The Daily Current Affairs of 8th April, 2022

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National Current Affairs-

1. PM Modi and Nepal PM Deuba launch Nepalese RuPay and flag off India-Nepal Rail Link-

• PM Narendra Modi and Nepal’s PM Sher Bahadur Deuba held a meeting in New Delhi.
• The Prime Ministers of the two neighboring countries jointly flagged off the first passenger train service between the two nations.
• The 35 km long cross-border railway link will connect Jaynagar in Bihar with Kurtha in Nepal.
• The meeting also witnessed the launch of the RuPay digital payment application for Nepal.
• They also inaugurated the Solu Corridor 132 KV Power Transmission Line and Substation in Nepal built under Govt of India’s Line of Credit.

2. Underwater metro tunnel in Kolkata – India’s first – to be ready in 2023-

• 2023 will launch India’s first underwater tunnel in Kolkata under the Hooghly river to establish metro connectivity between Howrah and Kolkata.
• The construction of the line is at the moment underway.
• A stretch of 520 meters will be under the river bed of a total of 16.6 km of the long east-west line. 
• The tunnel corridor is built 33 meters below the riverbed.
• The Kolkata East-West Metro line is being constructed by Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation (KMRC).

3. 9th Edition of India-Kyrgyzstan Joint Special Forces Exercise culminated-

• The 9th Edition of the India-Kyrgyzstan Joint Special Forces Exercise commenced at Special Forces Training School, Bakloh, Himachal Pradesh.
• Special Forces contingents from India and Kyrgyzstan shared their expertise and best practices of tactics, techniques, and procedures to counter existing and emergent threats across the entire spectrum of conflict.
• The extensive practice during the exercise included combat shooting, sniping, survival in mountains, hostage rescue drills, and unarmed combat.
• Besides sharing special skills and techniques between participating Special Forces contingents, the joint training further strengthened the existing bond between India and Kyrgyzstan. 
• The understanding had fostered over years of mutual respect for strategic autonomy, democratic values, and zero tolerance for terrorism.

4. All the ministers of Andhra Pradesh resign ahead of the reconstitution of the state cabinet-

• All the 24 Ministers submitted their resignation to Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy ahead of the proposed reorganization of the Council of Ministers.
• The incumbent Ministers put in their papers at the meeting of the Cabinet, which was their last, at the Secretariat.
• The Ministers remained in their posts for exactly 34 months.
• The Chief Minister announced that he will manage the Cabinet reorganization after Ugadi (Telugu New Year’s Day that fell on April 2) and the subsequent formation of new districts.

International Current Affairs:

1. Yemen’s president steps aside amid efforts to end war-

• Yemen’s exiled president stepped aside and transferred his powers to a presidential council as international and regional efforts to end the country’s long-running civil war gained momentum with a two-month truce.
• Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, major players in the conflict appear to have played a role in President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi’s decision, quickly welcoming it with a pledge of $3 billion in aid. 
• The head of the new council has close ties to Riyadh.

2. Burkina Faso, former President Blaise Compaore, gets life sentence in Sankara murder case-

• In Burkina Faso, former President Blaise Compaore has been sentenced to life in prison for his role in the murder of pan-African leader Thomas Sankara, nearly three decades after the act.
• The verdict announced brought to close a six-month trial about the murder of Sankara.
• Sankara was assassinated during a coup led by his friend and comrade-in-arms Compaoré on October 15, 1987.
• Compaoré, who was unseated in a 2014 uprising, fled to the neighboring Ivory Coast where he received its citizenship. He was tried in absentia, alongside Kafando, unlike Diendéré who is in custody.
• The former strongman was sentenced along with his then-security chief, Hyacinthe Kafando, who also received a life term.

Business & Economy Daily Current Affairs:

1. Tata group launches super app, Tata Neu-

• Tata group launched India’s first super app, Tata Neu.
• The brings together grocery, hotel, airline ticket booking, and medicine on a single platform, rivaling similar features of Amazon and Walmart’s Flipkart.

Today’s Science & Technology Current Affairs:

1. Indian Scientists discover ghost-like galaxy hiding in plain sight-

• Scientists from the Indian Institute of Astrophysics discovered a faint star-forming galaxy, around 136 million light-years away which was so far undetected due to its positioning in front of a much brighter galaxy. 
• The galaxy has a ‘ghost-like appearance in the optical images because of its low disk density, but the inner disk shows star formation.
• The inner disk star formation was detected in UV and optical images.
• An accurate census of such faint galaxies is essential to measure the total mass of all objects made of normal atomic matter (stars and gas) in the Universe.
• With optical telescopes’ rising power, they are capable enough to detect extremely faint galaxies.
• Such galaxies are called low surface brightness galaxies or ultra-diffuse galaxies and have a surface brightness that is ten times fainter than the surrounding night sky.
• Such faint galaxies may account for up to 15 % of the mass of the universe.
• However, they are difficult to detect because of their inherent low luminosities.
• A team of researchers from the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru consisting of Jyoti Yadav, Mousumi Das, and Sudhanshu Barway, along with Francoise Combes of College de France, Chaire Galaxies et Cosmologie, Paris, while studying a known interacting galaxy NGC6902A noticed that the color image (Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey (DECaLS) color image) of the south-west outer region of the galaxy NGC 6902A show diffused blue emission.
•  DECalS is a deep optical survey conducted on international telescopes that can be used to detect diffuse galaxies.
• This south-western region shows prominent star-forming regions in the Far Ultraviolet (FUV) image. Most of the FUV emission in galaxies is due to young stars of types O and B, the most massive stars and also the most short-lived in the galaxies. But they emit FUV light for 100 million years which is comparatively long compared to the other star formation tracer.
• This excess FUV light prompted the researchers to investigate the peculiar feature in more detail to determine the cause of the emission.

Sports Daily Current Affairs:

1. Mirabai Chanu wins ‘BBC Indian Sportswoman of the Year’ award

• Olympic silver medallist weightlifter Mirabai Chanu won the BBC Indian Sportswoman of the Year award.
• Chanu created history last year when she became the first Indian weightlifter to clinch a silver medal at the Summer Olympics.
• Young India opener Shafali Verma was awarded the BBC’s Emerging Player award.
• Verma is the youngest female cricketer to have played for India.
• The first Indian woman to have won a medal at the Olympics in 2000, former weightlifter Karnam Malleswari was presented the BBC Lifetime Achievement award.

Today’s Miscellaneous Current Affairs:

1. World Health Day-

• World Health Day is celebrated worldwide every year on the 7th of April. Various programs and arrangements are managed by the World Health Organisation.
• The day was first celebrated in 1950.

2. Deepika Padukone Becomes The First Indian To Be Honoured Twice By the TIME Magazine-

• Deepika Padukone joined world leaders including scientists and CEOs, artists and activists, pop stars, and politicians as 2022’s TIME100 Impact Awardee.
• The award is a recognition of leaders who, through sustained effort, have done extraordinary work to shape the future of their industries and the world at large.
• Interestingly, this makes Deepika Padukone the first Indian personality to be honored twice by Time Magazine.
• A couple of years ago in 2018, the superstar was among TIME’s 100 most influential people in the world. 
• This honor made her become the only Indian actress to feature on the list alongside names like Nicole Kidman, Gal Gadot, Greta Gerwig, and Lena Waithe.

3. Geetanjali Shree’s ‘Tomb Of Sand’ First Hindi Novel On International Booker Shortlist-

• Author Geetanjali Shree’s novel ‘Tomb of Sand’ became the first Hindi language work of fiction to be shortlisted for the International Booker Prize.
• Shree’s book, translated into English by Daisy Rockwell and described by the judges as a “loud and irresistible novel”, will compete with five other titles from around the world for the prestigious 50,000 pounds literary prize, which is split evenly between the author and translator.

4. High Immune response to Covid variants in breakthrough cases post 2 Covaxin dose- 

• People who recovered from Covid are showing significant immunity boost post-vaccination with Covaxin though lower than the breakthrough cases.
• A recent ICMR study states that breakthrough cases after full vaccination with Covaxin are showing a significant increase in the immune response against Coronavirus’s variants- Beta, Delta, and Omicron.
• Dr. Pragya Yadav, a senior scientist at NIV Pune told PTI, “The study highlights the significance of administering a booster dose or precaution dose of Covid vaccine as it provides better protection against the disease”. 

Here were the daily current affairs of 8th April 2022. We aim to provide the government exam aspirants with all the trending news for their better and hassle-free exam preparation. Study along with Edureify to get your desired result.

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