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Daily Current Affairs of twelfth Apr 2017

International Current Affairs

• Today (12th April) is the International Day of Human Space Flight / Cosmonautics Day / International Day of Aviation together with Cosmonautics.
• This 24-hour interval is observed to commemorate the appointment of the first human infinite flight inwards the history of mankind. 
• On this 24-hour interval inwards 1961, Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet Union (USSR) cosmonaut undertook first successful kickoff human infinite flight. 
  
• The G7 grouping of nations has rejected UK together with US' calls for sanctions against Russian Federation over its back upwardly of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
• Under a novel "extreme vetting" policy being considered past times the US administration, British tourists may take hold to mitt over personal information, including social media passwords together with mobile telephone contacts or go denied entry. 
• China has remained the world's biggest executioner, however, the truthful extent of the role of the expiry penalization inwards Communist People's Republic of China is unknown every bit this information is considered a state secret, human rights organisation Amnesty International announced today. 
• The residual of the countries reportedly accounted for at to the lowest degree 1,032 executions concluding year. 
• Note : Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, together with Islamic Republic of Pakistan were other top executioners.

MOUs & Agreements

• India and Georgia have singed a Joint Statement on the launching of the Joint Feasibility Study on the Free Trade Agreement betwixt both countries. 
• The tilt was signed past times Union Commerce & Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman together with Georgia’s Minister of Economy together with Sustainable Development Giorgi Gakharia.

National Current Affairs

• Aiming to strengthen the rights of the people infected with HIV, Lok Sabha has passed the HIV together with AIDS (Prevention together with Control) Bill, 2017. 
• The neb ensures equal rights to people affected past times HIV together with AIDS inwards getting treatment, admissions inwards educational institutions together with jobs.
• Union Health Minister - JP Nadda
• The Maharashtra government has agreed to provide reason at the Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC) for the kickoff metro station of the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train. 
• The prepare would start metro from BKC, go 21 km inwards a tunnel passing through the sea, together with emerge over the the world at Thane.
• It would take hold 12 stations, 8 inwards Gujarat together with remaining inwards Maharashtra.
• The Madhya Pradesh Cabinet today imposed a ban on using polythene bear bags in the state with lawsuit from May 1.
• The Union Government has reduced the number of centrally sponsored schemes (CSS) from 66 to 28 umbrella schemes, effective from the fiscal yr 2016-17. 
• Note : These schemes were reduced based on the recommendation of the sub-group of Chief Ministers on rationalisation of centrally sponsored schemes.
• The UP Cabinet has decided that villages inwards the state volition larn 18-hour ability supply, Power Minister Shrikant Sharma announced today. 
• The Andhra Pradesh authorities is going to innovate a novel programme titled 'Ammaku Vandanam' inwards schools to pay tribute to mothers.
• Under this programme, students volition accept the blessings of their woman bring upwardly together with also launder their feet. 

Banking, Business & Economic Affairs

• The authorities has announced that the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has tied upwardly with the Ministry of Corporate Affairs to number Permanent Account Number together with Tax Deduction Account Number inwards a day. 
• This has been done to ameliorate the repose of doing business. 
• The CBDT has also introduced electronic PAN cards which volition go sent past times e-mail to applicants.
• The prices of petrol together with diesel fuel inwards Republic of Republic of India volition alter every 24-hour interval in sync with international rates from May 1. 
• The government-owned fuel retailers volition launch a airplane pilot projection for daily cost revision inwards Puducherry, Vishakhapatnam, Udaipur, Jamshedpur together with Chandigarh earlier extending it to all over India. 
• Note : The fuel retailers currently revise rates on 1st together with 16th of every month.

Awards & Honors

• Veteran histrion Dilip Kumar has been honoured with the Living Legend Lifetime Award by the Punjab Association today. 
• The President of India, Pranab Mukherjee conferred the National Geoscience Awards - 2016 at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
• The National Geoscience Awards, previously known every bit the National Mineral Awards, was instituted past times the Ministry of Mines inwards 1966, to observe individuals together with teams of scientists for their extraordinary achievements together with outstanding contributions inwards fundamental, applied geosciences, mining together with allied fields.
• These Awards include i Award for Excellence, i Young Scientist Award together with xix private and/or squad awards inwards sixteen fields of geosciences. 
• Note : This year, 27 geoscientists are receiving these awards.

Deaths

• Former Union Minister together with Congress leader Akhilesh Das Gupta (56) today. 
• He was the boy of liberty fighter together with quondam Uttar Pradesh CM Babu Banarasi Das. 
• A Rajya Sabha MP for eighteen years from 1996 to 2014, he was the serving main of the Badminton Association of India.
• The Chairman of Dainik Bhaskar grouping Ramesh Chandra Agarwal passed away today.
• He had to a greater extent than than 42 years of sense inwards the publishing together with paper trouble organisation together with had been engaged inwards the running of the organisation for over iv decades.
• He was also the Chairman of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce together with Industry – Madhya Pradesh.
• He had been awarded the Rajiv Gandhi Life fourth dimension Achievement Award inwards Journalism. 
• He was ranked 95 on the Forbes listing of India’s Richest inwards 2012.

Sports Current Affairs

• Indian spinner Harbhajan Singh is amidst the 8 Ambassadors for the ICC Champions Trophy, which starts on June 1 inwards England. 
• The cricketers volition brand promotional appearances during the ICC Champions Trophy tour, every bit good analysing the tournament matches.
• The 8 Ambassadors betwixt them take hold played 1,774 ODIs, scoring 51,906 runs with 48 centuries, together with taking 838 wickets.
• Marylebone Cricket Club, cricket's rule-making body, approved new rules including giving umpires the ability to eject misbehaving players, amongst using bails tethered to the stumps to protect wicketkeepers from middle injuries.
• The lodge also approved 2 umpiring signals which volition go used to shipping off misbehaving players. 
• To shipping off a musician temporarily, the umpire volition enhance both hands with fingers spread together with palms betoken towards scorers. 
• To permanently take away a player, the umpire volition betoken their index finger with their arm outstretched to the side.

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