Current Affairs and Essay/Short note topics for Competitive Exams

1. India Water Week-2016
2. President of the Maldives Abdulla Yameen arrived India for a private visit
3. Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev and with Swiss President Johann Schneider-Ammann on the sidelines of the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington.
4. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, who has endorsed Bernie Sanders' presidential bid, appears in an emotional new ad for the Vermont senator, talking about her military service and why she believes he is the best choice for the next Commander-in-Chief.
5. Babu Jagjivan Ram's 109th Birth Anniversary
6. Taiwan's China-friendly Nationalist Party has elected its first female leader after ousting her as its presidential candidate ahead of January elections that were won by pro-independence rivals.
7. Ambassador of Iraq - Mr. Fakhri Hassan Mahdi Al-Issa
8. Ambassador of Ukraine, His Excellency Mr. Igor Polikha
9. New CII President Naushad Forbes, who is the Co-Chairman of Forbes Marshall, has pegged India's GDP growth in the 8 per cent range in 2016-17.
10. International convention on Homoeopathy -World Homeopathy Day 2016 (April 9, 2016)
11. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Friday bemoaned the timing of an April 6 referendum in the Netherlands on a treaty on closer ties between the European Union and Ukraine saying it comes as Europe is debating its own future.