Current Affairs 29th April 2016

Odisha CM inaugurate 100 rural drinking water projects
Maharashtra Government rose jail term up to 5 yrs for chain snatchers
Buddhist Circuit under Swadesh Darshan Scheme
Union Cabinet gives nod to MoU between IRDAI and Insurance Authority of UAE
Uttarakhand Government to be first stable to buy short-term power through e-auction
Haryana notifies scheme to encourage water harvesting in MSMEs
Naval detachment set up at Lakshadweep
Union Cabinet approved MoU between India and Papua New Guinea on cooperation in health and medical science
Gopal Subramanium appointed as amicus curiae to implement Justice RM Lodha committee recommendations
Government bans import of dogs for commercial purposes

Arvind Kejriwal was unanimously re-elected as the National Convenor of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).
Arianna Huffington joins Uber’s board
Kane Williamson appointed NZ captain in all 3 formats
Justice PK Mishra swears-in as Goa Lokayukta
Allan Donald appointed Australia’s bowling coach

Jagendra Singh gets press club award for bravery in Journalism
Pakistan radio journalist Misha Euceph selected for prestigious WHCA scholarship
Sudarsan Pattnaik bags gold medal at Sculpture Championship in Moscow

The Indian Space Research Organisation today launched navigation satellite IRNSS-1G successfully from Andhra Pradesh’s Sriharikota spaceport

Japan unveiled Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympics emblems
Two-time Olympic champion Felix Sanchez retired
ICC suspended Cricket Association of Nepal
Government gives nod to new boxing body’s registration
Deepika Kumari equals world record at Archery World Cup
Chris Gayle’s record of fastest T20 century broken by 23-year-old Trinidad and Tobago batsman Iraq Thomas

Chinese human rights campaigner Harry Wu has died. He was 79. The cause of death wasn’t known.
Kerala cartoonist V T Thomas, popularly known as Toms, passed away following a brief illness at in Kottayam, Kerela.
Tubby, dubbed as the world’s ‘greenest dog’ after entering into the Guinness Book of Records for sniffing out 26,000 plastic bottles for recycling, died in the UK.