Earth Day is celebrated every year on April 22 in order to honor the environmental movement and raise awareness to protect natural resources.
American senator Gaylord Nelson founded the Earth Day for environmental education.
Generally the Earth Day is either celebrated on April 22 or on the day when the spring equinox occurs around the world.
The theme for Earth Day 2023 is "Invest In Our Planet".
PSLV-C55/TeLEOS-2, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)’s dedicated commercial mission carrying two satellites from Singapore, will take off from Sriharikota on April 22.
This is a dedicated commercial mission through NewSpace India Limited, the commercial arm of ISRO.
It is the 57th flight of PSLV & the 16th mission of the PSLV Core Alone (PSLV-CA) variant.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar co-chaired the 4th India-CARICOM ministerial meeting with his Jamaican counterpart Kaminaj Smith in Guyana’s capital.
Jaishankar also had separate bilateral meetings on with counterparts from Trinidad and Tobago, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Vincent and Grenadines, Grenada, and Barbados.
Georgetown is the capital of Guyana.
India climbed up six places in the World Bank's Logistic Performance Index 2023, as investments in soft and hard infrastructure as well as technology helped the country improve its port performance. India is now ranked 38 in the 139 countries index, up from 44 in 2018.
The average dwell time for containers between May and October 2022 was three days for India and Singapore.
The Securities and Exchange Board of India, through its letter dated April 21, 2023, to HDFC AMC, a subsidiary of HDFC and the asset management company of HDFC Mutual Fund, has granted its approval for the proposed change in control of HDFC AMC, according to a regulatory filing.
This approval will help pave the way for the merger of HDFC into HDFC Bank.
Under the fifth round of Ude Desh Ka Aam Nagrik (UDAN) or Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS), the focus will be on Category-2 (20-80 seats) and Category-3 (more than 80 seats).
Under UDAN 5.0, viability gap funding (VGF) will be capped at 600 kilometres stage length for both priority and non-priority areas, which was earlier capped at 500 km.
UDAN scheme was launched in 2017.
Solar Industries Nagpur said it had bagged an order to supply the unmanned aerial vehicle 'Nagastra' to the Indian Army, beating competitors from Israel and Poland.
First indigenous Loiter Munition (LM), Nagastra–1, has been designed and developed by Economics Explosives Ltd (EEL), a 100% subsidiary of Solar Industries Nagpur, in association with Z-Motion, Bangalore.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) has joined hands with Vienna-based NGO Moon Village Association (MVA) to host global outreach activities in connection with Isro’s upcoming lunar mission Chandrayaan-3.
The partnership is aimed at increasing the impact of Isro’s lunar programme at a global level and ensuring further international cooperation, Isro said.
Giuseppe Reibaldi - President of the Moon Village Association.
The Indian Air Force will participate in a mega multilateral exercise in Greece from April 24 to May 4. The exercise will be conducted at the Andravida air base, the IAF said, adding it will be participating with four Su-30 MKIs and two C-17 aircraft.
It said the objective of the exercise is to enhance international cooperation, synergy and interoperability.
A two-day coastal security exercise, 'Sagar Kavach', was conducted on April 18 and 19 off the coast of Kerala and Mahe to evaluate threats from the sea and validate the effectiveness of the security mechanisms.
As part of the exercise, real time threats and contingencies were simulated to assess the preparedness level of the coastal security agencies.
Only China, India, and Mexico, that is three out of the 55 countries studied for popular perception of the importance of vaccines for children, showed improvement as per data collected by The Vaccine Confidence Project (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) and published by UNICEF India on April 20.
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) granted its approval for the stake acquisition in climate technologies' business of Emerson Electric Co by BCP Emerald Aggregator LP.
BCP Emerald Aggregator LP is an affiliate of US-based alternative asset manager Blackstone.
The deal has been cleared under the green channel route.
Legendary tennis player Jaidip Mukerjea launched his autobiography “Crosscourt”. It brings out the journey of Mukerjea, hailed as one of the best tennis players in the country.
He was a member of the India Davis Cup team that reached the final in 1966. Mukerjea won India's only rubber in the final;he and Ramanathan Krishnan defeated John Newcombe and Tony Roche in doubles
Mukerjea was given the Arjuna Award in 1966.