Current affairs weekly Quick Points: (10th April -16th April, 2016)
- Union Government launches ISBN portal
- Saudi Arabia and Egypt to build bridge over the Red Sea
- Anthony Joshua ( British professional boxer) wins 2016 IBF world title
- Former Union MoS Dr C Silvera passes away
- UN observed 125th birth anniversary of Ambedkar on April 13, 2016
- Pakistan, China launch joint air force training exercise Shaheen 5
- IIT- Kharagpur wins National IP( intellectual Property ) Award
- Ukrainian PM Arseniy Yatsenyuk resigns
- Pakistan successfully test-fires anti-ship Zarb missile
- NASA’s Kepler spacecraft goes into emergency mode
- Lee Chong Wei (Malaysia) wins 2016 Malaysian Open title of Badminton
- Sri Lanka announces resumption of Chinese Colombo Port City project
- Chinese researchers introduce Graphene based all-weather solar cell
- Khadija Ismayilova of Azerbaijan selected for 2016 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize
- India, Maldives sign six agreements in different sectors
- G7 Hiroshima Declaration calls for world without nuclear weapons [ G7 countries include Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK and US. ]
- Union Government appoints Meeran Borwankar as DG of BPR&D [ Bureau of Police Research & Development ]
- Danny Willett from England wins 2016 US Masters Golf
- RBI gives nod to Bharti Airtel’s payments Bank Unit
- 12 April: International Day of Human Space Flight
- Ex-army chief JJ Singh gets highest French civilian honour
- Haryana Government decides to rename Gurgaon as Gurugram
- Global Tiger population increased for the first time in 100 years by 22%: WWF & GTF
- PM Narendtra Modi inaugurates 3rd Asia Ministerial Conference on Tiger Conservation
- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan wins 2016 Global Indian of the Year award
- England Cricketer James Taylor announces retirement from International Cricket
- India, US agree to sign logistics support pact
- Dogri Poetess Padma Sachdev selected for 2015 Saraswati Samman
- Union Cabinet gives nod to MoU between India and Bangladesh on cooperation in the field of Fisheries
- Union Cabinet approves MoU between India, UAE to check human trafficking
- Union Cabinet gives nod to adaptation of South Asia Wildlife Enforcement Network
- Viswanathan Anand conferred with 2016 Hridaynath Mangeskar Award
- India, Germany sign Implementation Agreement on Ganga Rejuvenation
- NPCI launches Unified Payments Interface
- Sushila Karki: First female Chief Justice of Nepal’s Supreme Court
- Nauru becomes 189th member of IMF, World Bank
- India ranks 44th in 2016 Global Connectivity Index
- Maharashtra becomes first state to pass law against social boycott
- India world’s largest remittance recipient in 2015: World Bank
- Nuclear-capable K-4 ballistic missile successfully tested from INS Arihant
- PM Narendra Modi launches Gram Uday Se Bharat Uday Abhiyan
- PM Narendra Modi inaugurates Maritime India Summit 2016
- India, US to collaborate on tackling offshore tax evasion
- PM Narendra Modi launches National Agriculture Market portal eNAM
- MasterCard CEO Ajay Banga appointed as member of US cybersecurity body
- India, South Korea ink MoU for cooperation and mutual assistance in development of Ports
- Union Government imposes anti-dumping duty on N-Butyl Alcohol
- Union Government appoints Susmita Pande as chairperson of National Monument Authority
- Government renames Panagarh airbase of Indian Air Force in West Bengal as ‘Air Force Station Arjan Singh’ after former IAF Chief Arjan Singh
- Hero group co-founder Satyanand Munjal passes away
- Delhi Government bans sale of all forms of Chewable Tobacco for 1 year
- Google extends free internet service through WiFi to 10 railway stations
- Mary Kom named as AIBA ambassador for Women’s World Boxing Championship
- Delhi ranked 44th among world’s 50 Future-ready Cities
- Supercomputer Param Kanchenjunga unveiled at NIT Sikkim