Current Affairs - April 2015

TNPSC Current Affairs April 2015
Miscellaneous 

• Pesalam Vaanga
• Pesalam Vaanga is a campaign launched by Kolathur MLA M K Stalin to address the grievances of the people.
• Important Persons in News
• Malli Mastan Babu
• He was an Indian Mountaineer, found dead in the Andes mountain ranges in South America during his climbing mission.
• Nagore Hanifa: Singer died recently (97 year old)
• Jayakanthan
• Tamil Novelist died recently (81 year old)
• Alan Turing
• British code breaker who cracked the almost unbreakable codes used by the Germans in the second world war.
• His notebook was auctioned recently.
• Vankadarath Saritha
• Became the first women bus driver of the Delhi transport Corporation.
• She is from the state of Telangana.
• Rajendra Singh
• Known as the water man of India.
• Chuhrim Sherpa
• First woman to climb the Mt.Everest twice in a week.
• Recently started climbing the Everest taking along with her the bat and jerseys used by the Australian cricketer Philip Hughes.
• Raja Rajeshwari
• Became the first Indian born woman to be appointed as a Judge in New york.
• Ponniyin Selvan
• It is a historical fiction written by Kalki Krishnamurthy.
• 32 hr animated movie was made based on this fiction.
• Kerala - KSRTC
• KSRTC -Kerala State Road Transport Corporation has planned to launch the accident insurance scheme for its passengers.
• Important Days
• April 18 - World Heritage Day.
• April 22 - Earth Day
• April 25 - World Malaria Day
• Nawab Wajid Ali Shah's calender - Object of the month
• Victoria memorial Hall, a museum in Kolkatta selected the Calender prepared by the Nawab wajid ali shah, the last king of Awadh as the object of the month.
• Awards
• Susanta Lahiri - was awarded the Hevesy Medal 2015
• S Lahiri was a co creator of the super heavy element 117
• Super heavy elements are those elements having atomic number greater than 114.

Polity

• Important Appointments
• Nasim Zaidi: appointed as the 20th Chief Election commissioner of India after the end of the tenure of H.S Brahma.
• The Rights of Transgender Persons Bill 2014
• The Rights of Transgender Persons Bill was passed in the Rajya Sabha on 24th April 2015.
• It was a private members' bill moved by Tiruchi N Siva.

Economics

• The interest rate in Selvamagal Semippu Thittam Scheme was increased from 9.1% to 9.2% which came to effect from April 1st 2015.
• RBI's 80th Anniversary
• The Reserve bank of India celebrated the 80th anniversary year which was started on 1st April 1935. 
• Green Bond
• Green bond is like the normal bond with a difference that in these Green bond the capital amount is raised to fund the green projects like renewable projects, etc..,
• Recently the Yes Bank and Exim Bank issued these Green bond.
• The first one to issue in India is the Yes Bank in rupee denomination.
• Exim bank became the first to issue India's first green bond in dollar denomination.
• MUDRA Bank
• MUDRA  - Micro Units Development & Refinancing Agency Ltd
• MUDRA bank a subsidiary of SIDBI, was lanched by PM Nadenra Modi to finance the micro enterprises.
• Social Progress Index
• Social progress index is released by the Non profit organisation 'Social Progress imperative'
• India 
• Ranks 101th in Social progress Index
• Ranks 93rd in GDP Per Capita
• Ranks 128th in Tolerance and inclusion
• Ranks 120th in health and wellness
• Norway ranks 1st in SPI.
• Flipkart has partnered with the Mumbai's Dabbawalas to deliver its goods.
• Gujarat government launched the Industrial tourism and became the first state in India to launch this.
• IMF forecasts India's growth rate to reach 7.5% in 2015 and 2016 from the present 7.2% in 2014.

Environment and Health

• Typhoon Maysak
• Typhoon Maysak attacked islands in Micronesia in pacific ocean region and have the possibility of hitting Philippines.
• Top Solid wastes Producers in India
• Maharashtra state tops the list by producing 26,820 tonnes of solid wastes per day
• Uttarpradesh is in the second position.
• Silicosis
• It is an incurable respiratory disease which is caused by the inhaling of the silica dust mostly in the mining regions.
• The Rajasthan State Human Rights commission recently recommend the state government to set up an independent agency to conduct research occupational diseases.
• Telangana Crab Spider
• A new variety of spider was discovered in Telangana and was name Telangana Crab Spider.
• It looks like crab and can also walk sideways and hence it is named Crab spider.
• Earth Hour Capital 2015
• Thane was declared the national Earth hour capital of India in 2015
• In 2014, the coimbatore city was selected as the National earth hour capital of India (2014).
• Seoul was named the Global Earth hour capital 2015
• National Green tribunal banned old Diesel Vehicles which are over 10 years old in Delhi 

Science and Tech

• TRAI recommended the use of '112' as a single common number for emergency services across the country as the similar to the US's 911 emergency number.
• India's Broadband position in the world
• India Ranks 125th position in fixed broadband penetration.
• India Ranks 113th in wireless broadband penetration.
• SMILE: SMall Incision Lenticule Extraction
• It is the latest LASER eye surgery technique becoming popular to treat refractive errors.
• SAMEER's 4th Research and Development Project in Vizagapatnam
• SAMEER - Society for Applied Microwave Electronic Engineering and Research is an autonomous body under the department of Electronics and information technology.
• SAMEER has planned to set up it's 4th Research and Development Project, the centre for Electromagnetic Environment Effects in Vizagapatna.
• Other three projects were in Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkatta.

World

• Terror attack in Kenyan University
• Shebab Islamist group of Somalia attacked the Kenyan University and killed over 147 students
• France President: Francois Hollande
• Operation Raahat
• It is the evacuation mission by India to evacuate the people from the war affected regions of Yemen.
• Earthquake in Nepal
• A 7.9 magnitude earthquake hit Nepal.
• Death toll expected to cross over 10000
• Operation Maitri
• It is the name of the rescue operation led by Indian Army in Earthquake hit Nepal.

Sports

• Saina Nehwal - World's No 1
• Indian Badminton player Saina Nehwah player reached the World' No 1 spot in the world women's list which was officially announced recently.
• She is the first Indian women player to reach this and the Second indian to do this.
• Prakash padukone is the first Indian player to reach the World's No 1 position.
• Serena Williams' - 700th Win
• By winning the recent match against Sabine Lisicki ( of German), Serena williams (of USA) in the WTA Miami Open recorded her 700th Win.
• And became the 8th player to win over 700 matches.
• Martina Navratilova tops the most matches winning list with 1442 matches.
• IPL Season 8 - 2015
• The opening ceremony of the IPL Season was held at Salt Lake stadium in Kolkata.
• Leading cricketer in 2015 
• Kumar Sangakkara (Srilanka) and Meg Lanning (Australian women cricketer) were named as the Leading cricketers in the world in 2015 by Wisden Cricketer's Almanack (also called as bible of cricket)
• Sangakkara became the second player to be honoured, Sehwag being the first one to be named Leading cricketers in the world. 

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