2nd Week of APRIL Current Affairs bytes

✔Justices Arjan Kumar Sikri and Sharad Arvind Bobde have been elevated as judges of theSupreme Court, taking its strength to 30.

✔TheConference on Sustainable Tourism of the United Nations World TourismOrganisation (UNWTO) has begun in Hyderabad on 12 April.

✔Legendary Actor Pran Krishan Sikand awarded Bollywood’s Highest Honour Dada Saheb Phalke Award.

✔North Eastern Electric Power Corporation (NEEPCO) granted Miniratna–Category–1 Status by the Union Government of India

✔Book titled Religion, Law & Society - Across the Globe authored by Prof. Tahir Mahmood was released by Vice President Hamid Ansari on 12 April.

✔The State Government of Andhra Pradesh on 11 April 2013 on occasion of Ugadi Festival launched a new scheme named Amma Hastham (mother's hand) to supply nine essential food items to poor at subsidized rates.

✔American Serena Williams Topped the Women’s Tennis Ranking

✔National Safe Motherhood Day is being celebrated on 11 April.

✔PJ Kurien elected Chairman of Asian forum of Parliamentarians.

✔60th Anniversary of Everest Ascent to be marked by India-Nepal Army Joint-Expedition.

✔Jamjang Deru Won Silver in World Youth Weightlifting Championships 2013.

✔The US government approved the plan to build the world’s largest telescope at the summit of Hawaii’s Mauna Kea volcano.

✔Global trade is now expected to grow by 3.3% this year, the WTO says, down from itsearlier forecast of 4.5%.

✔Hockey India named Gregg Clark as the Coach of the Junior Men’s National Team.

✔Sir Robert Edwards, the ‘father of IVF’ whose discovery helped millions of infertile couples have children, died yesterday aged 87.

✔Delhi court has ordered the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to reopen the 1984anti-Sikh riots case against Congress leader Jagdish Tytler.

✔on 10 April, Pakistanon successfully test-fired nuclear-capable Hatf-IV ballistic missilewith a range of 900 km that can hit targets in India.

✔Uhuru Kenyatta has been sworn in as Kenya'snew president.

✔Jamjang Deru wins a silver in 50 kg boys category in the World
Youth Weightlifting championships in Uzbekistan.

✔Former British PM Margaret Thatcher passes away on 8th April. She was the first female PM of UK and was also known as
“Iron lady” for her personal and political toughness.

✔Govt. announced that the Direct Benefits Transfer (DBT) subsidy scheme to be being extended to 78 more districts in July 2013.

✔NASSCOM appointed Krishnakumar Natarajan as its chairman and R Chandrasekaran as the Vice Chairman of the Executive Council for 2013-14.

✔2013 Times of India Film Awards (TOIFA): Barfi! Bagged Best Film Award.

✔Scientists from Spain predict that the World’s population to stop growing in 2050.

✔Odisha decided to set up First Public Health University in India.

✔Deadly Earthquake of Magnitude 6.3 Struck Bushehr Province of Iran; killed 37.

✔Historian, epigraphy expert Prof Bratindra Nath Mukherjee passed away.

✔Madhya Pradesh decided to declare 'Malkhamb' as the State Sport.