Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed the decree to award Prime Minister Narendra Modi the Order of the Holy Apostle Andrew the First-Called, the highest civilian award of the country for promoting the strategic partnership between Russia & India.
The UAE also awarded Narendra Modi with the Zayed Medal.
Punjab National Bank celebrates its 125th foundation day on 12 April 2019 that marks the 125th year of the establishment of PNB on 12 April 1894 at Lahore. Vice president M. Venkaiah Naidu was the Guest of Honour.
PNB topped the 1st ever EASE index 2019.
Two schemes of the West Bengal government for skill development- “Utkarsh Bangla” and distribution of bicycles to students “Sabooj Sathi” have won the prestigious World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) awards of the United Nations.
Keshari Nath Tripathi is the governor of West Bengal.
In 2011, the United Nations declared April 12 as the ‘International Day of Human Space Flight’. On this day in 1961, Yuri Gagarin of the Soviet Union took the first space flight, opening the doors of space exploration to humankind.
ISRO will execute its human space programme Gaganyaan by 2022.
The National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) was awarded the distinction of “Public Water Agency of the Year” by Global Water Intelligence at the Global Water Summit in London for Namami Gange project.
700 cr were allocated for Namami Gange in Interim Budget 2019.
India & Sweden launched a joint programme that will work towards addressing a range of challenges around smart cities & clean technologies. The programme was co-founded by the Indian Department of Science and Technology (DST) and Swedish agency Vinnova.
Sweden Capital- Stockholm Currency- Krona
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has appointed Gargi Kaul as Defence Finance Secretary. Kaul was earlier Financial Advisor, Defence Services in the Defence Ministry.
Sanjay Mitra is the present Defence Secretary.
The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has approved the merger of Tata Teleservices with Bharti Airtel Ltd., subject to the condition that it furnishes a Rs 7200 crore bank guarantee. Telecom Minister Manoj Sinha gave his conditional nod for the merger
Aruna Sundararajan is India’s Telecom Secretary.
President of Haiti, Jovenel Moise announced that Jean Michel Lapin will be the new prime minister of Haiti. The installation of a new government is an IMF pre-requisite for the disbursement of US$229 million loans to Haiti.
Haiti Capital- Port-au-Prince Currency- Gourde
Telugu poet K Siva Reddy has been selected for the prestigious Saraswati Samman, 2018 for his collection of poetry titled Pakkaki Ottigilite.
The award carries a cash prize of 15 lakh rupees, a citation and a plaque.
Award is given for stellar literary work in any Indian language.