Current Affairs for April 2019
April 5, 2019 - Mr. Praful Patel, the President of All India Football Federation, has become the first Indian to be elected as a member of the FIFA Executive Council. The election was held during the 29th Asian Football Confederations Congress in Kuala Lumpur on April 5, 2019.
April 6, 2019 - Mr. Vikram Kirloskar took charge as the new President of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) on April 6, 2019. Mr. Kirloskar is the Chairman and Managing Director of Kirloskar Systems Ltd. and Vice
Chairman of Toyota Kirloskar Motor.
April 6, 2019 - Mohamed Nasheed was elected as the President of Maldives on April 6, 2019.
April 9, 2019 - Benjamin Netanyahu was elected as the Prime Minister of Israel for the fifth term on April 9, 2019.
April 9, 2019 - David Malpass was selected as the President of World Bank through a unanimous selection made by the Executive Directors of the World Bank on April 9, 2019.
April 13, 2019 - Mohammad Shtayyeh has taken oath as Prime Minister of Palestine on April 13, 2019.
April 15, 2019 - The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfullv test-fired indigenously designed Long Range Sub-Sonic Cruise Missile "Nirbhay" from the Integrated Test Range (ITR), Chandipur, Odisha on April 15, 2019.
April 15, 2019 - Richard Powers (WW Norton) won the Pulitzer Prize 2019 in the fiction category on April 15, 2019.
April 19, 2019 - Mr. Jaideep Sarkar was appointed as India's High Commissioner to South Africa by the External Affairs Ministry on April 19, 2019.
April 21, 2019 - Mr. Volodymyr Zelenskiy, a famous comedian who portrayed Ukraine's head of state for years on a popular comedy show, has been elected as President of Ukraine on April 21, 2019 by defeating the incumbent President, Mr. Petto Poroshenko, who had been in power since 2014.
April 25, 2019 - Mr. Rana Dasgupta was awarded the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2019 on April 25, 2019. The award was bestowed for his 2010 novel 'Solo' which is a tale of estrangement and the ultimate failure of material existence. The Prize aims to revive poetry and books that can change lives.
