Yak 22Nd April 2017 Of Import Daily Electrical Flow Affairs

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Daily Current Affairs of 22nd Apr 2017

International Current Affairs

• 47th International footing Day is beingness observed today.
• The world's commencement always footing Day was celebrated on 22nd Apr 1970, inwards the U.S.A. of America to increment world awareness nigh environmental problems. 
• It was founded past times U.S.A. Senator Gaylord Nelson.  
• The aim of the twenty-four hr menstruum is to select attending to environmental issues to spark changes that volition termination inwards a healthy, sustainable environment. 
• Theme of 2017 : “Environmental together with Climate Literacy”.
  
• For the commencement fourth dimension since the Industrial Revolution, Britain witnessed a full twenty-four hr menstruum powered past times release energy generated without the role of coal. 
• Note : U.K. volition unopen its final coal ability station past times 2025 to run across its climate alter commitments.

National Current Affairs

• The Thiruvananthapuram Municipal Corporation inwards Kerala has started an initiatory wherein cloth sanitary napkin vending machines will survive ready inwards world spaces such every bit world toilets, railway stations together with schools. 
• The commencement 1,620 pads volition survive available for gratuitous together with thereafter people volition survive charged ₹10 for 3 sanitary pads. 
• The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation, which regulates sale together with distribution of drugs inwards India, has reportedly found medicines similar Combiflam, a hurting reliever, together with D Cold Total, a mutual frigidity medicine, to survive substandard.
• Along alongside these drugs, the organisation issued an warning for 55 other drugs, all of which failed unlike tests inwards March, the written report stated.
• Indian Army soldiers who are to a greater extent than than 10% over the ideal trunk weight volition non survive considered for promotions together with transfers, according to a novel lodge effective May 1. 
• All personnel volition also select to undergo an annual "obesity evaluation examination". 
• Further, the annual confidential reports (ACRs) of officers volition select a full-size photograph instead of the passport-size one.
• The Punjab government today slashed the VIP security, including that of the Chief Minister, past times withdrawing nearly 2,000 personnel. 
• The government, the safety has been cutting downward to do the necessary infrastructure for ameliorate policing.
• Andhra Pradesh today established a welfare board for transgender persons at the Sri Venkateswara University inwards Tirupati. 
• The welfare board volition survive run past times the community, alongside voting rights for the minorities.

New Appointments

• Sulkhan Singh, the 1980-batch Indian Police Service officer, took accuse every bit the novel Director General of Police of Uttar Pradesh. 
• He has replaced outgoing Uttar Pradesh Police principal Javeed Ahmed. 

MOUs & Agreements

• A MoU has been signed betwixt India and South Korea for defence manufacture cooperation inwards shipbuilding. 
• Under the MoU, the 2 countries would recommend the organisations for collaborating inwards the implementation of specific projects. 
• Note : While Republic of Korea is however to cite its recommended organisation, Republic of Republic of India has nominated Hindustan Shipyard Ltd (HSL), Visakhapatnam for the collaboration.
• Cuba and Kingdom of Morocco has signed an agreement to re-establish diplomatic ties after a fourth dimension menstruum of 37 years. 
• The 2 governments select also agreed to forge political, economical together with cultural cooperation. 

Science & Technology

• Indian Navy today successfully conducted the commencement examine burn downward of the land-attack variant of the BrahMos supersonic missile. 
• The missile, alongside a 400 km range, was launched at bounding main off the Andaman together with Nicobar islands. 
• Note : This is the commencement sea-to-land missile examine inwards the province together with also the commencement fourth dimension the land-attack variant was fired from a ship.

Awards & Honors

• Actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan was honoured alongside the Dadasaheb Phalke Excellence Award in the best actress category for her performance inwards 2016 celluloid 'Sarbjit'. 
• Veteran actress Zeenat Aman was given the Lifetime Achievement Award while actress Hema Malini won an abide by inwards the Kala Shree category.
• Meanwhile, Shoojit Sircar won the Creative Director Award for the 2016 celluloid 'Pink'.

Banking, Business & Economic Affairs

• 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 projection volition enable commercial navigation of vessels alongside a capacity of 1,500-2,000 deadweight tonnes along a 1,390-km stretch. 
• The NW-1 passes through Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand together with West Bengal.
• The authorities today announced that the declarations made past times dark coin holders nigh taxation payment together with deposits nether the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana can survive made until May 10. 
• The authorities before extended the appointment for deposits nether the system to Apr 30. 
• This is the final conduct a opportunity to undisclosed wealth holders to come upwardly ready clean past times paying taxation together with penalty.
• Ministry of Food together with Consumer Affairs has approved the ‘Guidelines on Fair Trade Practices Related to Charging of Service Charge from Consumers past times Hotels together with Restaurants’. 
• As a part of the guidelines which has been issued inwards world involvement to protect the rights of consumers, the authorities has said that Service accuse on hotel together with eating theatre bills is “totally voluntary”, adding that mandatory levy of service accuse amounts to unfair merchandise practice.
• India's second-largest individual sector lender HDFC Bank cut every bit many as 6,096 jobs inwards the January-March quarter owing to increased digitisation. 
• This is the minute direct quarter of chore cuts past times HDFC, which had cutting over 4,500 jobs inwards the final quarter. 

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Note : Current Affairs of 23rd together with 24th volition survive available soon. 

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