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  • The Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment (GRIHA) Council has launched a rating tool ‘GRIHA for Existing Day Schools’ to evaluate the environmental performance of existing schools across India.
    • It aims to educate students and teachers about the environmental impact of their schools on environment.
  • North Korea fired several short-range projectiles into Sea of Japan under the command of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
  • Researchers at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai have identified a new function for the stress buster Serotonin (Chemical name: 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT).
    • It may help to treat neurological decline.
  • For the first time, one of the rarest oil paintings of Rabindranath Tagore “Three Witches from Macbeth” will be put on display at the Abanindranath Tagore gallery in Rabindra Barati University campus, Calcutta.
    • The visible storage gallery will be inaugurated on the occasion of Tagore’s 158th birth anniversary celebrations.
  • On April 17, Indonesia held its presidential and legislative elections, with around 192.8 million people eligible to vote in more than 800,000 polling stations.
    • According to figures from the Indonesian National Election Commission (KPU) more than 311 election officials have died and another 2,232 people have fallen sick after helping to administer the election.
  • Panamanians have elected Democratic Revolutionary Change party candidate ‘Laurentino Cortizo’ as their President in the recently concluded elections.
  • Two Myanmarese Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo who were  jailed for more than 500 days for their reporting on the Rohingya crisis have been freed.

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