UPDATED CURRENT AFFAIRS APRIL/5 & 6/2015

UPDATED CURRENT AFFAIRS APRIL/5 & 6/2015

• Miami open 2015 Winners
  Serena Williams beats Carla Suarez Navarro to win Women's Singles:-
  World number one Serena Williams won her eights Women's Singles after she defeated Carla Suarez Navarro by 6-2 6-0 .
  Novak Djokovic beats Andy Murray to win men's single title:-
  world No. 1 Serbian professional tennis player Djokovic earned Miami Men's Single Title by defeating Andy Murray by 7-6 (7-3) 4-6 6-0 in hot and humid conditions to win his fifth Miami men's single
  Martina Hignis and Sania Mirza win Miami Open women’s doubles championship:-
  Martina Hingis and Sania Mirza won Miami Open women’s doubles championship by defeating Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina of Russia by 7-5, 6-1 Hingis won singles titles at Miami in 1997 and 2000. Sunday’s victory gave her a career 43 doubles titles to match her 43 singles titles.It was the second tournament victory in a row for Hingis and Mirza, who also won last month at Indian Wells, California,
  Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan won their fourth Miami open men's double championship :-
  Veterans Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan captured their fourth title in Miami after beating their rivals Jack Sock and Vasek Pospisil by 6-3, 1-6, 10-8
• Malli Mastan Babu one of India's top mountaineers, found dead
  
  
  Mali Mastan Babu who went missing since March 24 while he was on climb in the Andes Mountain along the Argentina-Chile border from the base camp of Cerro Tres Cruces, has been found dead.
  Facts About  Mali Mastan Babu :-
  • Mr Babu hailed from Gandhi JanaSangam village of Sangam mandal in Nellore district, Andhra Pradesh and is an alumnus of IIM-Calcutta, IIT-Kharagpur, NIT Jamshedpur and Sainik School, Korukonda.
  • The 40-year-old from Andhra Pradesh had become the world’s "fastest seven summiteer" in 2006 by climbing all the seven highest peaks in seven continents, in a span 172 days
  • He was also the first Indian to summit Mt Vinson Massif, the tallest peak in Antarctica, and the first person from Andhra Pradesh to scale the Mt Everest.
  "Snapdeal acquires RupeePower" as part of its plans to create a financial services marketplace
• Jasper Infotech, which owns and operates online marketplace Snapdeal.com acquires RupeePower.com as part of its plans to create a financial services marketplace and using this new platform it plans to provide $1 billion in loans over the next two years Kunal Bahl is the cofounder and chief executive of Snapdeal
  Facts about Rupee.com:-
  •  RupeePower.com is an Gurgaon-based  company which provides online loans distribution platformcredit cards and other personal finance products.
  • RupeePower.com has partnered with the State Bank of India, ICICI Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank and NBFCs such as Bajaj Fin-Serve and Aditya Birla Financial Services andclaims to have enabled Rs 1,500 crore of loan distribution through its platform.
• PM Narendra Modi launches nation's first Air Quality Index
  
  
  Prime Minister Narendra Modi took a crucial step for the nation wide enviornmental concerns and launched nation's first air quality index in the ten cities across the country and it is to start with Delhi and Mumbai.The air quality index launched today will provide information on the quality of air in 10 major cities in the country to begin with, Delhi and Mumbai. Delhi's air pollution has crossed Beijing, making the capital the most polluted city in the world
  what is Air Quality Index?
  The Air Quality Index (AQI) is a global standard used to understand air quality. It takes various parameters available in our national air quality standard and presents it as a cumulative on a 6 colour coded scale. Dark green denotes the cleanest and maroon denotes the most polluted