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Current Affairs April 2021

APPOINTMENTS

• ·       Miguel Diaz Canal Succeed Raul Castro as the Cuban communist party’s first Secretary, The most powerful position on the island.
• ·       Sushil Chandra has been appointed as the new Chief Election Commissioner.
• ·       N V Ramana took Oath as the 48th Chief Justice of India.
• ·       T V Somanathan is appointed as the new finance Secretary of India.
• ·       G C Murmu has been chosen as the external auditor of Organisation for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
• ·       S Ramann has been appointed as the new Chairman and managing director of SIDBI.
• ·       Sonu Sood made brand ambassador for Punjab,s Covid Vaccination Program.
• ·       Alfred Aho wins Turing Award 2020.
• ·       Shabir Hussein Shekhadam Khandwawala is elected as the new BCCI Anti-Corruption unit chief.
• ·       Siddharth Singh longjam will take over as the the new Director-General of NADA.
• ·       Tarun Bajaj has been appointed as the new Revenue Secretary.

PRESIDENT / PRIME MINISTER

• ·       Guillermo Lasso has been elected as the new president of Ecuador.
• ·       Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou has been appointed as the new Prime Minister of Nigeria.
• ·       Vjosa Osmani Sadriu Sworn in as Post War Kosovo’s Second Female President.
• ·       Pham Minh Chinh has become the new PM of Vietnam.
• ·       Claude Joseph has been appointed as the new PM of Haiti.

FIRST TIME IN INDIA/ WORLD

• ·       Nora-Al-Matrooshi has made history as she became the first female Astronaut of UAE.
• ·       Russia has released the world's first animal vaccine against the Covid-19.
• ·       First indigenous vaccine for fish developed in India for Viral Nervous Necrosis.
• ·       Nethra Kumanan became the first Indian women to qualify for Sailing in the Tokyo Olympics.
• ·       Hideki Matsuyama became the first Japanese player to won a Golf Championship.
• ·       Chinese film maker Chloe Zhao became the first Asian woman to win best director at Oscar for the film Nomadland.
• ·       China has named its first Mars rover as Zhurong after a traditional fire God.
• ·       World's first Gamifield Sanskrit learning application named Little Guru launched recently.
• ·       Vanita Gupta becomes first Indian American associate Attorney General of USA.
• ·       Priyanka Mohite becomes first Indian woman to scale Mount Annapurna.
• ·       First oxygen Express leaves Mumbai for Visakhapatnam.
• ·       Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation in UP became India's first municipal corporation to successfully list the country's first Green Municipal Bonds on the BSE.
• ·       For the first time NASA to land person of colour on moon by 2024.
• ·       Rajasthan has become the first state to launch a cashless medical insurance scheme was Rs 5 Lakhs to each family.
• ·       Phonepe has became the first company to cross 1 billion transaction on unified payment interface (UPI) Infrastructure.
• ·       Singapore became the first country among 15 participating countries to ratify Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement the world's largest free trade agreement led by China.
• ·       India's first floating storage and regasification unit set up in the Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra.
• ·       Rekha Menon takes over as the first women chairperson of NASSCOM.

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RANKING / LIST

• ·       India ranks 142nd out of 180 Countries in the World Press Freedom Index 2021. Norway topped the list. Eritrea is at the bottom.
• ·       India has the third highest number of billionaires in the world after USA and China.
• ·       Forbes 35th annual list of the world's Billionaires is topped by Amazon CEO Jeff bezos for the fourth consecutive year.
• ·       Sweden tops in the Global Energy Transition Index released by World Economic Forum. India is at 87th.
• ·       India has been ranked 140th out of 156 Countries at Global Gender Gap Report released by World Economic Forum. Iceland is at the top.
• ·       The Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore has secured the top position among higher education institutes in India as per Shanghai ranking. Harvard University tops the list.
• ·       India has the highest number of Real Time online transaction in 2020.
• ·       India rank 49th in Chandler Good Government Index.
• ·       India is the third biggest military Spender in the world in 2020. USA is at the top followed by China.
• ·       India ranks 84th at Henley Passport Index. Japan is at the top.

AWARDS

• ·       Veteran actor Rajinikanth will be conferred with the prestigious 51st Dada Saheb Phalke Award 2019.
• ·       Japanese Government awarded the "Order of Rising Sun" to a Bengaluru based teacher Shyamala Ganesh.
• ·       Marathi film Puglya awarded best foreign language feature at the "Moscow International Film Festival".
• ·       Dutee Chand to be honoured with Chhattisgarh Veerni award.
• ·       Professor Suman Chakraborty selected for G D Birla Award for Scientific Research.
• ·       New Zealand cricketer Kane Williamson has awarded the sir Richard Hadlee Medal.
• ·       Rumana Sinha Sehgal, software engineer turned Entrepreneurs from Hyderabad won the Nelson Mandela world Humanitarian Award 2021.

Current Affairs Questions 2021 

SCHEME / YOJANA

• ·       The Muktijoddha scholarship scheme is provided by the government of India to the students of Bangladesh.
• ·       Working capital facility of Rs 10,000 per year to be provided to Urban Street vendors of the country under PM SVANIDHI scheme.
• ·       As per the data of National Savings Institute West Bengal has made highest contribution to government Small Savings Scheme.
• ·       Government of India announced that it will provide 5kg free food grains under Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Ann Yojana till June 2021.
• ·       Ministry of Finance announced nearly Rs 15 lakh Crores have been sanctioned under PradhanMantri Mudra Yojana and 1.12 crore employment has been generated under this.
• ·       Union Health Minister Dr Harsh vardhan launched a new initiative called "Aahaar Kranti".The motto of the mission is"Uttam Aahaar, Uttam vichaar which means" Good diet Good cognition".
• ·       PM Modi launches distribution of E- Property cards under SVAMITVA.
• ·       TRIFED has launched the"Sankalp se Siddhi" village and digital connect drive.
• ·       A new Portal "E-Dakhil" has been launched for consumer grievance redressal.

OBITUARY

• ·       Husband of Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh has died at the age of 99 years.
• ·       Michael Collins, an American Astronaut died at the age of 90 years.
• ·       Famous hockey player Balbir Singh junior passed away.
• ·       Former Attorney General of India Soli Sorabjee passed away.
• ·       Veteran music composer duo Nadeem-Shravan fame Shravan Rathod passed away.
• ·       Former Deputy Governor of RBI K C Chakravarty passed away.
• ·       Japanese Physicist and Co-winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in physics Isamu Akasaki has passed away.
• ·       Veteran film actress Shashikala Om Prakash Saigal passed away.
• ·       India's first female cricket commentator Chandra Naidu daughter of famous cricketer CK Naidu passed away.
• ·       Former Election Commissioner GVG Krishnamurthy passed away.
• ·       Former CBI director Ranjit Sinha has passed away.
• ·       American Computer Scientist Charles Geschke best known as Co-Founder of Graphic and Publishing software company Adobe Inc with John Warnock passed away. He also helped in developing the Portable Document Format (PDF).
• ·       Veteran Kannada Writer, Grammarian, Editor, Lexicographer Ganjam Venkata Subbiah who was popularly known as walking Encyclopedia of Kannada language has passed away.
• ·       Former RBI Governor Maidavolu Narasimham has passed away. He was famously known as father of Indian Banking Reforms. He was the 13th governor of RBI.
• ·       Noted Bengali poet and Jnanpith award winner Sankha Ghosh has passed away.
• ·       President of Republic of Chad Idriss Deby Itno has passed away.
• ·       Qawwali singer Farid Sabri of the famous Sabri Brothers duo has passed away.
• ·       Noted Indian Islamic scholar, Spiritual leader and author Maulana Wahiduddin Khan has passed away.
• ·       Hindustani classical singer Rajan Mishra passed away.

SPORTS

• ·       North Korea will not participate in the Tokyo Olympic to protect its athlete from the Covid-19.
• ·       Khelo India centre of Excellence in Rowing has been inaugurated in Jammu and Kashmir.
• ·       Vinesh Phogat won gold at the Asian Wrestling Championship.
• ·       Mirabai Chanu created a new world record in clean and jerk after she lifted 119 kg at the Asian Weightlifting Championship at Tashkent.
• ·       Virat Kohli named as Wisden Almanacs,s ODI cricketer of the decade.
• ·       Sonam Malik becomes India's youngest female wrestler to qualify for Tokyo Olympic.
• ·       Chris Gayle became the first batsman to Smash 350 sixes in IPL.
• ·       Arjun Kalyan of Tamil Nadu has become the 68th Indian chess Grandmaster.
• ·       India finishes top of the medal table at 2021 ISSF World Cup, New Delhi securing 30 medals ( 15 Gold, 9 silver, 6 Bronze).
• ·       FIFA has suspended Pakistan Football Federation and Chad Football Association.
• ·       Spanish City Sevill will host the 22nd Laureus World Sports Award in a virtual ceremony.
• ·       The Great Khali has been inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame Class of 2021.
• ·       Ben Stokes has been named as the wisden leading cricketer of the year for second consecutive year.

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• ·       NASA’s Perseverance Rover makes history by converting some Carbon Di Oxide from martian atmosphere into oxygen.
• ·       NASA has successfully flown Drone helicopter named Ingenuity to Mars.
• ·       A deep-sea mining robot Patania II to got stranded on the Pacific Ocean floor.
• ·       Barakah Nuclear Power Plant of UAE started its commercial operation.
• ·       UK to allow driverless cars on road.
• ·       India's first 3D printed house inaugurated at IIT Madras.
• ·       DRDO has tested Python 5 Air to Air missile.
• ·       The astronomers have discovered the smallest black hole named Unicorn.
• ·       DRDO has developed an advanced Chaff to safeguard Naval ships against missile attack.
• ·       Ashok Leyland in collaboration with Lockheed Martin has delivered the first lot of light bullet proof vehicles to the Indian Air Force.
• ·       Russia will send Mission on moon named Luna 25.
• ·       IIT Kanpur develops touch-sensitive watch for visually impaired.
• ·       UK to get world's most powerful weather climate change forecasting supercomputer.
• ·       Supreme Court has launched its artificial intelligence Portal SUPACE (Supreme Court Portal For Assistance in Courts Efficiency)

EVENTS / EXERCISE

• ·       India and France Navies conducted the Varuna exercise in the Arabian Sea.
• ·       India and USA conducted Military named Vajra Prahar.
• ·       "Shantir Ograshena"is a joint military exercise between India and Bangladesh.
• ·       "Le Perouse" is a Defence Exercise Conducted by France.
• ·       Khanjar is a military exercise between India and Kyrgyzstan.
• ·       UP Govt has organised a banana festival in Kushinagar.

LARGEST/ BIGGEST

• ·       Biggest floating Solar Power Plant of India is to be set up at Ramagundam in Telangana.

BUSINESS / ECONOMICS

• ·       Pakistan has rejected the proposal for import of sugar and cotton from India.
• ·       New inflation target band fixed for the next five years (2021-26) is 2 to 6%.
• ·       Finance Ministry has announced to Scrap Settlement Commission formed under Income Tax Act.
• ·       SBI has revised the growth Rate of india for fiscal Year 2021-22 to 10.4%.
• ·       RBI has set up Sudarshan Sen Committee to study about the Asset Reconstruction Companies (ARC).
• ·       According to Ministry of Finance direct tax collection for the financial year 2020-21 are Rs 9.45 lakh Crores (personal income tax Rs 4.88 lakh crore, corporate tax Rs 4.57 lakh crore)
• ·       Government of India announced that Gold Hallmarking is mandatory from 1st June 2021.
• ·       IMF has projected the economic growth rate of India to be 12.5% in 2021.
• ·       Consumer Price Index of 2022 is predicted to be 5.1 % and GDP growth rate of India for 2021-22 is 10.5%.
• ·       HDFC Bank has adjudged the India's best bank for SMEs at the Asia money best bank awards 2021.
• ·       The Gross GST revenue collection in the month of March 2021 rose to a record of Rs 123902 Crores.
• ·       RBI has enhanced the limit of maximum balance at the end of the day maintained in payment Bank from Rs 1 lakh to Rs 2 lakhs Perr individual customer.
• ·       ADB has projected the GDP growth rate of India to grow at 11% in financial year 2021-22 and 7% in 2022-23.
• ·       World Bank has revised GDP Growth Projection for India to 10.1% for Financial Year 2021-22.
• ·       IMF has raised its growth forecast to 12.5% of financial year 2021-22 and 6.9 % for 2022-23.
• ·       CARE Ratings has revised the GDP growth forecast of India to 10.2% in 2021-22.
• ·       ICRA has revised the GDP growth forecast of India to 10-10.5% in 2021-22.

MISCELLANEOUS

• ·       USA president Joe Biden has formally announced his decision to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan before September 11.
• ·       Japan has witnessed the full bloom of cherry blossom season earliest since 1400.
• ·       USA has approved Qelbree, the first new drug for children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
• ·       Uttarakhand has been advised to use artificial rain to extinguish forest fire.
• ·       An ancient city named"Aten"has been recently discovered in Egypt.
• ·       Over 4200 tonnes of Salmon have been killed by a killer algae in Chile.
• ·       Gambia became the second African country to eliminate Trachoma after Ghana.Trachoma is one of the leading causes of blindness.
• ·       India has agreed to stop the cross-border firing with Pakistan.
• ·       Delhi announced that the Departments of the Govt will use only Electric Vehicles.
• ·       India has agreed to set up a hotline with China.
• ·       Map my India a mapping company has integrated into the government CO-WIN Portal.
• ·       India has sent food and medical assistance to Madagascar on its INS Jalashwa.
• ·       116 Indian district reported zero Malaria cases in 2020. India has reduced the disease burden by 84.5%.
• ·       New Zealand introduce climate change bill for financial firms, fixing a deadline 2050 to become carbon neutral.
• ·       Odisha Government has proposed the second biosphere reserve at Mahendra Giri. Similipal Biosphere Reserve is the first biosphere reserve Odisha.
• ·       A new species of bird named Three Branded Rose Pinch recorded by scientists from Bombay Natural History Society.
• ·       USA house of representatives passed a bill to make Washington DC 51st state. Washington DC does not enjoy elected voting representation in congress although its resident pay Federal taxes.
• ·       Italy launches Mega Food Park and food processing unit in India.
• ·       West Central Railway zone of Indian Railway gets fully electrified.
• ·       Tbilisi, Georgia has been declared as the World Book Capital for 2021.

93^RD ACADEMY AWARDS (OSCAR)

• ·       Best Picture: Nomadland directed by Chloe Zhao
• ·       Best Director: Chloe Zhao for Nomadland
• ·       Best Actor: Anthony Hopkins for The Father
• ·       Best Actress: Frances Mcdormand for Nomadland
• ·       Best Animated Film: Soul
• ·       Best International Feature Film: Another Round (Danish) directed by Thomas Vinterberg
• ·       Most nominations: Mank (10)
• ·       Indian entry in the International Feature Film category: Jallikattu (Malayalam)

74TH BAFTA AWARDS 2021

• ·       Most Nominations: American drama “Nomadland” & British coming-of-age drama “Rocks”
• ·       Most Awards: Nomadland (4)
• ·       Best Film: Nomadland
• ·       Best Director: Chloe Zhao (Nomadland)
• ·       Best Actor in a Leading Role:Anthony Hopkins(The Father as Anthony)
• ·       Best Actress in a Leading Role:Frances Mcdormand (Nomadland as Fern)
• ·       Best Actor in a Supporting Role:Daniel Kaluuya
• ·       Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Youn Yuh-Jung
• ·       Best Original Screenplay: Promising Young Woman
• ·       Best Short Animation: The Owl and the Pussycat
• ·       Best Short Film: The Present (Farah Nabulsi)
• ·       Best Animated Film: Soul
• ·       Best Documentary: My Octopus Teacher

WISDEN ODI CRICKETERS OF THE DECADES

• ·       1970s: Vivian Richards (West Indies)
• ·       1980s: Kapil Dev (India)
• ·       1990s: Sachin Tendulkar (India)
• ·       2000s: M Muralitharan (Sri Lanka)
• ·       2010s: Virat Kohli (India)

RBI MONETARY POLICY

• ·       Repo Rate: 4%
• ·       Reverse Repo Rate: 3.35%
• ·       Marginal Standing Facility (MSF): 4.25%
• ·       Bank Rate: 4.25%
• ·       Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR): 3%
• ·       Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR): 18%

Books & Authors

• ·       Names of the Women: Jeet Thayil
• ·       The Christmas Pig: J K Rowling
• ·       Climate Change Explained - For one & All: Aakash Ranison
• ·       The Living Mountain: Amitav Ghosh
• ·       Believe - What Life and Cricket Taught Me: Suresh Raina
• ·       Where abouts: Jhumpa Lahiri

IMPORTANT DAYS

Events & Dates

• ^·        World Autism Awareness Day: 2nd April
• ·       World Health Day: 7th April
• ·       World Homeopathy Day: 10th April
• ·       World Heritage Day: 18th April
• ·       National Civil Service Day: 21st April
• ·       World Earth Day: 22nd April
• ·       UN English Language Day: 23rd April
• ·       World Book Day: 23rd April
• ·       World Malaria Day: 25th April
• ·       World Intellectual Property Day: 26th April
• ·       Ayushmann Bharat Diwas: 30th April