April 2022 Faculty Sheet

Faculty Sheet April 2022
GK / Current Affairs
Days & Dates

1. Utkal Diwas.
2. 2nd April – World Autism Day.
3. 7th April – World Health Day. Theme – “Our Planet, Our Health”.
4. 12th April – International Day of Human Spaceflight.
5. 14th April – Ambedkar Jayanti. Tamil Nadu celebrated ‘Equality Day’.
6. 18th April – World Heritage Day. Theme – ‘Heritage & Climate’.
7. 21st April – National Civil Services Day.
8. 21st April – World Creativity & Innovation Day.
9. 22nd April – Earth Day.
10. 23rd April – World Book Day.
11. Ambedkar Jayanti
12. 24th April – National Panchayati Raj Day.
13. 25th April – World Malaria Day.
14. 26th April – World Intellectual Property Day. Theme – ‘IP & Youth Innovating for a Better Future’.
15. 30th April – Ayushman Bharat Diwas.
16. Last week of April – World Immunization Week.
Awards & Recognitions
17. 1st Lata Deenanath Mangeskar Award – to PM Modi
People in News
18. General Manoj Pande –
19. Suman Berry – appointed as new Vice Chairman of NITI Aayog
20. Ajay Kumar Sood – new Principal Scientific Advisor of India
21. Vinay Mohan Kwatra – new foreign secretary of India
22. Shanti Sethi – Indian-American Navy veteran appointed as Kamla Harris’ defence advisor
23. Falguni Nayyar – Nykaa founder is in the top 10 of Huruns’ self made women billionaire in the world list 2022.
24. Gautam Adani – becomes India’s richest
25. Hafiz Saeed – LeT chief sentenced for 31 years to jail
26. Binapani Mohanty – Sahitya Akademi award recipient passed away
Places in News
27. Mullaperiyar Dam Dispute –
28. Kwar Hydroelectric Project – Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approves Rs. 4,526 crore for the 540
MW dam on Chenab River
29. Kuril Island/Northern Territories – dispute between Russia-Japan.
30. Palli – India’s first ‘carbon neutral’ panchayat
31. Jorhat – India’s first commercial grade green hydrogen production plant is set up by Oil India Ltd (OIL) at
Jorhat (Assam)
32. Shinku La – world’s highest tunnel (16,580 ft) to connect Ladakh’s Zanskar valley to Himachal Pradesh
33. Jamnagar – WHO Global Centre for Traditional Medicine (GCTM) at Jamnagar
34. Hyderabad & Mumbai – ‘2021 Tree City of the World’ by FAO.
National News
35. Coal shortage in India -
36. Intense heat wave in India –
37. PM Modi addresses the nation from Red Fort on the 400th Prakash Parab of Guru Teg Bahadur –
38. Presidential assent to Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill 2022 –
39. India Antarctic Bill 2022 introduced in Lok Sabha –
40. Agnipath (or Tour of Duty) scheme to be finalized soon –
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Faculty Sheet April 2022
GK / Current Affairs
International News
41. Sri Lankan crisis; President Gotabaya Rajapaksa replaces his elder brother Mahindra Rajapaksa as PM; a
new interim government to be set up.
42. French Presidential Election 2022 –
43. China signs security pact with Solomon Island –
44. Shehbaz Sharif replaces Imran Khan as the new PM of Pakistan –
45. Denmark becomes first country to suspend mass vaccination program for Covid-19 –
46. India elected to 4 UN EcoSoc bodies viz.
• Commission for Social Development
• Committee on NGOs
• Commission on Science & Technology for Development
• Committee for Economic, Social & Cultural Rights
47. 70 years of diplomatic relationship between India & Netherlands; President Ram Nath Kovind visits
Netherlands
Business, Commerce & Industry
48. RBI’s Monetary Policy – Policy rates remain unchanged for straight 11th time
49. LIC IPO –
50. HDFC Bank – HDFC Ltd merger –
51. Air India – Air Asia merger –
52. Elon Musk acquires Twitter in $44 billion deal -
53. UPI launched in UAE –
54. EV fires in India & NITI Aayog’s draft battery swapping policy –
Meetings/ Conferences/ Summits/Reports
55. QUAD Summit 2022 – to be held in Tokyo on 24th May
56. India – EU – 2nd country to launch Trade & Technology Council (TTU) with the EU
57. Russian foreign minister visits India on 1st April -
58. British PM Boris Johnson visited India –
59. India – US 2+2 Dialogue on 11th April –
60. World Military Expenditure Report 2021 by SIPRI; US, China & India are largest spenders
61. World Bank Report on Extreme Poverty in India; dropped from 22.5% in 2011 to 10.2% in 2019 -
Science & Technology
62. DSA (Digital Services Act) – EU’s new internet rules
63. Successful trial of GAGAN; IndiGo becomes first airlines in Asia to used indigenously developed sat nav
system for landing at Kishangarh
64. Sarmat – new nuclear-capable ICBM by Russia
65. Neptune cruise missile – Ukrainian missile which destroyed Moskva –
Sports
66. Laureus World Sports Awards 2022 –
67. Wisden Cricketer of the Year 2022 –
68. Dipika Pallikal & Saurav Ghosal won mixed doubles title at the world squash championship
69. Victoria (Melbourne, Australia) – venue of 2026 Commonwealth Games; Birmingham (England) is hosting
it in July-Aug 2022
Miscellaneous
70. 100th anniversary of Brahma Vidyalaya – Sri Narayan Guru; Sivagiri pilgrimage.
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