- The new name of Ballabhgarh in Faridabad, Haryana as announced by the Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar
- The city from which the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has launched Regional Connectivity Scheme named UDAN. (flights have also started from Nanded and Kadapa Airports.)
- The Bengali poet and literary critic who has been awarded the 52nd Jnanpith Award by the President Shri Pranab Mukherjee
- The slogan of the World Masters Games held in Auckland from April 21 to April 30, 2017
- The noted playback singer who has been awarded the Ghantasala National Award instituted by the Ghantasala National Art Academy
- The Bollywood actor who has been awarded the 75th Dinanath Mangeshkar Award for his film Dangal
- The social activist from Odisha who has been chosen for the Goldman Environmental Prize 2017 along with 5 other recipients (He led a historic 12-year legal battle for the indigenous Dongria Kondh land rights and protected the Niyamgiri Hills from a massive, open-pit aluminum ore mine)
- The renowned director and film actor who has been chosen to be awarded the Dada Saheb Phalke Award for the year 2016
- The 101-year old woman from Chandigarh who has won the 100 metres at the World Masters Games 2017 being held in Auckland, New Zealand
- The joint naval exercise being carried out by the Indian and French navies in the Mediterranean Sea from 24 to 30 April 2017
- The place in Madhya Pradesh where a massive explosion in a kerosene fair price shop killed 13 people and injured several others
- The Mayor of Italian island Lampedusa who has been awarded the Félix Houphouët Boigny Peace Prize (UNESCO Peace Prize) jointly with non-governmental organization SOS Méditerranée (France) for their work to save the lives of refugees and migrants and welcome them with dignity
- The Tamil author whose book Mathorubhagan (One Part Woman) translated by Aniruddhan Vasudevan has been awarded Sahitya Akademi award for translation in English
- The theme of Civil Service Day, 2017 held on 21 April 2017
- The Bangalore based athlete who has become the first visually impaired Indian athlete to complete the Boston marathon
- The new name of domestic airport at Agra in Uttar Pradesh
- The new name of domestic airport at Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh
- The renowned historian and archaeologist who has been conferred the Paduru Gururaja Bhat Memorial Award 2017 by the Union Minister for Statistics and Programme Implementation D.V. Sadananda Gowda
- The Indian Institute of Technology which has decided to introduce Vaastu Shastra to its first and second-year undergraduate architecture students
- The Indian badminton player who has won the Singapore Open Super Series 2017 men singles title defeating Kidambi Srikanth in the finals
- The route on which the Railway Minister Shri Suresh Prabhu las launched Vistadome coaches with glass ceiling, rotating seats, LED lighting and a GPS-based passenger information system (built by Integral Coach Factory, Chennai)
- Italian supercentenarian and world oldest living person who passed away on 15 April at the age of 117 years 137 days
- The Indian dhow (a type of sailing vessel) which was hijacked by Somali pirates on 01 April and later released along with its crew was named
- The State which has launched Operation Durga, a compaign to protect the safety of women
- The African nation which has declared a three-month emergency after attacks on churches resulted in the death of several people
- The States which have declared imposing prohibition of liquor in a phased manner recently
- The first ever micro-drama festival held in India organised by theatre group Vriksh in New Delhi was named
- The American novelist who has been awarded Pulitzer Prize 2017 in the fiction category for his novel The Underground Railroad
- The web portal launched by Survey of India to enable free download of maps in pdf format in 1 : 50,000 scale
- The web portal and mobile app inaugurated by Shri Rajnath Singh on the occasion of Valour Day of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) with an objective to enable willing donors to contribute towards the family of a braveheart who sacrificed his/her life in line of duty is named
- The exhibition inaugurated by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi to mark 100 years of Mahatma Gandhi’s first experiment of Satyagraha in Champaran is named
- The Nobel Peace Prize winner from Pakistan who has been chosen to be the youngest UN Messenger of Peace
- The venue of 3-day National Children Film Festival being held from April 07 to April 09
- The twelfth edition of Indo-Mongolian Joint Military Exercise being conducted at Vairengte in Manipur from 05 April 2017 to 18 April 2017
- The scheme set up in 2012 by the Central Govt to address the social security-related issues of the Emigration Check Required (ECR)-category which has been closed by the Union Cabinet
- The Australian cricketer who has been named Wisdens Leading Woman Cricketer in the World for 2016
- The Indian cricketer who has been named Wisdens Leading Cricketer in the World for 2016 becoming the third Indian to be so named after Virender Sehwag and Sachin Tendulkar
- The Pakistani cricketer and captain of its test team who has announced his decision to retire from international cricket after the current tour of West Indies which concludes in May 2017
- The Russian city in which a terrorist strike at a metro station left 11 people and several others injured
- The Hindustani vocalist of Jaipur Gharana, Padma Vibhusan (2002), Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (1985), who passed away on 03 April 2017
- The Swedish-Eritrean journalist, currently in prison in Eritrea, who has been chosen for the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize 2017
- The country which has become the seventh member of South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation (SASEC) Program (Headquarters: Manila, Philippines)
- The badminton player from Denmark who has won the India Open Super Series badminton tournament 2017 men single title defeating Chou Tien-chen of Chinese Taipei in the finals
- The Indian badminton player who has won the India Open Super Series badminton tournament 2017 women singles title defeating Carolina Marin of Spain in the finals
- The country which has recognised cryptocurrency Bitcoin as legal payment method with effect from 01 April 2017
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