Daily Current Affairs Updates

Indian rower Dattu Baban Bhokanal qualified for the 2016 Rio Olympics scheduled to be held in August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Indian automobile giant Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. has become the first Indian company to sign up for �EP100�, a global energy productivity campaign.

The Union Government has recently constituted 8-member inter-ministerial committee to prepare a blueprint for doubling farmers� income by 2022.

• Japanâ��s first stealth fighter X-2 jet successfully completes its maiden flight
• Rafael Nadal wins 2016 Barcelona Open
• 25 April: World Malaria Day

Congo�s President Denis Sassou Nguesso has appointed Mouamba Clement as the new Prime Minister of the central African country.

Japan successfully tested the maiden flight of its first domestically developed single-pilot stealth fighter jet X-2.

Ace tennis player Rafael Nadal (World No 5) from Spain has won the 2016 Barcelona Open title of Tennis.

• Salman Khan named as Indian contingentâ��s Goodwill Ambassador for 2016 Rio Olympics
• Legal system too expensive for most: Study
• Centre notifies rules for amended SC/ST Act

The Union Government has launched India�s first online interactive heritage portal named Sahapedia was in New Delhi. The web portal is a collaborative knowledge resource on the arts, culture and heritage of India.

India and France have launched a programme with $1 trillion Potential Solar Programme under the International Solar Alliance (ISA).

Four months after Parliament amended the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act of 1989 to tighten provisions to ensure speedier justice to SCs and STs, the Social Justice and Empowerment Ministry notified the Rules to give effect to the changes on Babasaheb Ambedkar�s birth anniversary on April 14.

The nationwide �Access to Justice� survey was conducted across 305 locations in 24 States between November 2015 and February 2016 to hear the voice and explore the profile of people making use of judicial system in India reveals that 90 per cent of the litigants earn less than Rs. 3 lakh per annum and the median expected cost of litigation for this group is around Rs. 16,000.