CURRENT AFFAIRS OF 21st April 2022
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‘World Creativity and Innovation Day’ is celebrated on 21 April every year. The theme of World Creativity and Innovation Day 2022 is‘Collaboration’.
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India observes ‘National Civil Services Day’ on 21 April every year to acknowledge the works of officers engaged in several public service departments in the country.
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The Department of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Jammu and Kashmir, under the e-governance initiative has launched an app ‘Jan Nigrani’, intended to help people lodge their complaints related to various schemes online.
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Narendra Singh Tomar, Union Agriculture Minister, recently launched the National Conference on Agriculture for the Kharif Campaign 2022-23 at the NASC Complex in New Delhi.
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Digit Insurance has appointed Jasleen Kohli as the company’s new Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) with effect from April 20,2022.
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Lieutenant General Manoj Kumar Katiyar has been appointed as the next Director-General of Military Operations. He would take charge of the new office on May 1st .
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Procter and Gamble India appointed L. V. Vaidyanathan, who leads the company’s business in Indonesia, as the new Chief Executive Officer.
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Visiting British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on 21April 2022 became the first PM of the UK to visit the Sabarmati Ashram in Gujarat.
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Karnataka CM Basavraj Bommai has announced that the under-construction shivamogga airport will be named after former Chief Minister B. S. Yediyurappa.
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Bharati group-backed OneWeb and New Space India Limited, the commercial arm of ISRO, have entered into an agreement that will help ensure OneWeb completes its satellite launch programme.
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PM Narendra Modi inaugurated the ‘Global Ayush Investment and Innovation Summit 2022’ at Gandhinagar, Gujarat, on 20 April 2022.
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G20 countries have provisionally agreed to set up a global fund for pandemic preparedness, likely to be housed at the World Bank.
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Districts Bishnupur (Manipur) and Churu (Rajasthan) were presented “Prime Minister’s Award” for ‘Excellence in Public Administration in Khelo India’, on 21 April 2022.
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Innovations for Defence Excellence, Defence Innovation Organisation (iDEX-DIO) is organising DefConnect 2.0 at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi on 22 April, 2022.
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NITI Aayog and UNICEF have signed a deal on sustainable development goals with a focus on children.
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Indian captain Rohit Sharma and Jasprit Bumrah have been named among five players in Wisden’s ‘Cricketers of the Year’ in the 2022 edition of the Almanack.