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1. Important Appointment
(April 2023)
❖ Military advisor in the National
Security Council Secretariat - Sandeep
Singh
❖ Executive Director of RBI - Neeraj
Nigam
❖ First head of NASA's 'Moon to Mars
Programme' - Amit Kshatriya
❖ President of UEFA - Aleksander Ceferin
❖ Ambassador of India to Greece -
Rudraendra Tandon
❖ President of NRAI (National Rifle
association of India) - Kalikesh Singh
❖ Managing Director (MD) and the first
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of LIC -
Siddhartha Mohanty
❖ Chairperson of Nasscom for the period
2023-24 - Anant Maheshwari ❖ Reflections - Narayanan Vaghul
❖ Deputy Managing Director of HDFC
Bank - Kaizad Bharucha
❖ New chief justice of Tripura HC -
Aparesh Kumar Singh
❖ Warrant Officer of the UK's Royal Air
Force - Murugesvaran 'Subby'
Subramaniam
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❖ Acting Chief Justice of calcutta high
court - T. S. Sivaganam
❖ 40th president of FICCI Ladies
Organisation (FLO) - Sudha Shivkumar
❖ Vice-Chief of Naval Staff (VCNS) - Vice-
Admiral Sanjay Jasjit Singh
❖ Acting Chief Justice of the Himachal
Pradesh High Court - Justice Tarlok
Singh Chauhan
2. Important Books and Authors
(April 2023)
❖ Gandhi: Siyasat aur Sampradaiykta -
Piyush Babele
❖ Smoke and Ashes - Amitav Ghosh
❖ Courting India: England, Mughal India
and the Origins of Empire - Nandini
Das
❖ Azaad - Ghulam Nabi Azad
❖ Crosscourt - Jaidip Mukerjea
❖ Sachin@50 - Celebrating A Maestro
Boria Majumdar
❖ Saurashtra Tamil Sangam Prashasti -
Somnath Sanskrit University
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❖ 1959 Ramon Magsaysay Award after
❖ The Banker to Every Indian - State 64 year - Dalai Lama
Bank of India
❖ Prestigious Santokbaa Humanitarian
❖ The Great Bank Robbery: NPAs, Scams Award - Sonam Wangchuk
and the Future of Regulation. -
Pattabhi Ram and Sabyasachee Dash ❖ The Grand Cross award Germany’s
highest honor - Angela Merkel
3. Important Award and Honour
(April 2023) ❖ The Indian-American statistician
❖ Lata Deenanath Mangeshkar Puraskar Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao has
- Asha Bhosle been awarded the 2023 International
Prize in Statistics, which is statistics’
❖ Neeli Bendapudi, the Indian American equivalent of the Nobel Prize.
president of Penn State University, has
been awarded with this year’s ❖ Pravasi Bharatiya Samman - Raj
prestigious Immigrant Achievement Subramaniam
Award for her contributions to higher
education in the US. ❖ Femina Miss India 2023 - Nandini
Gupta (Rajasthan)
❖ Billboard’s Inaugural Latin Woman of
the Year Award - Shakira ❖ Global Gold Award for their Corporate
Social Responsibility (CSR) work -
❖ Best implementation of Pradhan Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd.
Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY), a (PGCIL)
crop subsidy insurance scheme, for the
year 2022-23 - Karnataka ❖ Business Leader of the Decade Award -
Kumar Mangalam Birla
❖ Order of Australia, Australia’s highest
civilian honour - Ratan Tata ❖ Goldman Environment Prize 2023 -
Alessandra Korap
❖ Young Urologist of the Year Award
conferred by the American Urological ❖ Excellence in Public Administration-
Association (AUA) - Dr.Nitya Abraham 2022 in Innovation Category - PM Gati
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❖ Lifetime Achievement Award" during ❖ Salim Durani (Former Indian Cricketer)
the glittering Ugadi 2023 celebrations -
Dr. Raghu Ram Pillarisetti
❖ Malcolm Adiseshiah Award 2023 - Utsa
Patnaik
4. Important Obituaries (April 2023)
❖ Kaur Singh (Asian Games gold
medallist boxer)
❖ Trilochan Kanungo (Odisha Politician)
❖ Dr. Zafrullah Chowdhury (Veteran
Liberation War fighter)
❖ Parkash Singh Badal (Former Punjab
Chief Minister)
❖ Chandan Ram Dass (Uttarakhand
Former Cabinet Minister )
❖ Uttara Baokar (Noted actor and
theatre artist)
❖ Keshub Mahindra (Former Mahindra
Group Chairman)
❖ Jalabala Vaidya ( Legendary theatre
actor and co-founder of the capital’s
iconic Akshara Theatre)
❖ Jagarnath Mahto (Jharkhand Education
Minister)
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❖ Justice Thottathil Bhaskaran Nair
Radhakrishnan ( Former Chief Justice
of the High Courts of Calcutta, Andhra
Pradesh and Telangana)
5. Important Sports Affairs
(April 2023)
❖ The legendary wrestler and coach,
Mahavir Singh Phogat has been
appointed as the Chairman of the
MMA-1 Federation.
❖ The Sharjah Stadium has named a
stand after Sachin Tendulkar on his
50th birthday.
❖ Thailand skipper Naruemol Chaiwai
has been named ICC Women’s Player
of the Month.
❖ New Zealand's Kim Cotton became the
first female on-field umpire in full-
member men's T20I.
❖ Pakistan batter Fakhar Zaman has
been named ICC Men’s Player of the
Month.
❖ Pakistani fast bowler Shaheen Afridi
became the fastest pacer to take 200
wickets in T20 cricket.
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❖ INithya Shreya Sumathi Sivan won two ❖ The iconic Sydney Cricket Ground
gold medals at the Brazil Para unveiled a gate named after Sachin
Badminton International. Tendulkar.

❖ India opener K.L. Rahul became the 6. Important Days And Themes
fastest Indian to score 7,000 runs in (April 2023)
T20 cricket. ❖ Utkal Divas - 1 April

❖ Indian women wrestlers won a total of ❖ World autism awareness day - 2 April
07 medals in the Women's Asian ➢ Theme - Transforming the
Wrestling Championship held in narrative: Contributions at home,
Astana, Kazakhstan. at work, in the arts and in
policymaking.
❖ Russian tennis star Daniil Medvedev
won his fourth title this year by ❖ International Children's Book Day - 2
defeating Janic Sinner at the Miami April
Open 2023.
❖ National Maritime Day - 5 April
❖ Spain's Carlos Alcarz won the
Barcelona Open by defeating Stefanos ❖ International Day of sports for
Tsitsipas of Greece. development and peace - 6 April
➢ Theme - Scoring for People and the
❖ Indian women's cricket team captain Planet
Harmanpreet Kaur has been named
the Wisden Cricketers of the Year for ❖ World Health Day - 7 April
the year 2023. ➢ Theme - Health For All

❖ Indian young Grandmaster D Gukesh ❖ World homeopathy day - 10 April

won the title of World Chess
Armageddon Asia and Oceania events.
❖ India's Jyoshna Sabar and Dhanush
Loganathan won bronze medals at the
World Youth Weightlifting
Championships.
➢ Theme - One Health, One Family.
❖ National Safe motherhood day - 11
April
❖ World parkinson disease day-11 April
➢ Theme - Take6forPD

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❖ International Day of Human space
flight - 12 April
❖ World chagas disease day - 14 April
➢ Theme - Time to integrate Chagas
disease into primary health care.
❖ Himachal Day - 15 April
❖ World Art day - 15 April
❖ Save the Elephant Day - 16 April
➢ Theme - Protecting Elephant
Habitats for a Sustainable
Tomorrow.
❖ World Hameophilla Day - 17 April
➢ Theme - Access for All: Prevention
of bleeds as the global standard of
care
❖ World Heritage Day - 18 April
➢ Theme - Heritage Changes
❖ National civil Service Day - 21 April
❖ World creativity and innovation day -
21st April
❖ World Earth Day - 22 April
➢ Theme - Invest in our planet
❖ World book and copyright day - 23rd
April
❖ World malaria Day - 25th April
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➢ Theme - Time to deliver zero
malaria: invest, innovate,
implement.
❖ World penguin day- 25th April
❖ World intellectual Property day - 26
April
7. Important Summits ( April 2023 )
❖ 2nd G20 Sherpa Meeting -
Kumarakom, Kerala
❖ India-Central Asia Joint Working Group
on Chabahar - Mumbai
❖ The Digital Health Summit 2023
organized by the Confederate of Indian
Industry (CII) - Goa
➢ Theme - "Building One Health
Together – Improving Health
Equity".
❖ 100th meeting of the G20 Working
Group chaired by India - Varanasi,
Uttar Pradesh
❖ B20 conference under the G20
Dialogue Forum - Kohima, Nagaland
❖ 3rd in-person Quad Summit - Australia
❖ International Conference on Defence
Finance and Economics 2023 - New
Delhi
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❖ Global Conference on Compressed
Biogas (CBG) - New Delhi
➢ Theme - "Towards a Strong CBG
Foundation and Progressive Policy
Framework for Development".
❖ Union Minister Parshottam Rupala
8. Important Schemes and Projects
(April 2023)
❖ Tamilnadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin
launched a new talent support scheme
"Thiranari Thervu Thittam" (skill
development).
❖ Union Minister of Tribal Affairs
launched the scheme "Marketing and
Logistics Development for Promotion
of Tribal Products from North-Eastern
Region (PTP-NER).
❖ Union minister Narendra Singh Tomar
launched the Sathi (Seed Traceability,
Authentication and Holistic Inventory)
portal.
❖ The Kerala government launched a
project for reviving the sports culture
in the State by opening quality
playgrounds in every panchayat of the
southern state.
❖ Science and Technology Minister Dr
Jitendra Singh launched the 'Yuva
Portal'.
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❖ Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh
Baghel launched the "Chief Minister
Adivasi Parab Samman Nidhi Yojana".
launched the Animal Pandemic
Preparedness Initiative (APPI) and
World Bank-funded Animal Health
System Support for One Health
(AHSSOH).
❖ Union Home Minister Amit Shah
launched the "vibrant villages
programme" at Kibithu – a border
village in Arunachal Pradesh.
❖ The Unified Portal of the Central
Bureau of Narcotics has been launched
by the Revenue Secretary Shri Sanjay
Malhotra.
❖ Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi
Adityanath launched "School Chalo
Abhiyan".
❖ Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh
Baghel launched the state's first digital
radio station "Radio Sangwari".
❖ Haryana Government launched the
Drone Imaging and Information Service
of Haryana Limited (DRIISHYA).
❖ The Centre Government has launched
a new Centrally Sponsored Scheme
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namely, New India Literacy ➢ Mumbai featured in the nineteenth
Programme. rank on the list.

❖ West Bengal Chief Minister Mamta ❖ India ranked fifth in the global list of
Banerjee launched the flagship road national contribution to global
'Pathashree-Rastashree' project. warming.
➢ The United States topped the list.

9. India Rank in various Reports and ❖ According to the latest update from
Index ( April 2023 ) the Passport Index 2023, India ranked
144 with a mobility score of 70 in
❖ World of Statistics has shared the 2023.
ranking of the world's "most criminal
countries".
➢ Venezuela has been ranked top.
India's rank is 77.

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edition of World Bank's Logistics
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❖ The Haryana Police have secured the

first position in the latest Crime and
Criminal Tracking and Network System
(CCTNS).

❖ Maharashtra's capital city Mumbai has

featured in the list of top twenty cities
with best public transport in the world.

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