Top Indian swimmer Sajan Prakash won the men's 200m butterfly gold and Vedaant Madhavan bagged silver medal in the men's 1500m freestyle event at the Danish Open swimming meet in Copenhagen, Denmark. 16-yr-old, Vedaant Madhavan, who is the son of actor R Madhavan clocked 15.57.86 to finish second in the 10-swimmer final. He had won a bronze medal at the Latvia Open in 2021
Denmark Currency: Danish krone
England's Joe Root today announced his decision to step down from Test captaincy after five years in charge. Root had come under pressure after England slumped to a 4-0 defeat in the last Ashes series and lost 1-0 in West Indies.
ICC -
Chairman: Greg Barclay
Headquarters: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
NITI Aayog is planning to launch a National Data and Analytics Platform (NDAP) in May to provide government data in a user-friendly format, to promote data-driven decision making and research. Conceived in 2020, the platform aims to standardise data across govt. sources & provide flexible analytics that make it easy for users to analyse information using multiple datasets.
NITI Aayog:
CEO: Amitabh Kant
Chairperson: PM Modi
Union Minister for Civil Aviation Jyotiraditya Scindia recently flagged off the first flight from Keshod Gujarat to Mumbai and vice-versa under UDAN Regional Connectivity Scheme. Alliance Air has commenced the first flight from Keshod to Mumbai and vice-versa. Mr. Scindia has also inaugurated upgraded facilities at Keshod Airport.
Gujarat Chief Minister - Bhupendra Patel
Ministry of Panchayati Raj is organising National Conference on Localisation of SDGs on Healthy Village and Socially Secured Village to mark the Iconic Week celebrations in the light of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav. It has conceptualised series of thematic Conferences to commemorate this momentous occasion in the right spirit, taking a “whole-of-society” & “whole-of-government"
Nagpur’s 96-year-old institution, The Blind Relief Association Nagpur (TBRAN) and Samdrushti Kshamata Vikas Avam Anusandhan Mandal (Saksham) are the organisations behind this idea. The channel will be available on various internet radio platforms for free.
To be run 24×7, Radio Aksh would initially have six hours of content.
The private sector bank KOTAK has discontinued - at least temporarily - handling payments for trades with CoinSwitch Kuber, a large crypto intermediary.
Kotak's stand could deal a blow to the unregulated industry. It follows digital wallet MobiKwik reportedly snapping its links with crypto-related payments since the beginning of April.
MobiKwik had emerged as the sole payment option for the bulk of crypto traders
1st Khelo India National Ranking Archery Tournament under the aegis of Archery Association of India & Jharkhand Archery Association concluded at JRD Tata Sports Complex.
2-day event witnessed the participation of 287 women archers from 20 states & units who competed across 3 categories. Highest prize money of Rs. 5 lakhs was awarded to Ankita Bhakat winner of Senior Recurve
Sports Authority of India had approved Rs 75 lakh to host the tournament
Parliament passed a bill for the inclusion of the Darlong community as a sub-tribe of Kuki in the list of Scheduled Tribes of Tripura.
Rajya Sabha passed the Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order (Amendment) Bill-2022 with a voice vote. Kuki is one of the main tribal communities in Northeast India and the Darlong community in Tripura will become its 18th sub-tribe.
Tripura Capital: Agartala
Chief minister: Biplab Kumar Deb
HDFC Bank said it will raise up to Rs 50,000 crore in the next one year by issuing bonds aimed at financing infrastructure and affordable housing loan requirements of the customers.
It also informed that the board has approved to re-appoint Renu Karnad as non-executive director on the board of the bank for a period of five years with effect from September 3, 2022.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi condoled the demise of Bilquis Bano Edhi, Pakistan’s renowned activist and philanthropist, and conveyed his sincere condolences. Bilquis Edhi, the wife of Pakistan’s renowned and revered humanitarian and philanthropist late Abdul Sattar Edhi, passed away. She was 74.
The Minister of State for External Affairs and Culture, Smt. Meenakashi Lekhi led the first introductory meeting of All Women Ambassadors’ Group in New Delhi.
All the Female Ambassadors to India, spouses of male ambassadors and female Charge d’Affaires of all embassies attended the meeting.
Extreme poverty in India is 12.3 percentage points lower in 2019 than in 2011 as poverty headcount rate has declined from 22.5% in 2011 to 10.2% in 2019 with comparatively sharper decline in rural areas, a working paper of the World Bank policy research said.
Rural and urban poverty dropped by 14.7 and 7.9 percentage points during 2011-2019.