IMPORTANT CURRENT AFFAIRS

FOR CUET 2022

April 2022
• Meghalaya’s ‘Jingkieng Jri or Living Root Bridge’ has been included in
UNESCO’s tentative list of World Heritage Sites.
• Saikhom Mirabai Chanu has won the BBC Indian Sportswoman of The
Year award 2021.
• Karnataka will host the second edition of the Khelo India University Games
2021.
• Australian team has won the 2022 ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup.
• Gangaur festival is celebrated in Rajasthan state.
• Elon Musk has topped the Forbes billionaires 2022 list around the world.
• Pakistan’s opposition leader, Shehbaz Sharif has been elected unopposed as
the 23rd Prime Minister of the country.
• R. Ashwin became the first player/batter to be retired out in IPL History.
• Ecuador country has become the first country in the world to give legal
rights to wild animals.
• The commonwealth games, 2022 will be held in Birmingham, United
Kingdom.
• Jallianwala Bagh Massacre Day is commemorated on 13 April.
• Mumbai and Hyderabad have been recognised as the ‘2021 Tree City of
the World’ by FAO.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated Pradhanmantri Sangrahalaya
(Prime Ministers’ Museum) recently. The logo of the Sangrahalaya represents
the hands of the people of India holding the Dharma Chakra. It is situated in
New Delhi.
• Tamil Nadu state will celebrate April 14 as 'Equality Day' in memory of BR
Ambedkar.
• India is ready to host the Street Child Cricket World Cup in 2023.
• Bohag Bihu or Rongali Bihu, one of the biggest festivals of Assam, falls in
the second week of April every year.
• ‘Iron Beam’ laser missile-defence system is world’s first energy-based
weapons system that uses a laser beam to destroy any airborne object. It is
developed by Israel.

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• Odisha state will host 2023 FIH Men’s Hockey World Cup.
• Under the ‘Hanumanji Char Dham’ project, PM Modi has unveiled the 108ft
tall statute of Lord Hanuman Ji in West Direction of the country, in Morbi,
Gujarat.
• India’s first-ever radio channel for the visually impaired, named Radio Aksh
has been launched in Nagpur, Maharashtra.
• According to the World Bank report, extreme poverty in India is declined by
12.3% in 2019 as compared to 2011.
• Manoj Pande has been appointed as the next Chief of Army Staff.
• Nexo Company has launched world’s 1st cryptobacked payment card with
Mastercard & DiPocket.
• India's first portable solar rooftop system inaugurated in Gujarat.
• The World Health Organization launched its Global Centre for Traditional
Medicine at Jamnagar, Gujarat.
• The first-ever pure Green Hydrogen plant in India has been unveiled in
Assam.
• Biliti Electric Inc will establish the world’s largest electric three-wheeler
manufacturing facility in Telangana state.
• World Earth Day, also known as International Mother Earth Day, is celebrated
every year on April 22. Theme- Invest in our planet.
• Russia test-fired world’s ‘most powerful’ nuclear-capable Intercontinental
Ballistic Missile “RS-28 SARMAT”.
• India’s first bus service with ‘Tap In, Tap Out’ or the fully digital ticketing
facility, inaugurated recently in Maharashtra.
• National Panchayati Raj Day observed every year on 24th April.
• Mexico’s Guadalajara City was named World Book Capital for the year
2022 by UNESCO.
• Suman Bery has been appointed as the Vice-Chairman of NITI Aayog. The
Chairman of NITI Aayog is Prime Minister.
• World Intellectual Property Day is celebrated on 26th April to learn about the
role that intellectual property (IP) rights.
• Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, agreed to acquire Twitter for $44 billion.
• UNEP has named David Attenborough as the recipient of the Champions of
the Earth Award 2021 under the Lifetime Achievement category.
• Palli village, Samba district, Jammu has become the nation’s first carbon
neutral panchayat, fully powered by solar energy.
• India's first Amrit Sarovar developed in Uttar Pradesh.

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• World Immunization Week is celebrated every year in Last week of April.
• Elaine Thompson-Herah has been named Sportswoman of the Year 2021.
• NPCI International Payments Ltd (NIPL), the International arm of the
National Payment Corporation of India has announced that BHIM UPI is
now live at NEOPAY terminals, across the UAE.
• Jamtara district, Jharkhand has become country’s first district with library
in every village.
• Agra has become the first city in India to have vacuum-based sewers.
• Samba district, Jammu has become the first district in India to cover 100%
of households under Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana
(ABPMJAY)- SEHAT scheme.
• Indian actress Deepika Padukone will grace the Cannes Film Festival as a
member of the jury this year.
• IndiGo becomes the first airline in Asia to land its aircraft using the
indigenous navigation system GAGAN.
• World Health Day is a global health awareness day celebrated on the 7th April
every year. Theme – Our Planet, Our Health.
• Every year on April 18, the United Nations commemorates World Heritage
Day.

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