Current Affairs One liner, 13 April 2017

• The Union Cabinet gave its approval for setting up of Indian Institute of Petroleum and Energy. The institute will be set up in - Visakhapatnam

• The Union Cabinet recently approved signing of Framework of Understanding on Cooperation in the Hydrocarbon Sector. The Framework is signed with - Bangladesh

• The person honoured with Young Scientist Award of the National Geoscience Awards 2016 is - Dr. Abhishek Saha

• Person appointed as the Ambassador of India to Germany - Mukta Dutta Tomar

• NBFC Manappuram Finance launched its own prepaid cards in tie-up with - Yes Bank

• SCOPE Excellence Awards are presented for - Excellence and Outstanding Contribution to the Public Sector Management

• Nokia  signed MoU to bring 5G network in India with -  Airtel and BSNL

• This country has vetoed a UN draft resolution demanding the Syrian government cooperate with an investigation of a suspected chemical attack - Russia

• Youngest Nobel Peace laureate Malala Yousafzai became the sixth person to receive honorary citizenship of – Canada

• EC has thrown an open challenge to people to hack its EVM's. The challaange will be open for people in - First week of May 2017

• He was named as the new administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) by the UN chief Antonio Guterres - Achim Steiner, a German citizen

• This country vetoed UN’s resolution condemning the chemical attack in Syrian town – Russia

• This state’s government has decided to increase the reservations of backward Muslim population and STs in the state – Telangana

• This world leader has become the most followed head of the state on Instagram with 7 million followers – Narendra Modi

• Congress leader and author M Veerappa Moily traces the life and journey of Draupadi through his book titled - The Flaming Tresses of Draupadi

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