• Germany has become the 1st NATO member to launch a "self-contained" cyber command unit designed to shield IT and weapons systems from growing attacks.
• The Union Tourism Ministry today sanctioned nearly ₹100 crore for a Heritage Circuit in Assam under the Swadesh Darshan scheme.
• Tax evasion of over ₹5 crore under the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime would be non-bailable offence with the police having authority to make an arrest without a warrant.
• PV Sindhu defeated Carolina Marin in straight sets to clinch her maiden India Open title today.
• Switzerland's Roger Federer defeated Spanish rival Rafael Nadal in straight sets to clinch his third Miami Open title .
The other winners in Miami Open 2017 are as follows-
1. Women's Singles- Johanna Konta (United Kingdom)
2. Men's Doubles- Łukasz Kubot (Poland)/ Marcelo Melo (Brazil)
3. Women's Doubles- Gabriela Dabrowski (Canada) / Xu Yifan (China)
• The 19th Commonwealth Forestry Conference (CFC), 2017 begins at Forest Research Institute (FRI) in Dehradun, Uttarakhand on April 3, 2017.
The theme of conference is ‘Forests for Prosperity and Posterity’
• Dawit Isaak, an imprisoned Eritrean-Swedish journalist has been chosen for the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize 2017 dedicated to promoting press freedom.
• Lenin Moreno to sworn in as the Ecuador President.
• Ajey Jhankar, the noted author and filmmaker passed away .
• The Government has launched PowerTex India, a comprehensive scheme for power loom sector development, simultaneously at over 45 locations in the country.
• The Aastha Tourist Special Train, which is taking travellers to pilgrimage sites in North India, departed from Puri .
• The board of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has cleared a proposal to introduce banknotes of ₹200 denomination.
• Former Indian captain MS Dhoni was appointed as the CEO of Gulf Oil India for a day today, as he wanted to understand how a corporate CEO works.
• In a bid to promote electric mobility and manufacturing of electric/hybrid vehicles and their components, Central Government constituted National Board for Electric Mobility (NBEM) on 3rd April 2017.
Chairperson: Secretary of Department of Heavy Industry.
• India has been ranked 3rd in the doping violation report published by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) for the year 2015.
• Indian Army Chief General Bipin Rawat, conferred with Honorary General of the Nepalese Army title by the President of Nepal .
• The Former MD and CEO of Indian Bank, Mahesh Kumar Jain took charge as the MD and CEO of Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI) Bank.
• DGP Geetha Johri – Gujarat’s first woman police chief.
• Classical singer Kishori Amonkar passed away.
• International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action – April 4, 2017
The theme of this year was “Needs driven. People Centered”.
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