Weekly Current Affairs (18th April To 24Th April 2022)

 Weekly Current Affairs (18th April To 24th April 2022) 

17th April- World Hemophilia Day 

Theme - Access For All Partnership 

18th April- World Heritage Sites Day 

Theme- Heritage & Climate 

1) A Three Day India-Bangladesh Tourism Festival To Commence At Agartala Ujjayanta Palace.

2) World Hemophilia Day 2022 Theme- Access For All: Partnerships.

3) Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Kamlesh Nilkanth Vyas Gets One Year Extension.

4) India Win Junior Davis Cup By Beating Japan In The Final.

5) Union Minister Anurag Thakur Inaugurated 40th Hunar Haath In Mumbai.

6) Rajeev Ram (United States America) & Joe Salisbury ( United Kingdom Won The Men's Double At Monte Carlo ATP Masters 2022.

7) Rob Key Has Been Appointed As The Managing Director Of England Cricket Board.

8) Under 19 Table Tennis Player D Vishwa (Number Four Rank in India And 82 Rank In World Rank) Passed Away today In An Accident in Guwahati.

9)Dr. Bhusan Kumar Awarded With International Gandhi Award 2021 For Leprosy In Individuals Category.

10) Renowned Music Director Of Odisha Padmshri Prafulla Kar Passed Away.

11) Stefanos Tsitsipas Win the Men's Single Title of Monte Carlo ATP Masters 2022.

12) India's First Radio Channel For Visually Impaired People Radio Aksh Launched In Nagpur.

13) Aaditri Vaibhav a 2nd year IIT Kharagpur Won The National Inter College Crossword Expedition 2022.

14) Haryana Won The 12th Hockey India Senior Men's National Championship Beating Tamilnadu 3-1.

15) N Shankar Chairman Of Chemical Shipping Conglomerate The Sanmar Group Passed Away.

16) Vedanta Madhavan Wins His Second Freestyle 800Meter.

17) World Heritage Day- 18Th April 2022 Theme (Heritage And Climate)

18) Lieutenant General Manoj Pande Will be The Next Chief Of Army Staff. He will replace General MM Naravane.

He Became The FIRST Engineer To Be The Chief Of Army Staff.

19) Kenyan Chebat Wins Boston Marathon Men's Tittle.

20) Bangladesh Government Signed An USD 250 Million Financial Agreement With World Bank To help Economic Growth.

21) PM Narendra Modi Launched New Dairy Complex At Banas In Diyodar Gujarat.

22) Palli Village Of Jammu & Kashmir Becomes The First Carbon Free Solar Panchayat.

23) Swachh Bharat Abhiyan Started Pink Toilet Initiative To Focus On Women's menstrual Hygiene.

24) PM Narendra Modi To Lay Foundation Stone Of Four Gobar Gas Plants Of 100 Tonnes Capacity At Khimana, Rangpur, Bhildi, Radhanpur And Thawar.

25) Hear Your self Book Launch authored by Prem Rawat.

26) Mumbai Becomes the First City Of India to Be 100% Digital Buses. 

27) Noted Film producer And Chairman Of Asian Group Narayan Das Narang Passed Away.

28) Lieutenant General Manoj Kumar Katiyar Has Been Appointed As The Next Director General Of Military Operation.

29) Sampoorana An Initiative Of Assam's Bongaigaon District To Combat Malnutrition Among Children Has Been Selected For Prime Minister Award For Excellence In Public Administration 2021 

30) Naresh Kumar Appointed As Chief Secretary Of Delhi.

31) Shri Dhramendra Has Been Appointed As The Chief Secretary Of Arunachal Pradesh.

32) Shri Rajeev Verma Has Been Appointed As The Chief Secretary Of Puducherry.

33) Defense Secretary Ajay Kumar Inaugurated 8th Edition Of The Two Day National Level Pollution Response Exercise NATPOLREX -VIII Conducted By Indian Coast Guard Of Mormugao Harbour Goa.

34) Shanti Sethi An Indian- American Navy Veteran Has Joined As US Vice President Kamla Harris Office as Executive Secretary And Defense Advisor.

35) Mauritius Prime Minister Pravindh Kumar Jugnauth Addressed The Inaugural Ceremony Of WHO Global Center For Traditional Medicine Center At Jamnagar, Gujarat.

36) Story Of You Will Never Walk Alone Book By Author Ben Bocsak .

World Liver Day-19th April 

Civil Service Day - 21st Service Day 

37) Former Bangladeshi Spinner Moshharraf Hosaain Passed Away Due To Brain Cancer, He Was 40 Year old.

38) INS Vaghsheer The Scorpene class Submarine Of Project 75 Launched In Mumbai.

39) Pomila Jaiswal Has been Appointed As The Financial Director And CFO Of ONGC.

40) Ajay Kumar Sood Has Been Appointed As The Principal Scientific Advisor To The India Government.

He Replaced Biologist K Vijay Raghavan.

41) Well Known Eminent Producer Director Tatineni Rama Rao Passed Away.

42) Sunil Kumar (87Kg) Arjun Halakurki (55Kg) And Neeraj (63Kg) Won Bronze Medals In Asian Wresting Championship Held In Mangolia.

Harpreet Singh (82Kg) And Sachin Sharawat (67Kg) Won Bronze.

43) India's Mansi joshi Para Athlete Selected As Global leader By World Economic Forum For her Achievement.

44) Kieron Pollard Former White Ball Cricket Captain Announced Retirement From International Cricket.

45) OIL Commission To Plant Green Hydrogen In Assam.

46) National Investigation Agency (NIA) Celebrated Its 13th Foundation Year At New Delhi.

World Earth Day -22nd April 

Theme Of Earth Day 2022 - Invest In Our Planet 

47) Photographer Dayanita Singh Win The Prestigious Hasselbled Award.

48) Shivpal Singh Yadav Took The Charge Of Chief Of Samajwadi Party.

49) Sarita Mor (59Kg) And Sushma Shokeen (55kg) Win Bronze For India At Asian Wrestling Championship In Mangolia.

50) Vijay Kumar Dev Appointed As Delhi's New State Election Commissioner 

51) Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav Launched Fincluvation, To Solve Financial Inclusion At New Delhi.

52) The Ministry Flagship Regional Scheme UDAN Has Been Awarded Prime Minister's Award For Excellence In Public Administration 2020 Under The Category Innovation (General)

53) Union Home Minister Amit Shah Inaugurated 48th All India Police Science Congress ( AIPSC) Meet As Chief Guest At Bhopal.

54) India Post payment Bank (IppB) Launches Fincluvation.

Fincluvation - A Joint Initiative To Collaborative With Fintech Start-up Community To Cocreate And Innovate Solution For Financial Inclusion.

55) Supreme Court Appoints Former Judge B. Sundershen Reddy To Oversee CEPMIZ Implementation Karnataka Mining 

World Book & Copyright Day - 23rd April 

Theme For 2022 - You Are a Reader 

56) Rohit Sharma, Jasprit Bumrah, Devon Conway, Ollie Robinson And Dan Van Niekerk Listed In Wisden Top Five Cricketer Of 2021.

57) Yoshimi Yamashita Is The First Woman To. Referee Of AFC Champions League Game.

58) India's First Indigenous EV Cell Manufacturing Line Launched By Log9 Materials In Bengaluru.

59) The Allahabad Court Dismissed The Plea Of Women To Women Marriage Proposal.

60) Anshu Malik (53Kg) And Radhika (65Kg) Category Wins Silver.

Manisha Wins Bronze in (62kg) Category In 2022 Senior Asian Wresting Championship In Ulaanbaatar.

61) Aayush Mandawat Deepak Chaudhary Two Indians Will Take Part In World Paer Plane Flying Championship.

62) Bengaluru Based Cornea Refractive Surgeon Rohit Shetty Has Been Named In Top 100 Most Inspiring And Influential Ophthalmologist Of The World By The Ophthalmologist Magazine.

63) Former Pakistan Cricket Board Chief Wasim Khan Takes The Charge Of ICC General Manager Of Cricket.

64) Dr. Suman K Bery Appointed As The Vice Chairman Of The NITI Ayog. 

Dr. Rajiv Kumar Stepped Down From Vice Chairman Post. 

65) Indian Railways Has Launched a Pilot Project For e-Auction Of Commercial Earning And Non Fare Revenue Contracts. 

66) Defense Minister Rajnath Singh Launched iDEX-Prime & 6th Defense India Startup Challenge During DefConnect 2.0 In New Delhi. 

67) Bjp National Executive Committee Member Mafuja Khatun Appointed As Vice Chairperson Of The Haj Committee Of India. 

68) India-UK Signed MoU On Nuclear Energy, Innovation Partnerships. 

National Panchayati Raj Diwas - 24th April 

69) Ravi Dahiya Gets The First Gold Medal In 57Kg Category In Asian Wresting Championship. Beaten Kazakhstan Kalzahan Rakhat In The final.

He Got Third Consecutive Gold In Asian Wresting Championship Since 2020.

70) Bajrang Punia (65kg), Gaurav Baliyan (79kg) Both Won Silver And Naveen (70kg) And Satywart Kadian (97kg) Won Bronze Respectively In Asian Wresting Championship At Magnolia.

71) Abhishek Verma, Rajat Chauhan And Aman Saini Indians Compound Team Won Gold In Archery World Cup Stage 1.

72) Ripun Bora Appointed As The State President Of The AITC Assam Unit.

73) Prashar Bharati Signed A MoU With The Public Broadcaster Of Argentina Radio Y Television Argentina (RTA) For Collaboration In The Field Of Broadcasting.

74) Prime Minister Narendra Modi To Inaugurate Banihal Qazigund Road Tunnel Which Help Bring The Region's Of Jammu And Kashmir.

75) First Ever Global Ayush Investment And Innovation Summit Concluded At Gandhinagar, Gujarat, Government Proposed 9000 Crores Investment.

76) Indian Tourist Or Migrant To United Arab Emirates Now Can Use UPI Payment With Their Bank Accounts Linked With In UAE.

77) Agriculture And Processed Food Products Exports Development Authority (APEDA) Signed A MoU With National Research Development Corporation (NRDC) To Synergize The Activities In The Interest Of Agriculture.

78) National Equestrian Championship Starts From 24th APRIL in Meerut,Uttar Pradesh.

79) National Thermal Power Corporation Limited Joins Hands With Delhi Jal Board To Converts Waste Into Energy.

80) April 23rd Celebrated As English Language Day.

81) Priyanka Mohite Became The First Indian Women To Scale Mt. Annapurna, Tenth Highest In The World.

82) Australia Has Announced To Grant Of USD 81.2 Million Under The Indo-Pacific Ocean Initiative (IPOI) 

83) NASA Flew Its Tiny Robotic Helicopter Ingenuity On Mars Becoming The First Human Made Machine To Take Flight On Another Planet.

84) The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) Has Established A Water Sports And Adventure Institute (WSAI) Near Tehri Dam At Uttarakhand.

85) Manipur's Soibam Bindeshori Chanu Vice Chairman Of Women's Sports Commission Of Karate Organisation Listed In The India Book Of Records As The First Certified Women Karate Kumite And Kata Coach By World Karate Federation. 

86) Defense Minister Rajnath Singh Felicitates Over 300 War Veterans Of The 1971 Liberation War Of Bangladesh In Assam. 

87) Bangladesh Educational Charity Founder Kishore Das Selected For Commonwealth Points Of Light Award.