Current Affairs 29th April 2017
NATIONAL:
- PM Narendra Modi holds delegation-level talks with Cyprus President in New Delhi
- Finance Minister Arun Jaitley says some tough steps are necessary to make India tax compliant society
- Venkaiah Naidu to review progress of urban development in Haryana today
- All-woman India Reserve Battalion (IRB) to be raised in Jammu and Kashmir
- 21 lakh street lights installed across country under Street Light Prog
- E-taxi trial run to begin in Nagpur
- Uttrakhand: Portals of Gangotri, Yamunotri opened for pilgrims
- Union Government launches MSEFC Portal and MyMSME Mobile App
- Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana is now set for implementation in Delhi
INTERNATIONAL
- NASA’s Cassini successfully executes dive in between Saturn, its rings
- UAE’s first solar-powered gas station opens in Dubai
- Trump agrees to renegotiate NAFTA with Mexico, Canada
- UNESCO to screen Indian short film as part of World Press Freedom Day celebrations
- El Salvador becomes 1st country in world to ban metals mining
BUSINESS AND ECONOMY NEWS:
- Paytm launches Digital Gold; Consumers now buy gold on Paytm
AWARDS AND HONOURS :
- President conferred Jnanpith Award to poet Sankha Ghosh
- Bhubaneswar becomes 1st Indian city to win Pierre L’Enfant Awards-2017
SPORTS NEWS:
- U 19 Central Armed Police Forces football meet in Mumbai
- Pankaj Advani to play China’s Lv Haotian in finals of Asian Snooker Championship
OBITUARY:
- Jonathan Demme, Oscar-winning director of The Silence of the Lambs, dies
