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AWARDS AND HONORS

Mohun Bagan and Jeje Lalpekhlua named FPAI Player of the Year

India and Mohun Bagan forward Jeje Lalpekhlua has been named the ‘Indian Player of the Year’ by the Football Players Association of India (FPAI). The 25-year old played a crucial role in India’s victory in the SAFF Cup back in January. He also was adjudged the ‘Emerging Player of the Year’ in the Indian Super League (ISL) 2015, where he found the back of the net six times and earned three assists. Jeje, who hails from Mizoram, had won the FPAI Junior Indian Footballer of the Year award in 2011. He was also named as the AIFF Emerging Player of the Year in 2013.

• Nigerian striker Ranti Martins, who played for East Bengal in the I-League and for ISL runners-up FC Goa, was named the ‘Foreign Player of the Year’, ahead of four other shortlisted footballers – Sony Norde, Darryl Duffy, Katsumi Yusa and Cornell Glen.
• Manipur-born Udanta Singh of I-League champions Bengaluru FC and the triumphant team’s coach Ashley Westwood got the highest number of votes to win the ‘Young Player of the Year’ and ‘Coach of the Year’ awards respectively.

Quick Link – FPAI

INDIAN AFFAIRS

Lok Sabha passed Regional Centre for Biotechnology Bill, 2016

The Lok Sabha has passed the Regional Centre for Biotechnology Bill, 2016. The Bill seeks to establish a Regional Centre for Biotechnology, an institution of education, training and research, under the auspices of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in the National Capital Region and declare it to be an institution of national importance.

The Regional Centre for Biotechnology will take up research and innovation and impart education and training in the new areas of Biotechnology at the interface of multiple disciplines of science creating a hub of technology expertise.

Quick Link – RCB

BPCL got environmental clearance for 694 crore rupees LPG project in WB

Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) has got green nod for its 694-crore rupees project at Haldia Dock Complex in West Bengal. This is the project of developing LPG import terminal as well as storage, bottling and bulk distribution facilities. The proposed project aims to boost supply and help achieve the government’s target of making LPG available to each household by 2018. The domestic production of LPG is around 12.38 million metric tonne per annum (mmtpa) which is much lower than the estimated demand of 18.65 mmtpa in 2016.

As per the proposal, Bharat Petroleum Corporation (BPCL) will set up an import terminal at Haldia to import 1 mmtpa of refrigerated Propane and Butane and transfer it through 7.5-km long twin transfer pipeline for LPG production, despatch of bulk LPG via road tankers and bottling of LPG in cylinders.

Quick Link – BPCL

Madhya Pradesh, ICMR and Sun Pharma joined hands for research in preventive health

The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and pharmaceutical major Sun Pharma have entered into a public-private partnership (PPP) to eradicate malaria.

• The partners will jointly set up management and technical committees to provide oversight for malaria surveillance and elimination.
• In its first phase, the project will be launched at Mandla district of Madhya Pradesh, covering 1,200 villages over three to five years.
• As part of this corporate social responsibility initiative, Sun Pharma will launch an independent not-for-profit foundation.

Quick Link – ICMR

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

Saudi Arabia unveiled Vision 2030 cutting reliance on oil

The Cabinet of Saudi Arabia kingdom has approved the Vision 2030, a broad-based economic reform plan. The Vision charts out the roadmap for diversifying the Saudi economy in next 14 years and to ensure that Saudi Arabia can live without oil by 2020.

• Vision 2030 envisages forming public investment fund, boosting affordable housing and giving expats long-term residence among others.
• The project, which includes plans to float a stake in the world’s largest oil company, Aramco, and set up one of the world’s biggest government investment funds, is meant to provide a blueprint for sweeping reforms to steer the OPEC kingdom away from its decades-long reliance on cheap-to-produce oil.

Quick Link – Vision 2030

World Intellectual Property Day – April 26

World Intellectual Property Day is observed annually on 26 April. The event was established by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in 2000 to “raise awareness of how patents, copyright, trademarks and designs impact on daily life” and “to celebrate creativity, and the contribution made by creators and innovators to the development of societies across the globe”. 26 April was chosen as the date for World Intellectual Property Day because it coincides with the date on which the Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization entered into force in 1970.

Quick Link – WIP

FOREIGN RELATIONS

Nomadic Elephant – Indo-Mongolia Joint Military Exercise

India and Mongolia have commenced a joint military training exercise called “Nomadic Elephant -2016” in Mongolia. The Indian Army sent platoon-strength soldiers of the Kumaon Regiment to the 11th Indo-Mongolia exercise.

• The exercise, which will culminate on May 8, aims to develop synergy and inter operatability between the armies to battle in counter insurgency and counter terrorism environment under the UN mandate.
• A platoon of the Indian Army’s Kumaon Regiment along with a team of two observers will be taking part in the event.
• From the Mongolian Armed Forces, a total of 60 personnel will take part in the exercise. Both the armies will participate in sporting events and be sharing techniques gained in unarmed combat and specialised rappelling, the statement noted.

Quick Link – Nomadic Elephant -2016

SPORTS

India to host 2018 Commonwealth Judo Championships

India will be hosting the 2018 Commonwealth Judo Championships in Jaipur, besides organising the Asian Cadet and Asian Junior Judo Championships in September in Kerala this year. The Commonwealth Judo Championships was allotted to India, by the Commonwealth Judo Congress held on April 23rd at Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

• This will be the first time that Commonwealth Judo Championships will be held in India. The Championships will be held in Jaipur.
• While Commonwealth Judo Championships is still two years away, India will also play host to the 10th Asian Cadet Judo Championships & 17th Asian Juniors Judo Championships from September 6th to 12th at the Rajiv Gandhi Indoor Stadium, Kadvanthaa, Kerala.

Quick Link – Commonwealth Judo Championships

Riyad Mahrez became first African footballer to win PFA Player of the Year

Riyad Mahrez has became the first African footballer to win the Professional Footballers Association’s (PFA) Player of the Year award for the 2015–16 season. The footballer received the award at the Professional Footballers’ Association awards ceremony organised in London. With the award, Mahrez also became the second non-European, after Uruguayan striker Luis Suarez, to grab the award.

On the other hand, Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Dele Alli was named Young Player of the Year.

Quick Link – PFA

OBITUARY

Thailand former Prime Minister Banharn Silpa-archa died

The former prime minister of Thailand, Banharn Silpa-archa was died in Bangkok at the age of 83. His scandal-ridden tenure a Prime Minister preceded the Thailand’s economic collapse in the 1990s.

• Mr. Banharn, a regional power broker and a master of money politics, enriched his home province, Suphanburi, as a political patron. But his 16-month tenure as prime minister, in 1995 and 1996, was marked by allegations of corruption and economic mismanagement.
• Thailand’s bubble economy of reckless and unchecked lending grew on his watch and burst one year later, touching off the Asian financial crisis.
• Mr. Banharn’s style of small-party coalitions has since been eclipsed by the ideological, nationally based politics introduced in the 2000s by former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, which has split the country along deep economic and social fault lines.

Quick Link – Banharn Silpa-archa Passes away

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