Current Affairs Update – 26th April, 2016

Hello and welcome to ExamPundit. Here are the important Current Affairs of 26th April, 2016. These are important for the upcoming SBI Clerk 2016.

• The Union Government on 23 April
  2016 launched Sahapedia.org, India’s first online interactive portal on the
  cultural heritage of the country.
• Sahapedia is a collection of
  resources on the diverse heritage of India. It is non-profit society, led by
  former TCS chairman S. Ramadorai, who is the head of the National Skill
  Development Agency.
• The online portal aims at
  educating the people of India about its various traditions, visual arts,
  performing arts, literature and languages. The portal is accessible to all and
  is a strong initiative towards the digitisation and research on the traditional
  art forms of India and their importance in the modern era.

• The 11th Indo-Mongolia joint
  training Exercise, titled ‘Nomadic Elephant – 2016’ commenced on 25 April 2016
  in Mongolia. The exercise aims at promoting military associations between India
  and Mongolia will culminate on 8 May 2016.
• The aim of this exercise is to
  develop synergy and inter operability between the two armies to fight in
  Counter Insurgency and Counter Terrorism environment under the United Nation
  mandate.

• A platoon of the Kumaon Regiment
  of the Indian Army along with a team of two observers will be taking part in
  the event.
• From the Mongolian Armed Forces,
  a total of 60 personnel will take part in the exercise.

• Government of Madhya Pradesh,
  Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and Sun Pharma on 25 April 2016
  entered into an agreement for research and innovation in preventive health.
• This agreement for Malaria Free
  India and other innovation in preventive health was announced by Union Health
  Minister JP Nadda in New Delhi at a function on the occasion of World Malaria
  Day.

• A malaria elimination
  demonstration project titled Malaria Free India will be established to support
  the national framework for elimination of malaria in India.
• The demonstration project will be
  launched in one of the most malaria endemic districts of Madhya Pradesh and
  implemented in a phased manner, beginning with Mandla district of Madhya
  Pradesh before December 2016.

• Indian Missile Corvette, INS
  Karmuk along with a Dornier Maritime Patrol Aircraft participated in the 22nd
  Indo-Thai Coordinated Patrol (CORPAT) on 25 April 2016 in the Andaman Sea.
• India’s indigenously built
  Missile Corvette is based at the Andaman and Nicobar Command.

• The Judo Federation of India
  (JFI) on 25 April 2016 announced that India has been allotted the Commonwealth
  Judo Championships 2018.
• The Commonwealth Judo
  Championships was allotted to India, by the Commonwealth Judo Congress held on
  23 April 2016 at Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
• This will be the first time that
  Commonwealth Judo Championships will be held in India. The Championships will
  be held in Jaipur. However, the dates are yet to be finalized.

• Riyad Mahrez on 24 April 2016
  became the first African footballer to win the Professional Footballers
  Association’s (PFA) Player of the Year award for the 2015–16 season. The
  footballer received the award at the Professional Footballers’ Association
  awards ceremony organised in London.
• With the award, Mahrez also
  became the second non-European, after Uruguayan striker Luis Suarez, to grab
  the award.
• On the other hand, Tottenham
  Hotspur midfielder Dele Alli was named Young Player of the Year.

• Union Sports Ministry on 25 April
  2016 announced to provide one lakh rupees per month as out of pocket allowance
  to the sports persons under the Target Olympic Podium (TOP) scheme.
• This allowance will help the
  sports persons in their preparation for the Olympics and Paralympics Games at
  Rio de Janeiro, which is set to start in August 2016.
• 77 Indian athletes in eight
  disciplines have qualified for the Olympics till date and many more are likely
  to qualify in the next two months.
• Target Olympic Podium scheme is a
  sports ministry initiative under which Olympic medal prospects are funded by
  the government for top class training as part of their preparations for the
  Games.

• Professional football club Mohun
  Bagan and India striker Jeje Lalpekhlua on 25 April 2016 won the Football
  Players’ Association of India (FPAI) Indian Player of the Year award at its
  annual awards function held in Mumbai.
• Lalpekhlua received the highest
  number of votes from fellow professional footballers to finish on top in the
  shortlist which included India captain Sunil Chhetri, Bikash Jairu, David
  Lalrinmuana and Dhanachandra Singh.
• Nigerian striker Ranti Martins,
  who played for East Bengal in the I-League, was named the Foreign Player of the
  Year.
• The Manipur-born Udanta Singh of
  I-League champion Bengaluru FC bagged the Young Player of the Year award.
  Bengaluru FC’s coach Ashley Westwood won the Coach of the Year award.
• Debjit Majumder was named the Fans’
  Player of the Year.

• Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd
  (BPCL) on 25 April 2016 got green nod for its 694-crore rupees project at
  Haldia Dock Complex in West Bengal. This is the project of developing LPG
  import terminal as well as storage, bottling and bulk distribution facilities.
•  
• The proposed project aims to
  boost supply and help achieve the government’s target of making LPG available
  to each household by 2018.
• The domestic production of LPG is
  around 12.38 million metric tonne per annum (mmtpa) which is much lower than
  the estimated demand of 18.65 mmtpa in 2016.

• The government initiated a major
  senior bureaucratic reshuffle when it announced 13 new appointments on Tuesday,
  including that of Environment Secretary Ashok Lavasa as Expenditure Secretary
  due to the retirement of Finance Secretary Ratan Watal.
• Lavasa, a 1980 batch IAS officer
  from the Haryana cadre, will take over the expenditure department from Watal, a
  1978 batch Andhra Pradesh cadre officer, who retires on Saturday. Lavasa will
  be replaced at environment by Ajay Narayan Jha, a 1982 batch Manipur cadre
  officer, currently special secretary in the expenditure department.
• Watal has been expenditure
  secretary since December 2013 and became finance secretary in August last year.
  He was due to retire on February 29 but as the government was in the middle of
  the budget-making process for 2016-17, his tenure was extended by two months.

• The World Intellectual Property
  Day 2016 was on 26 April 2016 observed across the world with the theme Digital
  Creativity: Culture Reimagined.
• On this day, the World
  Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) works together with various
  government agencies, non-government organizations, community groups and
  individuals to hold different events and activities to promote World
  Intellectual Property Day.
• The day is celebrated to spread
  awareness about the role that intellectual property rights (patents,
  trademarks, industrial designs, copyright) play in encouraging innovation and
  creativity.

• The Cabinet of Saudi Arabia
  kingdom on 25 April 2016 approved the Vision 2030, a broad-based economic
  reform plan. The Vision charts out the roadmap for diversifying the Saudi
  economy in next 14 years and to ensure that Saudi Arabia can live without oil
  by 2020.
• Vision 2030 envisages forming
  public investment fund, boosting affordable housing and giving expats long-term
  residence among others.

1. Saudi Arabia’s status as the
   heart of the Arab and Islamic worlds
2. Determination to become a global
   investment powerhouse
3. Transforming unique strategic
   location into a global hub connecting three continents, Asia, Europe and Africa

• The former prime minister of
  Thailand, Banharn Silpa-archa was died on 23 April 2016 in Bangkok. He was 83.
• His scandal-ridden tenure a Prime
  Minister preceded the Thailand’s economic collapse in the 1990s.

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