IT company Infosys and industrial technology firm Rolls-Royce launched a joint aerospace engineering research centre in Bengaluru.
In December 2020, the two companies had announced a collaboration for sourcing engineering and R&D services for Rolls-Royce's civil aerospace business, whereby Rolls-Royce transitioned a significant part of its engineering centre capabilities.
The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved the continuation of Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), till March 2023.
The mission has been set up under the NITI Aayog, in accordance with the finance minister's declaration in the 2015 Budget speech.
The AIM has focused on both infrastructure creation and institution building.
Shehbaz Sharif, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) president, was elected unopposed as the new Prime Minister of Pakistan by Parliament on after rival candidate Shah Mahmood Qureshi announced that his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party will boycott the voting and staged a walkout.
He is 23rd Prime Minister of Pakistan.
India and the United States signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), which will clear the way for the ISRO's ‘NETRA’ in Bengaluru to start collaborating with the American Combined Space Operation Center (CSpOC) to protect satellites of both the nations from natural and man-made threats.
BCCI secretary Jay Shah has been appointed to the ICC Cricket Committee as the Member Board Representative while Mahela Jayawardene was reappointed as Past Player representative.
The ICC Board confirmed that South Africa will host the inaugural ICC U-19 Women’s T20 World Cup, which will be held in January next year.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) announced that Pakistan’s superstar skipper Babar Azam, and Australia’s run-machine Rachael Haynes have been named the ICC Men’s and Women’s Players of the Month for March 2022.
He becomes the first player to win the ICC Men’s Player of the Month award on two occasions, after being crowned back in April 2021.
India has successfully flight-tested Helina, an anti-tank guided missile (ATGM), in Pokhran. The test was part of user validation trials of the third generation ‘fire and forget’ class missiles developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).
The flight test was conducted by teams from DRDO, the Army and the Air Force.
Inaugurating National Stakeholders Conference on ‘Localization of Sustainable Development Goals’ organized by the Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu urged the Union Government and various States to facilitate the devolution of the 3Fs from Zilla Parishads to Panchayats.
The Sports Authority of India has approved Rs 75 lakh to host the Khelo India National Ranking Women Archery Tournament over six phases at Tata Archery Academy.
Jamshedpur in Jharkhand is set to host the first phase of the tournament on April 12 and April 13.
Gujarat has topped NITI Aayog State Energy and Climate Index-(SECI) Round 1 among larger states. This index aims to rank states and union territories on six parameters — discoms performance, access affordability and reliability of energy, clean energy initiatives, energy efficiency, environmental sustainability and new initiatives.
Gujarat was followed by Kerala and Punjab.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be honoured with the first-ever Lata Deenanath Mangeshkar Award, instituted in the memory of the veteran singer who passed away in February this year.
Master Deenanath Mangeshkar Smruti Pratishthan informed that the award ceremony will be held on 24th of April at Mumbai’s Shanmukhanand Hall.
The United Nations General Assembly established April 12 to be the International Day of Human Space Flight in a resolution passed on April 7, 2011.
On April 12, 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin orbited Earth aboard the Vostok 1 spacecraft.
Cosmonautics Day is observed by the Soviet space programme to commemorate the first manned spaceflight.
Ecuador has made history by becoming the first country to recognise the legal rights of individual wild animals.
The judgment was passed by the country's highest court when it heard a case for Estrellita, a woolly monkey who was taken from the wild when she was only 1 month old and was raised as a pet but died within a month after it was shifted to the zoo.
Ecuador Capital: Quito; Currency: United States Dollar
To deliver much-needed life insurance Protection cover to rural households, Tata AIA Life Insurance and Common Services Centers (CSC), under the Ministry of Electronics & IT, have partnered to engage its network of over 4 lakhs Village Level Entrepreneurs (VLEs) at the last mile for distribution of life insurance plan.
Foreign secretary Harsh V Shringla, who will retire at the end of this month, was appointed as India's chief G20 coordinator, as the country assumes G20 presidency later this year after the Summit in Indonesia and prepares to host the 2023 event amid an emerging geo-political order.
His tenure will begin from May 1 and will hold post till December 2023.
Public sector lender Bank of Maharashtra will divest its entire stake of 4 per cent in India SME Asset Reconstruction Company for nearly Rs 4 crore.
Bank of Maharashtra (BoM) has executed a share purchase agreement dated April 6, 2022 for sale of entire equity stake of 4 per cent in India SME Asset Reconstruction Company Ltd (ISARC).