Current Affairs (Daily Dose):

1.The International Earth Day has been celebrated every year around the worldon 22nd April. This year’s theme is ‘Trees for the Earth’, it sets the goal of planting 7.8 billion trees over the next five years.

2.The Centre has decided to release 10,000 metric tonnes of pulses, mainly Tur and Urad, from buffer stock to ensure their availability at reasonable prices.

3.Chad’s veteran leader and incumbent President Idriss Deby(63-years) has won a fifth term in office after taking more than 60 percent of the vote in the first round of presidential polls.

4.Pop music superstar Prince Rogers Nelson(57-years), popularly known as Prince was found dead at his home in suburban Minneapolis.

5.Senior IAS officer of Kerala cadre A Ajith Kumar has been appointed as the chairman of Rubber Board, Kottayam, Kerala.

6.The five-time Bafta-winning actress and comedian Victoria Wood (62-years) has died at her London home after a short illness with cancer.

7.Scientists from Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) have indigenously developed world’s lightest synthetic material called ‘silica aerogel’ or ‘blue air’.

8.Europe has become the world’s first region to wipe out malaria with zero cases reported in the year 2015.

9.Breaking gender barrier,Indian Navy has granted permanent commission to seven Short Service Commission (SSC) women officers who joined the service in 2008-09.

10.Women were permitted entry to the ‘garbhagriha‘ of the Trimbakeshwar temple in Nashik District of Maharashtra.

11.Govt. has decided Chandigarh to host the International yoga day. The first International Day of Yoga was observed world over by millions on June 21, 2015.

12.Former WWE women’s champion and reality TV star Chyna (45-years) real name Joanie Laurer has died at her home in Southern California.

13.The Union Cabinet has given its approval for operationalisation of new Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) at Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh.

14.India and China have agreed to adhere to peaceful negotiations to settle the border issue and reach a fair, reasonable and mutually acceptable solution.

15.President Pranab Mukherjee honoured the Chinese professor GeFuping with the George Grierson prize for his remarkable works done for the propagation of Hindi abroad.

16.The Uttarakhand high court on revoke the imposition of President’ rule in the state and revived the Congress government headed by Harish Rawat, who has been asked to prove his majority on 29 April.

17.Union Government has notified that the Department of Disinvestment is renamed as Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM).

18.The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has announced Rahul Johri as its first-ever chief executive officer (CEO).

19.US President Barack Obama has nominated Indian-American Geeta Pasi as the country’s next envoy to central African nation Chad.

20.Laos’s National Assembly appointed Communist Party chief Bounnhang Vorachit as the country’s new president and named foreign minister Thongloun Sisoulith as prime minister.