Test: April 2021 Weekly Current Affair - 4 - UPSC MCQ

Home-grown digital financial services platform Paytm has launched a new video-based wealth community called the Paytm Wealth Community.

The State Bank of India (SBI) Research has revised India’s FY22 growth to 10.4% from 11% projected earlier in view of the increasing COVID-19 related curbs across states.

Software-engineer turned social entrepreneur, Rumana Sinha Sehgal has been awarded the prestigious ‘Nelson Mandela World Humanitarian Award 2021’ by the Diplomatic Mission Global Peace.

In the World Youth Boxing championships, Indian women boxers put up sensational performances as they created history with seven gold medals in Kielce, Poland.

Tamil Nadu teenager Arjun Kalyan became India’s 68th Chess Grandmaster when he crossed the 2500 ELO mark after beating Dragan Kosic in the fifth round of GM Round Robin “Rujna Zore-3” in Serbia.

As India and Australia increase engagement under Indo Pacific vision, Canberra (April 19) announced a Rs 8.12 crore-grant under the Indo-Pacific Oceans Initiative(IPOI).

The Reserve Bank has restricted American Express Banking Corp and Diners Club International Ltd from onboarding new domestic customers onto their card networks from May 1 for violating data storage norms.

Every year the United Nations marks April 23 as English Language Day. The day is also traditionally known to be the birthday of William Shakespeare.

Standard and Poor (S&P) Global Ratings has forecast a 11 per cent GDP growth for India in 2021-22 on account of a fast economic reopening and fiscal stimulus. However, S&P has flagged Covid-19 containment measures as key risks for the economy.

M. C. Mary Kom, the only boxer – male or female – to win eight world championships medals, was named Sportstar of the Decade at the 2021 Sportstar ACES Awards.

The United States Senate voted 51-49 to confirm Indian-American Vanita Gupta as associate attorney general, making her the first person of colour to occupy the third highest position at the Department of Justice.

NASA’s Perseverance rover on Mars has made oxygen from the planet’s carbon dioxide atmosphere. It is the second successful technology demonstration on the mission, which flew a mini-helicopter.

World Day for Safety and Health at Work is observed on April 28 annually. The day has been observed worldwide since 2003.

The Haryana government has approved allotment of 140 acres of land to e-commerce major Flipkart for setting up its largest fulfilment centre in Asia, having a covered area of 3 million square feet in Patli Hajipur in Gurugram district’s Manesar.

Government has extended certain timelines in order to give respite to taxpayers in difficult COVID times. It has extended deadline for making payment under tax dispute resolution scheme Vivad Se Vishwas by two months till 30th of June.

A community service centre has been set up to bring all data on board India’s first dedicated solar space mission to a single web-based interface.The service centre is called Aditya-L1 Support Cell.

A UN-led global immunization strategy was unveiled to reach more than 50 million childrenwho have missed lifesaving jabs against measles and other diseases because of COVID-19 disruption.

The Haryana cabinet approved a policy to provide jobs on compassionate grounds and economically weaker section (EWS) status to children either abandoned or surrendered and turned 18-year-old while living in child-care institutions across state.

World Book and Copyright Day is celebrated every year on April 23 to promote reading, publishing, and copyright.

Private sector lender HDFC Bank said the Reserve Bank of India has approved appointment of former Economic Affairs Secretary Atanu Chakraborty as the part-time chairman of the bank.

line with Budget announcement, the government has infused Rs 200 crore capital in state-owned IFCI to improve its financial health.

The finance ministry expanded the scope of the Rs 3 lakh crore Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme (ECLGS) which will now cover borrowers from the healthcare segment, apart from the 26 sectors identified by the Kamath Committee.

Rafael Nadal saved a championship point to beat Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-4, 6-7 (6/8), 7-5 and claim a 12th Barcelona Open title in the ATP’s longest match of 2021.

Amit Banerjee has been appointed as the new Chairman & Managing Director (CMD) of BEML Limited, a Miniratna Defence PSU under the Ministry of Defence.

Government has left GPF and other non-government PF interest rate unchanged at 7.1 percent.