Justice Vineet Saran, judge of the Supreme Court, has been appointed as the Ravi-Beas Water Tribunal chairman, a post that had been vacant since Justice Ashok Bhushan had joined the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal as its chairperson in November 2021.
Justice Ponugoti Naveen Rao, judge of the Telangana High Court, was appointed as a member of the Tribunal.
UNICEF's YuWaah' - the Indian chapter of Generation Unlimited - has announced Ashwin Yardi, the CEO of Capgemini in India, to be its co-chair.
Yardi will be a co-chair along with Yasumasa Kimura, the UNICEF Representative.
The Constitution (73rd Amendment) Act, 1992 that came into force with effect from 24th April, 1993 has vested constitutional status on Panchayati Raj institutions.
The commemoration is being anchored by the Ministry of Panchayati Raj.
The National Panchayati Raj Day (NPRD) is being celebrated on 24 April since 2010.
Giriraj Singh: Minister of Rural Development, & Panchayati Raj.
The National Mineral Development Corporation Ltd. (NMDC), sweeped the Public Relations Awards 2022 conferred by Public Relations Society of India (PRSI), winning the first position for their Corporate Website, Annual Report, Layout and Design of Newsletter, and CSR Corporate Video.
NMDC is a Navratna PSU under Ministry of Steel.
NMDC:
Chairman and Managing Director:Sumit Deb;
HQ: Hyderabad
The multi-stakeholder summit “Sankalp Se Siddhi” is being organized by the Confederation of Indian Industry (Cll) and India@75 Foundation jointly with the Ministry of Culture, to commemorate India’s 75th year of Independence.
Spread over two days, the Summit has convened important stakeholders to deliberate on the country’s achievements in different areas.
Maharashtra’s Tourism Minister Aditya Thackeray inaugurated India’s first bus service with ‘Tap In, Tap Out’ or the fully digital ticketing facility.
The service was inaugurated on one of the BEST buses plying on the Gateway of India to Churchgate route, with plans afoot to expand the facility on all 438 routes in the near future.
The International Day of Multilateralism and Diplomacy for Peace is celebrated annually on 24 April.
The Day acknowledges the use of multilateral decision-making and diplomacy in achieving peaceful resolutions to conflicts among nations.
It was established on 12 December 2018 through resolution A/RES/73/127 and was first observed on 24 April 2019.
World Immunization Week is observed by the World Health Organization (WHO) in the last week of April (24 to 30 April).
The week highlights the role of vaccines to protect people and communities from diseases.
This year the theme for World Immunization Week is ‘Long Life for All’.
Northern Regional Load Despatch Centre of Power System Operation Corp. Ltd(Posoco) signed an MoU with Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IIT D), to encourage research on issues related to India’s power sector and strengthen interaction between the academia and industry.
State-owned Posoco is responsible for secure, integrated operations of the national electricity grid.
As per IFSCA(Fund Management) Regulations, 2022, a Fund Management Entity will be registered with IFSCA and will be able to manage different types of funds and schemes subject to meeting the eligibility criteria.
Venture Capital Schemes or non-retail schemes soliciting money from accredited investors only shall qualify for a green channel etc.
India and Maldives have jointly unveiled the first-ever navigation chart. It helps ships to understand the maritime topography of Maldives Exclusive Economic zones, water depths and which areas to avoid.
It was unveiled during India's Chief of the Naval Staff (CNS) Admiral R Hari Kumar's visit to Maldives.
The Prime Minister will visit Palli Panchayat in Samba district. He will inaugurate Amrit Sarovar initiative which is aimed at developing and rejuvenating 75 water bodies in each district of the country.
The Prime Minister will lay the foundation stone of three road packages of Delhi-Amritsar-Katra Expressway and Ratle and Kwar Hydroelectric projects
He will also inaugurate 8.45 km long Banihal Qazigund Road Tunnel.
Meghalaya's former chief minister J.D. Rymbai, passed away.
He entered active politics in 1983 and contested elections to the legislative assembly of Meghalaya on the Congress party ticket from the Jirang constituency successfully.
He replaced D.D. Lapang as the Chief Minister of Meghalaya in 2006 for a year.
The Indian Navy's Naval Institute of Educational and Training Technology (NIETT) based at Naval Base Kochi signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIM-K).
The MoU is intended to build collaboration and exchange of best practices in the field of Instructional Leadership, Educational Psychology and Management.
Manipur celebrated Khongjom Day at Khongjom War Memorial Complex at Khebaching of Thoubal district.
Khongjom Day is celebrated every year on the 23rd of April remembering those gallant Manipuri warriors who made supreme sacrifice fighting against the British to protect the freedom of Manipur in the battle of Khongjom during the 1891 Anglo-Manipuri War.
Manipur:
Governor: La. Ganeshan;
Chief Minister: N. Biren Singh
India was designated as the Guest of Honour Country at the Paris Book Festival 2022 organized from 21st to 24th April, 2022.
India Pavilion designed by National Institute of Design (NID), housing more than 15 digital and physical exhibitions displaying over 400 books published in various Indian languages representing the works of 65 Indian publishers,was inaugurated.
The Nobel prize winner José Ramos-Horta has scored a landslide victory in Timor-Leste’s presidential election.
The victory gives Ramos-Horta his second term in office. He served as president of south-east Asia’s youngest country from 2007 to 2012.
Ravi Kumar Dahiya (57kg) won his third successive gold medal in the Asian Wrestling Championships. He also became the first-ever Indian freestyle wrestler to win a hat-trick of Asian Championship gold medals.
Bajrang Punia (65kg) settled for silver. Gourav Baliyan(79kg) also bagged silver while Naveen(70kg) and Satywart Kadian(97kg) took home bronze.
India has produced 31.9 million tonnes of steel from January to March,2022 with a growth of 5.9 percent. In March alone, steel production stood at 10.9 million tonnes with 4.4 percent growth rate.
As per the data released by World Steel Association, India is the only country among top 10 steel producing nations of the world, which has registered growth.