One Stop GK Guide - Current Affairs - Trivia - Highlights 2017- Part 1

January 2017

• Dasari to make a biopic on former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa
• First African-American to the space station in 2018 will be sent by NASA
• Name the Bollywood Veteran actor who passes away recently - Om Puri
• Ninth edition of JIFF (Jaipur International Film Fest) started from – 7th January, 2017
• 44th New Delhi World Book Fair begins
• MIT researchers develop super strong, lightweight 3D Graphene
• China became the country to set up the world’s highest altitude gravitational wave telescopes in Tibet
• New Ginger species with medicinal properties discovered in the Andamans
• The first gender literature fest of the world was held at Patna
• Norway became the first country to ban FM radio broadcasting
• The first Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union Dance festival concluded in Hyderabad
• Silicon identified as the ‘missing element’ in Earth’s core
• Name the Rishi Kapoor autobiography which is authored by Rishi Kapoor & Meena Iyer - Khullam Khulla: Rishi Kapoor Uncensored
• Professor CV Vishveshwara, who did pioneering work on black holes, passed away
• Physicists create a new form of Hydrogen
• Scientists discovered Mesentery, a new human organ in digestive system
•  Sushmita Sen to judge the 65th Miss Universe Pageant
• 7th National Voters’ Day observed with theme – Empowering Young and Future Voters
• Miss Universe 2016 title won by Miss France, Iris Mittenaere

February 2017

• Asim Basu passed away, he was an - eminent theatre personality
• The 19th Bharat Rang Mahotsav began in New Delhi
• Neeti Mohan to collaborate with the UN for a music album
• Existence of a lost continent under the Indian Ocean confirmed by scientists/researchers
• Uber CEO Travis Kalanick quit Trump's Economic Advisory Council
• Bano Qudsia passed away, he was a - renowned Urdu author
• Who discovered World's earliest emoji - Slovakian Curators
• Andhra Pradesh has started with its first National Women's Parliament
• Sir Peter Mansfield passed away, he was a - Nobel laureate
• Name of Indian Sand Artist who created Guinness World Record- Sudarsan Pattnaik
• Indian tabla player Sandeep Das won the 2017 Grammy Award for Best Music globally
• Indian Panorama Film Festival begins in Port Blair
• UAE announced its plan to build the first city on Mars by March 2117
• Raj Kumar Rao's 'Newton' wins Art Cinema honour at Berlinale

March 2017

• Assam to host river festival, Namami Brahmaputra
• World’s oldest serving aircraft carrier INS Viraat retired on 6th March 2017
• Fifth satellite of Copernicus observation program launched by the European Union
• First smart tribal village Habbi inaugurated in Jammu and Kashmir
• Bengali singer Kalika Prasad Bhattacharjee passed away on 7th March 2017
• Viola Davis awarded "artist of the year" by Harvard University
• Cultural festival 'India by the Nile' started in Egypt
•  Malayalam filmmaker Diphan passed away on 13th March 2017
• MoU signed between FTII and Canon to promote short courses in Film & Television

April 2017

• Bitcoin as currency is officially recognized by Japan
• 3-day National Children’s Film Festival inaugurated by Venkaiah Naidu
• Anuja Ravindra Dhir of Indian-origin became the first non-white judge at London Court
• Large asteroid 2014 JO25 to fly past Earth on 19th April
• India's rank in Travel and Tourism Competitive Index of World Economic Forum - 40
• Malala Yousafzai designated youngest-ever UN Messenger of Peace
• Which subject will be introduced in IIT Kharagpur - Vastu Shastra
• International Yoga Day with special commemorative stamps celebrated by the UN
• SBI becomes India's most-valued Public Sector Company
• First Made in India, industrial robot - BRABO unveiled
• El Salvador becomes the first country to ban metals mining
• 23 volumes of Basavanna's Vachana were released by PM Narendra Modi on birth anniversary of 12th-century social reformer Basavanna

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