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Daily Current Affairs of 13th Apr 2017

International Current Affairs

• US President Donald Trump today signed the US musical instrument of ratification for Montenegro's membership to NATO. 
• This comes later on the Senate concluding calendar month backed the expansion of NATO to allow the pocket-size Balkan province to bring together the alliance.
• The G20 Digital Ministerial Meeting on Digital Economy was held inwards Dusseldorf, Germany. 
• Ministers responsible for the digital economic scheme from G20 countries had participated inwards it. 
• It concluded amongst adaptation of annunciation on ‘Shaping Digitalisation for an Interconnected World’.
  

National Current Affairs

• The Jallianwala Bagh massacre took house inwards Amritsar on this solar daytime (13th April) inwards the twelvemonth 1919, wherein thousands of people inwards a populace protestation coming together were fired upon nether the ascendance of Brigadier-General Dyer. 
• While British officials declared 379 deaths inwards the massacre, the Indian National Congress estimated over 1,000 deaths. 
• With a motive to enlighten children inwards Naxal-affected areas of Jharkhand's Palamu district, the province constabulary stimulate got initiated a 'Tare Zameen Par' programme to encourage children to Pb a happy life. 
• Police appealed the locals to donate bags, shoes, books in addition to clothe that would travel distributed amidst misfortunate children. 
• The BJP authorities inwards Uttar Pradesh today announced that the quota based reservation for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes in addition to Other Backward Classes in private medical colleges will travel ended inwards the state. 
• The province authorities is also planning to brand 1 unusual linguistic communication compulsory inwards schools in addition to innovate English linguistic communication dependent champaign from plant nursery instead of Class six inwards authorities schools.
• The Supreme Court today directed the Centre to include Urdu as a medium inwards National Eligibility cum Entrance Test from academic session 2018-19 onwards. 
• The Students Islamic Organisation had filed a plea requesting the courtroom for the inclusion of Urdu inwards NEET.
• Various domestic airlines inwards Republic of Republic of India are reportedly preparing to curlicue out in-flight Wi-Fi with 5Mbps speed past times the destination of 2017. 
• The DGCA in addition to the Civil Aviation Ministry stimulate got given their blessing to the project.
• The HIV in addition to AIDS (Prevention in addition to Control) Bill, 2017, passed past times the Lok Sabha on Tuesday, promises equal rights to the people affected past times HIV in addition to AIDS inwards getting treatment, admissions inwards educational institutions in addition to jobs. The neb also ensures that no HIV test, medical handling or inquiry volition travel conducted on an infected mortal without his informed consent.
• The Union Ministry of Food Processing is going to launch Scheme for Agro-Marine Produce Processing in addition to Development of Agro-Processing Clusters (SAMPADA) for nutrient processing sector. 
• The scheme volition integrate electrical current in addition to novel schemes aimed at reducing nutrient wastage in addition to doubling farmers’ income past times 2022. 
• It volition assist to exercise infrastructure for linkage of entire render chain.
• On the lines of the anti-Romeo squads inwards Uttar Pradesh, the Haryana government on Wed launched 'Operation Durga'. 
• The constabulary teams nabbed 72 people from across the province on the rattling starting fourth dimension day. 
• The Union Ministry of Power has launched URJA MITRA app for empowering citizens past times existent fourth dimension data sharing on ability supply. 
• The app is a starting fourth dimension of its sort which provides a fundamental platform, web-portal (www.urjamitra.com) every bit good every bit mobile app for province ability Distribution utilities to disseminate ability outage data to rural/ urban ability consumers through SMS/ push/email notifications across the country.

New Appointments

• Infosys today named Ravi Venkatesan, onetime chairman of Microsoft India, every bit Co-chairman of its board, where he was already an independent director.
• Actress Priyanka Chopra has been appointed every bit a jury fellow member for the upcoming Tribeca Film Festival. 
• She volition justice the Documentary in addition to Student Visionary Competitions of the festival's 16th edition, scheduled to travel held from Apr nineteen to 30. 
• The festival was founded inwards 2002 past times Oscar-winning thespian Robert De Niro, producer Jane Rosenthal in addition to real-estate investor Craig Hatkoff.
• UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has named Achim Steiner as the new administrator of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
• Steiner belongs to Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany who previously served at the United Nations Environment Programme in addition to headed the United Nations role inwards Kenya.
• Justice Gita Mittal, the senior-most justice of Delhi High Court, has been appointed every bit the acting Chief justice of Delhi High Court with number from Apr 14. 
• She volition supplant the retiring Chief justice Gorla Rohini.

Banking, Business & Economic Affairs

• Amazon Republic of Republic of India has announced that it has received RBI blessing to launch its own digital wallet. 
• The Prepaid Payment Instrument licence volition allow Amazon to accept on established e-wallets such every bit Paytm in addition to Freecharge.
• President Pranab Mukherjee today cleared the four legislations related to the Goods in addition to Services Tax (GST) Bill. 
• These are the Central GST Bill, the Integrated GST Bill, the UT GST Bill and the Compensation to states GST Bill. 
• With the clearance, it tin privy travel expected that the novel taxation regime volition travel rolled out from July 1 every bit planned.

Awards & Honors

• Abdulqadir Rashik, an Indian software engineer, has won the top prize at a global challenge for an open-source tool that enables users to interactively sentiment United Nations General Assembly resolutions in addition to empathise voting patterns of fellow member states.
• President Pranab Mukherjee today conferred India's 4th highest civilian award, the Padma Shri, to chef Sanjeev Kapoor and vocaliser Kailash Kher. 
• Gymnast Dipa Karmakar, wrestler Sakshi Malik, Rio Paralympics gilt medalist Mariyappan Thangavelu and discus thrower Vikas Gowda were also honored amongst the Padma Shri.
• Indian Carnatic instrumentalist Dr KJ Yesudas was honoured amongst the Padma Vibhushan accolade spell instrumentalist Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt was awarded the Padma Bhushan. 
• Further, Indian cinema journalist in addition to historian Bhawana Somaaya received the Padma Shri.
• Actress Alia Bhatt has featured inwards Forbes xxx Under xxx Asia list. 
• She is the entirely Bollywood actress who has made it to this year's list. 
• Other celebrities who stimulate got featured on the listing include actress Margot Robbie in addition to vocaliser Lorde.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi has emerged every bit the most followed globe leader on photo-sharing app Instagram with a whopping 6.9 1 thou m followers, surpassing USA President Donald Trump.

Deaths

• Malayalam thespian Munshi Venu (63) passed away today due to kidney failure.
• He is known for his functioning inwards films similar 'Pachakuthira' (2006), 'Salt 'n' Pepper' (2011), 'Kanyaka Talkies' (2013), amidst others.

Sports Current Affairs

• The Indian cricket squad lifted the first edition of the Asia Cup at the Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium on this solar daytime (13th April) inwards the twelvemonth 1984. 
  • The tournament was played betwixt India, Sri Lanka in addition to Pakistan, inwards a round-robin format.
    
• Japanese Volleyball Association is using robot volleyball players to assist out the national squad players amongst preparation in addition to drills. 
• The robots, which copy the opponent team's blockers, consist of 3 pairs of hands fixed to mobile torsos, which tin privy motility dorsum in addition to forth on a fixed rails behind the net. 
• Sachin Tendulkar and Aussie PM Malcolm Turnbull attended the launch of a articulation India-Australia sports partnership in Bombay today.
• Under IASP, Republic of Republic of India in addition to Commonwealth of Australia volition cooperate inwards iv areas : 
• Athlete in addition to charabanc preparation in addition to development, 
• Sport science, 
• Sport governance in addition to integrity
• Grassroots participation.

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