1. Panchayati Raj Ministry to celebrate National Panchayat Awards Week from 17th April to 21st April 2023 to commemorate Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav 2.0; Theme of National Panchayat Awards Week Celebrations is Panchayaton ke Sankalpon ki Siddhi ka Utsav (पंचायतों के संकल्पों की सिद्धि का उत्सव).
2. President Droupadi Murmu to inaugurate National Panchayat Awards Week & confer National Panchayat Awards at ‘National Conference on Incentivization of Panchayats-cum-Award Ceremony’ at Plenary Hall, Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi.
3. A two-day Global Conference on Compressed Biogas to begin at Silver Oak, Indian Habitat Centre, New Delhi. Union Petroleum & Natural Gas & Housing & Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri to be Chief Guest at two-day Global Conference.
4. Today: G20 Meetings @
(a) Three –day ,2nd Digital Economy Working Group Meeting of G20 to begin at Hyderabad
(b) Three-day,2nd Health Working Group meeting under G20 India Presidency to begin at Goa
(c) Three day, G20 Agricultural Chief Scientists (MACS) Meeting to begin at Varanasi
(d) Two days G20 “Space Economy Leaders Meeting”to begin at Shillong.
5. Union Government has decided to prepare a Standard Operating Procedure (SOPs) for the safety and security of journalists. Sources said that the Ministry of Home Affairs will prepare these SOPs under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the guidance of Home Minister Amit Shah.
6. The Uttar Pradesh government has imposed section 144 in Lucknow, Prayagraj and 73 other districts of the State, hours after gangster-tuned-politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf were shot dead.
7. To ensure the timely disposal of criminal cases, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) e-prosecution portal (which is a part of the Inter-Operable Criminal Justice System) has added a new feature that will also fix the accountability of government lawyers.
8. Delhi government to call a Special Session of Assembly & it is likely to discuss CBI’s notice to CM Arvind Kejriwal in excise policy case in House in New Delhi.
9. JNU asked students, faculty and staff on campus to wear masks and practice social distancing as COVID-19 cases rise in Delhi. According to the new guidelines issued by the university.
10. Andhra Pradesh CM Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy to participate in state-level Iftar programme at Vidyadharapuram stadium in Vijayawada.
11. The Haryana government on Sunday ordered the transfer and posting of 15 IAS, IPS and IRS officers. The orders were issued by Chief Secretary Sanjeev Kaushal.
12. Rajasthan Congress Party to hold one-on-one dialogue with MLAs to get feedback in Jaipur from April 17 to April 20 for each division of State.
13. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said if his party wins Karnataka Assembly polls, 200 units of free electricity will be given to all every month. Other schemes he promised include ‘Gruha Lakshmi’ (₹2,000/month to each family’s woman head) and ‘Anna Bhagya’ (10 kg rice/month to each BPL family). He also promised ₹3,000/month to unemployed graduates and ₹1,500/month to diploma-holding unemployed.
14. Former Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar resigned as MLA on Sunday after expressing anguish over denial of ticket to contest in the May 10 Karnataka Assembly elections. He is likely to join Congress on Monday.
15. Tamil Nadu ruling party DMK has sent a ₹500-crore legal notice to state BJP chief K Annamalai alleging defamation after the latter released a video titled ‘DMK Files’ accusing DMK leaders of having unaccounted assets.
16. The RSS on Sunday conducted route march at 45 locations across Tamil Nadu, including Chennai, after the Supreme Court granted permission for the same.
17. 62-day-long Amarnath Yatra ,Registration through both modes – online & offline to begin.
18. The Solar Energy Corporation of India Limited (SECI) has been accorded the status of Miniratna Category-I Central Public Sector Enterprise (CPSE).
CRIME REPORT
1. Gangster-politician Atiq Ahmad and his brother Khalid Azeem alias Ashraf were buried in their ancestral village Kasari Masari graveyard in Prayagraj for performing the last rites in this Uttar Pradesh district amid tight security on Sunday.
The bodies of former Samajwadi Party (SP) MP Ahmad and Ashraf, who were gunned down by three assailants posing as journalists in Prayagraj on Saturday night, were taken to the graveyard in ambulances.
2. Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on Sunday said that, “Atiq Ahmad, who was brought from a Gujarat jail, and his brother Ashraf, who was brought from Bareilly jail, Saturday night in Prayagraj in police custody is just as heinous as the Umesh Pal murder case. The killing in police custody raises serious questions over the style of functioning of the Uttar Pradesh government”. She said.
3. According to Special DG (Law and Order) statement:: At about 10.30 pm on Saturday both Atiq and Ashraf were being taken for a health examination Motilal Nehru Regional Hospital in Shahganj area, where from the crowd of media, three persons with video camera, mike and media ID reached them and started firing indiscriminately. The three attackers were caught by the policemen.
4. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was questioned for nearly nine hours by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Sunday in the excise policy case.
5. Supreme Court to hear a plea for a direction to West Bengal, Bihar, Gujarat,Maharashtra, Karnataka, Jharkhand & Telangana governments to assess loss of properties & injuries suffered by people during violence witnessed during ‘Ram Navami’ procession on March 30 and subsequently & pay them adequate compensation.
6. Recently, The Supreme Court said that prisoners on death row were taking advantage of inordinate delays in deciding mercy petitions to seek commutation of their punishment to life sentence, thereby defeating the purpose of death sentence.
A convict can present a mercy petition to the President of India under Article 72 of the Constitution of India.
Similarly, the power to grant pardon is conferred upon the Governors of States under Article 161 of the Constitution of India.
7. The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) has issued an advisory asking people not to download a suspicious Android application called ‘irctcconnect.apk.’ The app is being circulated through messaging platforms such as WhatsApp and Telegram. “Fraudsters are convincing people to download this and tricking victims into revealing their sensitive net banking credentials,” IRCTC said.
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1. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has granted clearance to EbixCash, the Indian subsidiary of Nasdaq-listed Ebix Inc, for its proposed Initial Public Offering (IPO). EbixCash is now planning to work on the next steps leading to its listing on NSE and BSE, it said in a statement. The IPO is expected to raise between ₹6,000-₹8,000 crore.
2. SBI filed an application in the Supreme Court seeking clarification on the apex court’s order which ruled that borrowers have right to be heard before their accounts are classified as fraudulent. SBI said that the order could be misconstrued by defaulters to initiate litigation. SBI also asked the court to clarify that it wouldn’t impact past cases.
ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
Siddique’s annual Iftaar party: Actors Salman Khan, Pooja Hegde and Urmila Matondkar attended Indian politician Baba Siddique’s annual Iftaar party at Hotel Taj Lands End in Mumbai’s Bandra. Salman’s sister Arpita Khan Sharma and his father Salim Khan also attended the event.
DEFENCE
1. The Combat Vehicles Research and Development Establishment (CVRDE), a lab under DRDO, today handed over indigenous aircraft quality Aircraft Mounted Accessory Gear Box (AMAGB) bearings and flight clearance certificate of PTO Shaft for TEJAS to the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (Engines) Bangalore.The bearings, designed and developed by CVRDE.
2. In a major push to counter Chinese manoeuvres in Arunachal Pradesh, the Union government has earmarked six out of seven sanctioned Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) battalions and stationed one sector headquarters in the north eastern border state.
3. ATMANIRBHARTA IN MOUNTAIN WARFARE: Indian Army’s ‘ZORAWAR’ LIGHT WEIGHT TANKS to be operational by 2027. These tanks are mainly meant for plains and deserts deployment and have its limitations in high-altitude areas. During the DefExpo 2022 at Gandhinagar, the DRDO had displayed a scale model of Zorawar tanks.
4. Five –day, Army Commanders’ Conference (ACC) 2023 to virtually begin to discuss emerging security scenario & other matters.
Indian Army’s apex event Army Commanders’ Conference (ACC) will be conducted in hybrid format this year. The Conference is scheduled to be organised from April 17 to 21.The decision to conduct the Army event in hybrid mode comes in an attempt to utilise the available technology and establish secure communication.
5. BSF troops recovered more than three kilogrammes of heroin, allegedly airdropped by a Pakistani drone, near the India-Pakistan border in Punjab’s Amritsar on 15 Apr.
6. IAF contingent that was enroute to France takes a quick halt in EgyptAn Indian Air Force (IAF) contingent on Saturday, April 15, departed for France to participate in multilateral international Exercise Orion at Mont-de-Marsan, an Air Force base of the French Air and Space Force (FASF). The exercise will be conducted from April 17 to May 05, 2023.
7. The United States, Japan and South Korea said in a joint statement they discussed the regularisation of missile defence and anti-submarine exercises to deter and respond to North Korea’s nuclear and missile threats.
8. China successfully conducted a land-based, mid-course antiballistic missile (ABM) technical test on Friday, marking China’s seventh publicly announced land-based ABM test since 2010.
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Capital:. SHIMLA
Dharamshala (Winter)
As UT :. 01 Nov 1956
Formation: 25 Jan 1971
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Districts : 12
Gvrnr : Shiv Pratap Shukla
CM Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu (INC)
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Flower : Pink rhododendron
Mammal :Snow leopard
Tree: Deodar cedar
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Vedic Ritu: Vasant (Spring)
Drik Ritu: Vasant (Spring)
पक्ष :: Krishnapaksha
Month : Vaishaka 11, (Purnimanta)
Chaitra 27, (Amanta)
Vikram Samvat – 2080
Shaka Samvat – 1945 *Nakshatra*:Purva Bhadrapada/ Uttara Bhadrapada
Tithi: Dwadashi (up to 3:46 pm) Trayodashi
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