Current affair 11 April 2017

#current_affairs_11_04_2017
1. OIC steering committee meeting on Labour started today in Jakarta
2. India will go out of its way to save Jadhav from death row: Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj
3. Malala will address Canadian Parliament tomorrow.  In 2014, at the age of 17 she was awarded Nobel peace prize, becoming youngest Nobel Laureate in the history of Nobel award.
4. Colson Whitehead’s celebrated novel The Underground Railroad has won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
The Pulitzer Prize was established in 1917 by provisions in will of American-Hungarian newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer. The award is administered by Columbia University in New York City.
5. The first rail freight service from United Kingdom to China departed from Essex under vision of China. “One belt, one road” crossing from 7 countries
6. US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrived in Moscow on Tuesday to confront the Russian leadership over its support for President Bashar al-Assad´s Syrian regime.
7. USA . Canada and Mexico submitted joint bid to conduct Fifa World cup 2026. Football world cup will be hosted by Russia in 2018, Qatar in 2022
8. Pentagon Chief Jim Mattis claimed that they have destroyed 20 % air force of Syria.
9. Pak censor board banned Indian movie “naam Shabana”
10. Road named after Allama Iqbal in Kuwait. Street no. 21 is located Fahaheel Area
11. Turks will go to the polls on April 16 to vote on 18th constitutional amendment giving extra-ordinary powers to President Tayyip Erdogan And it is the most significant step since 1923
12. Phailay centre (world’s largest shopping centre ) inaugurated today in China
13. Brock Lesnar tops list of highest paid wrestlers in 2016