APRIL 2016 CURRENT AFFAIRS ( PART-4)

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• India ranked 44th among 50 different countries in the 2016 Global Connectivity Index (GCI) report compiled by Chinese telecom giant Huawei. Top Country in 2016 GCI is United States.
• Dogri Poetess and novelist Padma Sachdev has been chosen for the prestigious Saraswati Samman for the year 2015. She has been chosen for her autobiography ‘Chitt-Chete’ written in Dogri language and published in 2007.
• According to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the Global Tiger Forum (GTF), the global tiger population has increased by 22 per cent after a century of constant decline. The number of wild tigers across the globe has gone up globally by 22 per cent to 3,890, from the 2010 estimate of 3,200.
• Haryana Government has decided to rename Gurgaon as Gurugram. State government also has renamed Mewat as Nuh. The town had derived its name Gurugram from Guru Dronacharya, who was gifted the village as “gurudakshina” by the Pandavas, his students.
• Chinese researchers have developed Graphene based all-weather solar cell that can generate electricity even during rains. Graphene is a two-dimensional (2D) form of carbon in which the atoms are bonded into a honeycomb arrangement.
• The IIT-Kharagpur has won the National Intellectual Property (IP) Award in the academic institutes category. The Indian Intellectual property office (IIPO) under the aegis of Union Ministry of Commerce and Industry confers national intellectual property awards.
• The traditional festival of Sajibu Cheiraoba was celebrated in Manipur to mark the beginning of a new year with cultural gusto and religious fervor. The festival is mainly observed on the first lunar day of the lunar month Sajibu (March/April) by the Meiteis community, a majority ethnic group of Manipur. Thabal Chongba, a local folk dance is also being organized at different locations of Manipur valley.
• Five-time world chess champion Vishwanathan Anand was honoured with the 2016 Hridaynath Mangeshkar Award.
• The Republic of Nauru, a tiny South Pacific island nation in Pacific Ocean became the 189th member of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank i.e. Bretton-Woods institutions. Before Nauru, the last country to join the World Bank and IMF as 188th member was South Sudan in April 2012.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched ‘Gram Uday Se Bharat Uday Abhiyan’ (Village Self Governance Campaign) to strengthen Panchayati Raj in villages and ensure social harmony in villages.

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