Current Affairs of April 2017 B

Latest Current Affairs of April 2017

• The Russian city in which a terrorist strike at a metro station left 11 people and several others injured    St. Petersburg
• The Hindustani vocalist of Jaipur Gharana, Padma Vibhusan (2002), Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (1985), who passed away on 03 April 2017    Kishori Amonkar
• The Swedish-Eritrean journalist, currently in prison in Eritrea, who has been chosen for the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize 2017    Dawit Isaak
• The country which has become the seventh member of South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation (SASEC) Program (Headquarters: Manila, Philippines)    Myanmar
• The badminton player from Denmark who has won the India Open Super Series badminton tournament 2017 men's single title defeating Chou Tien-chen of Chinese Taipei in the finals    Viktor Axelsen
• The Indian badminton player who has won the India Open Super Series badminton tournament 2017 women's singles title defeating Carolina Marin of Spain in the finals    P.V. Sindhu
• The country which has recognised cryptocurrency Bitcoin as legal payment method with effect from 01 April 2017    Japan
• The Nobel Peace Prize winner from Pakistan who has been chosen to be the youngest UN Messenger of Peace    Malala Yousafzai
• The venue of 3-day National Children's Film Festival being held from April 07 to April 09    Visakhapatnam
• The twelfth edition of Indo-Mongolian Joint Military Exercise being conducted at Vairengte in Manipur from 05 April 2017 to 18 April 2017    Nomadic Elephant
• The web portal launched by Survey of India to enable free download of maps in pdf format in 1 : 50,000 scale    nakshe (soinakshe.uk.gov.in)
• The web portal and mobile app inaugurated by Shri Rajnath Singh on the occasion of Valour Day of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) with an objective to enable willing donors to contribute towards the family of a braveheart who sacrificed his/her life in line of duty is named    Bharat ke Veer (bharathkeveer.gov.in)
• The exhibition inaugurated by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi to mark 100 years of Mahatma Gandhi’s first experiment of Satyagraha in Champaran is named    Swachhagraha – Bapu Ko Karyanjali – Ek Abhiyan, Ek Pradarshani
• The scheme set up in 2012 by the Central Govt to address the social security-related issues of the Emigration Check Required (ECR)-category which has been closed by the Union Cabinet    Mahatma Gandhi Pravasi Suraksha Yojana
• The Australian cricketer who has been named Wisden's Leading Woman Cricketer in the World for 2016    Ellyse Perry
• The Indian cricketer who has been named Wisden’s Leading Cricketer in the World for 2016 becoming the third Indian to be so named after Virender Sehwag and Sachin Tendulkar    Virat Kohli
• The Pakistani cricketer and captain of its test team who has announced his decision to retire from international cricket after the current tour of West Indies which concludes in May 2017    Misbah-ul-Haq