27 April 2015
• Nursultan A Nazarbayev re-elected as President of Kazakhstan
• Japan and the US revised defence deal after 18 years to deal with growing global security concern
• Omar Hassan al-Bashir won the Presidential election of Sudan
• Singer Jack Ely famous for song Louie Louie passed away
• Raja Rajeswari became the first India-born woman to be sworn in as Judge of New York City
• Baloch nationalist leader Talal Akbar Bugti passed away
• Loretta Lynch sworn in as first black female Attorney General of United States
• Rubella eradicated from North and South America region
28 April 2015
• Sri Lankan Parliament adopted the 19th Amendment to the Constitution
• Venezuela announced to cut working hours to tackle energy crisis
• Earthquake of magnitude 5.5 on the Richter scale jolted Pakistan
• China won the World Team Chess Championship in Tsaghkadzor
• Railways won 5th Senior Men’s National Hockey championship
• Novelist Siddhartha Gigoo won 2015 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Asia region
• India, Afghanistan released Joint Statement
• China’s NDRC released new action plan One Belt, One Road initiative
• WHO released a report on Economic cost of the health impact of air pollution in European Region
• India, Afghanistan released Joint Statement
29 April 2015
• Japan proposed new JWG on Nuclear deal
• Georgia won Women’s World Team Chess Championship held at Chengdu
• Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud appointed Mohammed bin Nayef as Crown Prince
• World Dance Day observed globally
• Indian Coast Guard (ICG) held Theera Veta defence exercise in Arabian Sea
• Ananda Kumar, Pramod Patil won Whitley Awards for wildlife conservation
• Four Indians to be conferred with 2015 Spring Imperial Decorations of Japan
• Microsoft named its next Web Browser as Edge
30 April 2015
• India, Japan signed Action Agenda for Investment and Trade Promotion
• Argentine parliament passed a law to compensate victims of Jewish centre attack
• Bone relics of Lord Buddha reached Sri Lanka for public viewing
• Argentine Parliament passed a law to compensate victims of Jewish centre attack
• Pakistan court sentenced 10 men to 25 years in jail for attacking Malala Yousafzai
• NASA ended operations of MESSENGER Mission to Mercury
1 May 2015
• Tennis player Rafael Nadal received Golden Medal for Merit in Work of Spain
• Global warming will lead to extinction of 1 in 6 species by end of century: Study
2 May 2015
• Third India-Tunisia Foreign Office Consultations held in Tunis
• Russian ballet legend Maya Plisetskaya died
• 14th Edition of Indo-French Naval Exercise VARUNA 2015 concluded
3 May 2015
• World Press Freedom day observed globally
• Australia announced new punishments for foreigner investors breaking rules on buying property
• Mazen Darwish honoured with 2015 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize
• Michael Blake, Oscar-winning author, passed away
• Lu Ping, Chinese diplomat who oversaw Hong Kong transition, died
• Floyd Mayweather Jr. defeated Manny Pacquiao to win Fight of the Century of Boxing
• Roger Federer won the inaugural Istanbul Open Tennis Men’s Singles Title
• Chelsea won Barclays Premier League 2014-15 title with 1-0 win over Crystal Palace
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