TODAYS TOP NEWS
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1. India Meteorological Department has forecast rainfall over Sub-Himalayan West Bengal, Odisha and Sikkim for the next two to three days. IMD also forecasts severe heat wave conditions over East and South Peninsular India during next five days.
2. Campaigning for second phase of Lok Sabha elections ends. Polling on 88 seats across 13 States and Union Territories to take place on Friday.
3. Supreme Court reserves verdict on petitions seeking cent per cent cross-verification of vote count in Electronic Voting machines with VVPAT slips.
4. The President of India Smt. Droupadi Murmu highlighted the pressing issue of climate change and underscored the critical role of forest conservation in combating its effects. Addressing the convocation ceremony of Indian Forest Service Probationers at Forest Research Institute in Dehradun yesterday.
5. The Vice-President Shri Jagdeep Dhankhar will visit Tirupati and Hyderabad on Friday. He will begin his visit to Andhra Pradesh by offering prayers and having darshan at the Sri Venkateswara Swamy Temple at Tirumala in Tirupati. Mr Dhankhar will also be the Chief Guest at the 3rd Convocation of the National Sanskrit University, Tirupati. On the same day, the Vice-President will visit the Bharat Biotech facility at Hyderabad in Telangana.
6. PM Modi has extended his best wishes to Swami Gautamanandaji Maharaj on being elected as the President of the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission.
7. PM Modi greeted the nation on Panchayati Raj Day (24 April). The 73rd Amendment Act of 1992 was enacted on this day, and in that honour, this day is celebrated every year in India. Shri Balwant Rai Mehta is known as the father of Panchayati Raj.
8. Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi attended an election rally in Amravati Lok Sabha constituency of Maharashtra.
9. The Rs 72,000 crore ‘Great Nicobar Island Development Project’ aimed at the holistic development of the Great Nicobar Island has come under scrutiny due to its potential impact on the indigenous Shompen and Nicobarese communities.
10. The Meghalaya state government is yet to appoint the vice chancellor of the Captain Williamson Sangma State University.
11. The government has started work on extending its health insurance scheme for the poor, the Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY), to cover everyone over 70 years of age irrespective of their income level — not just the poor.
12. JEE-Main April session results has been declared by the National Testing Agency (NTA). Although the result was supposed to come out on Tuesday, the release date was rescheduled. The results are now accessible on the official website jeemain.nta.ac.in. The NTA has additionally disclosed the cutoff for JEE Advanced, all India rank holders, and state-wise toppers in addition to the results.
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. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested the key accused in the 2022 Attari border narcotics haul case. NIA confirmed the arrest of the accused Tahseem alias Mota who is a resident of Shamli, Uttar Pradesh. The case relates to a major conspiracy hatched by the international drug cartel to circulate drugs in India.
2. Tihar Jail administration cancelled Delhi Minister Atishi’s meeting with Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal at the last moment, She will be meeting him on April 29.
3. Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Gujarat on Wednesday urged poll authorities to register a case against Nilesh Kumbhani, whose nomination form as a Congress candidate for the Surat Lok Sabha constituency was rejected recently over alleged discrepancies in the signatures of proposers that ultimately led to the Bharatiya Janata Party winning the seat unopposed.
4. The Karnataka government’s decision to categorise the entire Muslim community as a backward caste for reservation purposes in the state has drawn criticism from the National Commission for Backward Classes , which said such blanket categorisation undermines the principles of social justice.
5. Indian Overseas Congress chairman Sam Pitroda’s comments on inheritance tax triggered a political slugfest on Wednesday with PM Modi attacking Congress for planning to impose higher taxes and not wanting people to pass on their hard-earned income to their heirs. Congress distanced itself from Pitroda’s remarks.
An inheritance tax law existed in India until former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi scrapped it in 1985. An Estate Duty was a form of tax that was calculated at the time of a person’s death, it was introduced through the Estate Duty Act, 1953.
What did Pitroda say?
He backed the idea of an inheritance tax and cited the example of the US. “Nothing wrong in accumulating wealth but to what point? Let me tell you, in America there’s an inheritance tax. So, if let’s say one has $100 million worth of wealth, and when he dies he can transfer probably 45% to his children, 55% is grabbed by govt. Now that’s an interesting law. It says you, in your generation made wealth, and you are leaving now, you must leave your wealth for the public – not all of it, half of it, which to me sounds fair. In India you don’t have that. If somebody is worth $10 billion and dies his children get $10 billion. The public gets nothing. So these are the kinds of issues that people will have to debate and discuss.
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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 : ₹ 90(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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1. The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) unveiled its Climate Strategy 2030 document on Earth Day to address India’s growing need for green financing.
2. Juniper Green Energy on Tuesday said it has signed an agreement with Tata Power for the development of an 85 megawatt hybrid power project in Maharashtra.
3. Kerala High Court classifies Malabar ‘Parota’ as akin to bread, subject to lower GST @5% instead of 18%.
4. Reliance Jio, India’s leading telecom operator, has surpassed China Mobile to become the world’s largest consumer of mobile data traffic. Jio’s network handled a massive 40.9 exabytes of data in the first quarter of 2024, compared to China Mobile’s 38 exabytes, according to Tefficient, a global analytics firm.
5. Taking strong action over repeated non-compliance with IT norms, the Reserve Bank of India today barred Kotak Mahindra Bank Limited from onboarding new customers through online/mobile banking methods and also from issuing new credit cards with immediate effect. The RBI said it took the action under Section 35A of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949.
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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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1. Amitabh Bachchan was honoured with the Lata Deenanath Mangeshkar Puraskar on Wednesday and the megastar said he is fortunate to receive the award in the memory of the singer whose voice connected listeners to a higher power.
2. Sports film MAIDAAN box office collection: Ajay Devgn starrer, completes second week with Rs 38 crore.
3. Recently in an Interview, Bollywood Actor Vidya Balan said that India has become “more polarised” when it comes to religion. As a nation, we did not have a religious identity before but now I don’t know why… It’s not just politics, it is also social media, because we are all lost in this world and looking for an identity, which we don’t have organically, we are looking for things to attach ourselves to.
4. Vidya also opened up about why she never donates to people asking for funds to build a religious structure and said she would rather give her funds to areas involving healthcare, sanitation and education.
5. Renowned Bangladeshi singer Rezwana Choudhury Bannya received the prestigious Padma Shri Award on 22nd April. President of India Droupadi Murmu presented the Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, and Padma Shri Awards for the year 2024 at the Civil Investiture Ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi.
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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. Defence Secretary Giridhar Aramane will lead the Indian delegation to Astana, Kazakhstan to attend SCO Defence Ministers’ Meeting.
2. Defence Research and Development Organisation, DRDO has successfully developed the lightest Bullet Proof Jacket in the country for protection against highest threat Level 6 of BIS ammunition.
The jacket, designed by the Defence Materials and Stores Research and Development Establishment (DMSRDE) in Kanpur.
3. The 5th Annual High-Level Meeting between the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) and the Royal Oman Police Coast Guard (ROPCG) to combat transnational illegal activities at sea and promote regional cooperation took place in New Delhi.
4. The Indian Air Force (IAF) achieved a significant milestone by successfully test-firing an air-launched ballistic missile, known as ROCKS or Crystal Maze 2. The missile, capable of striking targets over 250 kilometers away, was launched from a Su-30 MKI fighter.
5. India-Russia S-400 Missile Deal: Current Status.
India signed a USD 5.5 billion deal with Russia in October 2018 to acquire five units of the S-400 Triumf surface-to-air missile systems. Russia has already supplied three units of the S-400 missile systems to India as of April 2024.
The remaining two regiments are set to be delivered by 2025, following some delays due to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict.
The original timeline aimed to complete deliveries by 2024. The first regiment of S-400 systems was delivered by Russia in December 2021.
6. The Border Roads Organisation (BRO) has opened the Leh-Manali national highway, restoring road connectivity between Ladakh and Himachal Pradesh. Project Deepak undertook the operation from Manali to Sarchu (border of Ladakh and Himachal Pradesh) and Project Himank clearing the highway from Leh to Sarchu.
7. CAPF Notification 2024. Applications are invited from male and female candidates to join the Central Armed Police Forces as Assistant Commandant. The Union Public Service Commission will hold a Written Examination on 04th August, 2024 for recruitment of Assistant Commandants (Group A) in the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) viz. Border Security Force (BSF), Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Central Industrial Security Force(CISF), Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) and Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB).
8. The Indian army conducts training for 1104 J-K police officers, trainees in Doda. This joint training activities aimed at increasing synergy, interoperability and understanding the strengths along with the ethos and culture of each other.
A total of 1,114 police sub-inspectors (PSIs), including 146 females, are undergoing training in guerrilla warfare at the Corps Battle School in Jammu and Kashmir’s Bhadarwah area.
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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
25 Apr (Thursday)
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Drik Ritu : Grishma (Summer)
पक्ष :: Krishnapaksh
Vikram Samvat – 2081
Shaka Samvat – 1946
Month : Chaitra 17 (Amanta)
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Anuradha
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