TODAYS TOP NEWS
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1. The first phase of Lok Sabha Elections concluded at 6 pm on Friday, marking the commencement of the world’s largest democratic exercise. With a staggering 970 million eligible voters, this monumental election is set for a long and winding path across 44 days before culminating in the seventh phase on June 1.
2. The biggest chunk of seats in the first phase were from Tamil Nadu, where all 39 seats went to the polls. Top leaders from Tamil Nadu who were on the ballot included the DMK’s Kanimozhi (Thoothukudi), Dayanidhi Maran (Chennai Central), TR Baalu (Sriperumbudur) and BJP’s K Annamalai (Coimbatore).
3. Filing of nominations ends for third phase of Lok Sabha polls; Scrutiny of papers to take place today.
4. 🚨ALERT: India Meteorological Department issues heatwave alert for Odisha, West Bengal and Telangana.
5. The Kerala Health Department is set to introduce detailed standard operating procedures (SOPs) for the outbreak investigation and control of at least eight infectious diseases as part of its One Health initiative.
*The One Health project is currently being implemented as part of the World Bank-aided Rebuild Kerala project in four districts of the state: Alappuzha, Pathanamthitta, Kottayam, and Idukki. The project aims to establish a community-based disease surveillance network where trained One Health volunteers can report unusual events or deaths of animals/birds in their locality.
6. Punjab resident Baldev Kumar has become the first person from outside Jammu and Kashmir to contest Lok Sabha polls in the Union Territory. He filed his nomination papers from the Anantnag-Rajouri parliamentary constituency as an independent candidate on Friday.
7. Taking a dig at Pakistan without naming it, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said a country which was a supplier of aatank (terror) is struggling for aata (flour) these days. He said while addressing an election rally at Damoh in Madhya Pradesh.
8. Rain accompanied by dust storm lashed Chandigarh and parts of Punjab and Haryana on Friday, bringing relief from the hot weather conditions.
LEGAL REPORT
#Chief Justice of India:
Shri Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud
#Minister Of Law & Justice : Arjun Ram Meghwal
#International Court Of Justice Prz. : Nawaf Salam
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1. Firing by armed miscreants outside two polling stations in Meitei-dominated Imphal valley, damage of EVMs by angry voters and poll-boycott by a Kuki organisation marred poling on Friday for the two Lok Sabha constituencies in Manipur.
2. Narcotics Control Bureau’s (NCB) deputy director general (DDG) Sanjay Kumar Singh, who headed an SIT that gave a clean chit to actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan in the drugs-on-cruise case, has taken VRS just 8 months before his retirement.
He is also holding an enquiry against former NCB zonal director Sameer Wankhede on charges of alleged irregularities while conducting an investigation into two drug cases when the latter headed the NCB Mumbai office.
3. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal accuses the Enforcement Directorate of politicising his diet choices. While defending his food intake, the Delhi CM states that it aligns with his doctor’s prescribed diet chart. Kejriwal further requests insulin administration in jail as per his medical needs.
4. The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Friday suspended OCs of two police stations in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district for their alleged failure to stop violence during Ram Navami celebrations.
5. The Supreme Court on Friday asked yoga guru Ramdev to implead the complainants, who have lodged cases against him over his alleged remarks against the use of allopathic medicines during the Covid pandemic, as party in his plea seeking stay of criminal proceedings.
The Patna and Raipur chapters of the Indian Medical Association (IMA) have lodged complaints in 2021 alleging Ramdev’s remarks were likely to cause prejudice to Covid control mechanism and may dissuade people from availing proper treatment.
6. Rail traffic on the Ambala-Amritsar route was hit as farmers squatted on rail tracks in Shambhu near the Punjab-Haryana border for the third day on Friday, demanding the release of three farmers arrested by the Haryana Police.
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1. Two persons died and seven others went missing as the boat in which they were sailing capsized in the Mahanadi river in Odisha’s Jharsuguda district on Friday afternoon.
2. 12 students of a private school sustained injuries after the bus they were travelling in hit a truck near Dhanaula in Barnala on Friday morning. The bus driver and a woman helper were also injured. The bus was on its way to Green Field Convent School, Dangarh (Barnala),
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FINANCE
#Minister: Nirmala Sitharaman.
#Commerce & Industry : Piyush Goyal
#RBI Gvrnr: Shaktikanta Das
#President of the World Bank : Ajay Banga
#IMF MD: Kristalina Georgieva
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USD ₹ 84 (Approx)
💷 GBP ₹ 104(Approx)
€ Euro : ₹ 89(Approx)
🇨🇳 Yuan ¥ : ₹ 12
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GDP(PPP ) :
purchasing power parity (PPP)
$13.119 trillion
GDP (nominal)
: $3.73 trillion
(Nominal means total market value of all goods and services produced in a country’s economy) .
GDP growth : 8.4% (Q3 2023-24)
India is the fifth largest economy in the world.
Inflation rate : Retail Inflation 5.69% in Dec 2023
Population : 143.86 cr
(17.7% of the total world population).
Unemployment : 10.09% (Oct2023)
Per capita: This income is also known as average income as it is calculated by dividing the total income of the country by the total population of the country.
GDP per capita
$2,845 (Nominal; 2024)
$9,983 (PPP; 2024)
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BSE SENSEX
73,088.33 +599.34 (0.83%)🌲
NIFTY
22,147.00 +151.15 (0.69%)🌲
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Rates in Financial Capital Mumbai
GOLD : ₹ 74,350/10gm (24 krt)
SILVER : ₹ 86,400/KG
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PETROL : ₹ 95/Ltr
DIESEL : ₹ 88/Ltr
CNG : ₹ 74/Ltr
LPG : ₹ 803/14.2 Kg
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PETROL : ₹ 104/Ltr
DIESEL : ₹ 93/Ltr
Auto Gas : ₹ 60/Ltr
CNG : ₹ 74/Kg
LPG : ₹ 803/14.2 Kg
Canara Bank has set May 15 as the record date for a stock split to divide one share into five shares with a face value of ₹2 each. The public sector lender’s board approved the stock split proposal in February to improve liquidity.
2. National Payments Corporation of India’s (NPCI) wholly-owned subsidiary NPCI Bharat BillPay Limited (NBBL) has partnered with State Bank of India (SBI) to enable online recharge of SBI’s National Common Mobility Cards (NCMC) through the Bharat BillPay platform. This move aims to provide a convenient and seamless top-up facility to NCMC users while avoiding long queues.
3. The Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA) has set up an office in Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City), Gandhinagar, to provide foreign currency-denominated debt financing for green hydrogen and renewable energy manufacturing projects.
4. Meta Launches Advanced AI Assistant Powered by Llama 3: Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, has announced the launch of its new artificial intelligence (AI) assistant, Meta AI.
5. Two iconic products from the historic city of Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, have been granted the coveted Geographical Indication (GI) status. On April 16, 2024, the GI Registry Office based in Chennai announced that the Tiranga Barfi of Varanasi and the Dhalua Murti Metal Casting Craft have been included in the prestigious GI category.
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ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
#Information and Broadcasting Minister: Shri Anurag Singh Thakur
#Chairman of The Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) :
R Madhavan
#Chairman of Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC): Prasoon Joshi
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The biggest theatrical deal goes in the name of Allu Arjun’s Pushpa 2. According to industry estimates, Anil Thadani has acquired Pushpa 2 for a sum of Rs. 200 crores for North India.
The second best is the Prabhas and Deepika Padukone film, Kalki. The theatrical rights of the sci-fi saga have been sold to Anil Thadani for Rs. 100 crores, making it the 2nd biggest of the lot. The film is gearing up to release by the end of May.
Third on the list is Ram Charan and Shankar’s Game Changer. According to industry experts, Game Changer has been sold to Anil Thadani for Rs. 75 crore in North India.
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DEFENCE
#Supreme Commander of Armed Forces: The President
#Def Minister: Rajnath Singh
#Def Minister of State :
Ajay Bhatt
#Union Home : Amit Shah
#National Security Advisor : Ajit Doval
#Chief of Defence Staff:
Gen Anil Chauhan, PVSM UYSM AVSM SM VSM
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1. Nalin Prabhat, a 1992 batch IPS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre, has been appointed as the Director General of the National Security Guard (NSG).
2. Brigadier Priya Jeyaraj of Army Dental Corps has become the first woman officer to lead the Armed Forces Dental Clinic AFDC New Delhi.
3. 5th edition of India- Uzbekistan joint military Exercise DUSTLIK . The Exercise is scheduled to be conducted from 15th to 28th April 2024 at Termez, the Republic of Uzbekistan. Exercise DUSTLIK is a yearly event conducted alternatively in India and Uzbekistan. Last edition was conducted at Pithoragarh (India) in February 2023.
4. The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) is planning to test the new long-range Astra Mk-2 Air-to-Air (A2A) Beyond Visual Range (BVR) missile in the next few months. The Astra Mk-2 is a longer-range variant of the Astra Mk-1 A2A BVR missile, which is currently used by the Indian Air Force (IAF) from the Russian Sukhoi-30 MKI jet.
5. India delivered the BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles to the Philippines on Friday, as part of the $375 million deal between the two sides signed in 2022.
The Indian Air Force sent its American-origin C-17 Globemaster transport aircraft with the missiles to the Philippines to deliver the weapon system to the Philippines’ Marine Corps.
6. Tri-Services All Women Around the World Blue Water Sailing Expedition : An all-women crew comprising 12 officers from the Indian Army, Navy, and Air Force has completed a four-week rigorous sailing expedition in the Arabian Sea ahead of a global circumnavigation competition that is scheduled in September this year.
The crew went on the journey under the banner of the Army Adventure Wing and the Army Aqua Nodal Centre of the College of Military Engineering.
7. The Armed Forces Medical Services (AFMS) and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on research and development of technologies to address health issues faced by soldiers in difficult terrains.
8. The Government of India has appointed Vice Admiral Dinesh Kumar Tripathi, PVSM, AVSM, NM, currently serving as the Vice Chief of the Naval Staff, as the next Chief of the Naval Staff with effect from the afternoon of April 30, 2024. He will succeed the present Chief of the Naval Staff, Admiral R Hari Kumar, PVSM, AVSM, VSM, who retires from service on the same day.
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In Bharat there are 28 states and 8 Union territories.
Population of Bharat:
142 cr (2023)
President of Bharat ,
Smt Droupadi Murmu
Vice President
Shri Jagdeep Dhankhar
Prime Minister : Shri Narendra Modi
Speaker Lok Sabha :
Shri Om Birla (BJP)
Rajyasabha Seats : 245 (233 Elected + 12 Nominated)
Loksabha : 550 members (530 States 20 Union Territories)
Chief Election Commissioner:
Shri Rajiv Kumar
20 Apr (Saturday)
Vedic Ritu/ Vasant Ritu
Drik Ritu : Vasant (Spring)
पक्ष :: Shuklapaksh
Vikram Samvat – 2081
Shaka Samvat – 1946
Month : Chaitra 12 (Amanta)
Chaitra 26 (Purnimanta) Nakshatr:Purva Phalguni (up to 2:04 pm)
Uttara Phalguni
Tithi : Dwadashi (up to 10:42 pm)Trayodashi
Rahu : 09:15 AM – 10:50 AM
Yamaganda 02:00 PM – 03:36 PM
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