CURRENT AFFAIRS APRIL 2013

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Appointments:
1) New President of Kenya : Uhuru Kenyatta Sworn-In as the President of Kenya. 2) New Secretary of Department of Telecom : M F Farooqui. 3) New President of Venezuela : Nicolas Maduro. 4) New President of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) : S Gopalakrishnan. 5) New Chief of NASSCOM : Krishna Kumar Natrajan appointed as the New Chief of NASSCOM. 6) New Chief Justice for High Court of Himachal Pradesh : Justice Ajay Manikrao Khanwilkar. 7) Chairman of the prestigious Asian Forum of Parliamentarians : Deputy Chairman of Rajya Sabha, PJ Kurien elected as the Chairman of the prestigious Asian Forum of Parliamentarians. 8) New Managing Director of Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS) : Sunil Kumar. 9) New Vice Chairman of International Chamber of Commerce : Sunil Bharti Mittal. 10) New President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) : Takehiko Nakao appointed as the President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) by the Board of Governors. He succeeded Haruhiko Kuroda.

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Awards:
1) Jnanpith Award 2012 : Ravuri Bharadwaja, the Telgu writer was selected for the prestigious Jnanpith Award 2012. 2) FE Indias Best Bank Award 2012-13 : J&K Bank won FE Indias Best Bank Award 2012-13. 3) Dada Saheb Phalke Award : Legendary Actor Pran awarded Bollywoods Highest Honour Dada Saheb Phalke Award. 4) Sher-i-Kashmir Award : Navjot Singh. 5) Abel prize 2013 : Belgian Mathematician Pierre Deligne won the Abel prize 2013. 6) Yash Chopra for his contributions to Film Industry will be awarded with the Dadasaheb Phalke Academy Award.

Important Days:
April 5 April 7 April 18 April 22 National Maritime Day. World Health Day. World Heritage Day. Earth Day.

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Sports:
1) ATP Miami Masters Final Result : Andy Murray on won the ATP Miami Masters by defeating David Ferrer in Miami, Florida. 2) 12th Asian Billiards championship : Rupesh Shah, the world champion won the 12th Asian Billiards championship after defeating Alok Kumar. 3) Adam Scott won the Augusta Masters Golf championship. He beat Angel Cabrera in the play-off for the title. 4) Sebastian Vettel won the Bahrain Grand Prix 2013. 5) Prayag Chauhan Won Gold Medal at ASBC Asian Confederation Junior Boxing Championships 2013.

Obituaries:
1) V.S.Ramadevi Indias only Women Chief Election Commissioner Died. 2) Former Chief Justice of India, JS Verma Died. 3) Legendary singer Shamshad Begum died.

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Miscellaneous:
1) The fifth BRICS Summit was held at the Durban International Convention Centre (ICC), South Africa. The theme of the 5th BRICS Summit was: Partnership for Development, Integration and Industrialisation. The participant nations in the summit were Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. 2) The third SAARC Ministerial Level Meet on Poverty concluded in Nepal. 3) The Govt. cleared the proposal to increase Dearness Allowance (DA) for the Central government employees from 72 percent to 80 percent. 4) India and China held their first dialogue on Afghanistan in Beijing in a bid to evolve a joint strategy to deal with much feared possible return of Taliban and alQaeda. 5) The 20th Meeting of Eastern Zonal Council was held at Kolkata. 6) Federal Space Agency Roscosmos, Russia launched the worlds only returnable satellite called Bion-M1.

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