Current Affairs - April 01 to April 15, 2013  

• President on a three day visit to North-East India.
• India celebrates Bihu, Pongal and Vaisakhi in different parts of the country.
• Adam Johnson announced as the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his book “The Orphan Master’s Son”.
• Nicolas Maduro was elected as the new President of Venezuela

• Famous Industrialist, Known as the country's 'takeover specialist' Rama Prasad Goenka passed away in Kolkata. He was the Chairman Emeritus of the RPG Group, a multi-sector Indian industrial conglomerate.
• Finance Minister P. Chidambaram on week long visit to USA and Canada, working on a series of steps to attract at least $20 billion in new investment in India.

• The Supreme Court reject a plea for commutation of death sentence to life imprisonment for Delhi bomb blast accused terrorist Deviderpal Singh Bhullar. President of India already reject the plea.
• Veteran Bollywood actor Pran, 92 has been honoured with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award. The award consists of the Swara Kamal medal, a shawl and a cash prize.

• Deputy Chairman of Rajya Sabha, PJ Kurien elected as the Chairman of the Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and Development (AFPPD)on the 73rd Executive Committee Meeting of AFPPD at Bangkok.

• Sahara group chief Subrata Roy appeared before SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India), which had summoned Sahara in refund case of an estimated Rs 24,000 crore.
• Delhi court ordered to re-investigated 1984 anti-Sikh riots against Congress leader and former Union minister Jagdish Tytler for his role, dismissing CBI closure report of 2009 that had given a clean chit to Tytler.

• A magnitude 6.1 earthquake killed at least 37 and injured hundreds more in southern Iran.
• Five U.N. peacekeepers from India working for the U.N. mission in South Sudan were killed in an ambush by attackers in the state of Jonglei.

• Britain's 'Iron Lady' and only woman prime minister, Margaret Thatcher died following a stroke at the age of 87. She led her Conservative Party for 11 years and held office from May 1979 to November 1990.

• India test fired Nuke-capable ballistic missile Agni-II successfully from a defence base off the Odisha coast.

• Arvind Kejriwal breaks 15-day-long fast on the issue of water and electricity in Delhi.
• Annamalai University VC M. Ramanathan suspended for financial irregularities.
• Suicide attack in a Iraqi city of Baqouba kills 25 in a political rally.

• Executive Co-Chairman of Infosys S Gopalakrishnan has been elected as the President of the industry body Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).
• President Pranab Mukherjee presented Padma Awards to 108 personalities. Cricketer Rahul Dravid, woman boxer MC Mary Kom and late Bollywood actor Rajesh Khanna was conferred the Padma Bhushan Award in a ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan.

• 72 dead and over 36 injured as under-construction building collapse in Thane, Mumbai.

• President Pranab Mukherjee has given his assent to the anti-rape bill. This law has the provision of life term and death sentence for rape convicts.

• The Lokayukta  Aayog Bill, 2013 passed in the Gujarat assembly.
• IPL6 opening ceremony held at Kolkata’s Salt Lake Stadium. This time 9 teams will participate.

• Supreme Court denied an India patent request by Novartis AG cancer drug.
• Sports Ministry asks NADA (National Anti-Doping Agency) to test Vijender for the reported use of the recreational drug heroin.
• G. V. Prasad appointment as new Chairman of Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories and Satish Reddy as Vice-Chairman.