THE HINDU REVIEW|CURRENT AFFAIRS| APRIL 2019 The Most Important Current Affairs April 2019 2019 Pulitzer Prize Announced: Complete List Event Winner Runner Up of Winners Roger Men‟s John Isner (United The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in Federer Singles States) newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature, (Switzerland) and musical composition in the United States. Here is Ashleigh the complete list: Women‟s Karolina Pliskova Barty Singles (Czech Republic) Category Winner (Australia) JOURNALISM Wesley Koolhof Bob Bryan Staff of the South Florida Sun Men‟s (Netherlands) and Public service and Mike Sentinel Doubles Stefanos Tsitsipas Bryan (USA) Carlos Lozada of The Washington (Greece) Criticism Post Elise Mertens (Belgium) and Samantha Stosur Brent Staples of the New York Women‟s Editorial writing Aryna (Australia) and Zhang Times Doubles Sabalenka Shuai (China) BOOKS, DRAMA, AND MUSIC (Belarus) Fiction “The Overstory” by Richard Powers Drama “Fairview” by Jackie Sibblies Drury “Frederick Douglass” by David W. History Blight Biography or “The New Negro” by Jeffrey C. autobiography Stewart Poetry “Be With” by Forrest Gander General “Amity and Prosperity” by Eliza nonfiction Griswold Music “p r i s m” by Ellen Reid Special Citation Aretha Franklin PFA Awards 2018/19 Announced: Complete List of Winners Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk and Arsenal Women Football Club‟s Vivianne Miedema were named Professional Footballers‟ Association (PFA) Players‟ India Open 2019 Concludes: Complete List of Player of the Year for the 2018-19 season. The Awards Winners geven were: The 2019 India Open was a badminton tournament PFA Player‟s Player of the Year: which took place at K. D. Jadhav Indoor Hall in New Virgil van Dyjk, Liverpool. Delhi, India. Here is the complete list of Winners of India Vivianne Miedema, Arsenal Open 2019: PFA Young Player of the Year: Event Winner Runner Up Raheem Sterling, Manchester City Men‟s Viktor Srikanth Kidambi Georgia Stanway, Manchester City Singles Axelsen(Denmark) (India) PFA Special Achievement Award: Women‟s Ratchanok Steph Houhgton: Former England and WBA. He Bingjiao (China) Singles Intanon(Thailand) Lee Yang and Wang Ricky Karanda Men‟s Miami Open 2019 Concludes: Complete List of Chi-lin (Chinese Suwardi and Angga Doubles Winners Taipei) Pratama (Indonesia) The Miami Open is an annual tennis tournament for Greysia Polii Chow Mei Kuan Women‟s men and women now held at the Hard Rock Stadium in and Apriyani and Lee Meng Yean Doubles Miami Gardens, Florida. Here is the complete list: Rahayu (Indonesia) (Malaysia) 1 www.bankersadda.com | www.sscadda.com | www.careerpower.in | Adda247 App | teachersadda.co.in REPORT THE ERROR IN CAPSULE at [email protected] THE HINDU REVIEW|CURRENT AFFAIRS| APRIL 2019 Praveen Jordan 23rd Asian Athletics Championships Concludes: Wang Yilü and Mixed and Melati Daeva Bahrain Tops, India Finishes 4th Huang Dongping Doubles Oktavianti The 2019 Asian Athletics Championships was (China) (Indonesia) the 23rd edition of the Asian Athletics Championships. The 4-day event was held from at the Khalifa Malaysia Open 2019 Concludes: Complete List of International Stadium in Doha, Qatar. PU Chitra won Winners gold in Women‟s 1,500 metres race. Here is the list of The 2019 Malaysia Open is a badminton tournament top 4 countries in the Championship: which takes place at Axiata Arena in Malaysia. Here is Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total the complete list: 1. Bahrain 11 7 4 22 Event Winner Runner Up 2. China 9 13 7 29 Chen Long Men‟s Singles Lin Dan (China) 3. Japan 5 4 9 18 (China) 4. India 3 7 7 17 Akane Women‟s Tai Tzu-ying Yamaguchi Singles (Chinese Taipei) (Japan) Takeshi Li Junhui and Liu Kamura and Men‟s Doubles Yuchen (China) Keigo Sonoda (Japan) Chen Qingchen Women‟s Du Yue and Li and Jia Yifan Doubles Yinhui (China) (China) Wang Yilü and Zheng Siwei and Huang Mixed Doubles Huang Yaqiong Dongping (China) (China) Singapore Open 2019 Concludes: Complete List of Winners The 2019 Singapore Open was a badminton tournament 2019 Badminton Asia Championships Concludes: which took place at Singapore Indoor Stadium in Complete List of Winners Singapore. Here is the complete list of Winners: The 2019 Badminton Asia Championships is a Event Winner Runner Up badminton tournament which took place at Wuhan Men‟s Kento Momota Anthony Sinisuka Sports Center Gymnasium in China. Here is the Singles (Japan) Ginting (Indonesia) complete list of winners: Women‟s Tai Tzu-ying Nozomi Okuhara Singles (Chinese Taipei) (Japan) Event Winner Runner-Up Takeshi Kamura Men‟s Mohammad Ahsan Kento Momota China Shi Yuqi Men‟s and singles and Hendra Doubles Keigo Sonoda Women‟s Akane Yamaguchi Setiawan (Indonesia) China He Bingjiao (Japan) singles (Japan) Mayu Matsumoto Marcus Fernaldi Kim Hye-jeong and Hiroyuki Endo and Women‟s and Wakana Men‟s Gideon and Kevin Kong Hee-yong Yuta Watanabe Doubles Nagahara doubles Sanjaya Sukamuljo (South Korea) (Japan) (Japan) (Indonesia) Dechapol Mayu Matsumoto Puavaranukroh Tan Kian Meng Women‟s Chen Qingchen and Mixed and Wakana and Sapsiree and Lai Pei Jing doubles Jia Yifan (China) Doubles Nagahara (Japan) Taerattanachai (Malaysia) Wang Yilü and Mixed He Jiting and Du (Thailand) Huang Dongping doubles Yue (China) (China) 2 www.bankersadda.com | www.sscadda.com | www.careerpower.in | Adda247 App | teachersadda.co.in REPORT THE ERROR IN CAPSULE at [email protected] THE HINDU REVIEW|CURRENT AFFAIRS| APRIL 2019 5. In the past (1891-2017) only 14 severe tropical Asian Wrestling Championship 2019 Concludes: cyclones formed in April over the Bay of Bengal. India Finishes With 16 Medals, Iran Tops Only one storm crossed the Indian mainland. India wrapped up their campaign at the Asian 6. Cyclone Fani is the second storm forming in April Wrestling Championships on a resounding note and crossing the mainland. Last severe cyclone with 16 medals (1 Gold, 3 Silver & 4 Bronze. Only Nargis in 2008 devastated Myanmar. Bajrang Punia won the gold medal. Championship 7. Fani has affected states like Odisha, West Bengal, was held at Xi‟an, China. Here is the List of Top 3 Andhra Pradesh. Countries- Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total Economy Current Affairs The Asian Development Bank downgraded 1 Iran 11 0 6 17 economic growth forecasts for India and Southeast 2 China 5 5 6 16 Asia for 2019 as global risks from trade tensions to 3 Japan 4 7 6 17 Brexit mount. According to the ADB‟s latest Asian 8 India 1 6 9 16 Development Outlook report, gross domestic product in India will probably increase by 7.2 % in 2019, down from a December forecast of 7.6%. Astronomers Capture First-ever Image of A Black On the basis of an assessment of the current and Hole evolving macroeconomic situation, the Monetary Astronomers have taken the first-ever image of a black Policy Committee (MPC) at its meeting decided to: hole, which is located in a distant galaxy known 1. Reduce the policy repo rate under the liquidity as „Messier 87‟ (M87). The image which captured by a adjustment facility (LAF) by 25 basis points to 6.0% network of eight telescopes across the world shows an from 6.25% with immediate effect. intensely bright „ring of fire‟ surrounding a perfectly 2. Consequently, the reverse repo rate under the LAF circular dark hole. The „Event Horizon stands adjusted to 5.75%, and the marginal Telescope‟ captured the image from the galaxy that standing facility (MSF) rate and the Bank Rate to is 50 million lightyears away. 6.25%. 3. GDP growth for 2019-20 is projected at 7.2%. David Malpass Named World Bank President The RBI in consultation with the government of David Malpass appointed as the President of the India has set the limits for Ways and Means World Bank. He was US President Donald Trump‟s Advances (WMA) for the first half of the financial nominee and won unanimous approval from the year 2019-20 (April 2019 to September 2019) at Rs institution‟s executive board. He has replaced Former 75000 crore. World Bank President Jim Yong Kim who left in As per the World Bank, India‟s GDP growth is January 2019. expected to accelerate moderately to 7.5% in Fiscal Year 19-20, driven by continued investment Cyclone FANI: Odisha struck with Cyclone Storm strengthening, particularly private-improved export FANI performance and resilient consumption. Cyclone Fani intensified into a severe cyclonic storm The International Monetary Fund cut its economic and has now become an „extremely severe cyclonic growth forecasts for India by 20 basis points (bps) storm‟ according to an Indian Meteorological each from its January predictions Department (IMD)report. Here‟s all you need to know to 7.3% for FY20 and 7.5% for the next fiscal. Citing about Cyclone FANI: persistent risks from the trade war, it lowered 2019 1. Hurricanes, Typhoons and Cyclones are just global growth forecast by 20 basis points different names for the same kind of tropical storm to 3.3%, the weakest since 2009 when the subprime that have a low-pressure centre with high wind crisis had flared up. speeds and heads towards land. The nomenclature ADB committed to provide USD 3 billion in depends on which part of the world the storm sovereign loans to India in 2018, the highest occurs. level of assistance since sovereign operations began 2. Cyclone FANI is named by Bangladesh. It is in the country in 1986, stated the annual report of pronounced “Foni” and loosely translates to “the the multilateral lending agency. hood of a snake”. The government has hiked the customs duty on 3. Fani is currently an extremely severe cyclonic wheat to 40% from 30% to curb imports and protect storm with wind speeds exceeding 170-180kmph.