current affairs 30 April 2015

Georgia won Women’s World Team Chess Championship

Novelist Siddhartha Gigoo has won 2015 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Asia region.

Mukesh Khanna is appointed as Chairperson of Children's Film Society of India.

India and Japan has signed Action Agenda for Investment and Trade Promotion.

Points in the action agenda are :

• Selected townships in country will be developed as Japanese industrial townships.
• Encouragement of investment and infrastructure development.
• Additional development and cooperation in IT.
• Strengthening cooperation in strategic sectors.
• Asia-Pacific economic integration.

161st Member of WTO is - Seychelles

International Day of Yoga launched its Logo

About International Day of Yoga logo

• It indicates peace and harmony for the humanity.
• The folding of hands in the logo indicates the union of individual consciousness with universal consciousness.
• It also indicates a perfect consonance between body and mind, nature and man and the holistic approach to health and well-being.
• The green leaves represents the nature, blue represents the fire element and the brown leaves represents the earth element.
• The sun in the logo represents the source of energy and inspiration.