*CURRENT AFFAIRS (08:04:2014)

1. Veteran cinematographerVK Murthy dies aged 91.
- He was the first cinematographerto receive Dada Saheb Phalke award in 2008.
- Cinematic masterpieces like 'Pyaasa' and 'Kagaz Ke Phool' gave him
an iconic status for his camera work.
2. World Health Day is observed across the globe on April 7.
- The day, in celebration since 1950, marks the anniversary of the
founding of World Health Organization in 1948.
- The Theme for 2014 is vector-borne diseases.
- Vectors (mosquitoes, flies, bugs etc) transmit diseases like
malaria, dengue, yellow fever etc.
- The theme for the last year was 'Control your blood pressure'.
3. Punjab retains the 4th Hockey India Junior Men National
Championship 2014 (Division A) by thrashing Odisha 6-2 in the finals.
- Meanwhile, Haryana secured the 3rd place by defeating Sports
Authority of India by 7-3.
- Harjeet Singh (Punjab) has been conferred on the Man of the Tournament award.
4. Indian shooter Heena Sidhu becomes world no.1 in the 10 metres air
pistol event.
- She recently (Mar 2014) won a gold in Asian Air Gun Championship and
followed that by securing a silver in the ISSF rifle/pistol World Cup
held at Fort Benning, US.
5. The Lowland, 2nd novel of Indian American author Jhumpa Lahiri, has
been shortlisted with 5 others for the 2014 Baileys Women's Prize for
Fiction.
- This exclusive award for women, earlier called the Orange Prize, is
open to all women novel writers (English) across the world.
- AM Homes had won it last year for her work 'May We Be Forgiven'.
The Lowland had also been shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize.
6. Ashish Bose, demographer who coined the term 'BIMARU', breathes his
last at 83.
- BIMARU referred to the underprivilegedstates of Bihar, Madhya
Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh whose poverty was further
augmented by their exploding population.
- He had used the term in a research paper presented to the then PM Rajiv Gandhi
7. Ravi Chauhan has been appointed as the Managing Director of SAP India.
- SAP, one of the largest software companies worldwide, is known for
making enterprise software to manage business operations and customer
relations.