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• Krishi Karman Award 2015-2016
• Tamil Nadu has bagged the Krishi Karman Award for the year 2015-2016.
• TN produced 130 lakh tonnes of food grains in the year 2015-2016.
• INS Chennai
• It is a Guided Missile destroyer ship dedicated to chennai on April 17, 2017 in a event held at Chennai.
• Turkey Referendum 2017
• Turkish President Recep Erdogan won the Referendum to make some key changes in the constitution.
• The new constitution to have the following features
• The post of Prime minister to be scrapped.
• Next President election to be held on Nov 3, 2019.
• The President will have the power to intervene in Judiciary.
• Term of President - 5 years.
• Maximum no of term for President - 2 times.
• US Vice President: Mike Pence
• JK Tyre Arunachal Festival of Speed.
• Amanpreet Ahluwalia has won the title.
• K M Bopaiah got the second place. 
• Tianzhou- 1
• It is china's first cargo spacecraft scheduled to be launched in April 2017.
• Killed Zika Virus vaccine
• It was developed by Bharat Biotech in Hyderabad.
• This vaccine showed 100% efficacy in animal trails.
• North Korea's Founding President
• Kim Il Sung was the founding president of North Korea.
• Recently the 105th birth anniversary was celebrated.
• Miss Congo UK Beauty Pageant 
• Horcelie Sinda Wa Mbongo - a HIV Positive, won the Miss Congo UK Beauty Pageant title for the year 2017.