Prepared by D.Sarala, Viluppuram
1.
The Child rights activist and the Noble Peace
prize winner (2014) “Kailash Satyarthi “ was honoured with PC Chandra
purashkar 2017 for his global crusade against child Slavery and
exploitative child labour. He was given a trophy, a citation and a chequer of Rs. 10 lakhs at this award
ceremony held at Kolkatta. He is the
founder of Bachpan Bachao Andolan.
2.
April 23- World Book and Copyright Day .
To mark the occasion UNESCO released three books namely Reshaping Cultural
policies , Rethinking education in a changing world and Reading in a mobile
era. This day is marked to celebrate the memories of Cervantes, William Shakespeare
Inca Garcil aso de vega who were died on
1616.
3.
April 23- United Nation’s English Language
day. This day was celebrated to mark the remembrance of both birth and date
of death of Willaim Shakespeare. It was
celebrated since April 23, 2010
4.
Dadasaheb Phalke award for
2016 was given to K.Viswanath ( Actor and film maker ) by the
Ministry of Information & Broadcasting. This award was conferred with Swarn
Kamal (Golden Lotus), a cash prize of Rs. 10 lakhs and a shawl. Dadasaheb
Phalke award was given to celebrate the rememberance of Father of Indian Cinema
“Dadasaheb Phalke” since 1969 for outstanding contribution to the growth and
development of Indian Cinema.
5.
This is the first time in India,
that the drones are used to monitor forest fires by the Uttarakhand
Forest Department. Uttarakhand has about 71% of the total geographical area
under forest cover
6.
1st India
–Indonesia forum was held at Jakarta. A
MOU was signed between these two countries to establish a co operative
institutional frame work to enhance and facilitate bilateral co operation in
the field of oil and gas on the basis of equity and mutual benefit.
7.
Athens was designated as UNESCO’s World Book Capital 2018
8.
Prestigious “Lelte Award “
was given to All India Radio (AIR) station
“ AIR Aizwal “
9.
Maharashtra became the India’s first state to open “ Village of books”
to promote tourism.
10.
INS Dharshak ( Indian Navy Ship) has undertaking a hydrographic survey of
Weligama Bay along with the Srilankan
Navy
11.
Google pays tribute to Kannada acting legend Rajkumar through a special
doodle to commemorate his 88th birthday.
12.
Rafael Nadal wins Monte Carlo
Master’s Men’s Singles title which
held at Monte Carlo ground at France. With this he became the first man in the
Open era to win the same event for 10
times . Earlier, he won 8 Monte Carlo titles from 2005 to 2012. He again won in
2016.
13.
Rohan Bopanna and Pablo
Cuevas won Monte Carlo Master’s Men’s
doubles title
14.
Hindi film“ Newton” wins jury prize for Best film at Hong Kong International
film festival.
15.
India has become world’s fifth-largest military spender spending
at $55.9 billion in 2016 according to Stockholm International Peace Research
Institute (Sipri), The US remains
the world’s largest military followed by China, Russia, and Saudi Arabia.
16.
Social activist Prafulla
Samantra was announced one among six winners of the Goldman
Environmental Prize ( also called Green Nobel ) for his “historic 12-year
legal battle that affirmed the indigenous Dongria Kondh’s land rights and
protected the Niyamgiri Hills from a massive, open-pit aluminum ore mine.” This
award was instituted since 1990 and it was received earlier by Medha Patkar, M.C.
Mehta, Rasheeda Bi, Champaran Shukla and Ramesh Agrawal
17.
April 24 – National
Panchayat Raj Diwas.It was celebrated every year
to mark the passing of Constitution (73rd Amendment) Act, 1992, that came into force with effect from 24
April 1993. The 73rd Amendment 1992 added a new Part IX to the constitution
titled “The Panchayats” covering provisions from Article 243 to 243(O); and a
new Eleventh Schedule covering 29 subjects within the functions of the
Panchayats. This is celebrated since 2010.
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18.
A freight train
connecting Russia with China arrived in Ganzhou an inland city in
Jiangxi province, carrying goods from Moscow. This freight train is
expected to bring resources from Europe and boost local development.The freight train travelled more than 7,000
km, before reaching Ganzhou in eastern China.
19. India has become world’s second
largest LPG importer, and China
remains at top. India has set an ambitious target of increasing LPG
usage to cover 80% of the households by March 2019.
20.
Indian Railways planned to
launch a special rail service, Utkrisht double – decker AC Yatri
( UDAY) Express in July 2017 which would be less than 3AC in regular
trains.
21.The India
post on 23rd April 2017 has released a commemorative postage
stamp of denomination Rs. 100 on Coffee as a fragrance stamp in Bengaluru.
These will be available for sale at Bengaluru GPO, Mysuru, Mangaluru and
Belgaum . Union Minister of State Nirmala seetharaman has expressed her
happiness over coffee growing extending to non-traditional areas like Araku in
Andhra Pradesh, parts of hilly Odisha and other places in North India.
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