Daily Current Affairs Updates

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.

India has formally ratified the WTO�s (World Trade Organisation) Trade Facilitation Agreement, which aims at easing customs procedures to boost commerce.

Bollywood actor Salman Khan was named as the goodwill ambassador of the Indian contingent for the upcoming Olympics to be held in August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

• China, Pakistan ink agreement to launch satellite to monitor CPEC projects
• 175 nations sign historic Paris Climate Agreement on Earth Day
• SC stays Uttarakhand HCâ��s order revoking Presidentâ��s rule in Uttarakhand

The Supreme Court has stayed the judgement of the Uttarakhand High Court quashing the imposition of President�s rule imposed under Article 356 in the Constitution till April 27, 2016.