1. India becomes first country in world to administer first dose of Covid vaccines to 97% of 18 plus people, says Health Minister Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya.
2. Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri launches ‘Jigyasa’ quiz competition to celebrate Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav.
3. The India Meteorological Department on Tuesday predicted that thunderstorms and heavy rainfall are likely to occur in Kerala and Tamil Nadu for the next two days.
4. *ANDHRA PRADESH* govt on 12 Apr announced an ex-gratia payment of Rs 2 lakh each to the kin of five persons killed in a train mishap in Srikakulam district.
5. *ASSAM* : PM Modi to inaugurate seven Cancer Hospitals in Assam on April 28.
6 *ARUNACHAL*: Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia launches first Dornier-228 aircraft at Pasighat airport in Arunachal Pradesh.
7. *GOA* CM Pramod Sawant allotted portfolios to newly-inducted ministers Ramkrishna alias Sudin Dhavalikar, Nilkanth Halarnkar and Subhash Phal Dessai on Tuesday. Dhavalikar has been given the Power, New and Renewable Energy and Housing portfolios, while Halarnkar will handle Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Factories departments. Dessai has been given Social Welfare and two other departments.
8. *HARYANA* : The NHRC has issued notices to the Haryana govt, a local body and a senior police official over a report that one person had died and three others suffered health complications while cleaning a sewage tank in Palwal district.
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) in a statement said the incident happened on April 9, and the sewage tank cleaning was being carried out by the municipal council through a private company, which had further given a sub-contract to another company.
9. *J&K* Police along with security forces arrested three Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) hybrid terrorists in the Sopore area of Baramulla district and recovered incriminating materials, arms and ammunition and cash,
10. *JHARKHAND*
Deogarh Ropeway Accident: Rescue operation over, 3 dead and 12 injured; Jharkhand HC takes suo motu cognizance, orders inquiry.
11. *MAHARASHTRA* : A court in Mumbai on Tuesday granted bail to three students arrested in the ‘Bulli Bai’ app case. Magistrate KC Rajput of Bandra court granted bail to Vishal Kumar Jha, Shweta Singh and Mayank Agarwal. Previously, both the Magistrate and sessions court had denied them bail, but the three filed their pleas again after the police submitted a charge sheet.
12. *MADHYA PRADESH:* An FIR has been registered against senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh over a tweet on the Khargone violence that broke out during a Ram Navami procession. Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan criticised Singh and termed his tweet a conspiracy to spread religious frenzy in the state.
13. *PUNJAB* CM Bhagwant Mann on Tuesday said his government will soon give “good news” to the people of the state, indicating that it could announce 300 units of free electricity to households.
14. Under the direction of Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann, the state education department has ordered the private schools of the state to share the list of books and uniform shops with the District Education Officers (DEOs). According to an official release, the schools have also been ordered not to force the parents to buy books and uniforms from any specific shop.
15. *TELANGANA* govt and Ministry of Commerce, Thailand entered into a Memorandum of Understanding aiming to promote trade and investments between both, an official release said on 12 Apr.
16. *UTTAR PRADESH* , The ruling BJP registered a thumping victory in the biennial elections of the Legislative Council. The ruling party won 33 seats, including nine unopposed out of 36 vacant seats.
17. *WEST BENGAL* : Responding to West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee’s ‘love affair’ remark on the Nadia rape case, the state’s Congress chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said that she was trying to “save the culprits”
*Nadia rape case* : A 14-year-old girl had died this past week after she was allegedly gang-raped at a birthday party held at the residence of the son of a local Trinamool Congress leader.
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The govt of India and the Asian Development Bank signed a 2 million dollar Project Readiness Financing Loan for designing climate-resilient urban infrastructure, strengthening institutional capacity, and improving municipal resource mobilization in 16 district headquarters towns in Nagaland on 12 Apr.
ENTERTAINMENT:
Alia Bhatt and Ranbir Kapoor’s grand wedding is just around the corner. The couple was supposed to tie the knot on April 14. But, the latest report suggests that their wedding might get postponed by a few days.
DEFENCE:
1. The future warfare is likely to be hybrid in nature wherein weapons such as economic strangulation, information blackout, computer virus and hypersonic missiles would be used, IAF Chief Vivek Ram Chaudhari said.
2. Indian Navy’s P8I plane has reached Australian city Darwin to participate in coordinated maritime operations such as anti-submarine warfare and surface surveillance.
Both the countries are part of security forum Quad. On April 2, India and Australia signed an economic cooperation and trade agreement under which Canberra would provide duty-free access in its market for over 95 per cent of Indian goods such as textiles, leather, jewellery and sports products.
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