Yak 25Th April 2017 Of Import Daily Electrical Flow Affairs
Daily Current Affairs of 25th Apr 2017
International Current Affairs
- Today (25th April) is World Malaria Day.
- This solar daytime recognizes global efforts to command malaria.
- Globally, 3.3 billion people inwards 106 countries are at risk of malaria.
- Important Note :
- Wolrd Malaria Day is ane of 8 official global populace health campaigns currently marked yesteryear the World Health Organization (WHO).
- Remaining days are,
- World Health Day,
- World Blood Donor Day,
- World Immunization Week,
- World Tuberculosis Day,
- World No Tobacco Day,
- World Hepatitis Day in addition to
- World AIDS Day.
- Theme for World Malaria Day 2017 : End Malaria For Good
- World Penguin Day is beingness observed today.
- This solar daytime coincides with the annual northward migration of penguins, which happens each twelvemonth around Apr 25, according to the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).
- In a bid to teach by faux news, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has announced the launch of an e-publication, Wikitribune.
- The site volition conduct keep paid journalists working amongst voluntary contributors, who volition together ensure that all tidings articles are supported yesteryear proper facts similar sum transcripts, video in addition to well of interviews.
National Current Affairs
- In a first, the Uttarakhand Forest Department has deployed 3 drones for real-time monitoring of the wood fires.
- Important Point to Note : This is the kickoff fourth dimension that drones are used to monitor wood fires inwards India.
- Jharkhand has tagged over 12,000 cows with Aadhaar-like 12-digit unique identification (UID) expose to preclude cattle smuggling, amend milk yield, in addition to monitor their health.
- The expose contains details similar age, breed, sex, lactation, height, colour, horn type, exceptional score in addition to others.
- The Centre has directed province officials to tag at to the lowest degree xviii lakh cattle inwards a year.
- Northeast’s 6th in addition to largest hub for data applied scientific discipline has been inaugurated inwards Agartala.
- The hub has been fix at a toll of Rs l crore to boost work in addition to e-governance also export of software technology.
- The hub is expected to practice to a greater extent than work opportunities for the youths in addition to extend the e-governance to encompass all the people of the region.
- This would facilitate famous information technology companies to laid off their delineate of piece of work concern in addition to services in addition to boost export of software technology.
- India’s kickoff in addition to longest ropeway (8 km) is planned to locomote constructed yesteryear the Bombay Port Trust to link Mumbai with the famous Elephanta Island in the Arabian Sea.
Banking, Business & Economic Affairs
- The authorities has predicted the country's wheat production would touching on a tape 98 1000000 tonnes inwards the ongoing 2016-17 crop twelvemonth ending June.
- It had before estimated the wheat output to locomote a tape 96.64 MT every bit against final year's 92.29 MT.
- The Supreme Court today held that the income earned yesteryear Formula One World Championship (FOWC) for conducting the Formula One auto races inwards Bharat is taxable.
- The Supreme Court ruled that FOWC has a permanent institution for its delineate of piece of work concern inwards Bharat in addition to thence it is liable to pay taxes from the income accrued.
Science & Technology
- The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that Ghana, Kenya, in addition to Malawi will conduct keep business office inwards the first-ever malaria vaccination programme from 2018.
- The vaccine is given inwards 4 doses, in ane lawsuit a calendar month for 3 months in addition to a 4th dose xviii months later.
- The airplane pilot projection volition involve over 7,50,000 children aged 5-17 months to come across if a full-scale, worldwide programme could locomote started.
- ISRO's Ahmedabad-based Space Applications Centre has developed an android app for computing the solar unloosen energy potential of a place.
- ISRO said the app provides monthly in addition to yearly solar potential in addition to the minimum/maximum temperatures at whatever location.
Awards & Honors
- Political Comedy cinema ‘Newton’, directed yesteryear Amit Masurkar, has won the Jury Prize for Best Film at the Hong Kong International Film Festival.
- Note : The Hong Kong International Film Festival was founded inwards 1976 in addition to is Asia’s oldest international cinema festival.
- Aamir Khan attended his kickoff laurels exhibit inwards xv years today, after receiving a exceptional invite for the Master Dinanath Mangeshkar Awards from Lata Mangeshkar.
- He was presented Vishesh Puraskar for 'Dangal' yesteryear RSS Chief Mohan Madhukar Bhagwat.
- Social activist Prafulla Samantra was announced ane amid 6 winners of the Goldman Environmental Prize for his “historic 12-year legal battle that affirmed the indigenous Dongria Kondh’s dry reason rights in addition to protected the Niyamgiri Hills from a massive, open-pit aluminum ore mine.”
- The other 5 winners for this twelvemonth are :
- Mark Lopez (United States)
- Uroš Macerl (Slovenia)
- Rodrigo Tot (Guatemala)
- Rodrigue Katembo (Democratic Republic of Congo)
- Wendy Bowman (Australia).
- Note : Samantara is exclusively the 6th Indian to win the prize after Medha Patkar, M.C. Mehta, Rasheeda Bi, Champaran Shukla and Ramesh Agrawal since 1990 when the laurels was kickoff instituted.
New Appointments
- Flipkart today announced that ane of its employees who plant every bit a designer at the e-commerce startup, Padmini Pagadala, volition locomote its CEO for a day.
- Flipkart had organised a contest for its employees to perish a day's CEO to score its tenth anniversary.
Sports Current Affairs
- Haryana emerged champion beating Kerala at the National Youth Athletics Meet.
- Note : Kerala was at the top house for the final 5 years.
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