Important Current Affairs 1st April with PDF download

 Hello friends, This is the Updates of Current Affairs  1 April 2017. This will helpful for tackling General awareness section in SBI, IBPS, SSC, UPSC Exams.

1. Virat Kohli, Sharad Pawar, Anuradha Paudwal Receive Padma Shri

• Political stalwarts Sharad Pawar, Murli Manohar Joshi and the late Lok Sabha Speaker P A Sangma, cricketer Virat Kohli and Bollywood singer Anuradha Paudwal were among the 39 people who were conferred this year’s Padma awards

 

2. ‘Namami Brahmaputra’ festival

• `Namami Brahmaputra`, the biggest ever river festival in India, will be held in Assam on March 31.
• The festival will take place across 21 districts of Assam from March 31 to April 4.
• President Pranab Mukherjee will inaugurate the festival on the banks of the river, which is consideredcountry`s only male river.

 

3. Turkis athletes lose Olympic medals

• Turkish female distance runners Elvan Abeylegesse and Gamze Bulut are set to be stripped of silver medals from the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games after being handed bans.
• The sanctions will also mean the reallocation of medals awarded a decade ago at the 2007 Osaka athletics world championships.
• Bulut was handed a four-year ban for a violation of the athletes’ biological passport rules.

 

4. Scientist builds typhoon turbine

• Scientists from Japan have created a bladeless wind turbine that can stand up to raw force of storms better than three-blade wind turbines common in many countries.
• The turbine has three cylinders and a central rod – responds to wind coming from any direction and doesn’t use a propeller to spin.
• The turbine can be used to generate power and can withstand powerful winds.

 

5. Sands of Titan are electrically charged

• The particles that cover the surface of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, are “electrically charged”, show results of an experiment .
• The findings, published in the journal Nature Geoscience.
• To test particle flow under Titan-like conditions, the researchers built a small experiment in a modified pressure vessel in their Georgia Tech lab.

 

6. FSSAI comes under CAG scanner

• In a first, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) is doing a comprehensive performance audit of the FSSAI.
• The audit comes against the backdrop of the food regulator’s controversial decision to ban manufacturing and sales of Maggi noodles.
• CAG’s audit is looking at issues such as how FSSAI fixes standards, finalizes regulations etc.

 

7. ‘Snake robot’ can crawl into your gut

• Scientists have developed a tiny, ingestible 3D-printed snake-like robot that can navigatethrough the small intestines, and could one day be used to visualise the digestive system in real time.
• The robot, called SAW, moves in a wave-like motion and can travel through the extremely squishy environment of the small intestine.
• It was developed at Ben-Gurion University, Israel.

 

8. Vanaja N Sarna appointed CBEC chief

• Senior bureaucrat Vanaja N Sarna was appointed as chairperson of Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC).
• Sarna, a 1980 batch officer of Indian Revenue Service (Customs and Central Excise), is at present member in the CBEC, an apex policy making body for indirect taxes.
• She will take over charge from incumbent Najib Shah who completes his term this month-end.

 

9. Sitaram Swain wins award

• Odisha-based Sitaram Swain was awarded the sixth Glenfiddichs Emerging Artist of the Year 2017.
• The award is a part of Glenfiddich’s 16-year-old Artists in Residence programme, where winners from different countries get to spend three months at the Glenfiddich Distillery in Scotland.
• In addition to this he was awarded Rs 10 lakh will also be awarded a solo show in New Delhi.

 

10. SV Sunil named 2016 Player of the Year

• India forward SV Sunil was named the Asian Hockey Federation (AHF) Player of the Year for 2016 with Harmanpreet Singh chosen as the Promising Player of the Year in the continental body’s annual awards.
• Sunil, regarded highly for his pace, played a vital role in India’s memorable run in last year’s Champions Trophy in London, where they claimed a silver for the first time.

 

 

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