Current Affairs 29th April 2017

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