✈INTERNATIONAL NEWS
1. Japan’s planned development aid for India’s Andaman and Nicobar Islands carries a “geostrategic overtone,” with some security experts saying it is part of initiatives to keep an increasingly assertive China in check.
2. *BANGLADESH OFFERS CHITTAGONG PORT FOR USE TO INDIA* :. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday called on Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who underlined the importance of connectivity between the two neighbours and offered her country’s main seaport – Chittagong Port – to India’s landlocked north-eastern states like Assam and Tripura.
3. *MAURITIUS INDUCTS TWO AIRCRAFT FROM INDIA* : HAL Dhruv and Do-228 during the induction ceremony in Mauritius. Mauritius commissioned a passenger variant Do-228 aircraft and a leased Dhruv helicopter into the Mauritius Police Force (MPF) on April 27
🌎WORLD NEWS🌍
1. This year’s first solar eclipse will be visible in several parts of the world on April 30, 2022. A solar eclipse is a phenomenon in which the moon passes in between the Sun and Earth, casting a shadow on earth which can either be fully or partially blocking the sun’s light in some areas.
This time there will be a partial solar eclipse which will begin on May 01, 2022, at 12:15 am IST.
WHAT IS A PARTIAL SOLAR ECLIPSE?
The occurrence of the moon between the sun and the earth casting a shadow on Earth by partially blocking the sun’s light in some areas is known as the Solar eclipse. In the case of a partial solar eclipse, the sun and moon are not perfectly aligned in a straight line.
2. The National Commission for Minorities has expressed concern over the attack on people from Sikh community in Pakistan including former President of Pakistan Sikh Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee Mastan Singh.
It is alleged that local land mafia are behind the incident who are trying to encroach a prime piece of land.
3. Myanmar’s Central Committee on Prevention, Control and Treatment for Covid-19 has further extended the Covid-19 preventive measures until May 31 in efforts to contain the pandemic.
4. A powerful explosion killed more than 50 worshippers after Friday prayers at a Kabul mosque, its leader said, amid a series of attacks on civilian targets in Afghanistan during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
The blast hit the Khalifa Sahib Mosque in the west of the capital.
5. World’s richest person Elon Musk, who’s buying Twitter for $44 billion, has lined up a new CEO for the company.
6. *World’s longest glass-bottomed bridge opens in Vietnam, pics surface* :. A 632-metre-long glass-bottomed bridge suspended 150 metres (490 feet) above a jungle has opened in Vietnam. The Bach Long (‘White Dragon’) pedestrian bridge is believed to be the world’s longest glass-bottomed bridge and is located in Vietnam’s northwest Son La province. Its floor is made from French-manufactured tempered glass, making it strong enough to support 450 people at a time.
7. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy have accepted Indonesia’s invites to G20 summit in November.
8. Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has agreed to remove his older brother Mahinda Rajapaksa as the PM in a proposed interim government to solve a political impasse, ex-President Maithripala Sirisena said on Friday. The impasse was caused by the country’s worst economic crisis in decades.
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