CURRENT AFFAIRS April 2016
- India becomes fourth largest spender on defence
- Japan to lend Rs.14,000 crore for Indian projects
- Vietnam’s parliament elects first female speaker
- 4th Nuclear Security Summit begins in Washington
- ICCR to set up first Indian Chair in Arab world at Cairo
- Union Government launches Startup India portal and mobile app
- Russia approved OVL deal to acquire 15% stake in Vankor oilfield for $1.3 billion
- UltraTech buys Jaypee cement units for Rs 15,900 cr
- Flipkart acquires mobile payments firm PhonePe
- Ficci, AIBC sign MoU to strengthen business ties
- Telangana government launches M Wallet mobile App
- Haryana fixes edu qualification for Urban Bodies’ polls
- Mumbai to get international arbitration centre by August
- Rajiv Gauba takes over as Secretary of Urban Development Ministry
- Renowned Iraqi-British Architect Zaha Hadid passes away
2ND April
- 2nd April : World Autism Awareness Day
- MoU Signed To Promote Research With IMPRINT Programme
- ISRO Sign An MoU With The Airport Authority Of India
- India expects $500M AIIB loan for solar power projects in 2016
- US, Saudi Arabia impose joint sanction on fundraising for terrorists
- Nifty Launches New Index For Mid And Small Cap Stocks
- Mehbooba Mufti to be sworn in as first woman CM of Jammu & Kashmir on April 4
- Banks adopt new rate formula
- Pranab signs ordinance on Uttarakhand expenditure
- Pakistan Sikh body elects caretaker president
- Kallol Roy Appointed As The New CMD Of Bhartiya Nabhikiya Vidyut Nigam
- Ranveer Singh to be Feted as ‘Maharashtrian of The Year’
- Those earning Rs 50 lakh a year must declare assets
- Australia pacer Clint McKay announces retirement from international cricket
3rd April
1.Haryana Assembly passes bills for mandatory educational criteria for urban local bodies elections
2.Union Government releases Indian Intellectual Property Panorama
- Union Government imposes safeguard duty on import of steel products
- Renowned journalist Babu Bharadwaj passes away
- Flipkart acquires mobile payments firm PhonePe
- Germany’s Development Bank KfW to provide loan assistance to metro system for Nagpur
- 4th Nuclear Security Summit begins in Washington
- Shiva Thapa wins Silver medal at Asian/Oceania Qualifying event in China
4th April - India Ranked 6th In Top 10 Largest Manufacturers List : UN Report
- PM Narendra Modi Conferred Saudi Arabia’s Highest Civilian Honour
- “Vidyut Pravah” App Launched By Piyush Goyal
- Green Delhi Initiative Phase 1 Has Launched By Arvind Kejriwal
- IIT Madras and IIM Bangalore top the list of best Indian universities
- World’s largest oil firm Aramco to invest in India
- Germany To Give € 500 m Loan To Nagpur Metro
- Blackstone To Acquire HP’s 60% Stake In Mphasis
- Vedanta sets Guinness World Record for mass plantation
- Renowned Actor Larry Drake Has Passed Away
- ICC T 20 Cricket World Cup 2016 Won By West Indies
- Miami Open Title 2016 Won By Novak Djokovic
5th April
- 5th April : National Maritime Day
- First Bi-monthly Monetary Policy Statement, 2016-17
- India’s Fastest Train “Gatiman Express” Flagged Off From Delhi To Agra
- India’s first Cash Giving App ‘CASHe’ Launched
- World’s 1st Sanctuary For White Tigers Opens In MP
- Aadhaar enrollments hit 100 cr.
- Internal security chief Tran Dai Quang sworn in as Vietnam’s president
- Government releases Rs. 25,834 crore to FCI as Food Subsidy
- World’s first public dengue vaccination programme launched in Philippines
- Viswanathan Anand to be feted with Hridaynath Award
- Former Italy coach Cesare Maldini passes away
- Kenya’s Kotut and Jepkesho win Paris Marathon
6TH APRIL
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched Stand Up India Scheme
- National Geoscience Awards – 2014 Presented By President
- Madhukar Gupta committee constituted to suggest ways to strengthen security along Indo-Pak border
- Odisha Government launches 100 Adarsha Vidyalayas
- Complete Ban On Alcohol In Bihar Imposed By State CM
- Government to develop 25 regional airports : Arun Jaitley
- Researchers developed world’s smallest diode
- India signs $100 million draft export pact with IDB
- BHEL commissions tiltable canal top solar plant in Andhra
- Mumbai gets its first-ever AC local train
- Memorial for Abdul Kalam to be opened at Dilli Haat
- Philippines Launches World’s First Mass Dengue Vaccination
- Manish Sharma first Indian to be Executive Officer Panasonic Corporation
- M H P Rao, The Architect Of Madras Atomic Power Station Passed Away
- Mother Dairy Partners Delhi Daredevils As Principal Sponsor
7TH APRIL
- 7th April : World Health Day
- PM chairs meeting of CSIR Society
- 3rd phase of Mission Indradhanush begins today
- ECoR becomes largest freight loading railway zone
- Irani unveils bronze bust of Aryabhatta at UNESCO HQ
- NTPC Suspends Power Generation From Farakka
- Gujrat CM Anandiben Patel launches ‘Maa Annapurna Yojna’
- Santosh Gangwar Inaugurates 3 Mega Projects in Nagaland
- Future Group Has Acquired FabFurnish
- Foundation stone for Haryana’s first Horticulture University laid in Karnal
- ASCI upholds 51 complaints against misleading ads
- CP Gurnani appointed as Nasscom chairman
- S Balaji Arunkumar new KoPT deputy chairman
- Sigurdur Ingi Johannsson named as new PM of Iceland
- India Men win Asian Nations Cup Chess tournament
8th April
- North East ASEAN Business Summit Inaugurated In Imphal
- Govt. inaugurates ‘Namma Toilet’ in Delhi under Swachh Bharat Mission
- Petroleum & Natural Gas Minister dedicates 36 new CNG stations in Delhi & NCR.
- Asia’s 50 Most Powerful Businesswoman List Topped By Nita Ambani
- HP Unveils World’s Thinnest Laptop
- CCEA Approved Andrew Yule Proposal To Convert Bank of Baroda’s Loan Into Equity
- Snapdeal launches donation program ‘Sunshine’
- Hashim Thaci Sworn In As New President Of Kosovo
- Rudy launches Transnational Skill Standards aligned to UK
- Debraj Pradhan appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Norway
- TNCA Has Appointed Mr. D. Vasu As Its New Director
- Book Launched By Arvind Kejriwal Co-Authored By Imran Hashmi
- GoJavas Appointed Amitabh Coomar As Its New CEO
- Veteran Journalist Yogendra Bali Is No More
- American country music legend Merle Haggard died
9TH APRIL
- India Tops Credit Suisse Emerging Consumers Scorecard 2016
- Centre Releases Rs.12, 230 crore To States For MGNREGA
- Union HRD Minister Smriti Zubin Irani Launches ISBN Portal
- Textiles Minister inaugurates Apparel and Garment Making Unit in Tripura
- Uma Bharti Inaugurates Water Films Festival
- Rajasthan Becomes the first state in India to clear land title Bill
- Airtel Buys Aircel’s 4G Spectrum in 8 Circles For Rs 3,500 crore
- $200-mn Pact Inked To Study TAPI Project
- Saudi Arabia And Egypt To Build Bridge Across Red Sea
- Federal Bank–Phillip Capital Tie-Up Announced At Singapore
- Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s Statue To Be Installed In France
- Tausif Monif Joined Lambda Therapeutic Research As Its New President
- Lamborghini India Appointed Mr. Sharad Agarwal As Its New Head
- Mother Teresa Conferred With Founders Award Posthumously In UK
- Kansai Nerolac Ties Up With Gujarat Lions For IPL
10th & 11th April
- Centre Recommends Rs. 1,304 Crore For Drought Relief To UP
- Centre to Issue Universal ID-Cards for Differently-Abled People
- BSNL Testing Wi-Fi Technology to Connect 1 Lakh Panchayats in a Year
- India Offers To Invest $20 Billion In Iran
- ‘Green UP – Clean UP’ programme : Five crore trees to be planted in UP
- China Successfully Launches Retrievable Satellite
- Pakistan successfully test-fires anti-ship ‘Zarb’ missile
- UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize 2016 Received By Khadija Ismayilova
- Priyadarshini Chatterjee Crowned FBB Miss India World 2016
- Sachin becomes the Brand Ambassador of Skill India
- Centre Constitutes B BTandon Committee to Monitor Government Advertisements
- Priyanka Chopra To Be Awarded With Dadasaheb Phalke Film Foundation Award 2016
- Danny Willett Won US Masters Golf 2016 Championship
- Anthony Joshua Won International Boxing Federation Title
- Lee Chong Wei Has Won Malaysian Open 2016
12th April
- President Presents Padma Awards To 56 Eminent Personalities
- PM To Inaugurate 3rd Asia Ministerial Conference On Tiger Conservation
- Panama Papers : India To Attend OECD Meet In Paris
- India, Maldives Sign Six Agreements To Boost Ties
- G7 Foreign Ministers’ Meet Held In Hiroshima
- Shan-e-Punjab Express becomes India’s first train fitted with CCTV cameras
- Tata starts U.K. steel sale
- Fairfax India To Invest $300 million in Sanmar Chemicals
- Bharti Airtel First Entity To Get Payments Bank Licence From RBI
- LAVA International Announces MS Dhoni As Its Brand Ambassador
- Ukraine Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk To Resign
- Varanasi Kathak Dancer Breaks World Record
- Virat Kohli Named As Brand Ambassador Of Premier Futsal Football League
- Indian Teams Clinch Asian Kho Kho Championship Title
- Serena Williams Maintains Top Spot: WTA Rankings
13 April
- India To Notch Up To 7.5 % Growth In 2016–17 : IMF
- India, US ‘agree in principle’ on sharing military logistics
3. India ranks 44 in 2016 Global Connectivity Index, Digital India seen as driver of growth
4. Cabinet announces Mufti Sayeed Food Entitlement Scheme to supplement NFSA
5. India and Germany signed agreement on Namami Gange Programme
6. Haryana Government Decided To Rename Gurgaon And Mewat - Campus Wallet For Students Launched By Federal Bank
- Aishwarya Rai Won Global Indian Of The Year Award
- Former Army Chief General JJ Singh Conferred Highest French Civilian Honour
- Meeran Borwankar Appointed As The New DG Of BPR&D By GOI
- Woman Biker Veenu Paliwal Died In A Road Accident
- Padma Sachdev selected for Saraswati Samman 2015
13. Chawrasia wins Hilton Asian Tour Golfer of Month14. England Cricketer James Taylor retired from International Cricket
14 April
1.Piyush Goyal Launches “Deep” E-Bidding & E-Reverse Auction Portal”
2.Govt launches carpool app
3.Nauru becomes 189th member of IMF, World Bank
4.Cabinet nod to adopt statute of SAWEN to check wildlife crimes
5.India, Germany Ink Agreement on Namami Gange Project
6.Akash Missile System successfully test fired
7.Sushila Karki: First female Chief Justice of Nepal’s Supreme Court
8.Maharashtra CM Fadnavis launched Mission Drinking Water
9.Maharashtra Legislative Assembly approved Social Boycott Bill 2016
15 APRIL
1.Odd-even part 2 begins with public appeals, ‘zero’ peak time traffic
2.Swaraj Abhiyan to start pilot run of its electoral plunge with MCD polls
- Odisha CM inaugurates cheap meal centres
4.IGNCA board reconstituted, Ram Bahadur Rai appointed as chairman
5.Narendra Modi launches village self-governance campaign.
6.India was world’s largest remittance recipient in 2015
7.World Bank and AIIB Sign First Co-Financing Framework Agreement.
8.Barack Obama appoints MasterCard CEO Banga to key administration post
9.Flipkart Chief Product Officer Punit Soni Quits
10.Mary Kom named AIBA ambassador for Women’s World Championship.
11.Paytm’s Vijay Shekhar Sharma to head IAMAI’s Payments Banks Group
12-Susmita Pande appointed as chairperson of National Monument Authority
13.Delhi bans chewable tobacco for a year
14.Water levels in 91 major reservoirs alarmingly low
15.Online trading platform for farm goods launched
16 APRIL
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi Inaugurated Maritime India Summit 2016
- India, US To Collaborate On Tackling Offshore Tax Evasion
- BRICS Bank Disburses $250 Million Loan For Renewable Energy Project To Canara Bank
- Canada Ranks Near Bottom On UNICEF’s ‘fairness’ Report Card
- Jharkhand Government launched Bhimrao Ambedkar Awas Yojana For Widows
- Delhi Government Bans Sale Of All Forms Of Chewable Tobacco For 1 Year
- 69th Himachal Day Being Celebrated In The State
- Supercomputer Param Kanchenjunga Unveiled At NIT Sikkim
- Ukrainian Parliament Appoints Groysman As New Prime Minister
- Panagarh Airbase Renamed After Former IAF Chief Arjan Singh
- PP Pandey Appointed As In-Charge Of Gujarat DGP
- Former Malian Photographer Malick Sidibe Passed Away
17 APRIL
1.Delhi ranked 44th among world’s 50 Future-ready Cities
2.Indian Army conducts Shatrujeet battle exercise in Rajasthan
3.Delhi Government launches Phase 2 of odd-even scheme.
4.G20 Countries seek to crackdown on tax havens, terror financing
5.Google extends free internet service through WiFi to 10 railway stations
6.Hero group co-founder Satyanand Munjal passes away
7.Mary Kom named as AIBA ambassador for Women’s World Boxing Championship
18 APRIL:
- World Heritage Day :18th April, 2016
- World’s Largest ‘Charkha’ To Be On Display At IGI Airport
- New Centre for Ganga River Basin Management and Studies
- US Jury Slaps $940 Million Fine on Tata in Trade Secret Case, TCS Denies Wrong doing
- Banks To Share All Transaction Details In Standard Format
- FSS to provide UPI solution for 6 banks
- Forbes Releases First Ever ‘Global Game Changers’ List, Three Indians Make the Cut
- T N Ninan gets Mumbai Press Club’s lifetime achievement award
- Konkani museum to be set up in Mangaluru
- Sri Lanka’s Rangana Herath retires from ODIs, T20Is
- Nico Rosberg wins Chinese GP for sixth straight Formula 1 victory
- Australia Won 2016 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup By Defeating India
19 APRIL :
- Maneka launches Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao scheme in 61 more districts
2. India’s Ad Growth Rate To Be The Fastest In 2016 : Report - Inflation negative for 17th month; at —0.85% in March
- PM Modi inaugurates superspeciality hospital in Katra
- Maneka Gandhi to inaugurate conference of north-east states on child adoption
- India, Afghanistan And Iran Finalize Draft Of Chabahar Trilateral Agreement
- India Sign MoU With Mauritius For Cooperation In Traditional Medicine And Homoeopathy
- India To Purchase 145 M777 Howitzers For US$ 750 Million
- Petroleum Minister Visit To Bangladesh
- Culture & Tourism Minister releases commemorative and circulation coin on Tatya Tope
- FICCI Ladies Org Plans To Set Up Centres In Gujarat
- PM’s awards for excellence in Public Administration On Civil Services Day function
- President of India presents Hindi Sevi Samman Awards
- 14th meeting of Foreign Ministers of Russia, India and China held in Moscow
- Novak And Serena Bag Top Honours At Laureus World Sports Awards
20 APRIL:
- 2016 Pulitzer Prizes Announced
- India ranked at 133 on World Press Freedom Index
- MoU between India and Bhutan on Technical Cooperation
- Cabinet Approves Signing The Paris Agreement
- Compat sets aside Rs 258-crore fine on Jet Airways, IndiGo, SpiceJet
- Lanka to sign MoU with Japan, India for collaboration in science, technology
- RBL becomes first private sector bank to open dedicated branch for startups
- Panasonic, US-based AES to install energy storage project in Haryana
- Affordable plotted housing policy notified in Haryana
- BCCI appoints Rahul Johri as its CEO
- Barack Obama nominates Indian-American Geeta Pasi as US envoy to ChadUS President
- William Bill Campbell, Silicon Valley Coach And Mentor Has Passed Away.
- Renowned Hollywood Actress Doris Roberts Has Passed Away
21 APRIL:
- President Mukherjee inaugurates second edition of `Global Exhibition on Services’ in Greater Noida
- Prime Minister confers awards for excellence in implementation of priority programmes
- First Meeting of All India Handloom Board held
- The Three day Curtain Raiser International Yoga Fest inaugurated by Shri Shripad Yesso Naik
- HC revoked President’s Rule in Uttarakhand
- IMF, WB, UN And OECD Form New Group To Stop Tax Erosion
- Accenture launches cyber centre in Bengaluru
- ICC and Emirates Airline renewed deal for additional seven years
- JK Tyres Acquired Cavendish Industries For Rs 2200 Crore
- Communist Laos appoints new President, Prime Minister
- Zee Media Corp Group CEO Bhaskar Das quits
- Centre appoints Rubber Board chief
- Indian diplomat Amitav Banerji honoured by Cyprus
- Goa Appoints Justice P.K. Mishra As Lokayukta
- Comedian Victoria Wood Has Passed Away
22 APRIL:
- 22nd April : Earth Day
- Government’s Twitter Seva To Address Grievances Of Startups
- President Mukherjee To Attend Khongjom Day In Manipur
- Department Of Disinvestment Is Now ‘Dipam’
- Dr. Harsh Vardhan Celebrates Earth Day By Inaugurating India’s 1st Cellulosic Alcohol Technology Demonstration Plant In Uttarakhand
- Six Indians In TIME’s 100 Most Influential People
- Goa To Host International Seminar On Wheat Products
- Vistara And TCS Enter Into Strategic Partnership”.
- TCS In Time’s Top 50 Employers For Women In UK
- India Replaces China As Top FDI Destination In 2015: FDI Intelligence Report
- Mahatma Gandhi’s Granddaughter Tara Gandhi Gets Top French Honour
- Harriet Tubman To Be First African-American On US Currency
- Renowned Music Legend Prince Has Passed Away
23 APRIL:
1.Bhupendra Kainthola is new FTII director
2.India signs climate pact along with over 170 states at UN
3.Uber partners with FICCI, Gujarat Tourism for soft skill training
4.PM To Launch Rs. 8,000 crore Scheme For Free LPG Connections To Poor
5.World Book and Copyright Day:23rd April
6.Jitu Rai finishes sixth at Shooting World Cup
7.Hong Kong’s Irfan Ahmed suspended for two years and six months
8.BCCI To Host First Day-Night Test Against New Zealand This Year
24 APRIL:
1.President nominates 6 eminent members to Rajya Sabha
- India, France launch $1 Trillion Potential Solar Programme under ISA
- India’s first online interactive heritage portal Sahapedia launched
4.Union Government notifies new rules to revamp SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act .
5.Salman Khan named as Indian contingent’s Goodwill Ambassador for 2016 Rio Olympics
25APRIL:
1. India’s first online interactive heritage portal Sahapedia launched
- 25th April : World Malaria Day.
3. Centre to provide plastic park to Andhra Pradesh - Nabard lends Rs 1,000 crore to HSWC for wheat procurement
5. Govt Notifies New Rules To Improve SC/ST Act on Ambedkar Jayanti - Tata Trusts signs pact with Odisha for Malaria elimination
- Cadbury inaugurates largest Asia-Pacific facility in India
- India banned milk, mobile phones import from China
- International Solar Alliance Cell and UNDP declared Cooperation for Promoting Solar Energy
- Uber partners with Election Commission in Tamilnadu
- China, Pakistan ink agreement to launch satellite to monitor CPEC projects
- Former Finance Minister Clement Mouamba appointed as Prime Minister of Congo
- Manoj Bajpayee To Receive Dadasaheb Phalke Award For ‘Aligarh’
- Rafael Nadal wins Barcelona Open to equal clay-court record
- India to host 2018 Commonwealth Judo Championships
26 APRIL:
1. Govt hikes minimum wage for contract workers to Rs 10,000
- World Intellectual Property Day 2016 observed globally
- Over two lakh new Central government jobs by 2017
- Heart of Asia conference begins today in New Delhi
- Govt to provide Rs 1 lakh per month to Rio-bound athletes
- Union Government constitutes Ashok Dalwai committee for doubling farmers’ income by 2022
- Indo-Mongolia Joint Military Exercise, Nomadic Elephant – 2016, commenced
- INS Karmuk Corvette participated in Indo-Thai Coordinated Patrol (CORPAT)
- India lays foundation for final phase of Housing Project in Central and Uva Provinces of Sri Lanka
- Videocon d2h Ties-up With Vodafone m-pesa
- Hero to invest Rs 3k cr in new Andhra unit
- Top gay rights activist Xulhaz Mannan murdered in Bangladesh
- JKLF founder Amanullah Khan dead at 82
- Mohun Bagan’s Jeje Lalpekhlua named FPAI Player of the Year
- Rower Dattu Bhokanal qualifies for Rio Olympics
27 APRIL:
1. President embarks on two-nation tour to Papua New Guinea and New Zealand
- Union Railway Ministry to set up Rs 1 lakh crore Rashtriya Rail Sanraksha Kosh
- Government approved the policy for sharing competitive exam scores with private sector
- All new mobiles to have panic button from 2017
- Government to sell its 11.36% stake in NHPC
- Operation Sulaimani to eradicate Poverty in Kozhikode District
- Union Tourism Ministry launched NOAPS Web Portal of National Monuments Authority
- Isuzu opens manufacturing plant in Andhra Pradesh
- Patanjali to invest Rs 1,150 crore in 2017
- BPCL gets green nod for rs. 694 cr LPG project in West Bengal
- China launches sounding rocket
- IIT scholar K Ashok Kumar wins international award on plant nutrition
- Sangey re-elected PM of Tibetan govt-in-exile
- Nandu Natekar became first non-cricketer to become a member of CCI’s Legend Club
- Riyad Mahrez Became First African Footballer To Win PFA Player Of The Year
28 APRIL
- New Zealand’s $5 bill named best banknote of the year
- MoU signed between Railways and ISRO
- New naval detachment launched at Lakshadweep Androth Island
- Cabinet nod to solar power plant of 200 MW at Jetsar, Rajasthan
- Cabinet approves MoU between India and Papua New Guinea on cooperation in the field of health area and medical science
- MoU between Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India and the Insurance Authority, UAE
- BSE inks pact with Korea Exchange to list Sensex-based derivatives
- Experian India has launched the fraud detection mechanism
- DBS Bank launches ‘mobile-only bank’ in India.
- Japan unveiled Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympics emblems
- ICC suspends the Cricket Association of Nepal
- Panel suggests fine or jail for celebs in misleading ads
- Kerala cartoonist V T Thomas passed away
- Deepika Kumari equals world record in recurve event at Archery World Cup
- Sudarsan Pattnaik bags gold medal at Sculpture Championship in Moscow
29 APRIL:
- BSF to put tallest ‘Tiranga’ at Wagah border by January 2017
2. First time direct tax details published by CBDT - Govt plans to keep 1% of highways project cost for road safety
- India, Papua New Guinea sign four agreements
- Government approves BPCL’s Rs. 3000 cr investment in Bharat Oman Refineries Ltd
- NITI Aayog launched urban management programme for capacity building of states and urban local bodies
- ISRO’s seventh navigational satellite IRNSS 1G launched
- Indian Naval Ships Veer and Nipat Decommissioned
- Rahuri in Ahmednagar Becomes First to have Digi-Locker
- EC launches mobile app e-voter for Kerala assembly polls
- Gujarat Announces 10% Quota For Economically Backward
- Swat activist Tabassum Adnan wins 2016 Nelson Mandela Award
- Mongolia confers highest civilian honour to two Indians
- Jayasurya recalled as Sri Lanka’s cricket chief selector
- Garima wins gold at Commonwealth Judo Championship
3 0 APRIL:
1.Nagaland’s capital Kohima declared ‘smoke-free city’
2.SIDBI signs MoU with Saarc Development Fund
3.Centre approves Rs.9,005 Cr. investment for affordable housing in three states
4.S K Bhagat appointed DG- Railway Protection Force
5.India, Papua New Guinea sign four agreements
6.BlackBerry Launches BBM Money Transfer Service in India
7.NK Singh selected for Japan’s highest civilian award
8.Odisha CM launches 100 piped water supply projects
9.Rio Olympics: Abhinav Bindra joins Salman Khan as India’s Goodwill Ambassador
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