Current Affairs 15th April

1) Online trading platform for farm goods launched
-› PM Narendra Modi launched e-NAM (Electronic National Agriculture Market) portal for trading in agriculture produce and it will help in farming revolution.
-› This Online portal will initially enabled farmers in Eight States.

Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh,  Jharkhand, Himachal Pradesh, Gujrat, Telangana, Rajasthan and Haryana.


2) Delhi bans chewable tobacco for a year

3) Susmita Pande appointed chairperson of National Monument Authority

4) Paytm's Vijay Shekhar Sharma to head IAMAI's Payments Banks Group
-› Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma will chair the newly formed Payments Banks Group at industry body Internet and Mobile Association of India​ (IAMAI).

5) Mary Kom named AIBA ambassador for Women’s World Championship
-› Indian woman boxer M C Mary Kom added another honour to her list of accolades as she was named one of the eight ambassadors for the upcoming World Championships by the International Boxing Association (AIBA). An elated Mary Kom (51kg), who has five World Championship gold medals to her credit.

6) Flipkart Chief Product Officer Punit Soni Quits

7) Barack Obama appoints MasterCard CEO Banga to key administration post

-› The White House released a list of names President Barack Obama will appoint to his new Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity.

8) Odd-even part 2 begins with public appeals, 'zero' peak time traffic. 

9) Odisha CM inaugurates cheap meal centres

-› Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik inaugurated opening of 100 more Aahar centres across the State as part of Government’s cheap meal programme for the poor.

10) IGNCA board reconstituted, Ram Bahadur Rai appointed as chairman
After Nehru Memorial Society, the Modi government reconstituted the management of Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) bringing in veteran Hindi journalist Ram Bahadur Rai as its head in place of Chinmaya Gharekhan, a former diplomat.

11) Narendra Modi launches village self-governance campaign
-› Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Gramodaya se Bharatodaya Abhiyan (village self-governance) campaign on the occasion of the 125th birth anniversary of Dr BR Ambedkar. The main aim of the Campaigned is to spread awareness about the various schemes that the Centre has launched keeping rural India in mind.