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• World Haemophilia Day is observed on [latex]17^{th}[/latex] April every year to increase awareness about haemophilia disease and other inherited bleeding disorders.


• In 1989, World Haemophilia Day was started by the World Federation of Haemophilia (WFH) in honour of WFH founder Frank Schnavel's birthday.

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• Iran's lawmakers have overwhelmingly approved a bill labeling US forces in the Middle East as terrorist, a day after the US terrorism designation for Iran's Revolutionary Guard formally took effect.


• State TV says Defense Minister Gen. Amir Hatami introduced the bill authorizing the government to act firmly in response to "terrorist actions" by US forces. It demands authorities use "legal, political and diplomatic" measures to neutralize the American move, without elaborating.

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• Afghanistan published a lengthy list of delegates who will meet with the Taliban in Doha this week, including government officials, in what could become the highest-level dialogue between the sworn enemies in years.


• A massive roster published by the presidential palace comprises 250 names, including President Ashraf Ghani's chief of staff, Abdul Salam Rahimi, as well as his election running mate, Amrullah Saleh, the former head of Afghan intelligence.

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• Four-hundred-year-old paintings hung high inside Notre-Dame were damaged by the immense fire that engulfed the Paris cathedral, but emergency workers formed a human chain to whisk gem-studded chalices and other priceless artefacts out of harm's way.


• Notre-Dame's famed stained-glass rose windows and most of its many religious relics appeared to have escaped the worst of inferno as well, easing fears for the fate of the vast trove of artworks in the 800-year-old gothic cathedral.

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• The United Nations owes India $38 million, the highest it has to pay to any country, for the peacekeeping operations as of March 2019, UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres has said as he voiced concern over the world body's deteriorating financial health.


• On improving the financial situation of the world body, he said, the total amount payable to troop- and police-contributing countries with respect to active peacekeeping missions was $265 million.

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• It seems that trouble for Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan is set to increase in the coming days as the Election Commission (EC) issued a fresh show cause notice to him for making allegedly inflammatory remarks at various places in Uttar Pradesh during Lok Sabha campaign in the past few days.


• Azam Khan, who is also SP's candidate from Rampur Lok Sabha constituency, has been given 24 hours by the poll panel to respond to the notice. In its notice the EC has said that prima facie Azam Khan is guilty of violating the provisions of Model Code of Conduct.

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• Ninety seven parliamentary constituencies across 11 states and 1 Union territory will go to polls in the second phase of Lok Sabha election on April 18.


• Over fifteen crore seventy nine lakh thirty four thousand voters will decide the fate of 1629 candidates who are are in the fray in the second phase of polls. More than one lakh eighty one thousand polling booths ready for smooth conduct of polls.


• Voting on [latex]18^{th}[/latex] April will be held in 38 seats in Tamil Nadu, 14 seats in Karnataka, 10 in Maharashtra, eight in Uttar Pradesh, five each in Assam, Bihar and Odisha, three each in Chhattisgarh and West Bengal, two in Jammu and Kashmir and one seat each in Manipur and Puducherry.


• Elections will also be held in 35 assembly constituencies in Odisha. Election was scheduled to be held in one seat in Tripura but the Election Commission in a late night order postponed polling till [latex]23^{rd}[/latex] April citing law and order situation.

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• Voters in the Vadodara Lok Sabha seat of Gujarat are yet to make up their mind whether to endorse the BJP's views on 'nationalism' or support the Congress, which has promised to resolve local issues like lack of jobs and affordable education for children.


• This urban seat was in the spotlight in 2014 when Prime Minister Narendra Modi won it by defeating Congress veteran Madhusudan Mistry by a margin of over 5.7 lakh votes.

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• PM Narendra Modi accused Congress president Rahul Gandhi of insulting the Sahu community with his campaign remark “why do all thieves have Modi in their names”. In Patna, Bihar deputy CM and BJP veteran Sushil Modi said he will file a defamation case against Rahul Gandhi on Thursday for the comment.


• PM Modi at election meetings in Korba and Bhatapara said, “This shows the narrow mindset of Congress. If people of Chhattisgarh’s Sahu community were in Gujarat, they would have been known as Modis,” “Sahu community members are known as Rathore in Rajasthan and Vanniar in the south.

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• A team of 10 officials from the Income Tax Department raided the house of DMK leader Kanimozhi in Tamil Nadu's Thoothukudi, just two days before the state goes to polls.


• Kanimozhi is the DMK's candidate from Thoothukudi in the Lok Sabha elections. She is the sister of DMK Chief MK Stalin.

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• IDBI Bank has launched ‘NRI-Insta Online’ account opening process for NRIs residing in Financial Action Task Force (FATF)member countries to open an account in the Bank without visiting the branch or submitting paper documents such as physical documents as well as KYC proofs. This online facility is available in IDBI Bank’s website.


• FATF is an inter-governmental body founded in 1989, which devices policy and sets standards to promote successful implementation of legal, regulatory and operational measures to combat money laundering, terrorist financing and other similarthreats to the integrity of the international financial system.


• The body accommodates 38 member countries, including India, China,US, UK, Japan and France, among others.

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• Google has launched its first African artificial Intelligence (AI) laboratory in Accra, capital city of Ghana, to tackle Africa’s challenges. The lab will collaborate with researchers in Ghana and across Africa to create the need impact in the country.


• The technology would address economic, political and environmental issues.


• The new laboratory will use Artificial Intelligence technique to develop solutions in healthcare, education and agriculture.

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• Former Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) president Jose Maria Marin has been banned for life from all football activities by FIFA.


• In August 2018, Marin who led Brazil’s organising committee for the 2014 World Cup, was sentenced to four years in prison for racketeering, money laundering and wire fraud. He became the first person to be imprisoned as the result of the US investigation into corruption at world football’s governing body.


• Earlier Marin was arrested at a luxury Zurich hotel in May 2015. During US investigation, he was found to have taken bribes in exchange for the media and marketing rights to various tournaments which also include the Copa America.


• Prosecutors in federal court said at his 2017 trial Marin took $6.6 million in bribes. He was ordered to forfeit $3.3 million and pay a $1.2 million fine. The FIFA ethics committee also imposed a 1 million Swiss franc fine.

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• International cricket council (ICC) cricket for good in partnership with UNICEF, launched #OneDay4Children, a tournament-wide campaign to help construct a better world for all child, at the World Cup.


• England all-rounder Chris Woakes and #OneDay4Children ambassador Nasser Hussain and launched the campaign.


• All 48 matches of the event will support #OneDay4Children activity and the funds gathered will strengthen UNICEF’s work for children in cricket playing nations across the world.


• The campaign will conclude at the England v India game at Edgbaston on 30 June.


• The tournament will run from 30 May to 14 July. Old Trafford in Manchester and Edgbaston in Birmingham will host the semi-finals 9 and 11 July respectively, while final will be played at Lord’s in London on 14 july.


• England and Wales have previously hosted ICC Cricket World Cups in 1975, 1979, 1983 and 1999.


• Australia is the most victorious team in the history of the World Cup, having won events in 1987, 1999, 2003, 2007 and 2015. The West Indies won in 1975 and 1979, while India won in 1983 and 2011and Pakistan in 1992 and Sri Lanka in 1996.

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• The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States.


• It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of American (Hungarian-born) Joseph Pulitzer who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher and is administered by Columbia University in New York City.

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• The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal were awarded Pulitzer Prizes for their separate investigations of President Donald Trump and his family. The Times won the prestigious journalism award for explanatory reporting for its probe of the Trump family’s finances that “debunked his claims of self-made wealth and revealed a business empire riddled with tax dodges.


• The South Florida Sun Sentinel won the Pulitzer for public service for its coverage of failings by school and law enforcement officials before and after the February 2018 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

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• PwC India announced the appointment of Padmaja Alaganandan as the firm’s new Chief People Officer (CPO). She takes over the role from Jagjit Singh.


• Padmaja has been associated with PwC for the last eight years. Earlier, she was the Technology sector lead for PwC’s Advisory Line of Service. Before that, she was the leader of the firm’s People and Organisation Consulting practice.


• Before joining PwC in 2011, Padmaja had worked in leadership roles in different organisations such as Mercer Consulting and AF Ferguson. She has also been a member of CII’s National HR Committee and the Committee on Skill Development.


• In early 2019, Padmaja was inducted into the firm’s leadership team. With over 25 years of consulting experience across diverse industries, Padmaja brings with her a rich experience of advising PwC India’s top clients on issues around leadership development, talent management, change management, succession planning, as well as diversity and inclusion.

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• Punjab National Bank (PNB) has appointed Rajesh Kumar Yaduvanshi as the Executive Director of the bank.


• Rajesh Kumar Yaduvanshi had joined PNB as a management trainee in 1985.


• Currently, he is equipped with an experience of 34 years in the banking career and is a certified associate member of lndian lnstitute of Bankers. In the past, he had worked with Dena Bank in capacity of the Executive Director.


• Yaduvanshi holds a doctorate in science from lndian Agricultural Research Institute, (IARI) New Delhi.


• Currently PNB now has three Executive Directors, namely, Yaduvanshi, L V Prabhakar and A K Azad.

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• Ace cricketer MithaliDorai Raj, Captain of the Indian women’s cricket team, has been named as the goodwill ambassador of the Indian team for the Street Child Cricket World Cup 2019. Mithali joins IPL franchise Rajasthan Royals and former captain SouravGanguly in supporting the team.


• This is the first cricket world cup for street-connected children and final will be played at Lord’s in London on May 7.


• The tournament is being organised by Street Child United (SCU), a UK based organization.


• In the tournament, there are 10 gender equal national teams.i.e., boys and girls will play together.

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• The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered an Earth-sized planet, HD 21749b and a “sub-Neptune” world, revolving around the star, HD 21749. The star lies 53 light-years from Earth.


• The research study has been published on 15th April, 2019 in ‘The Astrophysical Journal Letters’.


• TESS was launched to Earth orbit in April 2018 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.


• One tool termed as ‘Planet Finder Spectrograph’ (PFS) on the ‘Magellan II telescope’ in Chile helped to confirm the planetary nature of the TESS signal and measure the mass of HD 21749b.


• HD 21749b is about 23 times heavier and 2.7 times wider than Earth. It is gaseous, has a substantial atmosphere but not as puffy as Uranus and Neptune. HD 21749b has an orbital period of 36 Earth days.


• HD 21749b’s surface temperature is mostly around 300 degrees Fahrenheit (150 degrees Celsius). HD 21749c, the new neighbour also appears to be of the same size as Earth.

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• Rohit Shekhar Tiwari, the 39-year-old son of former Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand CM, late ND Tiwari, was brought dead at Delhi's Max Saket Hospital.


• Rohit died of a heart attack, reports claimed. He won a paternity lawsuit against ND Tiwari, wherein ND Tiwari admitted that Rohit was his biological child with Congress' Ujjwala Tiwari following a DNA test.

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