1. First direct London-China train completes 12,000 km run.
2. Two Indian-Americans Ritu Raju & Sundeep R Muppidi selected for American Council on Education (ACE) fellowship.
3. Indian Sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik wins gold medal in Moscow competition.
4. Jehan Daruvala becomes 1st Indian to take pole in FIA F3 European Championship.
5. India's 1st book village to come up in Maharashtra.
6. 101-year-old Mann Kaur becomes world’s oldest person to complete Auckland Sky Walk.
7. Day of Remembrance for all Victims of Chemical Warfare (29 April) 2017 observed.
8. Janalakshmi Financial Services gets final small finance bank licence from RBI.
9. The North East Small Finance Bank (NESFB), which is the first small bank of North East India, is ready to start operations from the first week of June 2017.
