TODAYS TOP NEWS
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1. Bengali New Year: Pohela Boishakh/Nabo Barsho, is celebrated today on April 15. . It usually falls of the 14th or 15th of April every year. Since this is the harvest festival, people pray to Lord Ganesha and also to Goddess Laxmi.
2. Weather update: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) issues thunderstorm, rain alert in these states. A cyclonic circulation situated over northeast Rajasthan, combined with increased moisture from the Arabian Sea expected to enter Northwest India on April 14 and 15, is contributing to these weather patterns. Additionally, a new western disturbance is forecasted to impact northwest India from 18 April 2024.
3. Union Home Minister Amit Shah will campaign in ethnic strife-torn Manipur on Monday.
4. Gujarat government on Sunday promoted and transferred 35 Indian Police Service officers amid the code of conduct in force for the Lok Sabha polls. Important cities like Surat and Vadodara got new police commissioners due to the exercise.
5. BJP on Sunday released its manifesto or ‘Sankalp Patra’, with the tagline “Modi ki Guarantee”, for the Lok Sabha election 2024 in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, party president JP Nadda and other senior leaders at the party headquarters in New Delhi.
6. Congress on Sunday issued another list of 10 candidates for the Lok Sabha election in Delhi and Punjab, tapping former Punjab chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi for the Jalandhar-SC Lok Sabha seat.
Veteran politician J P Agarwal from the Chandni Chowk seat and youth leader Kanhaiya Kumar from the North East Delhi seat. Former MP Dharvir Gandhi will be contesting from the Patiala Lok Sabha seat.
7. Addressing a poll rally at Sakoli town in Bhandara district of Maharashtra. Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday said the love for the son and daughter was responsible for the respective split in Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena and the NCP headed by Sharad Pawar.
8. The Uttar Pradesh government has tightened security in and around Ayodhya as lakhs of devotees are expected to flock to the city for Ram Navami celebrations, the first since the consecration ceremony at Ram Temple in January. Ram Navami to be held on April 17, attracting about 25 lakh devotees.
9. PM Modi to campaign in Thrissur, Thiruvananthapuram today. PM Modi landed in Kerala on Sunday as part of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s fervent electoral drive leading up to the imminent Lok Sabha elections. The Prime Minister, who reached Kochi from Mysuru on Sunday night, stayed at the Ernakulam Guest House.
10. Jain Acharya Lokesh Muni has become the first Indian monk to be honoured with the American President’s Gold Volunteer Service Award. The award is given to individuals who have provided at least 500 hours of voluntary service in the United States and whose work has positively impacted communities and inspired those around them.
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 Enforcement Directorate has written to the Karnataka governor and the Lokayukta seeking registration of an FIR and independent probe into ‘systematic rigging’ of a 2023 recruitment process in the Kolar-Chikkaballapur District Cooperative Milk Producers Union Limited (KOMUL) led by a Congress MLA under investigation in a money laundering case.
2. The Enforcement Directorate said it has attached assets worth more than Rs 365 crore till now as part of its two separate money laundering investigations linked to alleged irregularities in the recruitment of teachers for government schools in West Bengal.
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A six-year-old boy, who fell into an open borewell in Madhya Pradesh’s Rewa district two days ago, has died despite hectic efforts by multiple agencies to save him, The child fell into the borewell in Manika village, located close to the Uttar Pradesh border, at around 3 pm on Friday when was playing near it.
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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 ₹ 105(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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SILVER : ₹ 86,600/KG
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1. To tighten the offline payments ecosystem, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is expected to come out with guidelines for issuing licenses to operate in the point of sales (POS) business. Third-party POS operators would have to obtain licenses to function in the space. The move is expected to impact players such as Pine Labs, MSwipe, Paytm and BharatPe etc.
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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. ATTACK ON BOLLYWOOD ACTOR SALMAN KHAN HOUSE
Two motorbike-borne unidentified assailants opened fire outside Bollywood actor Salman Khan’s house in Mumbai’s Bandra area early Sunday morning.
Hours after the firing outside Salman Khan’s house on Sunday, Anmol Bishnoi, in a purported online post, took responsibility for the incident and issued a warning to the Bollywood actor, saying it was a ‘trailer’, police sources said.
2. Pushpa 2: The Rule: Makers sell Hindi rights for Rs 300 crore. The film is made on a massive budget of Rs 500 crore. Pushpa 2: The Rule is scheduled for a worldwide theatrical release on August 15th, 2024.
3. Businessman and Kannada film producer Soundarya Jagadish was found dead at his Bengaluru home on Sunday morning. Police are treating it as a case of suicide.
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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 Research and Development Organisation conducted successful trials of the Man Portable Anti-tank Guided Missile (MPATGM) Weapon System. The MPATGM consisted of the missile itself, a launcher, a targeting system, and a fire control unit.
2. Naval Investiture Ceremony 2024 was held at INS Hansa, Goa on 14 April 2024 to felicitate Naval personnel who have demonstrated gallantry, leadership, professional accomplishment and distinguished service of a high order. During the ceremony Admiral R Hari Kumar, Chief of the Naval Staff (CNS) conferred Gallantry and Distinguished Service awards to the recipients on behalf of the Hon’ble President of India.
3. A long-pending plan to raise a new Army division for possible deployment in eastern Ladakh is likely to be implemented this year as part of a series of changes for Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) and the Ladakh region,
According to sources, the Army is considering raising the 72 Division — which was to originally function under the 17 Mountain Strike Corps (MSC) based in Panagarh (West Bengal).
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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
15 Apr (Monday)
Vedic Ritu/ Vasant Ritu
Drik Ritu : Vasant (Spring)
पक्ष :: Shuklapaksh
Vikram Samvat – 2081
Shaka Samvat – 1946
Month : Chaitra 07 (Amanta)
Chaitra 21 (Purnimanta) Nakshatr:Punarvasu/
Pushya
Tithi : Saptami (up to 12:12 pm)/Ashtami
Rahu : 07:44 AM – 09:18 AM
Yamaganda 10:52 AM – 12:27 PM
Pooja
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