Current Affairs,April 2022
30th April, Current Affairs:
• Gen. Manoj Pande today took charge as
the 29th Chief of the Army Staff from incumbent Gen. Manoj Naravane who
retired from service. General Pande is the 29th Army Chief and the first
officer from the Corps of Engineers to get this opportunity.
• Youth
Affairs and Sports Minister Anurag Singh Thakur today inaugurated 2nd Khelo
Masters Games Delhi-2022 at Tyagraj Stadium in New Delhi.
29th April, Current Affairs:
• Lieutenant General Baggavalli
Somashekar Raju will take over as the Vice Chief of the Army Staff on May 1,
2022.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi today inaugurated Semicon India
Conference-2022 through video conferencing. The three-day event is taking
place in Bengaluru.
27th April, Current Affairs:
• Twitter's board of directors
unanimously agreed to Elon Musk's offer to purchase the social media
platform at a price of $44 billion.
• BJP leader and former Union
minister Vijay Sampla has been appointed as the chairperson of the National
Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) for a second time.
25th April, Current Affairs:
• Emmanuel Macron has won a second term
in France's presidential election with 58.2 per cent of the vote. Macron's
far-right challenger Marine Le Pen won 41.8 per cent of the vote.
• Adani
Group Chairman Gautam Adani has become the world's fifth-richest person
overtaking legendary investor Warren Buffett, according to Forbes data.
24th April, Current Affairs:
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi was
conferred with the first Lata Deenanath Mangeshkar Award in Mumbai.
•
Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu declared open the Khelo India University
Games in Bengaluru.
• India's Deepak Punia won the 86kg men's freestyle
silver medal while Viky clinched bronze in 92kg on the final day of the
Asian Wrestling Championships in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
22nd April, Current Affairs:
• Home Minister Amit Shah inaugurates
48th All India Police Science Congress meeting organized at Central Police
Training Academy (CPTA), Bhopal.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi holds
bilateral talks with British PM Boris Johnson.
• World Earth Day is
observed today. The main theme for 2022 is Invest In Our Planet.
19th April, Current Affairs:
• Ajay Kumar Sood has been appointed as
the Principal Scientific Advisor (PSA) to the Union Government.
• The
sixth and last of the French Scorpène-class submarines, Vagsheer, was
launched into water by Defence Secretary Ajay Kumar at a ceremony at the
Mazagon Docks Limited (MDL) in Mumbai.
18th April, Current Affairs:
• Lieutenant General Manoj Pande has been
appointed as the next chief of Indian Army. Lt. Gen Manoj Pande will be the
first officer from the Corps of Engineers to become the Chief of Army Staff.
• World Heritage Day is observed today. The theme for World Heritage Day
2022 is “Heritage and Climate”.
17th April, Current Affairs:
• Prime Minister of Mauritius Pravind
Kumar Jugnauth arrived in Mumbai on a eight-day visit to India from today.
• Easter is being celebrated across the globe today.
14th April, Current Affairs:
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi
inaugurated the Pradhanmantri Sangrahalaya, or the Prime Ministers' museum,
dedicated to all Prime Ministers of the country since independence in New
Delhi.
• The nation pays homage to the Chief Architect of Indian
Constitution Dr BR Ambedkar on his 131st birth anniversary today.
• The
Central Government today released the Tenth and Eleventh Edition of the
Status Paper on the Government Debt.
• Mahavir Jayanti, the birth
anniversary of the 24th and the last Jain Tirthankar Bhagwan Mahavir is
being celebrated across the country today.
• Rohit Sharma has become only
the second Indian after Virat Kohli to score 10 thousand runs in the T20
cricket.
13th April, Current Affairs:
• Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs,
chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved continuation of the
revamped Centrally-sponsored scheme of Rashtriya Gram Swaraj Abhiyan till
31st of March 2026.
• The Netherlands lifted their fourth FIH Junior
Women's Hockey World Cup title after beating Germany 3-1 in the final at
Potchefstroom, South Africa.
• Indian Grandmaster, R Pragganandhaa won
the prestigious Reykjavik Open chess tournament in Reykjajvik, Iceland.
11th April, Current Affairs:
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be
honoured with the first-ever Lata Deenanath Mangeshkar Award, instituted in
the memory of the veteran singer.
• India successfully flight-tested
Anti-Tank Guided Missile HELINA today.
• In Pakistan, Shehbaz Sharif has
become the 23rd prime minister of the country after taking an oath.
• In
the World Doubles Squash Championships, India's Dipika Pallikal teaming up
with Saurav Ghosal and Joshna Chinappa, has won mixed doubles and women's
doubles titles at Glasgow.
9th April, Current Affairs:
• Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu
conferred the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship and Sangeet Natak Awards for
the year 2018 and National Awards of Lalit Kala Akademi to eminent artists
at a special function held in New Delhi.
• Astronomers have discovered an
identical twin of Jupiter dubbed as K2-2016-BLG-0005Lb, which has a similar
mass and is at a similar location (420 million miles away) from its star as
Jupiter is from our Sun (462 million miles away).
• Author Geetanjali
Shree's novel 'Tomb of Sand' became the first Hindi language work of fiction
to be shortlisted for the International Booker Prize.
8th April, Current Affairs:
• The United Nations General Assembly
today suspended Russia from Human Rights Council after killings in Ukraine's
Bucha.
• The Reserve Bank of India in its monetary policy review has kept
the repo rate unchanged at 4 percent and reverse repo rate at 3.35 percent.
7th April, Current Affairs:
• World Health Day is observed today. The
theme for this year’s World Health Day is “Our Planet, Our Health".
•
Both the Houses of Parliament have been adjourned a day ahead of the
scheduled time.
• India has supplied fuel to Sri Lanka under Indian
credit line to help ease crisis in the island country.
6th April, Current Affairs:
• India's first case of coronavirus
variant XE was reported in Mumbai today. The new mutant may be more
transmissible than any strain of COVID-19.
• Parliament has passed the
Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill 2022 with the Rajya Sabha approving
it today.
• Parliament has passed the Constitution (Scheduled Tribes)
Order (Amendment) Bill, 2022 with Rajya Sabha approving it on Wednesday. Lok
Sabha had already passed the Bill.
3rd April, Current Affairs:
• India's envoy to Nepal, Vinay Mohan
Kwatra, was on Monday appointed as the new Foreign Secretary, succeeding
Harsh Vardhan Shringla, who is retiring this month-end.
• Embattled
Pakistani leader Imran Khan on Monday nominated former Chief Justice Gulzar
Ahmed for the office of caretaker Prime Minister.
• Australia has lifted
the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup defeating England in the final by 71 runs
at Hagley Oval in Christchurch.
2nd April, Current Affairs:
• Public emergency declared in Sri Lanka
after hundreds tried to storm President's house.
• Telugu, Kannada New
Year day Ugaadi & Marathi New Year Gudi Padva being celebrated today.
•
World Autism Awareness Day is observed today. This year the theme is -
"Inclusive Quality Education for All" which marks the global inequalities in
education and society, faced by people with autism.
1st April, Current Affairs:
• Odisha is celebrating its foundation day
today.
• Chennai Super Kings all-rounder Dwayne Bravo has become the
all-time highest wicket-taker in the Indian Premier League. The West Indian
cricketer now has 171 wickets to his name in 153 IPL matches.
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