Current Affairs One liner, 18 April 2017

• The World Hemophilia Day was celebrated across the world on 17 April 2017 with the theme - Hear Their Voices

• This state has become the first Indian state to launch a special awareness drive to ensure that transgenders in the state register as voters – Maharashtra

• This state government has recently launched ‘unemployment allowance scheme’ – Himachal Pradesh

• This state’s government has decided to provide pension to former circus artistes - Kerala

• The Koradi thermal power station, which was recently inaugurated by the PM Narendra Modi, is located in – Maharashtra

• Girish Chandra Saxena, who was passed away recently, worked as the Governor of – Jammu & Kashmir

• The joint military exercise Sagarmatha Friendship-2017 has commenced between – China and Nepal

• This multilateral organisation released the report Globalisation Backlash – World Bank Group

• Bidya Devi Bhandari, who is on a State visit to India, is the President of - Nepal

• The Union Government recently launched a launched a comprehensive module and a training program for capacity building of Elected Women Representatives of Panchayats at – Ranchi, Jharkhand

• The theme of the 2017 World Heritage Day is - Cultural Heritage & Sustainable Tourism

• The IIT that is all set to introduce a Vastu Shastra classes for its architecture students is - IIT Kharagpur

• The winner of the Arunachal Festival of Speed is - Amanpreet Ahluwalia

• Prisoners of this country in Israeli prisons have started a hunger strike - Palestine

• This country has said that it will abolish a temporary work visa popular with foreigners and replace it with a visa requiring better English language and work skills - Australia

• China have said that it was willing to work with all parties to achieve denuclearisation and stability on - the Korean Peninsula

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