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1.Vice President inaugurates the third International Conference on ‘Yoga for Wellness’ 

• The theme of this year’s conference is “Yoga for Wellness”
• The vice President expressed his appreciation that the conference will focus on seeking solutions to contemporary health problems caused by modern stressful lifestyle.
• Yoga is the mother of all exercises and provides physical fitness, mental alertness as well as spiritual succour.
• Yoga has nothing to do with religion as some people unfortunately attribute religious overtones to this ancient scientific system.
• The conference is being organized by the Ministry of AYUSH.

2.The President of India, presented the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award for Excellence in Public Administration, Academics and Management for the year 2017 to Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak at Rashtrapati Bhavan 

Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak is the founder of Sulabh International and has developed and implemented, on a pan India scale, a low cost and appropriate toilet technology popularly known as the Sulabh Shauchalaya system.

Further notes:

The Mayor of New York had declared April 14, 2016 as the ‘Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak International Day’ keeping in mind this contribution made by Dr. Pathak.

3.The Vice President of India, Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu has Released two books ‘Minimally Invasive GI Cancer Surgery’ and ‘Bariatric Surgical Practice Guide’

4. Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) has embarked upon several digital friendly steps for extension of the benefits of Atal pension yojana(APY) to the citizens of India.

Any person in the age group of 18 to 40 years with a savings bank account and Aadhaar can register for APY by providing the minimum information in the APY@eNPS portal

5.The Union Home Minister Shri Rajnath Singh inaugurated the four-day first BIMSTEC DMEx.

• Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation Disaster Management Exercise (BIMSTEC DMEx-2017) .
• India is organizing the first annual Disaster Management Exercise for the region.
• The Exercise is being conducted by the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) as the lead agency .

6. Indian Railways and German Railways sign Joint Declaration

• Joint declaration of intent regarding carrying out of feasibility study on existing Chennai-Kazipet corridor of Indian Railways for increasing the speed trains to 200 kmph .

7. The Prime Minister launched the DISHA Portal

• A smart governance tool developed for MPs and MLAs for monitoring of implementation of various Programmes and Schemes of different Ministries in their constituency through a single portal.

8. The prime minister launched Gram Samvaad

• A citizen centric mobile app to serve and empower the rural citizens of India, by facilitating single window access for citizens to information at Gram Panchayat level, on various Rural Development programs.

9. New Chairman for Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune.  

• Anupam Kher, veteran cine star, has been appointed as Chairman of Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune.
• Shri Kher succeeds Shri Gajendra Chauhan.         

FTII :-

FTII is an autonomous body under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting .

10. First Meeting of EAC-PM spells out the road map for acceleration of economic growth.

The EAC-PM is an independent body to give advice on economic and   related issues to the Government of India, specifically to the Prime Minister.

The composition of the EAC-PM is as follows- {NOT IMPORTANT}

1. Dr. Bibek Debroy, Member, NITI Aayog- Chairman
2. Dr. Surjit Bhalla- Part-time Member
3. Dr. Rathin Roy- Part-time Member
4. Dr. Ashima Goyal- Part-time Member
5. Shri Ratan Watal, Principal Advisor, NITI Aayog Member-Secretary.