Current Affairs 2017 (Apr) Flashcards by radhika nair

Winner of Jnanpith Award 2017

Shankha Ghosh

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Winner of Golden Peacock Business Excellence Award 2017

GMR Hyderabad International Airport

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Winner of Golden Peacock Innovative Product/Service Award 2017

Yes Bank

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Winner of e-Puraskar Award for best performance in improving Panchayats by using ICT tools for 2016-17

Karnataka Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Department

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Winner of Golden Environmental Prize (aka Green Noble)

Prafulla Samantara (face of people’s resistance against Vedanta’s plan to mine bauxite from Niyamgiri hills in Orissa)

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Winner of Dadasaheb Phalke Award for 2016

Kasinadhuni Viswanath (filmmaker, actor)

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Winner of UNESCO Peace Prize

Giuseppina (Giusi) Nicolini, Mayor of Italian island of Lampedusa

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Winner of Sahitya Akademi’s Award for translation in English

Perumal Murugan’s Mathorubhagan (One Part Woman)

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Winner of Krishi Karman Award 2015-16 presented by Union Ministry of Agriculture for commendable increase in food grains’ production

Himachal Pradesh

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Which organization was honoured by the Pulitzer Prizes for its work on the Panama Papers

International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ)

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Winner of the Asian Businesswoman of the Year presented in Birmingham, UK

Dame Asha Khemka

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Best Hindi film at the National Film Awards

Neerja

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Best Actor at the National Film Awards

Akshay Kumar for Rustom

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Best Feature Film at the National Film Awards

Kasav (Marathi)

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Award for Best Film on Social Issues at the National Film Awards

Pink

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Best Children’s Film at the National Film Awards

Dhanak, Nagesh Kukunoor

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Winner of 2017 UNESCO/ Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize

Dawit Isaak

imprisoned Eritrean-Swedish journalist

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Winner of ‘Pravasi Bhartiya Samman’, which is conferred on overseas Indians

Priti Patel 
(for exceptional contribution to national and international politics and strengthening India-UK relations)

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Name of the book recently launched by the Dalai Lama

“Ocean and Blue Mountains”

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Who has written the book “Punjab: Building the land of Five Rivers”

Arjun Gaind

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Who is the author of the autobiography “The Hit Girl”

Asha Parekh with Khalid Mohamed

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Name the book authored by LS Speaker Sumitra Mahajan

“Matoshree”

covering the life and times of legendary Devi Ahilyabai Holker who ruled the Holkar Empire

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Author of the book “Gandhi in Champaran”

D G Tendulkar

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Author of the book “Hope in a Challenged Democracy”

Ashwini Kumar

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Author of the book "Flaming Tresses of Draupadi"

M Veerappa Moily

Author of the book "Indian Railways- The Weaving of a National Tapestry"

Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu | Minister of Railways

Name of program to pay tribute to mothers in government run schools in Andhra Pradesh

Ammaku Vandanam

What is the name of the revamped National Mission on Food Processing

SAMPADA or Scheme for Agro-Marine Produce Processing and Development of Agro-Processing Clusters

Who authored the Vachana, which is a prosaic form well known in Kannada literature

Basavanna

World Press Freedom Day

3rd May

World Intellectual Property Day

26th April

World Autism Awareness Month

April

World Malaria Day

25th April

National Panchayati Raj Diwas

24th April

Earth Day

22nd April

Civil Services Day

21st April

Name of the operation launched by the Indian Armed Forces to capture the Siachen glacier in Kashmir

``` Operation Meghdoot (launched on 13th April 1984) ```

When did the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre take place

13th April 1919

Name the newest UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador

Yusra Mardini | Syrian refugee and Olympic athlete

Miss Teen Universe 2017

Srishti Kaur

New Director General of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)

Rajiv Rai Bhatnagar

Malala Yousafzai has received honorary citizenship of which country

Canada

Which internationally acclaimed actress has been appointed as one of the newest UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador

Kristin Davis

Name the first country in the world to ban the mining of metals

El Salvador

Which two countries have recently re-established diplomatic ties after 37 years

Cuba and Morocco

US Air Force recently dropped MOAB or 'Mother of all Bombs', the largest non-nuclear weapon ever used in combat by the US Military on which country

Afghanistan

Where was the G20 Digital Ministerial Meet held

Dusseldorf, Germany

New Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Achim Steiner

Name of the report that showed Robert Vadra made illegal profits worth Rs 50.5 crores from land deal in Haryana in 2008

Justice S N Dhingra Commission Report

The most corrupt State in India named by Centre for Media Studies

Karnataka

India's World Press Freedom Ranking

136

India's first smart and green Highway

Eastern Peripheral Expressway

Name of Committee on allowance which submitted its final report on 'higher allowances' and 'minimum wages'

Ashok Lavasa Committee

Where did the Prime Minister launch the first UDAN (Ude Desh Ka Aam Nagrik) flight

Jubbarhatti, an airport near outskirts of Shimla

Minimum monthly income for contract workers proposed by the Labour Ministry

Rs 10,000

Number of working hours for child artists fixed by the Labour Ministry

5 hours

India-Bangladesh Friendship Bridge has been proposed to be built over which river

River Feni | which demarcates boundaries between both countries in south Tripura

First Underwater Metro Tunnel will connect which two places

Howrah with Kolkata in West Bengal

India's first sea ropeway will connect which two places

Mumbai with the famous Elephanta Islands in the Arabian Sea

Name of special class service for overnight journey that will ply on high demand routes introduced by the Railways Ministry

Utkrisht Double Decker AC Yatri (Uday) Express +

The benchmark set by the Supreme Court for maintenance to be paid by a husband to his estranged wife

25% of his net salary

Name of Operation launched by Income Tax Department to detect the flow of black money into the banks after demonetisation

Operation Clean Money

Name of operation launched for women safety by the Haryana Government

Operation Durga

Name of the programme initiated by Jharkhand Police to enlighten children in Naxal-affected areas in the Palamau district of Jharkhand

Tare Zameen Par Pregramme

Who heads the committee set up to report to save the Ganga river from pollution

Justice (retd) Giridhar Malviya

Name the mobile app aimed at enabling willing donors to contribute towards the family of a brave heart who sacrificed his/her life in line of duty

"Bharat ke Veer"

Who is the current Comptroller and Auditor General of India, who is also going to be auditing the UN Secretariat in New York

Shashi Kant Sharma

First bio-gas bus to be launched in which state

Kolkata

Best Indian University in the 2017 National Institutional Ranking Framework released by the Union HRD Ministry

IISc, Bengaluru

Which State became kerosene-free from April onward

Haryana

Name the scheme for providing physical aid s and assisted-living devices for senior citizens belonging to BPL category launched in Nellore, Andhra Pradesh

Rashtriya Vayoshri Yojana

New MD and CEO of LIC of India

Vinay Shah

name of India's first industrial robot

BRABO ('BRave roBOt)

Padayani Festival (traditional folk dance and a ritual art) is held in which state

Kerala

First transgender athletic meet held in

Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala

Name India's first International Olympic Committee Member

Nita Ambani

Winner of 2017 Mote-Carlo Rolex Masters in men's doubles category

Rohan Bopanna and Pablo Cuevas

Which sports have been removed from 2018 Asian Games

Cricket, Skateboarding, Sambo and Surfing

Winner of 2017 Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters in Mens' Singles Category

Rafael Nadal

Winner of Asian Championship in Snooker

Pankaj Advani

Winner of U-18 Hockey Championship

India

Winner of Chinese Formula One Grand Prix

Lewis Hamilton

Winner of gold medal in Thailand International Tournament in Bangkok

Indian boxer K Shyam Kumar

Winner of title of Wisden's Leading Cricketer in the World for 2016

Virat Kohli

Winner of India Open Super Series

P V Sindhu

Winners of Women's doubles in the 2017 Miami Open

Gabriela Dabrowski and Xu Yifan

Which High Court, after having declared Ganga and Yamuna as 'living entities' has now declared glaciers, forests and lakes also as similar 'biologically living' entities

Uttarakhand High Court

Tree dwelling crab has been found in which State in India

Kerala

Name the rail routes declared as Green Corridors by the North Western Railways

Barmer-Munawab and Pipad Road-Bilara rail routes in Rajasthan

Name of bilateral naval exercise between India and France in France's Toulon Port

Exercise Varuna

Name of first ever joint military exercise between India and Nepal

Sagarmatha Friendship 2017