Current Affairs Update – 13th April, 2016

Hello and welcome to ExamPundit. Here are the important Current Affairs of 13 April, 2016. These are important for the upcoming SBI Clerk and NABARD Assistant Manager exam 2016.

• India today joined hands with
  Germany to attain “pristine” status of Ganga by adopting river basin
  management strategies used for cleansing rivers like Rhine and Danube of
  pollutants.
• Ministry of Water Resources and
  German International Cooperation (GIZ), owned by the German Federal Government,
  signed an agreement in this regard here today.
• The agreement was signed in the
  presence of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation secretary
  Shashi Shekhar and German Ambassador to India Dr Martin Ney.
• The objective of the agreement is
  to enable responsible stakeholders at national and state levels to apply
  integrated river basin management approach for Ganga’s rejuvenation, the
  Ministry said in a statement.
• The agreement will be based on
  “Indo-German Knowledge Exchange” and practical experience on
  strategic river basin management issues, effective data management system and
  public engagement, it said.
• The project will closely
  cooperate with other national and international initiatives including
  Indo-German bilateral projects like ‘Support to National Urban Sanitation
  Policy (SNUSP)’ and ‘Sustainable Environment-friendly Industrial Production’
  (SEIP).

• Union Cabinet chaired by the
  Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 13 April 2016 approved to sign a Memorandum of
  Understanding (MoU) between India and United Arab Emirates (UAE) on cooperation
  in preventing and combating of Human Trafficking.
• The MoU will strengthen the bonds
  of friendship between the two countries and increase the bilateral cooperation
  on the issues of prevention, rescue, recovery and repatriation related to human
  trafficking especially women and children expeditiously.

• Haryana Government on 12 April
  2016 decided to rename Gurgaon as Gurugram and Mewat as Nuh.
• Chief Minister Manohar Lal
  Khattar has accorded approval to the proposal but this new decision will be
  placed before the Haryana cabinet before being sent to the Union Government.
• The decision to change the name
  of Gurgaon was taken on the basis of the representations received at several
  forums by the people of Gurgaon. The city’s name change stems from a proposal
  by the municipal corporation in 2012. A committee had been formed to address
  the issue.

• Golden Tobacco Ltd. in April 2016
  became the first company in India to implement the Union Health Ministry’s
  Cigarettes Packaging Amendment Rules, 2014. As per it, both sides of the
  cigarette packs shall display specific health warnings in 85 percent of the
  area as against the present 40 percent.
• Now, the packets of several
  brands of the company, namely Brands Panama and Golden Gold Flake, manufactured
  from 1 April 2016 will carry larger images.
• Breaking the ranks, the company
  in a statement noted that the aim of implementing the order of carrying larger
  pictorial warning rule was to “create awareness about the serious and adverse
  health consequences of tobacco usage”.

• Union Cabinet chaired by the
  Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 13 April 2016 approved India for adopting the
  Statute of the South Asia Wildlife Enforcement Network (SAWEN) and India.
• It also approved India to become
  a formal member of SAWEN to strengthen ties with the member countries in
  controlling the trans-boundary wildlife crime through communication,
  coordination, collaboration, capacity building and cooperation in the region.

• Author and poet Padma Sachdev on
  12 April 2016 was selected for the prestigious Saraswati Samman for 2015 for
  her autobiography titled Chitt-Chete, written in Dogri language.
• The book, published in 2007,
  links the personal trials and tribulations of the author with issues concerning
  society, nation and the world at large.

• Maharashtra Governor C Vidyasagar
  Rao on 12 April 2016 conferred the Hridaynath Award on Chess wizard Viswanathan
  Anand in Mumbai.
• He was conferred the award during
  the celebrations of 25th anniversary of the Hridayesh Arts which gives the
  awards.
• He was chosen for the award for
  his contributions to the game of Chess in India by becoming five-time world
  chess champion.
• With this, he joined others
  personalities who have received the award like Lata Mangeshkar, Babasaheb
  Purandare, Asha Bhosle, Amitabh Bachchan, Hariprasad Chaurasia and AR
  Rahman. 

• International Day of Human Space
  Flight was observed on 12 April 2016. The day is celebrated to commemorate
  Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin’s journey into outer space.
• The 55th anniversary of First
  Human Space Flight was commemorated at United Nations on 12 April 2016. Since
  Gagarin, 536 individuals have left Earth on a voyage into space.
• Gagarin on 12 April 1961 became
  the first human to leave Earth’s atmosphere and open the way for space
  exploration for the benefit of all humanity. He on 12 April 1961 completed an
  orbit of the Earth with Vostok spacecraft.

• NEMHARI-A, a plant based
  Formulation for Management of Mulberry Root Knot Disease, was in news on 12
  April 2016.
• It came in news after National
  Research Development Corporation (NRDC) entered into a license agreement with
  M/s Rainbow Agrilife India Private Limited, for commercialization of the plant.
• National Research Development
  Corporation (NRDC), under Ministry of Science & Technology, has been
  appointed as the nodal agency for commercialising the technical knowhow in
  India and abroad.
• NEMHARI is a plant that was
  developed at Central Sericulture Research and Training Institute (CSR&TI),
  Central Silk Board (CSB), Mysuru.

• Maharashtra cadre IPS officer
  Meeran C Borwankar on 8 April 2016 was appointed the Director General (DG) of
  Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D). BPR&D is a
  consultancy organisation under the Centre for modernisation of police forces.
• The Appointments Committee of
  Cabinet appointed Borwankar, a 1981 batch IPS officer, as the organisation’s DG
  till 30 September 2017, the date of her superannuation.
• At present, Borwankar is working
  in her cadre state Maharashtra. In her long career, she has also worked in
  Maharashtra’s Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS).

• England and Nottinghamshire
  batsman James Taylor on 12 April 2016 announced his retirement at the age of 26
  due to ill health.
• He was diagnosed with
  Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy (ARVC) that needs an operation
  to his Heart.
• He played seven Test matches for
  England and the first was against South Africa at Headingley in 2012. He
  averaged 26 with top Test score was 76 against Pakistan in November 2015.
• He made his one-day international
  debut in 2011 against Ireland and played 27 ODIs with an average of 42.23. He
  scored seven fifties and one century (101) against Australia in September 2015.

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