The Daily Current Affairs of 23rd April 2022

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National Current Affairs:

1. Palli enters history as India’s first ‘carbon neutral panchayat’, Prime Minister inaugurates 500 VK solar plant-

• The nondescript hamlet of Palli in Jammu and Kashmir’s border district of Samba entered into the ‘modern history’ of India as the country’s first “carbon neutral panchayat” with Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicating to the nation 500 VK solar plant, installed in a record time of nearly three weeks.
• Modi, inaugurated the solar power plant amid cheer and applause from the people.
• In all 1,500 solar panels put up on the total area of 6,408 square meters will provide clean electricity to 340 houses in the model panchayat under the central government’s ‘Gram Urja Swaraj’ program.

2. India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit three European countries in the first week of May-

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to be on a visit to three European countries, including Germany, Denmark, and France in the first week of May.
• The visit, which is the first foreign visit of PM Modi this year, will see two key bilateral engagements in Germany and France.
• But a substantial portion of the visit will be in Denmark’s capital Copenhagen where PM will take part in the second India Nordic summit.
• Leaders of all five Nordic countries, including Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland will participate in the summit that will focus on clean technology, climate change, renewables, etc.
• The first India-Nordic summit took place in Sweden’s capital Stockholm in April of 2018, a format that brings together India along with all the countries in the Nordic or Northern European countries.
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3. JNU to institute Ambedkar chair-

• The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) will soon have a Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Centre and chair that will research bridging the “socio-political and economic inequalities”.
• The center and the academic chair agreed to be established at the varsity through an agreement between JNU and the Dr. Ambedkar International Centre (DAIC) of the Ministry of Social Justice.

4. India to host accountants World Congress for the first time in 118 years-

• Institute of chartered accountants of India (ICAI) is set to host the 21st World Congress of Accountants (WCOA), the number of accountants, for the first time in 118 years of its existence.
• The event will take place in the newly built Jio World Convention Centre in Mumbai.
• The WCOA, a forum for thought leadership and global exchange of views, is held every four years since it started in 1904.

5. Ex-Intelligence Chief Rao revoked his suspension-

• The Supreme Court said that the two-year suspension period of ex-intelligence Chief Rao is over now.
• The order was initially issued by the Andhra Pradesh government to suspend the then chief intelligence A.B. Venkateswara Rao.
• The suspension was revoked on Friday, i.e., the 22nd of April 2022.

6. Delhi hits the R-Value to 2.1 this week-

• R-Value, the indicator that detects the Covid spread, showed a record of 2.1 this week.
• The rise intimidates that every Covid infected person is infecting two other people in the nation’s capital, Delhi.
• The analysis, made by computational modeling, was done by IIT-Madras.

Today’s International Current Affairs:

1. Kamala Harris’s new defense advisor: Shanti Sethi- 

• Shanti Sethi, an Indian-American Navy veteran, is named as the defense advisor of USA’s Vice President, Kamala Harris.
• Shanti Sethi was the first Indian-American commander of a giant battleship of the United Nations Navy.

2. Ukrainian Prez Zelenskyy gets John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for protecting democracy-

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is among five people named as recipients of the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for acting to protect democracy.
• The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation said that he was chosen because of the way he has “marshaled the spirit, patriotism and untiring sacrifice of the Ukrainian people in a life-or-death fight for their country.
• The foundation said four U.S. officials were chosen for standing up for free and fair elections, as the system is challenged in ways it has never been before.
• They are Republican U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers, and Fulton County, Georgia, elections worker Wandrea “Shaye” Moss.
• The awards will be presented on May 22 at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston.

Business Current Affairs:

1. HDFC is to sell its 10% interest in HDFC Capital to Abu Dhabi Investment Authority for Rs 184 Crore-

• The mortgage lender HDFC Ltd. announced a sale of its 10% private equity share in HDFC Capital to a wholly-owned subsidiary, ADIA, for Rs. 184 Crore.
• The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, ADIA, is the largest shareholder in HDFC Capital’s USD 3 Billion alternative investment vehicles.

2. Six working groups were set up to suggest ways to improve the functioning of PSBs to submit reports by Dec-

• Six working groups created to suggest ways to improve digitization in the state-owned banks and strengthen their balance sheets have been asked to submit their respective reports by December.
• To improve the financial health of the PSBs, the government implemented a comprehensive 4R strategy — recognition of non-performing assets (NPAs) transparently, resolution and recovery of value from stressed accounts, recapitalization of PSBs, and reforms in PSBs and the wider financial ecosystem — for a responsible and clean system.

Science & Technology Current Affairs:

1. Digging Deep: New study shows how climate-informed hominin evolution-

• It has been common knowledge that climatic shifts, in particular the transition from the warm and wet Pliocene (5.3-2.6 mya) to the cold and dry Pleistocene (2.6 mya – 10 kya), played a key role in the evolution and dispersal of the Homo genus.
• However, palaeoclimate records are few and far between, making it difficult to establish concrete links between the archaeological record (consisting of fossil bones and stone tools) and climate drivers in the past.
• To fill this gap, an interdisciplinary team of researchers sought to employ climate modeling reconstructing past climate over the last 2 mya period in corroboration with the existing fossil and genetic evidence.
• Six Homo species were put under the scanner here: Homo sapiens (or anatomically modern humans (AMH)), Homo neanderthalensis (the Neanderthals), Homo heidelbergensis, Homo erectus, Homo habilis and Homo ergaster. The latter two were clubbed into one group, for they emerged from pretty much the same time and area.

Sports Current Affairs:

1. Wrestling: Ravi Kumar Dahiya becomes India’s first three-time Asian champ-

• Ravi Kumar Dahiya became India’s first-ever three-time Asian champion, and fellow star Bajrang Punia came up short in a bid to match the feat.
• Kumar, the silver medalist at the Tokyo Olympics, put on a takedown clinic in storming to a 12-2 technical fall over Rakhat Kalzhan (Kaz) in the freestyle 57kg final of the Asian Championships in Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia).

Miscellaneous Current Affairs:

1. International Day of Multilateralism and Diplomacy for Peace, 24 April-

• The International Day of Multilateralism and Diplomacy for Peace was established on 12 December 2018.
• The United Nations came into being in 1945, following the devastation of the Second World War, with one central mission: the maintenance of international peace and security.
• The Charter of the United Nations states that one of the United Nations’ purposes and principles is the commitment to settle disputes through peaceful means and the determination to succeeding generations from the scourge of war.

2. English Language Day 23 April-

• English Language Day at the UN is celebrated on 23 April, the date traditionally observed as both the birthday and date of death of William Shakespeare.
• The Day is the result of a 2010 initiative by the Department of Global Communications, establishing language days for each of the Organization’s six official languages.
• The purpose of the UN’s language days is to celebrate multilingualism and cultural diversity as well as to promote equal use of all six official languages throughout the Organization.

3. More Information asked of Bharat Biotech on Covaxin below 12 years of age- 

• The Subject Expert Committee (SEC) of the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) has asked for additional information on Covaxin from Bharat Biotech that is to be provided to children below the age of 12.

Here were the daily current affairs of 23rd April 2022.

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