| 1. ‘National Panchayati Raj Diwas’ being observed on 24th April . This year Ministry of Panchayati Raj is commemorating National Panchayati Raj Day at Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. Twenty ‘best Panchayats’ from all over the country has been awarded, the Kuther Gram Panchayat in Nagrota Surian Development Block of Kangra district (Himachal Pradesh) was the first to become open defecation free (ODF) and was awarded sum of five lakh Rupees. |
| 2. Newton wins best film honor at Hong Kong International Film Festival. The festival started on 11th April, and will go on till 25th April. ‘Newton’ is Amit Masurkar's second film after ‘Sulemani Keeda’ in 2014. |
| 3. Moushumi Chatterjee gets BFJA lifetime achievement award. The BFJA, the oldest association of film scribes in the country was founded in 1937. Bengali film actor Prosenjit Chatterjee was given the best actor award for his role in "Sankhachil", while Rituparna Sengupta was given the best actress crown for her role in "Rajkahini" along with Paoli Dam for "Natoker Moto" (2015). |
| 4. Marylebone Cricket Club has offered the honorary life membership to ‘Sandhya Agarwal’. Agarwal is being honoured in recognition of her distinguished service to the game. She was the former captain of the Indian women's Test team . |
| 5. GNFC has won the prestigious “Golden Peacock Award 2017” . The Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers & Chemicals Ltd has won this award in the category of Innovative Product/Service for pioneering a cashless township transformation model. |
| 6. Maharashtra govt signs MoU with Railways to expand green cover In a bid to expand the green cover, the Maharashtra government recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Indian Railways, under which trees will be planted on the land adjacent to the railway tracks in the state. |
| 7. China and Iran have signed the first agreement on the reconfiguration of Iran's Arak reactor. The deal was concluded between the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) and a Chinese company at the official ceremony in the Austrian capital Vienna. |
| 8. SBI and realtors' body CREDAI have signed an agreement to provide loans at a concessional rate to builders. It also useful to the customers for affordable housing projects. For consumers, SBI has launched an exclusive tailor made scheme for affordable housing, 'SBI Hamara Ghar', which will ease the process and enable maximum number of consumers to avail home loan for these projects. |
| 9. 'Kilkari' mobile app launched by The National Health Mission (NHM) in Haryana. 'Kilkari' is to create awareness among pregnant women, parents and health workers on the importance of ante and post natal care, institutional delivery, and immunization. |
| 10. Cricket removed from 2018 Asian Games programme. Apart from cricket, skateboarding, sambo and surfing are among the other sports which have been removed from the programme in order to reduce the burden on Indonesian organisers.2018 Asian Games will be happen in Jakarta and Palemban. |
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