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• Ayushman Bharat Diwas is celebrated on [latex]30^{th}[/latex] April across the country. It is a programme of the Government of India to provide the underprivileged and economically backward people access to government as well as private healthcare facilities.


• So, these are the National and International important Days in April 2019 month which may also help in the preparation for several exams and also enhance your knowledge.

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• Japanese Emperor Akihito reported his abdication to a Shinto sun goddess in a ritual at the Imperial Palace, starting a day of ceremonies to end a three decade reign in which he sought to ease painful memories of World War Two and bring the monarchy closer to people.


• Akihito, 85, was the first Japanese monarch to take the throne under a post-war constitution that defines the emperor as a symbol of the people without political power. His abdication is the first in two centuries.


• His father, Hirohito, in whose name Japanese troops fought World War Two, was considered a living deity until after Japan's defeat in 1945, when he renounced his divinity.

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• Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi appeared to be featured in a rare new video released Monday only his second ever to show he is alive by speaking about the recent fall of his group's stronghold in Baghouz, Syria, as well as praising the pre-Easter Sri Lanka terrorist bombings.


• In an 18-minute video featuring both audio and video of Baghdadi seated on a floor with masked ISIS lieutenants, he said the April 21 Sri Lanka attacks on several churches, which killed at least 253 people, were revenge for the siege and fall of their last redoubt in Baghouz, according to a translation by the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors jihadi propaganda.

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• UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres raised the plight of ethnic Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang region during talks with Chinese leaders and stressed that China must fully respect human rights.


• Guterres faced calls to speak out on human rights during his visit to Beijing where he attended a summit on Saturday of China's prized Belt and Road Initiative and held talks with President Xi Jinping.

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• Joe Biden accused President Donald Trump of abusing the powers of his office and ignoring everyone but his political base in his first public rally as presidential candidate, arguing in the crucial battleground state of Pennsylvania that strengthening unions and promoting social and economic unity can restore Democrats to the White House.


• The former vice president told hundreds of supporters and labour activists that Saturday's deadly shooting at a California synagogue proves a new that the country is "in a fight for its soul."

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• The ministry said that Rahul Gandhi, in an annual return filed by company Backops Limited, has declared his nationality as British.


• The ministry sought Rahul's response within a fortnight.


• Earlier this month, the BJP had first raised the issue of Rahul's citizenship.

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• A day after clashes broke out between BJP and TMC supporters in Birbhum's Nanoor, Rampurhat, Nalhati and Suri areas, violence returned.


• Shattered chairs and broken tables bore the grim evidence of the violence that has spilled over from a day earlier in West Bengal's Birbhum.


• A day after voting in the fourth phase which saw violence in several places across West Bengal, Bharatiya Janata Party and Trinamool Congress cadres once again clashed, injuring at least one person.


• several TMC supporters allegedly attacked BJP polling agents in the morning after voting here and that a BJP polling agent even lost a finger in the incident in Mallarpur. It is reported that BJP workers subsequently retaliated by targeting houses of TMC supporters.

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• The National Testing Agency (NTA) declared the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) Main 2019 results in which 24 candidates scored 100 percentile.


• The first exam was held in January and second in April, and the best score of the two will be considered for admission. Those who are among the top 2,45,000 students are eligible for JEE Advanced exam.

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• The National Investigation Agency (NIA) said it had arrested a 29-year-old resident of Palakkad in Kerala, allegedly planning a suicide attack in the State.


• In a statement, the NIA said it arrested Riyas A., who goes by the aliases Riyas Aboobacker and Abu Dujana, as part of its probe into the ‘ISIS Kasargod case’ filed in July 2016 after 15 young men from the district disappeared and later joined the Islamic State — 14 in Afghanistan and one in Syria.


• It said he followed the videos and speeches of the mastermind of the Easter attacks in Sri Lanka, Zahran Hashim.

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• Dewas Lok Sabha Constituency, is one of 29 Lok Sabha constituencies in the Central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh and will cast its vote on the last phase of general election 2019 being held on [latex]19^{th}[/latex] May.


• Voting for Lok Sabha election in Madhya Pradesh are being held in four phases – April 29, May 6, May 12 and May 19 – and counting will be held on [latex]23^{th}[/latex] May.


• Dewas constituency came into existence following delimitation in 2008. This constituency covers eight assembly segments– Ashta, Agar, Shajapur, Shujalpur, Kalapipal, Sonkatch, Dewas and Hatpipliya. Of these Ashta, Agar and Sonkatch are reserved for the members of the Scheduled Castes.

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• The Election Commission said that it seized cash worth ₹785.26 crore and liquor worth ₹249.038 crore till the fourth phase of ongoing elections.


• Narcotics worth ₹1214.46 crore, gold and precious materials worth ₹972.253 crore and other freebies worth ₹53.167 crore was also seized. The poll panel had appointed 97 expenditure observers for the fourth phase of polls.

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• Telangana Congress MLAs Bhatti Vikramarka Mallu and Uttam Kumar Reddy approached the High Court to​ ask State Assembly Speaker to not merge Congress Legislature​ Party with Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS).


• They asked the Speaker to first dispose of Congress' petitions for disqualification of defectors. Ten Congress MLAs have defected into TRS in last two months.

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• After reporting a surprise loss — its first-ever — in the fourth quarter, Yes Bank has been at the receiving end in terms of quick downgrades by brokerages.


• In a rare instance, global financial major Macquarie did a ‘double-downgrade’ while lowering the target price by 30%.


• The global financial major was not alone as many Indian brokerages, including Edelweiss Financial Services, Prabhudas Lilladher and Emkay Global have also downgraded the stock citing concerns related to stressed assets and management uncertainty, among other factors.


• “We must eat humble pie today and admit we underestimated risks in structured finance. We got the call wrong,” said Macquarie in its report released on Monday with an ‘underperform’ rating on the banking major with a 12-month target price of ₹165.

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• Embattled businessman Vijay Mallya took to Twitter to repeat his offer of "100% payback" to state-run Indian banks to cover his now-defunct Kingfisher Airlines' debt. "Genuine business failures. But I'm criminally charged Wonder why only me?".


• The 63-year-old stated. Mallya is currently appealing against his extradition order from the UK as he faces charges of fraud worth ₹9,000 crore.

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• Axis Bank has dragged two more Lanco group companies to the bankruptcy court for defaulting on their loans, intensifying an ongoing legal battle between the private sector bank and the Hyderabad-based infrastructure and energy group.


• Axis had in August last year filed an insolvency petition against Lanco Amarkantak Power, a Chhattisgarh-based thermal power project of Lanco group, which the latter has challenged. The two sides are locked in a legal tussle at the National Company Law Tribunal.

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• A group of Jet Airways employees has written to SBI seeking permission to allow a consortium of employees and external investors to bid for the airline's control.


• The representatives have said they will secure investment of up to ₹3,000 crore from "outside investors". Jet Airways' lenders are currently in the process of selling up to 75% stake in the airline.

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• Dominic Thiem clinched the Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell 2019 title held at Barcelona, Spain which was held from [latex]22^{nd}[/latex] April through [latex]28^{th}[/latex] April, 2019.


• He secured 6-4, 6-0. The Austrian became just the fourth player in the past 15 years to lift the title in Barcelona, joining Rafael Nadal, Kei Nishikori, and Fernando Verdasco.


• He’s also the first Austrian winner at this event since Thomas Muster in 1996. Thiem now has 13 ATP Tour titles, nine of which have come on clay.

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• After 12 matches SRH have 12 points while Kings XI Punjab are still have 10 points.


• SunRisers Hyderabad (SRH) defeated Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) by 45 runs to strengthen their chances of qualifying for the playoffs.


• For KXIP, KL Rahul was the lone warrior as he scored brilliant 79 off 56 balls his knock went in vain as he didn't get the support from the other end as the wickets kept falling on regular intervals.

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• World number three tennis player Petra Kvitova (Czech Republic) beat Anett Kontaveit (Estonia) to win Stuttgart's Porsche Grand Prix for her second title of the year.


• Kvitova is a two-time Wimbledon champion. The championship was held at Stuttgart, Germany.

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• Mercedes' Finnish driver Valtteri Bottas beat his English teammate Lewis Hamilton by 1.5 seconds to win Azerbaijan Grand Prix.


• With this, Mercedes became the first team to win the opening four races of an F1 season with one-two finishes.

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• Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk and Arsenal Women Football Club's Vivianne Miedema were named Professional Footballers' Association Players' Player of the Year for the 2018-19 season.


• Van Dijk is the first defender to take the award since Chelsea centre-back John Terry in 2004-05. Manchester City's Raheem Sterling and Georgia Stanway were named as the Young Players of the Year.

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• 25 years old Indian wrestler Bajrang Punia became the first Indian wrestler to fight at New York’s iconic Madison Square Garden.


• He won the gold medal at the 65kg men’s freestyle wrestling at the recent Asian Championships.


• He is the first Indian wrestler to be invited by the American governing body and will take part in the “Grapple at the Garden — Beat the Streets” fight night, which will be held on 6th May 2019.


• He also won eight gold medals from his previous nine international tournaments including last year’s Commonwealth and Asian Games and presently holds World No.1 title in the 65-kg weight category.

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• Indian Professional Golfer, Gaganjeet Bhullar has been awarded outstanding achievement as a player award at the 4th Edition of the annual India Golf Industry Association (GIA) award for the year 2019 at the Delhi Golf Club.


• The GIA awards were held along with 8th edition of South Asia’s largest trade show, India Golf & Turf Expo (IGTE).31-year-old Bhullar was awarded Arjuna Award in 2013.


• Bhullar became the youngest golfer on the Asian Tour to achieve nine career victories on tour. He had won Fiji international in 2018.


• Vijay Divech and former Arjuna Awardee Nonita Lal Qureshi received for their contribution to Golf coaching.


• Naya Raipur Development Authority received ‘First 18 Holes International Standard Golf Course Development by a Smart City in India’.


• Best New Nine-Hole Golf course’ awards, was given to Eco Park, Kolkata.


• The Royal Calcutta Golf Club won the ‘Best Member Engagement Programme’ award for its successful Royal Premier Golf League.


• Boulder Hills, Hyderabad won Best Restoration of a golf course award.

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• A Boeing 787 Dreamliner flown by Air India from Delhi landed at the Hyderabad airport without provision for additional fuel.


• This is India's first flight to be operated without carrying any additional fuel, an Air India official said. Regulations require every aircraft to carry additional fuel to fly to an alternative airport in case of flight diversion.

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• Air Marshal Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria will take over as the Vice Chief of Indian Air Force (IAF) on [latex]1^{st}[/latex] May 2019.


• Bhadauria will be succeeding Air Marshal Anil Khosla who is superannuating on [latex]30^{th}[/latex] April 2019. Bhadauria earlier served as the chairman of the Indian negotiating team for the 36 Rafale combat aircraft deal with France.

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• Former Italian footballer and coach Fabio Cannavaro announced that he is resigning from his position as the Chinese national football team coach after the side's two consecutive defeats.


• The former captain of the Italian team also wished the Chinese national team good luck in the upcoming qualification rounds for the Qatar World Cup.

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• The research team from IIT Madras has used a multi-lingual Optical Character Recognition (OCR) scheme to develop a method for reading documents in Bharati script. The researchers have also developed a finger-spelling method that can be used by hearing-impaired persons to generate sign language, in collaboration with TCS Mumbai.


• The Bharati script is a conglomeration of 9 Indian languages, namely, Devnagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Tamil. In the last 10 years, Professor V. Srinivasa Chakravarthy’s research team at IIT Madras has worked on developing this script.


• The OCR scheme first segments the document into 2 parts, text and non-text. After this, the text is separated into paragraphs, sentences words and letters, where every letter is recognised as a character in ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) or Unicode. The letter again has several components, namely, the basic consonant, consonant modifiers, vowels.


• The objective of this initiative was to introduce easy readability of the Indian languages. The scripts of the aforementioned Indian languages pose a hindrance for character recognition and this difficulty is removed in the Bharati script which can be easily read.


• The future prospects of IIT Madras’ collaboration with Sunil Kopparappu of Innovation Labs, TCS, Mumbai lies in developing a new Braille system with the Bharati script for the visually and hearing-challenged population.

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• Former India footballer Pungam Kannan passes away at age 80 years. Kannan played 14 matches for India & was the former Mohun Bagan & East Bengal forward.


• He won Santosh Trophy for Bengal twice in a row (1971-73) and was the top-scorer. He was known as the ‘Pele of Asia’.

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