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Revamped Rashtriya Gram Swaraj Abhiyan

• Rs. 5911 crores
• extended for a period of four years from 1st April 2022 to 31st March
2026
• central government providing Rs 3,700 crore while the states will provide
Rs 2,211 crore.
• developing the Panchayati Raj Institutions governance capabilities.
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National Agriculture Market Completed 6 years

• 1000 mandis from 18 states and three union territories

• Agricultural exports USD 50.21 billion in 2021-22

• launched on April 14th in 2016
funded by the Central Government
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Bullet Train Project: Japan will send high-speed ‘E5 Shinkansen series
trains’ to India
• six trains
• speed of 320 Kilometre per hour
• 48 km section between Surat-Bilimora in 2027
Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet Train
length of the bullet train corridor is 508.17 km
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e-Sanjeevani Tele-consultation Facility

1 lakh Ayushman Bharat-Health and Wellness Centres teleconsultation
facility began
1,17,440 AB-HWCs had been operationalized
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PM Modi dedicates K. K. Patel Super Speciality Hospital in Bhuj to the

nation
• built by Shree Kutchi Leva Patel Samaj, Bhuj
• one medical college in every district of the country
 Puducherry LG inaugurated Beach Festival I Sea PONDY-2022
• Four different locations: Gandhi statue beach promenade, Chunnambar
water sports complex, Pondy Marina, and Paradise beach

• Chief Minister: N. Rangaswamy

• Puducherry LG: Dr. Tamilisai Soundararajan
 Maharashtra Migration Tracking System
• to track the movement of the vulnerable seasonal migrant
workers through individual unique identification numbers that
will be assigned to them.
HAL Signed Contract With Nigerian Army For Flying Training
On Chetak Helicopter
• six officers of Nigerian Army Aviation
• 70 Hours flying training
 IAF & IIT-M inks MoU to accelerate
indigenisation efforts of IAF

• Headquarters- New Delhi

• Founded-1932
• Chief of the Air Staff (India)-Vivek Ram Chaudhari
IIT Guwahati & NTPC Partners to Develop Energy Efficient
Tech to Capture CO2

• Chairman & Managing Director– Gurdeep Singh

• Headquarters– New Delhi
India Electronics and Semiconductor Association and United
States’ Semiconductor Industry Association signed MoU
• A 17-member committee was formed
• Union Cabinet has announced a Rs 76,000 crore incentive
scheme
 Telangana and Thailand Signs MoU to Promote Trade
• Through the business incubator and innovation ecosystem “T-
Hub” and “Thaitrade.com” of Thailand with the “GlobalLinker” of
Telangana.

• Prime Minister– Prayut Chan-o-cha.

• Capital– Bangkok
• Currency– Thai Baht
 Karnataka Integration Day
• Sri Siddalinga Swami of Tontadarya Mutt’s birth anniversary in
Gadag will be celebrated across the state as ‘Integration Day.’
 Israel successfully tests new laser-based air defence system
‘Iron Beam’
• Iron Beam is the world’s first energy-based weapons system
that uses a laser beam to shoot down incoming UAVs, rockets,
mortars, long-range missiles, anti-tank missiles etc.
• developed by the Rafael Advanced Defense Systems

• It ranges up to 7 km. It cost around 3.50 United States Dollar

(USD) or Rs.250 per laser shot.
Prabhat Patnaik named for Malcolm Adiseshiah Award 2022
• annually given by the Malcolm and Elizabeth Adiseshiah Trust
• Dr Patnaik has taught at the Centre for Economic Studies and
Planning in the School of Social Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru
University in New Delhi
 Odisha CM unveils logo of 2023 Men’s Hockey World Cup
• To be held in the twin cities of Bhubaneswar and Rourkela
 Tamil Nadu beat Punjab in National basketball championship
final
• Indian Railways team won the women’s title beating Telangana
 PM Modi Inaugurates 108 ft tall statue of Lord Hanuman ji in
Morbi of Gujarat
• second among the four statues being built in the four directions
across the country, as part of the ‘Hanumanji Char Dham’ project
• The first in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh in 2010.

• The third will be set up in the South at Rameswaram

• final statue in East in West Bengal

 “Ayushman Bharat - Health and Wellness Centres achieves yet
another milestone – Records all time high teleconsultations on a
single day!”
• More than 3 lakh teleconsultations were done in a day at
Ayushman Bharat - Health and Wellness Centres on 16th April
2022.
• surpassing its earlier record of 1.8 lakh teleconsultations per day.
Manipur to host the highest Indian national flag at INA complex
• 165-foot-high Indian national flag, the tallest in the Northeast,
would be hoisted at the Indian National Army headquarters
complex in Moirang in Manipur’s Bishnupur district
Ministry of Panchayati Raj organized the National Conference on
Poverty free and Enhanced livelihood village and Self Sufficient
infrastructure Village
• Ministry of Panchayati Raj also organized the National Level
Conference on Localization of Sustainable Development Goals,
focusing on (Theme-1 Poverty free and Enhanced livelihood
village) and (Theme 6: Self Sufficient infrastructure Village).
• Celebrate the wedding of Lord Krishna and Goddess Rukmani
 DG, NMCG Participates In Singapore International Water Week
2022
• title on ‘Standing of Wastewater Technology, Remedy and
Administration in India: Success Via NMCG Initiatives.’
 NCR Governments Inks Combined Reciprocal Common
Transport Agreement
• The Governments of Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh
of National Capital Region have signed a Combined Reciprocal
Common Transport Agreement covering both Contract Carriage &
Stage Carriage since the validity of earlier Agreements of
Reciprocal Common Transport Agreement is about to end soon.
 Union Ministers S.Jaishankar & Rajnath Singh visited US to
attend 4th India-U.S. 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue 2022
• India has 2+2 dialogues with four nations: the US, Australia,
Japan, and Russia.
• With the US, the dialogue was initiated in 2018.
 United Nations report suggested COVID plunged 77 million into
poverty prior Ukraine war
• United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN-
DESA) report, titled ‘2022 Financing for Sustainable Development
Report: Bridging the Finance Divide’
• 812 million people lived in severe poverty on $1.90 per day or
less in 2019, and by 2021, the figure had climbed to 889 million
due to the pandemic
 “UDAN” scheme selected for Prime Minister’s Award for
Excellence in Public Administration 2020
• under the category “Innovation (General) – Central”.
 Commerce & Industry Minister Piyush Goyal honours high-
performing exporters of plastics industry, presents 'Export
Excellence Awards in Mumbai
• Addressing the 'Export Excellence Awards 2017-2021' of apex
plastics industry trade body The Plastics Export Promotion
Council (PLEXCONCIL) in Mumbai
• Chairman Emeritus of Nilkamal Limited, Vamanrai V. Parekh,
received the Lifetime Achievement Award.

• 95 companies and organisations were honoured with Export

Excellence Awards.
 COMPLETION OF SAIL TRAINING CAPSULE FOR REPUBLIC OF
SOUTH AFRICA NAVY (RSAN) OFFICERS
• at INS Mandovi, Goa.

• training was conducted onboard Indian Naval Sailing Vessel Tarini

which had circumnavigated the globe with an all-women crew from
September 2017 to May 2018.
Lloyd appointed Sourav Ganguly as Its Brand Ambassador For
Eastern Indian markets
 Veteran television producer & actor Manju Singh passes away
• She was the anchor of the children’s program, Khel Khilone for 7
years.
 Odia musician and singer Prafulla Kar passed away
• He had received the prestigious Padma Shri award in 2015 and
was honoured with Jayadeva award in 2004.
 New Children’s Book “The Boy Who Wrote a Constitution ”
• authored by Rajesh Talwar
 “Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Package: Insurance Scheme for
Health Workers fighting COVID-19” extended for a further period
of 180 days
• 1905 claims of Health workers who died while being deployed for
Covid related duties have been settled.
• launched on 30th March, 2020 to provide comprehensive personal
accident cover of Rs. 50 Lakh to 22.12 lakh health care providers
 India’s 1st Internet Radio “Radio Aksh” For Visually Challenged
Launched In Nagpur
• The Blind Relief Association Nagpur and Samdrushti Kshamata
Vikas Avam Anusandhan Mandal
 BRO to construct world’s highest tunnel at Shinku La Pass
connecting Himachal Pradesh to Ladakh
• 16,580 feet
• Mission Yojak
• expected to be completed by 2025
NHPC signed MoU with Chamba district of Himachal Pradesh for
develop green Hydrogen project
• 20 kg Hydrogen per day

NHPC Limited:
• CMD– Abhay Kumar Singh
• Headquarters– Faridabad
 NITI Aayog to launch National Data and Analytics Platform

• portal will feature 200 datasets from over 46 ministries

 Hunar Haat” 40th edition organised in Mumbai
• over 4 crore people attended 39 “Hunar Haats” across the country
• Union minister Anurag Thakur inaugurated
 Agricultural imports from India suspended by Indonesia
• failure by New Delhi officials to register laboratories that evaluate
food safety and issue certificates of analysis
• contributed for roughly 30% of India’s sugar exports
• over half of India’s groundnut exports.
• accounted for 6% of India’s wheat exports

• President: Joko Widodo Trending

• Capital: Jakarta
• Currency: Indonesian rupiah
 Defence Secretary inaugurates two-day National Level Pollution
Response Exercise of Indian Coast Guard off Mormugao
harbour, Goa
• 85 participants from 50 agencies, including 29 observers from 22
friendly foreign countries & International Organisations and two
Coast Guard ships from Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
• 13 ships and 10 aircraft from ICG, one C-131 aircraft from the
Indian Air Force, two ships from SACEP member states viz. Sri
Lanka and Bangladesh and one Offshore Supply vessel (OSV)
from ONGC, assets from Shipping Corporation of India and tugs
from Mormugao Port Trust
 KVIC Breaks All Previous Records to Create Highest Ever
Employment under PMEGP in FY 2021-22
• 8,25,752 new employment were created across the country
• 1,03,219 units have been established at a total capital of nearly Rs
12,000 crore out of which KVIC disbursed a margin money subsidy
of Rs 2,978 crore while the bank credit flow was nearly Rs 9,000
crore.
 Integrated Command-Control Centre in All Smart Cities

• Out of the 100 cities in the country that are being developed under
the Smart Cities Mission in 80 of them, the Integrated Command
and Control Centres have already been set up. By 15th August
2022, the rest of them will also have the Integrated Command and
Control Centres.
 DGCA Surveillance Plan
• A surveillance mechanism has been rolled out by the Directorate
General of Civil Aviation with the aim of identifying non–
compliance with flight safety standards and alerting the authorities
that are authorized for taking urgent corrective action to resolve the
deficiencies.
• “Deficiency Reporting Form”

• specified 30 days’ timeframe, a further 15 days extension

 World Bank Report States Extreme Poverty in India Decline by
12.3% between 2011-2019
• Poverty headcount rate dropped from 22.5 per cent in 2011 to
10.2 per cent in 2019

• The paper titled ‘Poverty in India has declined over the last
decade but not as much as previously thought’ and authored by
Sutirtha Sinha Roy and Roy van de Weide

• Rural and urban poverty dropped by 14.7 and 7.9 percentage

points during 2011-2019.
 AIMA honours Shoojit Sircar with Director Of The Year award
• 12th edition of the AIMA Managing India Awards in Delhi
 Lieutenant General Manoj Pande appointed as the next Chief of
Indian Army
• will be the first officer from the Corps of Engineers to become the
COAS.
 Vikram Dev Dutt named as Air India Asset Holding CMD
• Dutt was in-charge of Air India as a CMD till the airline was handed
over to the Tata Group.
 Indian Cricketer Robin Uthappa appointed as ambassador for
Karnataka Brain Health Initiative
KA-BHI was launched by the State government in association with
the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, NITI Aayog and National
Institute of Mental Health and Neuro-Sciences Bangalore
 Excercise Kripan Shakti conducted by Trishakti Corps in West
Bengal
• at the Teesta Field Firing Ranges near Siliguri, West Bengal.
 Indigenously Developed Specialist Vehicles inducted Into Army
• at a function organised at the Bombay Engineer Group and Centre
 Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi steps down as President of Yemen
• Earlier this month, Yemeni President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi
stepped down after seven years of war in the country and handed
over his power to the newly created presidential council
 “Neptune” Ukraine’s Homemade Anti-Ship Cruise Missile
• Neptune is a Ukrainian homemade anti-ship cruise missile capable
of destroying targets within a range of 300 km.
• 16-ft long engine-powered missiles can travel at speeds of up to
560mph
New Zealand Pace Bowler Hamish Bennett announces retirement
from all forms of cricket
• made his international debut in October 2010
 Haryana beat Tamil Nadu to win 12th Senior Men’s National
Hockey Championship
• was held in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
• Karnataka prevailed over Maharashtra in the third/fourth place classification
match.
 Danish Open swimming: Sajan Prakash wins gold
• men’s 200m butterfly gold at the Danish Open swimming meet in
Copenhagen
• Vedaant Madhavan bagged the silver medal in the men’s 1500m freestyle
event
 PM inaugurates Global AYUSH Investment & Innovation Summit in
Gandhinagar
• new category named 'Ayush Aahar' was announced
launch of Ayush Export Promotion Council and four Ayush ICT initiatives which
includes Ayush Information Hub, AyuSoft, Ayush Next and Ayush GIS.
‘Professor Ayushman
Rashtriya Ayurveda Vidyapeeth (RAV) MoU with Argentina
Tripartite MoU between All India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA) and Brazil
All Indian Institute of Ayurveda and University Health Network, Toronto (UHN),
Canada
the establishment of the Ayurveda Chair at Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León
(UANL), Mexico
MoU between NIA, Jaipur and Philippine Institute of Traditional and Alternative
Health Care
 National Apprenticeship Mela 2022

• across the country in more than over 700 locations

 National Conference on Agriculture- Kharif Campaign – 2022
• 2nd Advance Estimates (2021-22), the country’s total production of
foodgrains is estimated at 3160 lakh tonnes which is an all-time
record.
• The production of oilseeds and pulses will be 371.5 and 269.5 lakh
tonnes
• the horticulture production is 3310.5 lakh tonnes
• the target for total food grain production has been set at 3280 lakh
tonnes
 Indo-Finnish Virtual Network Centre on Quantum Computing

• IISER-Pune, IIT-Madras, and C-DAC-Pune.

National Cyber Security Incident Response Exercise (NCX India)

• Over 140 officials will be provided training through training sessions

and strategic exercises.
 Ethosh Digital has opened its first IT Training & Services centre
in Leh
• Ethosh Digital was assisted in establishing the first IT office in
Ladakh by Aseem Foundation
• Ethosh Digital is a multinational company established in California
that specialises in digital communications and AR-VR products.
 Supreme Court reconstitutes expert committee for Delhi-
Dehradun Corridor project
• CP Goyal, the Director-General of the Ministry of Environment and
Forests, will now head the expert committee

Two new members who have been added to the committee are - Anil
Prakash Joshi, founder of Himalayan Environmental Studies and
Conservation Organisation, and Vijay Dhasmana, an environmentalist.
 Nation’s first portable solar rooftop system unveiled in
Gandhinagar
• inaugurated at Swaminarayan Akshardham temple complex in
Gandhinagar, Gujarat.
• 10 Photovoltaic PV Port system has been manufactured by New
Delhi-based Servotech Power Systems Ltd and designed by the
German development agency Deutsche Gesellschaft fur
Internationale Zusammenarbeit
• has a long shelf life of 25-30 years
 POSOCO organizes Training program on Power System
Modelling and Simulation
• The training program is being attended by participants from
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal and Sri Lanka at New Delhi.
India’s first pure green hydrogen plant commissioned in Assam
• India’s first 99.999% pure Green Hydrogen pilot plant has been
commissioned by the Oil India Limited
• an installed capacity of 10 kg per day
 Telangana launched first space-tech Framework
• The event was hosted on metaverse, making it the first such official
event in India.
• blockchain technology was created by Hyderabad-based tech
company Gamitronics, and the metaverse platform was launched
by teh firm PartyNite.
 National Metallurgist Award 2021
• The name of the award was changed from National Metallurgist
Day Award to National Metallurgist Awards
 IAF successfully test-fires BrahMos missile from Su30-MkI
fighter jet on Eastern seaboard
• BrahMos missile flies at a speed of 2.8 Mach
• range is extended to around 350 km
Ministry of Defence signs MoUs with Ministry of AYUSH to start
Ayurveda Centres at 37 Cantonment & 12 AFMS military
hospitals
 LAUNCH OF SIXTH SCORPENE SUBMARINE ‘VAGSHEER’ AT
MAZAGON DOCK LIMITED (MDL), MUMBAI
• The sixth and last submarine ‘Vagsheer’ of the Indian Navy’s
Kalvari class submarines of Project 75 has been launched at the
Kanhoji Angre Wet Basin of Mazagon Dock Limited
 Digit Insurance Appoints Jasleen Kohli as MD & CEO
• Kohli will take over from Vijay Kumar
 India Pulses and Grains Association named Bimal Kothari as
Chairman
• Kothari takes over from Jitu Bheda, who was the IPGA chairman
since 2018.
 Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Kamlesh Nilkanth Vyas Gets 1 year
Extension
• 2nd extension for Kamlesh Nilkanth Vyas, who has been serving as the
Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission since September 2018.
 Tropical Storm Megi: Landslides and floods caused Mass
Destruction in Philippines
• Tropical Storm Megi also known as Tropical Storm Agaton in the
Philippines

• Megi made two landfalls, one at Guiuan’s Calicoan Island and the
other in Samar’s Basey.
 La Roda International Open Chess tournament
• 48th La Roda International Open Chess tournament held at Castilla
La Mancha, Spain

Rank Country Grand Master

1 India Dommaraju Gukesh
2 Armenia Haik Mikaeli Martirosyan
3 India Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa
4 India Raunak Sadhwani
5 Spain Manuel Lopez Martinez Josep
 Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters 2022
• Stefanos Tsitsipas has won the Men’s Singles title
• Joe Salisbury and Rajeev Ram won the Men’s Doubles Title
 Book “Hear Yourself”
• Renowned Author Prem Rawat has released his book titled “Hear
Yourself: How to Find Peace in a Noisy World”
• available in 58 countries and it is available in 5 languages English,
French, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese.
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Day Date Theme

Utkal Divas or Utakala 1st April -
Dibasha or Odisha Day
World Autism Awareness 2nd April “Inclusive Quality Education
Day for All”
International Children’s Book 2nd of April “Stories are wings that help
Day you soar every day.”
International Day for Mine 4th April “Safe Ground, Safe Steps,
Awareness and Assistance in Safe Home.”
Mine Action
National Maritime Day in 5 April Sustainable Shipping beyond
India Covid-19’’.
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Day Date Theme

International Day of Conscience 5 April -
International Day of Sport for April 6 “Securing a Sustainable and
Development and Peace Peaceful Future for All: The
(IDSDP) Contribution of Sport”
World Health Day 7th April ‘Our Planet, Our Health’
International Day of Reflection April 07 -
on the 1994 Genocide against
the Tutsi in Rwanda
Central Reserve Police Force 9 April -
(CRPF) Valour Day (Shaurya
Diwas)
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Day Date Theme

World Homeopathy Day April 10 ‘People’s Choice For
Wellness.’
World Parkinson’s Day April 11 -
National Safe Motherhood April 11 -
Day
International Day of Human April 12 -
Space Flight
International Day of Street April 12
Children
International Turban Day April 13 -
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Siachen Day April 13 -

International Turban Day April 13 -
Ambedkar Jayanti April 14 -
World Chagas Disease Day April 14 -
Himachal Day April 15 -
World Art Day April 15 -
Save the Elephant Day April 16 -
World Voice Day April 16 ‘Lift your voice’.
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World Hemophilia Day April 17 Access for All:

Partnership. Policy.
Progress. Engaging your
government, integrating
inherited bleeding
disorders into national
policy.’
World Heritage Day April 18 “Heritage and Climate”.
World Liver Day April 19 -
UN Chinese Language Day April 20 -
National Civil Services Day April 21 -
World Creativity and April 21 Collaboration
Innovation Day
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