Daily Current Affairs Quiz 4 April 2019

Indian Army's Combat Engineers of 'Sahas aur Yogyata' Regiment of 'Fire and Fury Corps' have built the longest cable suspension bridge named 'Maitri’ over Indus river in Leh in a record 40 days.

Sridhar Muthukrishnan, a 2nd-year student of BSc Visual Communications entered the Guinness Book of World Records in light painting photography with 1,350 light orbs. His work was submitted to the Guinness Book officials on February 13, 2018, and the certificate was issued in March 2019.

On 8 December 2005, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) declared that 4 April of each year shall be observed as the International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action.

Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has stepped down after 20 years in office, after mass protests demanding an end to his rule, and after a call from the army for him to be declared unfit to hold office.

Viharidas Gopaldas Patel, noted economist and ‘Father of Entrepreneurship Movement’ in India, passed away on 4 April after a brief illness. 6/19 In 2017, the Government of India had decorated him with a Padma Shri for his contribution to the entrepreneurship movement. He had set up the Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDII) in Ahmedabad in 1983.

Brunei introduced harsh new sharia laws, including death by stoning for adultery and gay sex.

SC hear pleas challenging issuance of electoral bonds on April 5.

Cholera vaccinations launched in post-cyclone Mozambique.

Lori Lightfoot is elected as the Chicago’s first openly gay Mayor as well as the first African-American woman.

April 1 to 7 is observed as Prevention of Blindness Week every year in India. Initiated in 1960, Prevention of Blindness Week was launched by Jawaharlal Nehru and Raj Kumari Amrit Kaur, under Societies Registration Act of 1860.