edition Indo-Mongolian Joint Military Exercise Nomadic Elephant 2017 was latterly held at Vairengte inward Mizoram.
- 1st rail freight service from United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland to mainland People's Republic of China departed from Essex. The develop service was launched every bit component of China’s ambitious One Belt, One Road (OBOR) initiative that aims to revive the ancient Silk Road trading routes with the West dating dorsum to a greater extent than than 2,000 years.
- 2017 National conference on Communicating Republic of Republic of India was latterly held inward New Delhi.
- 47th International world Day was observed on 22nd Apr 2017 with the Theme “Environmental as well as Climate Literacy”.
- 5 Associate banks as well as the Bharatiya Mahila Bank merged with the State Bank of Republic of Republic of India (SBI) on 1st Apr 2017.
- 70th "Himachal Day" was observed on 15th Apr 2017.
- A 9-storey Sumi Baptist Church, 1 of Asia's largest, was dedicated inward Nagaland's Zunheboto town.
- A MoU has been signed betwixt Republic of Republic of India as well as Republic of Korea for defence forcefulness manufacture cooperation inward shipbuilding.
- A novel Japanese police that defines cryptocurrency, including Bitcoin, Ripple, Litecoin as well as others, every bit a legal payment method has come upwards into forcefulness inward Japan.
- A tripartite Memorandum of Understanding has been signed betwixt BBNL, Department of Posts as well as BSNL to provide broadband connectivity of BharatNet to Post Offices inward rural areas.
- Aditya Birla Group has latterly announced that it has received licence from the Reserve Bank of Republic of Republic of India to start its payments bank. Headed yesteryear Kumar Mangalam Birla, Aditya Birla Nuvo had laid upwards a articulation venture with telecom major Idea called Aditya Birla Idea Payments Bank.
- American financial services corporation Mastercard has created a credit carte du jour with a built-in fingerprint scanner, allowing its users to brand payments yesteryear scanning their fingerprint instead of providing a PIN or a signature.
- Andhra Pradesh authorities is going to build a 125-foot tall bronze statue of BR Ambedkar inward its upcoming upper-case missive of the alphabet Amaravati.
- Assam has decided to install CCTV cameras within exam halls to proceed a cheque on rampant cheating during board exams.
- Astronaut Peggy Whitson broke the tape for most cumulative days spent inward infinite yesteryear an American astronaut, surpassing Jeff Williams' tape of 534 days, NASA announced.
- Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull was a 4 solar daytime watch to India.
- Ban on cash transactions inward excess of ₹2 lakh volition non live applicable to withdrawals from banks as well as ship service business office savings accounts, the Income Tax subdivision has latterly announced.
- Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was on a four-day watch to India.
- Barcelona's Brazilian frontwards Neymar Jr as well as US' four-time Olympic gilded medallist Simone Biles lead hold been named inward TIME's 100 Most Influential People of 2017.
- Belgium has go the outset province to opened upwards an honorary consulate business office inward Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City), Gandhinagar, Gujarat.
- Bengaluru Police lead hold launched 51 'Pink Hoysalas', the novel patrol vehicles, to address complaints related to women as well as kid safety.
- Bhilar, a hamlet inward Satara district of Maharashtra is all laid to go India’s outset ‘book village’.
- British boxer Anthony Joshua defeated his Ukrainian competition Wladimir Klitschko inward the 11th circular to live crowned the IBF, WBA as well as IBO world heavyweight champion.
- Chetan Bhagat's novel 'Five Point Someone' has been included inward the novel syllabus for the academic session starting July inward Delhi University.
- China has announced plans to build a novel city, a exceptional economical zone, inward Hebei province to decongest its upper-case missive of the alphabet Beijing.
- China is going to launch a network of 156 minisatellites to facilitate global broadband coverage as well as commercial infinite development.
- China volition get down construction of a permanent manned infinite station inward 2019.
- Compensation of depository financial establishment management volition presently live based on the performance of their banks, according to the Reserve Bank of Republic of Republic of India (RBI).
- Cricket is amidst the 62 sports excluded from the 2018 Asian Games to live held inward Jakarta, Indonesia.
- Cuba as well as Kingdom of Morocco has signed an understanding to re-establish diplomatic ties after a fourth dimension menses of 37 years.
- Delhi's Connaught Place is the world's ninth most expensive business office location with annual rentals at ₹6,877 per sq ft, according to American belongings consultant CBRE. Hong Kong is the world's most expensive business office marketplace spot with annual rentals at ₹17,197 per sq ft.
- Delhi's Teen Murti Marg is laid to live renamed after Israeli metropolis Haifa ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's watch to the Jewish nation.
- Department of Science as well as Technology (DST) has launched Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) programme dealing with self-driven cars, autonomous unmanned vehicles as well as aircraft navigation systems.
- Digital payments startup Paytm has partnered with metallic refinery MMTC-PAMP to launch a 'Digital Gold' characteristic to allow users to purchase as well as sell gilded digitally.
- Ferrari's Formula One racer Sebastian Vettel pipped British rival, Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton to win the Bahrain Grand Prix.
- FIFA President Gianni Infantino has confirmed that Video Assistant Referees (VAR) volition live used at the 2018 World Cup inward Russia.
- For the outset fourth dimension inward Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) elections, the None Of The Above (NOTA) pick was made available during polling.
- Former Indian captain MS Dhoni was appointed every bit the CEO of Gulf Oil Republic of Republic of India for a day, every bit he wanted to sympathise how a corporate CEO works.
- Four stands at Kolkata's Eden Gardens stadium were named after Indian Army martyrs.
- G20 Digital Ministerial Meeting on Digital Economy was latterly held at Dusseldorf, Germany.
- Germany has go the 1st NATO fellow member to launch a "self-contained" cyber command unit of measurement designed to shield information technology as well as weapons systems from growing attacks.
- Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has announced the state's Sex ratio at nascency touched 950 girls to 1,000 boys inward March, crossing the grade for the outset fourth dimension inward the state.
- Haryana emerged champion beating Kerala at the National Youth Athletics Meet.
- Haryana authorities volition provide a one-time grant of ₹21,000 to all those families whose tertiary daughter kid was born after August 24, 2015, nether the Aapki Beti, Hamari Beti scheme.
- Home Minister Rajnath Singh launched website 'Bharat Ke Veer' (www.bharatkeveer.gov.in) to facilitate monetary contribution to martyred CRPF jawans' families.
- Hyderabad-born wicketkeeper-batsman Ibrahim Khaleel has been included inward the USA squad for the ICC Division Three World Cricket League tournament which volition live held inward Republic of Uganda inward May.
- Iceland is laid to go the outset province inward Blue Planet to neutralise gender pay gap.
- In a first, the Uttarakhand Forest Department has deployed 3 drones for real-time monitoring of the wood fires.
- In monastic tell to spread awareness nigh the Sikh identity as well as culture, 'Turban Day' was organised at New York's Times Square yesteryear the non-profit grouping The Sikhs of New York.
- India as well as Georgia lead hold singed a Joint Statement on the launching of the Joint Feasibility Study on the Free Trade Agreement betwixt both countries.
- India has go the world's fifth-largest armed forces spender, witnessing a increment of approximately 8.5% inward expenditure inward 2016. US topped the list.
- India has go world’s minute largest LPG importer, a spot that was previously occupied yesteryear Japan. mainland People's Republic of China remains every bit the world’s top importer.
- India has inked a 2 billion dollar defence forcefulness bargain with State of Israel as well as the afterwards volition render advanced medium-range surface-to-air missile (SAM) systems, designed to destroy hostile aircraft, missiles as well as drones.
- India has jumped 12 places to the 40th rank inward the World Economic Forum Global Travel as well as Tourism Competitiveness Report 2017. This listing was topped yesteryear Spain.
- India has signed a articulation arguing with Russian Federation takeover total operational command of Unit 1 of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KKNPP).
- India slipped iii places to live placed 136th amidst 180 countries inward the 2017 world press liberty rankings. This listing was topped yesteryear Norway.
- India successfully test-fired its surface-to-surface intermediate attain ballistic missile (IRBM) Agni-III from a defence forcefulness essay facility off Odisha coast.
- India won a total of xi medals, including iii gold, 2 silver, as well as vi bronze, at the recently-concluded US Open Karate Championship inward Las Vegas.
- India, world’s 3rd largest issue energy consumer has joined International Energy Association (IAE) every bit associate member.
- India’s outset as well as longest ropeway (8 km) is planned to live constructed yesteryear the Bombay Port Trust to link Bombay with the famous Elephanta Island inward the Arabian Sea.
- India’s National Maritime Day was observed on 5th Apr 2017 with the Theme “Connecting Republic of Republic of India through Shipping”.
- Indian boxer K Shyam Kumar won a Gold medal at the Thailand International Tournament.
- Indian cueist Pankaj Advani won Silver at the Asian Snooker Championship, losing the lastly to China's Lv Haotian inward Doha.
- Indian Navy successfully conducted the outset essay burn downwards of the land-attack variant of the BrahMos supersonic missile. The missile, with a 400 km range, was launched at bounding main off the Andaman as well as Nicobar islands.
- Indian shot putter Manpreet Kaur became world number 1 after winning the Gold medal at the Asian Grand Prix inward China.
- Indian shuttler Sai Praneeth defeated 24-year-old compatriot Kidambi Srikanth to elevator his maiden Super Series championship at the Singapore Open.
- India's 18-year-old motorcar racer Jehan Daruvala became the outset Indian racer to occupy pole spot inward the FIA Formula 3 European Championship inward the qualifying session for Round 2 inward Monza. Bollywood actress Gul Panag has became India's outset adult woman to drive a Formula due east motorcar after driving the racing motorcar inward Barcelona, Spain.
- India's 1983 World Cup-winning captain Kapil Dev volition larn his ain wax statue at the upcoming Madame Tussauds museum inward Delhi.
- India's 1st electrical taxi trial would live launched inward Nagpur from 24th May 2017.
- India's women's T20I squad captain Harmanpreet Kaur has been named Player of the Year yesteryear Australia's Women's Big Bash League squad Sydney Thunder.
- International Day for Monuments as well as Sites was observed on 18th Apr 2017 with the Theme "Cultural Heritage & Sustainable Tourism".
- Japanese Volleyball Association is using robot volleyball players to assist out the national squad players with preparation as well as drills.
- Jharkhand has tagged over 12,000 cows with Aadhaar-like 12-digit unique identification (UID) number to forestall cattle smuggling, ameliorate milk yield, as well as monitor their health.
- K Prithika Yashini (26), scripted history when she took accuse every bit sub-inspector inward Dharmapuri district inward Tamil Nadu.
- Kazakhstan has opened its honorary consulate inward Chennai.
- Kerala organised India's outset transgender one-day athletic come across inward Thiruvananthapuram.
- Kerala's Kochi is laid to larn a Blind Football Academy (BFA), the outset always academy for differently-abled footballers inward the country.
- Madhya Pradesh Government has launched Deendayal Antyodaya Rasoi Yojana, a populist subsidised repast scheme for pathetic inward the state. With this, Madhya Pradesh becomes 3rd province inward the province to launch populist subsidised repast scheme. Other 2 states are Tamil Nadu as well as Rajasthan.
- Maharashtra is laid to go the outset province to launch a exceptional awareness drive to ensure that transgenders inward the province register every bit voters. The province branch of the Election Commission of Republic of Republic of India (ECI) launched the drive on Apr 15, celebrated every bit Third Gender Day.
- Malaysia Airlines has go the world's outset airline which volition runway its fights with the assist of satellites yesteryear 2018.
- Malaysia has passed a police that offers stronger legal protections for children against sexual offenses but stops curt of criminalising kid marriages.
- Malaysian PM Mohd Najib Tun Razak has announced the launch of multiple-entry e-visas, allowing Indians to wing to Malaysia as well as watch South Thailand, Singapore, as well as Republic of Indonesia using only 1 visa.
- Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak was on a six-day watch to India.
- Marylebone Cricket Club, cricket's rule-making body, approved novel rules including giving umpires the ability to eject misbehaving players, with using bails tethered to the stumps to protect wicketkeepers from pith injuries.
- Mercedes' British Formula One racer Lewis Hamilton defeated Ferrari's four-time Formula One World Champion Sebastian Vettel to elevator his 5th championship at the Chinese Grand Prix.
- Mongolia launched its outset satellite called Mongol Sat-1. The 1,227-MHz satellite volition assist the landlocked province expand its telecoms as well as broadband services.
- Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries surpassed information technology giant Tata Consultancy Services inward intraday merchandise to reclaim its tag of India's most valued company.
- NASA's Cassini spacecraft, launched inward 1997, has became the outset man-made object to go beyond Saturn's innermost rings towards the planet.
- Naval Ship ‘INS Chennai’, a ‘P15A Guided Missile Destroyer’, was dedicated to Chennai inward the presence of the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu K. Palaniswami as well as the Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Naval Command Vice Admiral HCS Bisht.
- Nepal President Bidhya Devi Bhandari was on a five-day watch to India.
- North Korea has agreed to a watch yesteryear Catalina Devandas-Aguilar, a United Nations skillful on the rights of people with disabilities, the United Nations announced.
- Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq has announced he volition retire from Test cricket after the completion of upcoming Test serial against West Indies.
- Pakistan is going to export donkeys to mainland People's Republic of China nether its Donkey Development Programme, inward a bid to attract Chinese investors inward Pakistan's Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
- Pakistan's old captain Younis Khan announced that he volition retire from Test cricket after the completion of the Test serial against West Indies, bringing an terminate to his 17-year-long Test career.
- Pakistan's National Assembly has passed a nib endorsing compulsory Quran pedagogy for all Muslim students studying inward authorities schools from cast 1 to 12.
- Paris has banned all sexist as well as discriminatory ads from its billboards.
- Poland has assured Republic of Republic of India of its back upwards to New Delhi's bid for membership inward the elite Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) as well as a permanent spot inward the expanded United Nations Security Council.
- President of Republic of Republic of India Pranab Mukherjee has given his assent to the Mental Healthcare Act. Suicide attempts yesteryear a mentally sick somebody volition non live punishable nether this novel law.
- President Pranab Mukherjee has given his approbation to a Parliamentary panel's recommendation to brand Hindi compulsory till Class 10 inward CBSE-affiliated schools as well as Kendriya Vidyalayas.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made 56 unusual visits since taking the business office inward May 2014.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi has latterly launched BHIM-Aadhaar platform, the merchant interface of the BHIM App, that volition allow people to brand payments through the fingerprint scanner.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated India's longest route tunnel – the Chenani-Nashri tunnel on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched Ude Desh ka Aam Nagrik (UDAN) scheme for regional flying connectivity yesteryear flagging off the initiatory flying from Shimla to Delhi.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that women make non lead hold to alter their maiden names on passport after marriage.
- Prime Minister of Republic of Republic of India Narendra Modi to live the Chief Guest for United Nations Vesak Day 2017 celebrations to live held inward Sri Lanka from twelfth to 14th May 2017.
- Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh prohibited the inscription of names of whatever authorities functionaries, including ministers as well as MLAs, on foundation stones as well as initiatory plaques.
- Rafael Nadal became the outset instrumentalist inward the Open Era (since 1968) to win a singles tournament on 10 dissimilar occasions, winning his tenth Monte-Carlo Masters final.
- Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu announced that for the outset fourth dimension inward Indian Railways' history, Habibganj station inward Bhopal has been handed over to a individual theater to live operated yesteryear it.
- Rajasthan authorities has imposed 10% surcharge on postage stamp duty for the conservation as well as propagation of cows inward the state.
- Rohan Bopanna as well as his Uruguayan partner Pablo Cuevas won the Men's doubles lastly at the Monte Carlo Masters to register their outset ATP World Tour championship every bit a team.
- Ruhaan Alva, a 10-year-old man child from Bengaluru has won the Easykart Championship, a go-karting tournament, inward Lonato, Italy.
- Russia has sought India's EVM applied scientific discipline for 2018 presidential elections.
- Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a police that allows the transfer of cash from Russian Federation to Ukraine entirely through companies controlled yesteryear the Russian Central Bank.
- Saudi Arabia has been appointed to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, an way which promotes gender equality as well as women empowerment.
- Saudi Arabia's Finance Minister Mohammed al-Jadaan has announced that citizens would non pay taxes on income as well as Saudi companies would non reckon their profits taxed nether novel economical reforms.
- Somalia's President Mohamed Abdullahi has declared the province a 'war zone' as well as instructed the regular army to ready a novel offensive against the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab militants.
- Spinner Rashid Khan became the outset cricketer from Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan to play inward an Indian Premier League match, after featuring for the Sunrisers Hyderabad against the Royal Challengers Bangalore inward the flavour opener.
- Sri Lankan PM Ranil Wickremesinghe was on a four-day watch to India.
- Sri Lankan spin legend Muttiah Muralitharan volition go 1st Sri Lankan cricketer to live inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame, with his formal induction laid to live held during June's ICC Champions Trophy 2017.
- State-run lender State Bank of Republic of Republic of India (SBI) surpassed issue energy theater ONGC to go the country’s most valuable world sector unit of measurement (PSU), inward terms of marketplace spot valuation.
- Sujal Kahar, a 12-year-old football game enthusiast as well as goalkeeper from Mumbai, has been shortlisted to stand upwards for Republic of Republic of India at the global Football For Friendship (F4F) social programme.
- Switzerland's Roger Federer defeated Castilian competition Rafael Nadal inward straight sets to clinch his tertiary Miami Open championship as well as his outset since 2006.
- Thailand's King Maha Vajiralongkorn signed a novel military-backed constitution that strengthens the army's traveling pocket over the authorities as well as puts the province on the path to polls inward 2018, 4 years after the armed forces seized control.
- The 1st always articulation armed forces practise betwixt Nepal as well as mainland People's Republic of China named ‘Sagarmatha Friendship-2017’ was latterly held.
- The seventh Junior National Hockey Championship was latterly held at Bhopal.
- The Andhra Pradesh authorities is going to innovate a novel programme titled 'Ammaku Vandanam' inward schools to pay tribute to mothers. Under this programme, students volition lead hold the blessings of their woman raise as well as also launder their feet.
- The board of the Reserve Bank of Republic of Republic of India (RBI) has cleared a proposal to innovate banknotes of ₹200 denomination.
- The Cabinet approved policy guidelines to allow 'financially sound' province authorities entities to borrow straight from international agencies for vital infrastructure projects.
- The Cabinet decided to ban the usage of Red Beacons on the vehicles of authorities officials, starting 1st May 2017.
- The Central authorities has latterly launched 'Nakshe', a dedicated spider web portal allowing Indians to download accurate Indian maps prepared yesteryear the Survey of India.
- The French authorities has announced the closure of its oldest nuclear ability flora at Fessenheim yesteryear Apr 2020, 1 time a novel generation reactor inward Flamanville is operational.
- The authorities has predicted the country's wheat production would touching on a tape 98 1 1000 k tonnes inward the ongoing 2016-17 crop twelvemonth ending June.
- The authorities of Nippon has approved using Adolf Hitler's autobiography 'Mein Kampf' (My Struggle), every bit teaching stuff inward schools for educational purposes.
- The Home Ministry is going to lift an all-woman Republic of Republic of India Reserve Battalion (IRB) inward Jammu as well as Kashmir.
- The Indian football game squad jumped 31 places to attain the 101st rank, its best inward xx years, inward the latest FIFA rankings.
- The Indian Institute of Science Bangalore has been declared every bit India's best academy inward 'India Rankings 2017' released yesteryear HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar.
- The Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) is going to build a novel stone oil terminal at Motihari (Bihar) to render fuel to Nepal via the planned pipeline upwards to Amlekganj inward Nepal.
- The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) has granted affiliation to the Boxing Federation of Republic of Republic of India (BFI), ending a long-standing impasse betwixt the 2 bodies.
- The International Road federation (IRF) has named Republic of Republic of India to live the host of the 18th World Road Meeting (WRM 2017) which is scheduled to live held on Nov 13, 2017. Theme of WRM 2017 : ‘Safe Roads as well as Smart Mobility: The Engines of Economic Growth’.
- The Keibul Lamjao National Park, located inward the Loktak Lake inward Manipur, India, is known every bit the entirely floating national green inward the world.
- The Lok Sabha latterly passed the Motor Vehicle (Amendment) Bill 2016, which volition impose stiffer penalties for traffic rules violations.
- The Madhya Pradesh authorities volition start a one-year diploma class on Hindu priesthood called 'Purohityam’ from July this year.
- The Maharashtra Assembly passed a nib to amend the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act to legalise bullock cart races inward the state.
- The Ministry of External Affairs has made a provision enabling people to apply online for passports inward Hindi.
- The National Basketball Association (NBA) has launched the outset NBA Basketball School inward Mumbai.
- The National Mission for Clean Ganga volition uncovering 'Ganga Cleanliness Pledge Day' on 2d May 2017 at diverse places inward the river's basin states to spread awareness as well as ensure world participation inward the programme.
- The prices of petrol as well as diesel fuel inward Republic of Republic of India volition alter every solar daytime inward sync with international rates from May 1.
- The Reserve Bank of Republic of Republic of India (RBI) has decided to slash clearance fourth dimension for National Electronic Funds Transfer (NEFT) inward an seek to heighten efficiency of the electronic payment arrangement as well as add together to client convenience.
- The Reserve Bank of Republic of Republic of India (RBI) has kept the repo charge per unit of measurement unchanged at 6.25% inward its outset bi-monthly monetary policy of this financial on sixth Apr 2017.
- The Reserve Bank of Republic of Republic of India (RBI) volition presently spot into circulation novel ₹5 coins to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Allahabad High Court as well as New ₹10 coins to commemorate the 125th twelvemonth of National Archives of India.
- The Supreme Court held that the income earned yesteryear Formula One World Championship (FOWC) for conducting the Formula One motorcar races inward Republic of Republic of India is taxable.
- The Supreme Court inward its latest ruling has laid 25% of the cyberspace salary every bit the maintenance to live paid yesteryear a hubby to his estranged wife.
- The Supreme Court directed the Centre to include Urdu every bit a medium inward National Eligibility cum Entrance Test from academic session 2018-19 onwards.
- The Telangana Cabinet has cleared Telangana State Reservation Bill 2017 that provides 12% reservation to Muslims as well as 10% reservation to Scheduled Tribes, depending on their population inward the state.
- The Thiruvananthapuram Municipal Corporation inward Kerala has started an initiative wherein stuff sanitary napkin vending machines volition live laid upwards inward world spaces such every bit world toilets, railway stations as well as schools.
- The United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland passport could plough Dark Blue over again after Brexit nether a nearly ₹4,000 crore redesigning contract.
- The Union Agriculture Ministry has joined hands with the National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), a wing of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) for geo-tagging agricultural assets.
- The Union Cabinet has approved setting upwards an independent regulator Rail Development Authority (RDA), that volition recommend rider fares for Indian Railways.
- The Union Ministry of Food Processing is going to launch Scheme for Agro-Marine Produce Processing as well as Development of Agro-Processing Clusters (SAMPADA) for nutrient processing sector. The scheme volition integrate electrical flow as well as novel schemes aimed at reducing nutrient wastage as well as doubling farmers’ income yesteryear 2022.
- The Union Ministry of Power has launched URJA MITRA app for empowering citizens yesteryear existent fourth dimension data sharing on ability supply.
- The Union Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment has launched Rashtriya Vayoshri Yojana inward Nellore District of Andhra Pradesh. The Scheme aims at providing physical aids as well as assisted-living devices for senior citizens belonging to Below Poverty Line (BPL) category. It is the first-of-its-kind Central Sector Scheme (CCS) inward India, to live fully funded yesteryear the Union Government.
- The United Nations Postal Administration (UNPA) volition number a laid of stamps showing 10 yoga asanas (poses) to commemorate the International Day of Yoga on June 21 inward New York.
- The UP authorities renamed the Agra as well as Gorakhpur airports inward the Cabinet meet. While Gorakhpur drome is renamed every bit Mahayogi Gorakhnath Airport after the founder of the Nath monastic movement, Agra drome is named after RSS ideologue Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay.
- The US has ruled that beingness an entry-level figurer programmer volition no longer qualify every bit a specialist profession, which is a requirement for applying for an H-1B piece of occupation visa.
- The US National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has announced that it along with the US Air Force successfully field-tested a modernised gravity nuclear bomb B61-12 on March xiv at the Tonopah Test Range inward Nevada.
- The Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terror Squad has decided to initiate a 'Ghar Wapsi' (Home Coming) stimulate for de-radicalisation of misguided youth of the state.
- The Uttar Pradesh authorities has signed “Power for All” pact with the Centre to provide 24×7 ability render to all the households inward the State.
- The Uttarakhand High Court has declared the "rivers, streams, rivulets, lakes, air, meadows, dales, jungles, forests wetlands, grasslands, springs, as well as waterfalls" inward the province every bit living entities.
- The World Bank has approved $37.5 crore loan for capacity augmentation of National Waterway-1 (NW-1) on the river Ganga nether the Jal Marg Vikas Project (JMVP).
- The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that Ghana, Kenya, as well as Republic of Malaŵi volition lead hold component inward the first-ever malaria vaccination programme from 2018.
- To grade the 100-year anniversary of Satyagrah movement, led yesteryear Mahatma Gandhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated an exhibition ”swachagraha” Bapu Ko Karyanjali” – Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mission, An Exhibition, at the National Archives of India, Janpath, New Delhi.
- To grade the Golden Jubilee Year of Bangladesh's independence inward 2021, Republic of Republic of India as well as People's Republic of Bangladesh lead hold agreed to jointly create a documentary cinema on the Liberation War of Bangladesh.
- Top-ranked T20I all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan has been appointed Captain of Bangladesh's T20I team.
- Turkish President Recep Erdoğan has declared victory inward plebiscite on transforming the country's governance from a parliamentary arrangement to an executive presidency.
- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was on a watch to India.
- Union Health Minister JP Nadda has launched the Test as well as Treat policy for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) patients. As per this novel policy, anyone who is tested as well as found positive volition larn the necessary handling gratis of cost.
- United Nations' Mine Awareness Day (International Day of Mine Awareness as well as Assistance inward Mine Action) was observed on fourth Apr 2017 with the Theme "Needs driven. People Centred".
- United States as well as mainland People's Republic of China lead hold agreed to pursue a ‘100-day plan’ aimed at reducing the US merchandise deficit with China.
- Uruguay volition go the outset province inward Blue Planet to allow pharmacies to sell recreational marijuana, starting July.
- US President Donald Trump has signed the US musical instrument of ratification for Montenegro's membership to NATO.
- Utkala Dibasa (Odisha Day) was observed on 1st Apr 2017.
- Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath has announced that at that spot volition live no vacation inward the province schools on nascency anniversaries of keen personalities.
- Workers' Memorial Day / World Day for Safety as well as Health at Work was observed on 28th Apr 2017 with the Theme 'Good health as well as security for all workers whoever they are'.
- World Autism Awareness Day was observed on 2d Apr 2017 with the Theme "Toward Autonomy as well as Self-Determination".
- World Cup-winning coach Dav Whatmore took accuse every bit the caput coach of Kerala's province cricket team.
- World Day For Animals In Laboratories (also known every bit World Lab Animal Day) was observed on 24th Apr 2017 with the Theme 'Vivisectors as well as Animals'.
- World Health Day, a global health awareness day, was observed on seventh Apr 2016 with the Theme “Depression: Let’s talk”.
- World Hemophilia Day was observed on 17th Apr 2017 with the Theme 'Hear Their Voices'
- World Intellectual Property Day was observed on 26th Apr 2017 with the Theme 'Innovation – Improving Lives'.
- World Malaria Day was observed on 25th Apr 2017 with the Theme 'End Malaria For Good'
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