| The team which has won the I-League Football tournament 2016-17, becoming the first team from North-East India to win the title | Aizwal FC |
| The theme of World Immunization Week observed by World Health Organisation from 24 to 30 April 2017 | Vaccines Work |
| The Central American nation which has become the first country in the world to ban mining of metals | El Salvador |
| The Indian city which has become the first Indian city to be chosen for the American Planning Association's Pierre L'Enfant International Planning Excellence Award 2017 | Bhubaneswar |
| The place in New Zealand from where NASA has launched its football-stadium-sized, heavy-lift super pressure balloon (SPB) on a mission designed to run 100 or more days floating at 110,000 feet (33.5 km) about the globe in the southern hemisphere's mid-latitude band | Wanaka |
| The Indian contestant who has been crowned Miss Teen Universe 2017 at a beauty pageant held in Nicaragua | Shristi Kaur |
| The Academy Award winning director of the movie The Silence of the Lambs who passed away on 26 April 2017 | Jonathan Demme |
| The new name of Ballabhgarh in Faridabad, Haryana as announced by the Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar | Balramgarh |
| The city from which the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has launched Regional Connectivity Scheme named UDAN. (flights have also started from Nanded and Kadapa Airports.) | Shimla |
| The Bengali poet and literary critic who has been awarded the 52nd Jnanpith Award by the President Shri Pranab Mukherjee | Prof. Sankha Ghosh |
| The slogan of the World Masters Games held in Auckland from April 21 to April 30, 2017 | For the love of sport |
| The noted playback singer who has been awarded the Ghantasala National Award instituted by the Ghantasala National Art Academy | Vani Jairam |
| The Bollywood actor who has been awarded the 75th Dinanath Mangeshkar Award for his film Dangal | Aamir Khan |
| The social activist from Odisha who has been chosen for the Goldman Environmental Prize 2017 along with 5 other recipients (He led a historic 12-year legal battle for the indigenous Dongria Kondh’s land rights and protected the Niyamgiri Hills from a massive, open-pit aluminum ore mine) | Prafulla Samantara |
| The renowned director and film actor who has been chosen to be awarded the Dada Saheb Phalke Award for the year 2016 | K. Viswanath |
| The 101-year old woman from Chandigarh who has won the 100 metres at the World Masters Games 2017 being held in Auckland, New Zealand | Man Kaur |
| The joint naval exercise being carried out by the Indian and French navies in the Mediterranean Sea from 24 to 30 April 2017 | Exercise Varuna |
| The place in Madhya Pradesh where a massive explosion in a kerosene fair price shop killed 13 people and injured several others | Chhindwara |
| The Mayor of Italian island Lampedusa who has been awarded the Félix Houphouët Boigny Peace Prize (UNESCO Peace Prize) jointly with nongovernmental organization SOS Méditerranée (France) for their work to save the lives of refugees and migrants and welcome them with dignity | Giuseppina Nicolini |
| The Tamil author whose book Mathorubhagan (One Part Woman) translated by Aniruddhan Vasudevan has been awarded Sahitya Akademi’s award for translation in English | Perumal Murugan |
| The theme of Civil Service Day, 2017 held on 21 April 2017 | Making New India |
| The Bangalore based athlete who has become the first visually impaired Indian athlete to complete the Boston marathon | Sagar Baheti |
| The new name of domestic airport at Agra in Uttar Pradesh | Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyay Airport |
| The new name of domestic airport at Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh | Mahayogi Gorakhnath Airport |
| The renowned historian and archaeologist who has been conferred the Paduru Gururaja Bhat Memorial Award 2017 by the Union Minister for Statistics and Programme Implementation D.V. Sadananda Gowda | A.V. Narasimha Murthi |
| The Indian Institute of Technology which has decided to introduce Vaastu Shastra to its first and second-year undergraduate architecture students | IIT, Kharagpur |
| The Indian badminton player who has won the Singapore Open Super Series 2017 men's singles title defeating Kidambi Srikanth in the finals | B Sai Praneeth |
| The route on which the Railway Minister Shri Suresh Prabhu has launched Vistadome coaches with glass ceiling, rotating seats, LED lighting and a GPS-based passenger information system (built by Integral Coach Factory, Chennai) | Visakhapatnam to Araku |
| Italian supercentenarian and world's oldest living person who passed away on 15 April at the age of 117 years 137 days | Emma Morano |
| The Indian dhow (a type of sailing vessel) which was hijacked by Somali pirates on 01 April and later released along with its crew was named | Al-Kausar |
| The State which has launched Operation Durga, a campaign to protect the safety of women | Haryana |
| The African nation which has declared a three-month emergency after attacks on churches resulted in the death of several people | Egypt |
| The States which have declared imposing prohibition of liquor in a phased manner recently | Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh |
| The first ever micro-drama festival held in India organised by theatre group Vriksh in New Delhi was named | Thespis |
| The American novelist who has been awarded Pulitzer Prize 2017 in the fiction category for his novel The Underground Railroad | Colson Whitehead |
| 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 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 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 |
| 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 |
| # | Name of the Award | Name of the Film | Awardees |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Best Feature Film | Kaasav (Marathi) | Producer: Sumittra Bhave & Sunil Sukthankar Director: Sumittra Bhave, Sunil Sukthankar & Mohan Aghase |
| 2. | Indira Gandhi Award for Best Debut Film of a Director | Alifa (Bengali) | Producer: Amaan Ahmed Director: Deep Choudhury |
| 3. | Best Popular Film | Sathamanam Bhavathi (Telugu) | Producer: V. Venkata Ramana Reddy Director: Satish Vagesna |
| 4. | Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration | Dikchow Banat Palaax (Assamese) | Producer: Canvascope Director: Sanjib Sabha Pandit |
| 5. | Best Film on Social Issues | Pink (Hindi) | Producer: Rashmi Sharma Films Director: Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury |
| 6. | Best Film on Environment Conservation/Preservation | Loktak Lairembee (Manipuri) | Director & Producer: Haoban Paban Kumar |
| 7. | Best Children's Film | Dhanak (Hindi) | Producer: Dhrishyam Films Director: Nagesh Kukunoor |
| 8. | Best Animation Film | Mahayodha Rama (Hindi) | Producer: Contiloe Pictures Pvt Ltd Director: Rohit Vaid |
| 9. | Best Direction | Ventilator (Marathi) | Director: Rajesh Mapuskar |
| 10. | Best Actor | Rustom (Hindi) | Akshay Kumar |
| 11. | Best Actress | Minnaminungu-The Firefly | Surabhi C.M. |
| 12. | Best Supporting Actor | Dashakriya (Marathi) | Manoj Joshi |
| 13. | Best Supporting Actress | Dangal (Hindi) | Zaira Wasim |
| 14. | Best Child Artist | (a) Kunju Daivam (Malayalam) (b) Sahej Pathar Gappo (Bengali) (c) Railway Children (Kannada) | (a) Adish Praveen (b) Nur Islam and Samiul Alam (c) Manohar K. |
| 15. | Best Male Playback Singer | Film : Joker (Tamil); Song: Jasmine E | Sundharayyar |
| 16. | Best Female Playback Singer | Film: Praktan (Bengali); Song: Tumi Jake Bhalo Basho | Iman Chakraborty |
| 17. | Best Book on Cinema | Lata: Sur Gatha | Author: Yatindra Mishra |
| 18. | Most Film Friendly State | Uttar Pradesh | |
This is only a selective list of awards. For complete awards please visit Govt of India website
Designated by: UN General Assembly
First Observed in: 2008
Designated by: United Nations General Assembly
Theme: Needs Driven. People Centred
First Observed in: 2006
Designated by: United Nations General Assembly
First Observed in: 2014
Designated by: World Health Organisation
Theme: Depression: Let's Talk
First Observed in: 1950
Designated by: UN General Assembly
First Observed in: 2011
Designated by: World Federation of Haemophilia
Theme: Hear their voices
First Observed in: 1989
Designated by: UNESCO
Theme: Cultural Heritage & Sustainable Tourism
First Observed in: 1983
Designated by: UN General Assembly
Theme: Environmental & Climate Literacy
First Observed in: 2010
Note: Earth Day was first observed in 1970 in the United States and it went global in 1990. The same day was adopted by the UN in 2009 as the International Mother Earth Day.
Designated by: UN Dept of Public Information
First Observed in: 2010
Significance: Birthday of William Shakespeare
Designated by: World Health Organisation
First Observed in: 2007
Theme: Malaria Prevention: Let's close the gap
Designated by: International Labour Organisation
First Observed in: 2003
Theme: Optimize the collection and use of OSH (Occupational Safety and Health) data
Gandhi in Champaran - DG Tendulkar
The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead
The Flaming Tresses of Draupadi - Veerappa Moily
SAUNI: Saurashtra Narmada Avtaran Irrigation
CII President's Lifetime Achievement Award: Rahul Bajaj
CII Foundation Woman Exemplar Award for Education and Literacy: Jayamma Bandari
CII Foundation Woman Exemplar Award for Health: Monika Majumdar
CII Foundation Woman Exemplar Award for Micro Enterprise: Kamal Kumbhar
Raj Kapoor Lifetime Achievement Award: Saira Banu
Raj Kapoor Special Contribution Award: Jackie Shroff
V Shantaram Lifetime Achievement Award: Vikram Gokhale
V Shantaram Special Contribution Award: Arun Nalawade
Commonly known as: Mother of All Bombs
Features: It is termed as the most powerful non-nuclear weapon in the American arsenal. The bomb is designed to be delivered by a C-130 Hercules
Made by: Air Force Research Laboratory
Used by: United States Air Force
Weight: 9800 kg
Used for the first time on: 13 April 2017
Used on: Islamic State of Iraq and Levant's Khorasan cave complex in Achin District, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan
The second edition ranking of Indian instituttions was released by HRD Ministry on 03 April 2017. the following are the first ranked institutions in each category.
Overall
Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Management
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
University
Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
Colleges
Miranda House, New Delhi
Pharmacy
Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi
Inaugurated by the PM Shri Narendra Modi on 02 April 2017.
Length of the tunnel: 9.28 km
Work on the tunnel began in: 2011
Highway on which the tunnel is located: NH 44
Reduces the distance between Jammu and Srinagar by: 30 km
1. Bhoorsingh the Barasingha is the official mascot of which tiger reserve?
2. In which colour are monuments and important buildings across the world lighted to mark World Autism Awareness Day?
3. Which Indian cricketer is among the 8 players chosen to be ambassadors of ICC Champions Trophy 2017 to be held in June 2017?
4. With which company was the merger of Cairn India approved by National Company Law Tribunal?
5. In how many cities is the daily revision of prices of petrol and diesel to be implemented from 01 May 2017 by the state owned oil companies?
6. On which day is the Himachal Day celebrated?
7. In which colour are monuments and important buildings across the world lighted to mark World Haemophilia Day?
8. Which Indian leader was pictured on 4 postage stamps of 1948 which sold for a record 5,00,000 pounds at an auction in UK?
9. In which city is Bellandur Lake located?
10. Which Indian entrepreneur has featured in TIME magazine list of 100 most influential people of 2017?
11. What is the price of coffee scented stamps released by the India Post in Bengaluru recently?
12. In which city is the English and Foreign Languages University located?
13. Which was the constituency of Shri Vinod Khanna, film actor and MP who passed away on 27 April 2017?
14. Which country went without coal power for an entire day, for the first time since Industrial Revolution?