India becomes the fastest country to administer 14 Crore Doses of COVID-19 Vaccine in just 99 days.
These include over 92,89,000 Healthcare Workers who have taken the 1st dose and around 60 lakh Health care workers who have taken the 2nd dose, over one crore 19 lakh Frontline Workers have taken the 1st dose and more than 62 lakh front line workers have taken the 2nd dose.
The 19th edition of the Indian and French Navy bilateral exercise ‘VARUNA-2021’ is to be conducted in the Arabian Sea from 25th to 27th April 2021.
The three-day exercise will see high tempo-naval operations at sea, including advanced air defense and anti-submarine exercises.
Chief of the Naval Staff: Admiral Karambir Singh
India Ratings and Research revised down India’s FY22 real GDP growth forecast to 10.1%, from earlier projection of 10.4%, citing the second wave of COVID-19 infections and slower pace of vaccination.
Earlier this month, the Reserve Bank maintained its 10.5% GDP growth estimate,but Governor Shaktikanta Das has flagged the rising cases as the biggest impediment to recovery.
The economy is estimated to have contracted by 7.6 per cent in FY21.
Rumana Sinha Sehgal has been virtually awarded the prestigious ‘Nelson Mandela World Humanitarian Award 2021’ by the Diplomatic Mission Global Peace for her work in the fields of developing innovative and functional green products by recycling varied materials and creative use of non-biodegradable materials, thus enhancing their useful life.
She is also the recipient of the under 50-Business Leader Award 2021.
Aakash Ranison, a Climate Change Activist & Sustainability Influencer launch an eBook “Climate Change Explained–for one and all”. It focuses on climate change & how it can affect every individual’s life.
He has collaborated with “Spiti Ecosphere”, a social enterprise that focuses on creating sustainable livelihoods through the conservation & development of economies.
World Malaria Day is observed annually on 25 April, to bring global attention to the efforts being made to bring an end to malaria, and encourage action to reduce suffering and death from the disease.
Theme 2021 - "Reaching the Zero Malaria target"
India has witnessed 84% reduction in malaria cases in 2020 as compared to 2015.
International Delegate’s Day marks the anniversary of the first day of the San Francisco Conference, also known as the United Nations Conference on International Organization. On 25 April 1945, delegates from fifty countries came together for the first time in San Francisco.
In 2019, the UN proclaims 25 April as International Delegate’s Day.
Rajasthan has planned to provide 30 lakh Tap water connections by March 2022 under JJM. The state has more than 1crore rural households, out of which over 19% are getting tap water supply. In 2020-21, about 6,77,000 new tap connections were provided in rural areas.
JJM, a flagship programme of Union govt, aims to provide piped tap water in every rural household by 2024.
RBI relaxed the dividend payout norms of commercial banks and allowed them to pay up to 50% of what they paid before Covid from the profits for the fiscal ended March 31, 2021.
For FY20, the RBI had asked banks not to make any dividend payment on equity shares from the profits in view of the ongoing stress and heightened uncertainty on account of Covid-19.
The State Bank of India (SBI) Research has revised India's FY22 growth to 10.4% from 11% projected earlier in view of the increasing COVID-19 related curbs across states.
SBI Research further assessed that India would fully inoculate 15% of its populace only by December.