Current Affairs 14-15th Apr, 2015

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1. Green Bonds are Fixed-income financial instruments linked to climate change solutions. Union Government plans to push for it to meet its target to install 100 gigawatts (GW) of solar power and 60000MW of wind power by 2022.

2. Professors Susanta Lahiri and Kattesh V. Katti received Hevesy Medal Award 2015 for their outstanding contributions in the fields of radio and nuclear chemistry.

3. European Union formally accused Google of abusing its dominance in web searches to the detriment of competitors to favour its own products and services, particularly websites for shopping.

4. Nokia may buy Alcatel-Lucent in an all-share deal valuedat euro 15.6 billion ($16.6 billion), building up its telecom equipment business to compete with market leader Ericsson.

5. World powers imposed an arms embargo on Yemeni rebels and demanded they relinquish territory seized in a sweeping offensive that forced U.N.-backed President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi to flee overseas.

Current Affairs 14th Apr, 2015

1. International Monetary Fund (IMF) projected the Indian economy to grow 7.5 per cent in 2015-16, more than China due to a rise in disposable income and a pick-up in investment as a result of recent policy reforms.

2. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal have been voted among the 100 most influential people in the world in an online poll by readers of Time magazine. Russian President Vladimir Putin emerged the winner of this year's Time 100 readers' poll.

3. Justice Meenakshi Madan Rai was sworn in as the first lady judge of the Sikkim High Court. Her oath of the office was administered by the Governor Srinivas Patil at Ashirwad Hall at Raj Bhavan in Gangtok.

4. Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi visited Germany between 12 April and 14 April 2015 as part of his three-nation tour to France, Germany and Canada. Both leaders agreed for early conclusion of an ambitious European Union (EU)-India Free Trade Agreement.

5. Justice AR Dave of the Supreme Court of India (SC) recused himself from five-judge Constitutional bench that was to hear a batch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) Act, 2014.