NATIONAL AFFAIRS
POLITICAL NEWS
- 4th West zone meeting of Rajya Sainik Boards (RSBs) was held through Video conferencing in New Delhi.
- Gender Samvaad event launched by Ministry of Rural development.
- An additional office of Labour Bureau opened in Kolkata on 16th April.
- India and France signed an agreement on Gaganyaan Space Mission.
- India and France explored ways to strengthen cooperation in the Indo – Pacific including under a trilateral mechanism with Australia to address emerging challenges in the maritime and space domains.
- Govt. has sanctioned installation of 162 pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) oxygen plant in all states.
- UP govt has decided to establish 10 oxygen plants for hospitals.
- Goa government has banned the export of oxygen cylinders from its state.
- Minister Awangbow Newbai has launched a website for community based sustainable forest management for wet resources conservation in Manipur.(COSFOM).
- Centre has banned the supply of oxygen for industrial purposes.
- Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Package (PMGKP) • Insurance policy claims of COVID Warriors will continue to be seltted till 24 Apr 2021.
- Tourism and Culture Minister Prahlad Singh patel has inaugurated the 1st ever online exhibition on Ramayana.
- Air chief Marshal RKS Bhaduria is on a official visit to France for 5 days.
- Union govt has reactivated 20 control room across India. This will handle wage related grievances of workers employed in central sphere and mitigate the problem of migrant workers.
- Piyush Goyal launched the ‘Startup India Seed Fund scheme’ (SISFS) on 19th April.
- Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry, India and Environment ministry, Germany has signed a MoU for tackling plastic problem in marine ecosystem.
- Kisan Rath “ Mobile app has been launched by Narendra Singh Tomar to facilitate transportation of food grains and perishables during lock down.
- Jharkhand government is following a Health Safety week from April 22 to 29.
- India EU Leaders meeting will be held virtually on 6 May 2021.
- External Affair minister S.jaishankar and his US nation counterpart Anthony Blinken have agreed that two nations will co-ordinate on efforts to promote stability in Afghanistan .
- Cabinet has approved Bangalore Metro Rail project.
- Cabinet has given ex-post facto approval for the government amendments to the finance Bill ,2021.
- Cabinet has approved the MoU between the Competition Commission of India (CCI) and the Administrative Council for Economic Defense of Brazil (CADE).
- UP govt. will invoke National Security Act and Gangster Act on persons involved in black marketing and holding of medicines of Covid – 19.
- A webinar cum expo was organized between Ministry of Defense and Ministry of National Defense Vietnam on 20 April 2021.
- Narendra Modi adressed, the” leader ‘ summit on 22 April. The theme of this was our collective Sprint to 2030.
- India’s Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) G. C Murmu is now the External Auditor for a inter governmental organisation working for the elimination of Chemical weapons. The name of the organisation is Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
- Free Covid • — 19 vaccinatim in states of Assam, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.
BANKING SECTOR NEWS
- Mastercard Inc is buying digital identity verification company ‘EKATA’ for $850 million.
- HDFC bank handed over 100 PoS (point of Sale) Machine to BBMP (Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palik) chief commissioner Gourav Gupta.
- RBI has constituted a committee to examine the role of asset reconstruction Companies (ARCs) under the leadership of RBI executive Director Sudarshan Sen.
- RBI cancelled Mapusa Urban Co-operative bank Ltd’s (MUCB), banking License.
- Cabinet has approved an MoU between the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) and Chartered Accountants Australia and New zealand (CAANZ).
- Managing Director and CEO of Central Bank of India – Matam Venkat Rao.
- Atanu Chakraborty is the part time Chairman of HDFC Bank.
- DCB Bank has acquired 9 % stake in non tisgarh. bank Financer TechFino Capital Pvt.Ltd (NBFC).
INDUSTRY AND BUSINESS NEWS
- Ministry of Ports, shipping and Waterways has given approval to ROPAX Jetty and allied infrastructure to come up up in Odisha.
- Ministry of Tourism has signed an MoU with Cleartrip and Ease My trip.
- Qualcomm’s company of america has invested 50 crores rupees in boAT company which is placed in india.
- “Kabira Mobility” has launched India’s 1st high speed commercial delivery e- scooter which is named as “Hermes 75.”
- The theme of “Amazon Sambhav Online Summit” is “Unlocking, Infinite Possibilities for India.”
- Pharma exports from India witnessed over 18 % growth in the financial year – 2021.
- Ui path has collaborated with India – based edtech Learning platform GUVI.
- Ashok layland Ltd.has announced to Supply bullet proof vehicles to Indian Air force.
- Department of Telecom received an amount of 2307 crore from Airtel and Jio company.
- Reliance Industries Ltd has started supplying 100 tonnes of oxygen to Maharashtra.
- Maharashtra Real Estate Regulatory (Maha RERA) will set up a steering committee for training and certification of real estate agents.
- Flipkart will acquire Cleartrip company.
- Prakriti E-mobility has collaborated with Delhi govt. to help Covid19 patients.
- Marketing Director of Bacardi India is Zeenah Vilcassim.
- IFFCO (indian farmers fertiliser cooperative limited) is going to set up an oxygen plant in Gujurat.
- Chair person of MMA (Mobile Marketing Association) India board – Amit Jain. He is now L’Oreal India’s Managing Director.
- Mirae Asset Investment Manageres India has announced the launch of two FANG+ funds “Mirae Asset Nyse FANG + ” and ” Mirae Asset NYSE FANG+ ETF fund of Fund”.
- Tech Mahindra has acquired DigitalOnUs; a cloud service provider for $ 120 million.
- Twitter has appointed Apurva Dalal as Director of engineering.
- TATA steel is supplying 300 tonnes of oxygen per day from its various plants.
- New President of Tata Consumer Products (TCP) is Deepika Bhan.
- Lic (Life Insurance Corporation of India) has partnered with Paytm to facilitate e – payment.
- Executive Vice President of Carat India-Dipika Bhasin.
- Wipro Ltd. Over took Noida – headquartered HCL Technologies to become 3rd Largest Indian IT services company.
- IT Industry’s apex body Nasscom has appointed Rekha M. Menon as its Chairperson for 2021-22.
- Dish Network has signed a deal with Amazon to build its 5G network on Amazon Web Service (AWS) cloud platform.
- India Bulls Housing, finance has entered into a Co-lending partnership with HDFC to offer housing Loan.
- Head of Strategy of Havas Media Group, India is Sanchita Roy.
- Coin base Global Inc. Has appointed Google pay’s Pankaj Gupta to lead its Upcoming India development centre.
- HLL life care Limited will procure 50,000 metric Ton of medical oxygen for distributing to various hospitals in country.
- Union Cabinet has approved an “ exclusive subsidy policy “ for Urea fertilizer produced through coal gasification by Talcher Fertilizers Ltd (TFL) in Odisha.
EDUCATION NEWS
- DuroKea series (World’s 1st affordable and long lasting hygiene product) launched by Ramesh Pokhriyal. It is developed by IIT Hyderabad.
- Author of the book “Right Under Your Nose” -R. Giridharan.
- A new species of fruit fly found and named as ” Euphranta Siruvani” after Siruvani in Westernghat.
- Scientists’ at the Institute of nano science and Technology have come up with new material to make Super capacitor’s or Pseudo capacitor which can store electrical energy by electrcon charge transfer.
- “ Chitra Gene LAMP” – N is a faster and cheaper diagnostic test for Covid – 19 developed Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute in Kerala.
SPORTS NEWS
- India clinched 7 medals in Women’s wrestling in Asian Championship titles at Almaty, Kazakhstan: (4 gold medal).
- India is placed 8th on overal medal tally at Asian Wrestling Championship at Almaty.
- Mirabai chanu of India created world record by lifting 119kg in clean and jerk weight lifting championship.
- BCCI has got the approval for Visas for pakistan Cricket Team for upcoming T20 worldcup.
- Final of T20 world cup 2021 will be held at Narendra Modi stadium, Gujarat.
- Deepak Punia won silver medal in Asian Wrestling. Championship in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
- India Open Badminton Tournament postponed due to increased Corona cases in New Delhi.
- Puma India has signed deal with Washington Sundar and Devdutt Padikkal.
- Mithali Raj became the 1st Indian Woman cricketer and 2nd internationally to complete 10,000 runs across all formats.
- Priyanka Mohite from Satara in Western Maharashtra has Scaled Mt. Annapurna, the 10th highest mountain peak in world.
- In World Youth Boxing Championships in Kielce Poland, Indian women won 7 gold medals.
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS
- Secretary of Department of Ex – Servicemen Welfare (DESW) – Shri Ravikant.
- Renowned Radiologist Kakarla Subba Rao passed away. He was Padmasri Recipient in the field of Medicine.
- Ghaziabad Nagar Nigam of Uttar Pradesh has raised 150 crore from BSE(Bombay stock exchange).
- Ajay seth became the new Economic Affairs secretary.
- Tamil actor Padma Sri Awardee Vivekanandan passed away on 17th April.
- Executive Director of BHEL (Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd.) – Anil Josli.
- “Puglya” movie (Marathi) has won the award for best foreign Languge feature at “Moscow International Film Festival” 2021.
- Joint Military exercise between India and Kyrgyzstan is called as ” khanjar”.
- Indian Railways will operate “Oxygen Express” trains to transport oxygen cylinders across the country.
- The Gallantary Awards portal has organised an Innovative Tributes to held from 15th April to 15th May. Brave hearts competition.
- The price of Remdesivir drug has been slashed by 7 companies in India.
- World Heritage Day is celebrated on 18 th April.
- India will waive its 10 % customs duty on imported COVID- 19 vaccines.
- Tamil Nadu govt. is providing online Yoga class to its prisoners, by the help of Isha foundation for 10 days.
- Kannada lexicographer and Padma shri awardee Ganjam Venkatasubbaiah passed away.
- National award winning Marathi filmmaker Sumitra Bhave passed away.
- INAS (Indian Naval Air Squandon) 323 (The 1st unit of Indigenously built ALH MK III air craft) was commissioned into the Indian Navy in Goa on 19th April.
- DEBEL ( Defence,Bio – Engineering and Electro Medical Laboratory); Bengaluru has develope supplemental & Oxygen Delivery system for soldiers posted at extreme high altitudes.
- Annual Convocation of 11M Rohtak was virtually Addressed by Ramesh pokhriyal.
- world liver Day – 1914 April (Theme is keep your liver heathy and Disease free“)
- Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd.(BPCL) will supply 100 Metric Tonness oxygen to various hospitals.
- Italy has launched the 1st “ mega Park “ in Gujarat.
- “ Sunil Arora “ has become the new governor of Goa.
- Ex: RBI Goverenor M. Narasimham passed away on 20 th April. He is known as The architect modern Indian banking.
- Rank of India on the World Press freedom index is 142.
- Noted Bengali poet Sankha Ghosh passed away.
- Central govt has waived the import duty on Remdesivir.
- India became the fastest country to administer 13 Crcore Corona Vaccine. (in 95 days).
- 8 Indian states are highly Vulnerable to Climat change. (Jharkhand, Mizoram, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Assam, Bihar, Arunachal Pradesh and West Bengal).
- National Civil service Day 21st April.
- Chairman of DRDO (Defence R & D Organisation) – Dr. G. Satheesh Reddy.
- Biggest floating solar panel in India-Telangana.
- Director General of Central Reserve police force (CRPF) – Kuldip singh.
- Tripartite ” Varuna Naval Exercise” will be organised between India, UAE & France.
- Covid -19 vaccine delivery to be done by drone developed from IIT Kanpur.
- India witnessed increase of 18.5 %. In export of agricultural and allied products bream previous year. (about 2,70,000 Crore) (Growth of what export increased by 727% and for Basmati rice, it is 132%.)
- 5 th batch of Rafale Fighter aircraft arrived in India on 21st April. From Merignac Air Base of france.
- Padma Bhusan (2020) and Padma Vibhusan (2021) Islamic scholar Maulana Wahiduddin Khan passed away.
- Gurugram district administration has launched the web port”Covidggn.com “ to allot beds to COVID – 19 patients.
- India has been elected to 3 united Nations an Economic and Social Council (UN ECOSOC) bodies which are commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ), the Executive board of UN Women, and Executive Board of the World Food Programme.”
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
POLITICAL NEWS
- Foreign minister of Maldives – Abdulla shahid.
- Formation of National Unity Government (NUG) have been announced in Myanmar against the millitary government.
- Miguel Diaz – Canel will lead the communist party of Cuba.
- Israel and Greece have signed their biggest – ever defence procurement deal of $1.65 billion.
- Australian PM Scotto Morrison has scrapped the controversial Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) deal between China and state of Victoria.
- Bangladesh govt has signed an agreement with World Bank for financing USD 250 million to tackle Covid-19 pandemic.
- P.M of Japan – Yoshihide suga.
- UK Govt. Will launch a new Pandemic Preparedness Partnership (PPP) to save lives from future diseases.
INDUSTRY AND BUSINESS NEWS
- Turkish Central bank will ban the use of cryptocurrencies as a form of payment from April 30.
- SPACE– X won NASA’s contract to develop a system for landing astronauts on the moon.
- Europe’s 2nd Largest insurance firm, AXA, has started accepting Bitcoin (BTC) from their customers.
- Canada based internet Service provider Easy DNS has started accepting Doge coin payments.
- The govt. Of Ghana, Bharti Airtel, and Millicom International cellular S.A. have announced the execution of a definitive agreement for the transfer of “Airtel Tigo “ to govt. Of Ghana.
- Chief financial officer of Chinese home appliances giant Midea Group – Jeremy Choy.
- Citigroup Inc. is about to set up new investment bank in China.
- Andre Soelistyo will head Indonesian app giant company ‘GoTo.’
- George sherman will resign from CEO post of Game Stop Corp.
- Fermenta Biotech Limited (FBL) has developed and Filed, a patent for manufacturing Molnupiravir (an antiviral drug).
- Asian Development Bank (ADB) has partnered with The Nature Conservancy (TNC).
- Analytics solutions provider Suber Ltd. Has launched Hyper Sense ‘, an end – to – end augmented analytics platform.
- European diagnostic services provider Unilabs have signed an agreement. and international Air Transport Association (IATA)
SPORTS NEWS
- World Table Tennis Championship 2021 to be held at Houston (America).
- Max Verstappen recorded a victory in Italy by defeating Lewis Hamilton, at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix.
- President of International Olympic Committee – Thomas Bach.
- ICC has banned UAE Cricketer Qadeer Ahmed khan for 5 years.
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS
- New Zealand will donate 8 lakh Covid–19 vaccine for people.
- Roberto Benigni has been awarded the lifetime Achievement award at 78th Venice International film festival.
- World Haemophilia Day – 19 the April
- Whitest ever painting has been developed by scientists of Purdue University which can reflect 98 % of sunlight.
- A new super earth has been detected orbiting the star GJ 740, which is 3 times the mass of earth and complete one orbit around its star in 2.4 days.
- 1st scheduled flight of NASA’s ingenuity helicopter on Mars was on 19th April.
- Scientists at MIT in us have translated the structure of a web into music.
- China and USA joined hand to tackle climate crisis.
- UN Chinese language Day -28th April.
- Moon Mission “ Luna 25 “ will be launched by Russia in 2021.
- Foremer US vice president Walter Mondale passed away.
- Total of 9 Bangladeshi’s have beatured in the Forbes 30 under 30 list of innovatores in Asia.
- Novel “The christmas Bag ” has been written by J. K. Rolling.
- Earth day is celebrated on 22nd April.
- 23rd April 2021 is the 405th death Anniversary of Shakespeare.
- Japan has approved use of Rheumatoid Arthritis drug Baricitinib for Covid – 19 patient.
- World Book day – 23rd April
- UN English language day is on 23rd April
- Salk institute,US have 1st time grown human cells in monkey Embryos.
- Russia will build its own space station by 2030.
- China is known as “ biggest jailer of press freedom defenders.”
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