1. Govt launched e-Sanjeevani Tele-consultation facility at one lakh centers from April 16: Health Minister Dr Mansukh Mandaviya said.
2. Over three lakh e-Sanjeevani Tele-consultations were provided to the people in a single day through the Ayushman Bharat Health and Wellness Centres across the country. This facility has been launched with the aim of helping the people living in remote villages in the country receive medical advice from various health experts.
3. The Indian Railways is planning to run its diesel locomotives fleet using bio-diesel.
4. Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas has dismissed the media reports as incorrect that the government has stopped doing natural gas allocation to City Gas Distributors-CGD.
5. *Andhra Pradesh* Governor Biswabhusan Harichandan has inaugurated the ‘Revision Knee Replacement Block’ at a Hospital in Guntur. Patients at the hospital availed the benefit under the ‘Aarogyasri’, ‘Aarogya Asara’ and EHS scheme, and Aarogya Mitra.
6. *DELHI* police has arrested six more accused in connection with Jahangirpuri violence that erupted during Hanuman Jayanti procession taking the total number of arrests to 20 so far.
7. Various unions of auto, taxi drivers in Delhi to go on strike demanding hike in fares
8. *HIMACHAL PRADESH* : Electricity bills till 125 units to be free of cost, says CM Jairam Thakur
9. *GUJARAT* : PM Modi will be on a three-day visit to Gujarat beginning from Monday. He will visit the Command and Control Centre for Schools in Gandhinagar.
10. The Centre collects over five hundred crore data sets annually and analyzes them meaningfully using big data analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning, to enhance overall learning outcomes for students.
11. *J&K* ‘s Tulip Garden to shut a week early due to high temperature. The flowers require temperatures between 15 and 25 degrees Celsius to bloom.
12. *MAHARASHTRA* govt has developed a website-based migration tracking system (MTS) to track the movement of the vulnerable seasonal migrant workers through individual unique identification numbers that will be assigned to them.
13. *Punjab* : Electricity bills till 300 units to be free of cost, says CM Bhagwant Mann.
14. Ex-Army chief JJ Singh said Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) must clarify if it supports the “pro-separatist and anti-India” views of British Labour Party MP Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi. This comes after Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann and AAP Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha met Dhesi on Friday. Singh added that Mann must disclose what transpired during their meeting.
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1. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will be travelling to the US on an official visit beginning April 18 to attend the Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank,. the G20 Finance Ministers meeting and the Central Bank Governor Meeting (FMCBG).
2. Nirmala Sitharaman will also attend an event at the Atlantic Council, a prominent think tank based in Washington DC, and will also interact with the faculty and students at Stanford University.
3. The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) has recently presented a set of Time Release Studies (TRS) that have been conducted by the department. TRS is a tool for performance measurement and assesses the international trade’s cargo clearance process.
4. Union Minister of State for Finance Dr. Bhagwat Karad has said that so far 45 crore bank accounts of beneficiaries have been opened under the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana- PMJDY.
ENTERTAINMENT:
1. Actress Shehnaaz Gill, taking to Twitter, praised actor Yash’s ‘KGF: Chapter 2′ and wrote, “Congratulations, I love you all.” She further wrote, “Loved the violence Yash. Peace out.” Shehnaaz then congratulated Srinidhi Shetty, Sanjay Dutt, Raveena Tandon and the film’s director Prashanth Neel. Yash replied to Shehnaaz’s tweet and commented, “Thank you.” The film was released on April 14.
2. Actor Madhavan 16-year-old son Vedaant Madhavan bagged the silver medal in the men’s 1500m freestyle swimming event at Danish Open in Copenhagen.
DEFENCE:
1. After China constructed a bridge over the Pangong lake in Ladakh, a senior official of the Chushul region has claimed that it has now installed mobile towers near its side of the border.
2. Chushul Councillor Konchok Stanzin in a tweet flagged the issue and claimed that three mobile towers have been installed near China’s hot spring very close to the Indian territory.
3. Army commanders’ conference is scheduled to be held from April 18-22, 2022 in New Delhi wherein senior leadership of the Indian Army will review the operational situation along the borders
4. For the appointment of the new Chief of Defence Staff, the govt is likely to consider both serving and retired military officers, The post has been lying vacant since December 8 last year after the death of the country’s first CDS late General Bipin Rawat in an air crash.
5. Director General of Indian Coast Guard (ICG) VS Pathania inaugurated the hover port at Okha and laid the foundation stone for a Coast Guard jetty at Vadinar, both located in Gujarat’s coastal Devbhumi Dwarka district.
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Vasant Ritu
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