2013 CURRENT AFFAIRS-APRIL

• Einstein passes the test of spacetime! The study of a bizarre binary star system nearly 7,000 light-years from Earth shows that Einstein's theory of general relativity holds true even when tested in the most extreme conditions, astronomers claim. 
• Nicolás Maduro is sworn in as the President of Venezuela despite a review of the results of the Venezuelan presidential election. 
• An Arabian camel gifted to President of France François Hollande for liberating Mali is killed and stewed by a family in Timbuktu, in whose care Hollande had left it. 
• Commonwealth Games 2018 Minister Jann Stuckey unveils the logo and a countdown clock for the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, at an official launch ceremony. 
• Writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, the only person to have won both an Academy Award and a Booker Prize, dies at the age of 85. 
• Police in India's Punjab claim Olympic medal winning boxer Vijender Singh consumed heroin procured from drug smugglers, after he refuses to give blood samples. 
• India's Supreme Court rejects a plea by Novartis to patent an updated version of its cancer drug, Glivec (Imatinib), amid concerns that a patent could threaten access to cheap generic versions of drugs in poorer countries. 
• Eli Reimer, aged sixteen, becomes the first teenager with Down syndrome to climb to Mount Everest's Base Camp. 
• World number one Lee Chong Wei faced a stiff challenge but in the end stamped his class to prevail over Kenichi Tago of Japan and claim the men's singles title at India Open Super Series badminton tournament in New Delhi on April 29, 2013.