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33 year-old C Devi is the first transgender person to contest in Tamil Nadu's assembly elections.

A Nanosatellite named PISAT, developed by 250 students of PES University in Bengaluru will

soon be launched by Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO).

A street in Switzerland has been named after tennis star Roger Federer, which the 17- time

Grand Slam champion inaugurated himself.

A Trilateral Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed in Science and Technology

among Sri Lanka, Japan and India.

According to a Finance Ministry report, India's total external debt stood at $480.2 billion at

December-end

According to research firm IHS, India has become the world’s fourth-largest spender on defence,

following a 13.1% increase in its 2016-17 defence budget.

Air India has announced the launch of non-stop flights to Vienna from New Delhi.

Ajay Lalcheta has been named the Captain of Oman’s national cricket team.

All tobacco products produced from April 1 will have 85% pictorial warnings on the packaging

space.

Argentina has returned to international markets after 15 years with a $16.5 billion dollar bond

sale, after it defaulted on $100 billion worth US dollar debt in 2001.

As per a study published in The Lancet medical journal, over 640 million people in the world are

obese. Assam Rifles has inducted the first batch of 100 women personnel into the force.

At least 171 nations, including India, have signed the Paris climate agreement at the UN

headquarters.

The pact, negotiated last year, is aimed at reducing carbon emissions to combat global warming.

Australia has won the 25th edition of Sultan Azlan Shah Hockey Tournament 2016 for record

ninth time

Britain celebrated the 90th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II on 21st April 2016.

British astronaut Tim Peake ran the 36th London Marathon from Space. British royals, Prince

William and Kate Middleton were on a 7 day visit to India from 10th April.

China and Pakistan have signed an agreement for the launch of a special satellite to monitor the

development of the multi-billion dollars ChinaPakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) projects.

China has successfully launched the Kunpeng-1B sounding rocket from a launch pad in Danzhou

City in the southern Chinese Hainan Province.

Cuba has lifted a decade-old policy that prevented Cubans from entering or leaving the country

by a cruise ship or commercial vessel.

Cyprian Kotut from Kenya has won the 40th edition of the 2016 Paris marathon in the men’s

category.

Danny Willett became the first Briton to win the US Masters for 20 years when he took

advantage of Jordan Spieth's capitulation on a sensational final day at Augusta.

DBS Bank, which is Singapore’s largest, unveiled Digibank, India’s first mobile-only bank,

targeting five million retail customers.

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal announced that the 1,260 km of roads maintained by the Public Works

Department (PWD) will be vacuum cleaned from 1st April as he launched the 'Greening Delhi'

initiative.

Delhi government banned manufacture, storage, distribution and sale of Pan Masala, Gutkha

and all forms of Chewable Tobacco for one year.

Delhi-based researcher Sudha Gopalakrishnan launched a free online encyclopedia on Indian

culture called Sahapedia.

During the 2016 Rio Olympics, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to promote the ‘Make in

India initiative’

England’s snooker great Steve Davis (58) announced his retirement from the game after 38-year

career.

Europe has become the world’s first region to wipe out Malaria, a mosquito-borne vetor disease

with zero cases reported in the year 2015.

Evgenia Medvedeva, a 16- year-old figure skater from Russia, won the World Figure Skating

Championship in Boston, US.

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj was on a a two-nation three-day visit to Iran and Russia.

Former Pakistan cricket team captain, Inzamam-ul-Haq has been appointed as the Chairman of

the senior selection committee of the Pakistan Cricket Board.

Government has reconstituted Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts (IGNCA) board.

Ram Bahadur Rai, Senior Journalist has been appointed as Chairman of the Board. Government

has set-up a Sub Committee to interact with the trade and industry on the imposition of Central

Excise Duty on jewellery.

The Committee will be headed by : Ashok Lahiri (former Chief Economic Advisor) Greece passed

an Asylum amendment bill that is needed for the implementation of the European Union-Turkey

migrant deal that will take effect soon.

Haryana government has decided to rename its largest city Gurgaon to 'Gurugram'.

Heart of Asia (HoA) conference was held in New Delhi. Focus of the conference was to bring

peace and stability to Afghanistan.

In a first in the country, Maharashtra Assembly has passed the Prohibition of Social Boycott Bill,

penalising social boycott by extra-judicial bodies like caste panchayats and communities.

In a first, private lender DCB Bank has started an Aadhaarbased ATM facility wherein a customer

can transact using the biometric details instead of the PIN.

India and South Korea signed a MoU for cooperation and mutual assistance in development of

ports.

India and Sri Lanka have signed an MOU to supply 150 boats and fishing equipment to the

fishermen of Mullaitivu.

India extended a Line of Credit (LoC) of 1 billion US dollars to Mongolia.

India has banned the import of milk and milk products from China after finding them

substandard

India has jumped three places to rank 133 out of 180 countries in the 2016 World Press

Freedom Index released by Reporters Without Borders.

Finland has ranked first for the sixth consecutive year, and is followed by Netherlands and

Norway.

India has overtaken China as the world's top destination for Foreign Direct Investment by

attracting greenfield capital investment worth $63 billion in 2015.

India has signed an MoU with the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) for a possible $100 million

line of credit to facilitate exports to IDB's member countries.

India will play their first daynight Test against New Zealand later this year.

India’s indigenously developed surface-to-air Akash missile was test fired for second consecutive

day from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur near Balasore in Odisha.

Indian artistic gymnast Dipa Karmakar has created history by becoming the first Indian woman

gymnast to qualify for Olympics.

Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan has announced plans to set up a 'Department of

Happiness' to infuse "positivity" into the lives of people.

Maharashtra contributed the highest (2.77 lakh crore) among India’s states and union territories

to the total national direct tax collection of 6.96 lakh crore in 2014-15.

Mairaj Ahmad Khan has won the Silver medal in the skeet event at the ISSF Shooting World Cup

in Rio de Janeiro.

The HRD Ministry has announced IIT Madras and IIM Bangalore as the best engineering and

management institutes respectively in India.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) is introducing a Heat Index for the entire country

starting this month.

The Indian Navy has recently announced that women officers completing seven years with the

Navy will be eligible for permanent commission in the law, education and naval constructors

branches.

The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) is going to build Exclusive Holiday homes for its jawans.

The International Bank Note Society has named New Zealand's $5 note as the Banknote of the

Year 2015.

The International eGames Committee (IEGC) has announced that Brazil's Rio de Janeiro will host

the first “EOlympics”, an eGames tournament coinciding with the upcoming Rio Summer

Olympics in August 2016.

The Karnataka government has prohibited taxi-hailing apps like Ola and Uber to apply peak-hour

charges

The Lok Sabha passed the Regional Centre for Biotechnology Bill, 2016 to provide statutory

status to the existing Regional Centre for Biotechnology in Faridabad, Haryana.

The Lucknow Metro will get a loan of €450 million (around 3,500 crore) from the European

Investment Bank for its Phase-1A project.

The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) has ranked India 6th in its biggest

military spenders list for 2015.

The Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) has reserved seats for Transgenders under the

Most Backward Class Category (MBC).

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