Current affair -18-04-2013 The lone women Chief Election Commissioner of India, V.S. Ramadevi died due to Cardiac Arrest. She also was the governorof Karnataka & HP. EC has planned to replace the paper laminated Voter Cards intothe hard plastic ID card, these will be first issued in Assam & Nagaland As per the Venezuela’s Presidential election result declared on 14 April 2013, NicolasMaduro emerged as the winner. A Pakistani election tribunal on 16 April 2013 barred former military dictator Pervez Musharraf from running for Parliament President Pranab Mukherjee on 16 April 2013 dedicated Siddheshwar Dham Temple to theNation IMF in its latest release of WEO slashed India’s growth rate to 5.7percent from 5.9 percent on 16 April 2013. UK Scientists produced a Disease-Resista nt Piglet called Pig-26 World Hemophilia Day was observed on 17 April 2013 across the globe to spread awareness ofthis disease and other bleeding disorders. World Growth Forecast for 2013 was slashed to 3.3% from 3.5% by IMF. Continued recession in Eurozone is the reason for it. Hobbit Humans had larger brainsthan thought, as per the recent research conducted by National Museum of Nature and Science inTokyo. Navjot Singh on 17 April 2013 became the youngest athlete of Jammu and Kashmir to be conferred with the Sher-i-Kashmir Sports Award. The retail business of Sahara India Pariwar called Sahara Q Shop entered into the Guinness World Records by opening 315 outlets in 10 states Computer Society of India elected H.R. Mohan as its Vice-President- Cum-President Elect on 16 April 2013. The Indian Coast Guard Ship C-402 was commissioned in Mumbai by Sanjeev Dayal, Director General Police, Maharashtra, in the third week of April 2013.