Current Affairs April 18

18 April – Current Affairs

1. Ferrari’s Formula One racer Sebastian Vettel(Germany) defeated Lewis Hamilton(England) to win the Bahrain Grand Prix 2017.

2. According to the Japanese financial services major Nomura, India’s current account deficit (CAD) is expected to widen to 1.6 per cent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) this year from 0.5 per cent in 2016.
3. Emma Morano(Italy), the world’s oldest woman passed away. She was 117.

– Now world’s oldest person is := Violet Brown (Jamaica), 117 yeras

4. Indian badminton player B. Sai Praneeth defeated compatriot Kidambi Srikanth and won his first title of Singapore Open Super series Badminton Tournament.
5. The Finance Ministry(Arun Jaitley) have permitted the Labour Ministry(Bandaru Dattatreya) to go ahead with 8.65 per cent rate of interest on employees’ provident fund for 2016-17, which will benefit over four crore EPFO members.
   -EPFO:- Employees Provident Fund Organization

– Commissioner :- V.P.Roy

– HQ:- New Delhi

6. Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has won Time magazine’s readers’ poll of the 100 most influential people in the world.
   – Times Managing Editor :- nancy Gibbs

– Country :- USA

– India,s PM :- Narendera Modi gets 0% votes

7. China overtook US to become world’s top crude oil importer.
   – 2^nd :- USA

– 3^rd :- India

8. Indian Railways will supply modern locomotives and train sets worth Rs 680 crore to Sri Lanka, in the largest export order for the public transporter.

   9. Former Andhra Pradesh minister and Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leader Devineni Nehru died. He was 65.