The Services lifted the 73rd Santosh Trophy after beating Punjab 1-nil in the final at Ludhiana. Bikash Thapa scored the winning goal. This is their 6th title win. Services is an Indian football team representing armed forces personnel.
Sunil Chettri is2nd highest goal scorer in International matches
The Civil Services Day is celebrated on April 21 every year. It was on this day that Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel addressed the 1st batch of civil servants in Independent India. This year the day was not celebrated due to the general elections.
Civil Services Examination (CSE) is conducted by UPSC.
India's Ambassador to the UAE Navdeep Singh Suri launches the book containing English translation of the Punjabi poem, Khooni Vaisakhi. The poem was translated by Suri whose grandfather Nanak Singh wrote it after witnessing the massacre on April 13, 1919.
The book was also released on New Delhi on 13 April.
World Earth Day is celebrated every year on 22 April to represent the diversity and uniqueness of the earth. The theme for the 49th edition of World Earth Day is “Protect Our Species”. The theme of 2018 was “End Plastic Pollution”.
The first World Earth Day was celebrated in 1970.
Election Commission of India has launched the Voter Turnout app to give live information to users about the estimated voter turnout during the Lok Sabha Polls 2019. It captures the real-time information gathered by the Returning Officers.
Twitter launched a special emoji for the General Elections 2019.
The 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy is among the world's "major industrial accidents" of the 20th century as per the report released by UN labour agency ILO titled 'The Safety and Health at the Heart of the Future of Work - Building on 100 years of experience'.
ILO- International Labour Organisation HQ- Geneva, Switzerland
The CBSE students from 2020 will be allowed to use magnifying glasses and portable video magnifiers during the Class X final examination. The CBSE affiliated schools have been directed to ensure that premises are disabled friendly by 2020.
1st Physical Disability Cricket Series will be held in England.
With the objective of expanding their strategic partnership in the Indian Ocean region (IOR), India and France will conduct their largest ever naval exercise 'Varuna' early next month at Goa.
Shakti is the joint military exercise between India and France.
Saudi Arabia has increased the Haj quota of India to two lakhs from one lakh seventy five-thousand. This is the third hike in three consecutive years. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman assured Narendra Modi to increase the quota in February 2019.
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi is the Minister of Minority Affairs.
Geraldyn "Jerrie" Cobb a pilot, an equality trailblazer and America's first female astronaut candidate passed away after a brief illness. In 1961, she became the first woman to pass all three phases of the Mercury astronaut program.
Her autobiography is titled as Jerrie Cobb, Solo Pilot.