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Current Affair News 19th & 20th April

PEOPLE
Rafael Nadal clinches his 9th Monte Carlo Masters title of Tennis

 Former world number one Rafael Nadal claimed his ninth Monte Carlo Masters title with
victory over Gael Monfils.
 Nadal, appearing in his 100th ATP Tour final, won 7-5 5-7 6-0 in two hours 46 minutes
to claim his ninth title in the Principality, but his first since 2012. This was his first
tournament victory of 2016, having won only three in 2015.
 Rafael Nadal has won 14 Grand Slam singles titles, 28 titles in ATP World Tour Masters
1000 events and 16 ATP World Tour 500 tournaments. He also had won 2008 Olympic
gold medal in singles. In tennis is famously known as the King of Clay.
 The Monte-Carlo Masters is an annual tennis tournament for male professional players
held in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France, a commune that borders on Monaco. The event
is part of the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 on the Association of Tennis Professionals
(ATP) Tour. The tournament is played on clay courts and is held every year in the April–
May period.

IPS officer Deepak Mishra appointed as the ADG of CRPF

 The Competent Authority approved the appointment of Deepak Mishra, IPS as Addl.
Director General of CRPF from the date of assumption of charge of the post and upto
30.11.2018 (i.e. date of his retirement on superannuation) or until further orders.
 Mishra is IPS officer of the 1984 batch of the Arunachal Pradesh-Goa-Mizoram and
Union Territory (AGMUT) cadre.
 Central Reserve Police Force is the largest of India's Central Armed Police Forces. It
functions under the aegis of Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) of the Government of
India. The CRPF's primary role lies in assisting the State/Union Territories in police
operations to maintain law and order and counter insurgency.
Rahul Johri becomes the first CEO of BCCI

 BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India) has appointed media professional Rahul
Johri as its first chief executive officer. After spending two decades in the media industry,
Johri will assume his new role on 1st June.
 The creation of the post of the CEO was a change recommended by the three-member
Lodha panel in its report in January this year. The panel had stressed the need for the
BCCI to separate its governance and management duties, with the CEO taking charge of
the management side.
 Johri will be based at the BCCI headquarters in Mumbai and will report directly to the
Honorary Secretary, Anurag Thakur. He will be responsible for the smooth functioning of
operations, stakeholder management and building robust strategies for further promoting
the sport.
 Johri was the Asia Pacific’s executive vice-president and general manager for South Asia
with Discovery Networks where he had been working for 15 years.

EVENTS

Commemorative coin released to mark Tatya Tope martyrdom day

 The NDA Government released a Rs.200 commemorative coin and a Rs.10 circulation
coin on the occasion of the Martyrdom day of Tatya Tope, one of the outstanding Indian
leaders of the 1857 revolt against the British.
 Union Minister of State for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, Mahesh Sharma issued
the coins.
 Ramachandra Pandurang Tope (1814 - 18 April 1859) was one of its notable generals of
the 1857 revolt. He is better known by his nickname Tatya Tope, which is also
transliterated as Tantya Tope or Tantia Topi.
 Union Government is also considering constructing a memorial at Yeola in Nashik
district in Maharashtra, and a war museum in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, in association
with the respective state governments, to honour the memory of Tatya Tope.

2016 Laureus World Sports Awards

 Tennis reigned supreme at the 2016 Laureus World Sports Awards in Berlin, with Novak
Djokovic winning the World Sportsman of the Year Award while Serena Williams won
the Female Sportsperson of the Year Award.
 Djokovic has won the award for three times now, having picked it up in 2012 and 2015.
Williams has also won her third Sportswoman of the Year Award after getting nominated
a record 10 times.
  Three-time Formula One World Champion Lauda was presented with the Laureus
Lifetime Achievement Award while the late Dutch football legend Cryuff was honoured
with the Laureus Spirit of Sport Award which was collected by his son Jordi Cryuff.
 The Laureus World Team of the Year Award was given to All Blacks, New Zealand
(Rugby).
 The Laureus World Sports Awards is an annual award ceremony honoring remarkable
individuals from the world of sports along with the greatest sporting achievements
throughout the year. It was established in 1999 by Laureus Sport for Good Foundation
founding patrons Daimler and Richemont and supported by its global partners Mercedes-
Benz and IWC Schaffhausen.

RBL open dedicated branch for start-ups

 RBL Bank (formerly Ratnakar Bank) became the first private sector bank to open
specialized branches for start-ups offering a bouquet of banking products to service their
end-to-end needs.
 The first such branch was opened by the bank at Koramangala in Bengaluru, home to
several budding start-ups. Nandan Nilekani, former chairman of the Unique Identification
Authority of India, inaugurated the branch.
 The dedicated branch will assist entrepreneurs in setting up new companies and offer
banking services like foreign exchange, remittances and cash management.
 The Branch will also provide a range of value added services including legal and tax
formalities, registration etc. through its affiliates and partners.
 RBL Bank Limited (formerly known as The Ratnakar Bank limited) is a scheduled
commercial bank headquartered in the Kolhapur region of Maharashtra. Founded in
August 1943, RBL is one of the oldest private sector banks in India.

MoU signed between India and Mauritius to promote traditional medicine

 India and Mauritius inked a MoU to promote cooperation in traditional medicine and
homeopathy.
 The memorandum of understanding (MoU) envisages exchange of experts, supply of
traditional medicinal substances, joint research and development and recognition of the
traditional systems of health and medicine in both countries.
 The MoU was inked recently when AYUSH Minister Sripad Yesso Naik was visiting
Mauritius. The AYUSH ministry has also recently signed MoUs with China, Malaysia,
Trinidad and Tobago, Hungary, Bangladesh and Nepal.
 The Department of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy,
abbreviated as AYUSH, is a governmental body in India purposed with developing
education and research in ayurveda (Indian traditional medicine), yoga, naturopathy,
unani, siddha, and homoeopathy, and other alternative medicine systems.

India on 133rd position in 2016 World Press Freedom Index

  India was placed at the 133rd position on the 2016 World Press Freedom Index, which
assessed how much freedom the media holds in 180 countries.
 According to the 2016 World Press Freedom Index report Europe still has the freest
media, followed distantly by Africa, Americas, Asia and Eastern Europe/Central Asia.
 The country with the highest degree of press freedom is Finland, followed by the
Netherlands, Norway, Denmark and New Zealand, which are all classed as having a
"good situation" when it comes to reporting.
 The Press Freedom Index is an annual ranking of countries compiled and published by
Reporters Without Borders based upon the organization's assessment of the countries'
press freedom records in the previous year. It reflects the degree of freedom that
journalists, news organizations, and citizens enjoy in each country, and the efforts made
by the authorities to respect and ensure respect for this freedom.

IDEAS

Hologram technique to check spurious liquor in Maharashtra

 Maharashtra government has made it mandatory to have a 'track and trace' mechanism,
and hologram on liquor bottles to ensure the stuff inside is genuine.
 The Government has decided to paste "polyester base track and trace" hologram, to be
supported by a mobile app, which will help consumers find out whether the liquor is fake
or genuine.
 To root out the menace of spurious liquor, the state Excise department proposed to make
it mandatory for all liquor bottles to carry a hologram and barcode with embedded covert
and overt features. The decision was taken at a meeting of the state cabinet here, chaired
by chief minister Devendra Fadnavis.
 Retailers will have to stock special lenses so that consumers can read the covert security
features on the hologram, invisible to the naked eye, and thus verify the brew's
authenticity. Maharashtra earned excise duty worth about Rs 18,000 crore, inclusive of
VAT, from liquor sales last fiscal. There are 159 liquor manufacturers in the State.