CURRENT AFFAIRS PACKAGE-4

• Aruna Bahuguna, Senior IPS Officer (1979-batch Andhra Pradesh cadre officer) appointed Special Director General of CRPF, India’s largest paramilitary force.She became the first women officer to be appointed to the top position.
• India’s first and ONLY Women Chief Election Commissioner Ms. V.S. Ramadevi passed away
• World Heritage Day: April 18
• North Eastern Electric Power Corporation (Neepco) granted ‘Miniratna – Category I’ status
• Uhuru Kenyatta sworn in as Kenya’s new President
• he International Council of Pacific Area Travel Writers Association (PATWA) has awarded Gujarat as the “Best Destination for Cultural Festivals” at a recently held annual ITB Convention in Berlin.
• NTPC (National Thermal Power Corporation Ltd.), India’s largest power utility has been awarded the status of “The Most Efficient Maharatna”– in Manufacturing for the year 2012 at the 4th Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) Awards 2012 by the Dalal Street Investment Journal (DSIJ).
• The International Monetary Fund (IMF) recognized Somalia’s new government after a 22 year break in relations with the once disorderly nation.