New Foreign Secretary

Union Government appointed Shri Vinay Mohan Kwatra as New Foreign Secretary. He is set to assume charge on April 30.

Twitter🐦🐦

Elon Musk to acquire Twitter for $44 Billion. 

Military Spending in India

Military Spending in India has rose to $76.6 Billion 💵(₹5 Lakh 86 Thousand Crores) and third largest spending in the world. USA and China tops the list. 

France President 🗳️Elections

Emmanuel Macron wins France President 🗳️Elections and first person to win a second term. 

Asian Wrestling🤼‍♂️ Championship

Olympic Silver Medalist Ravi Kumar Dahiya become first Indian to win Three 3️⃣ consecutive Gold medal in Asian Wrestling🤼‍♂️ Championship. 

New appointment - NITI Aayog Vice Chairman

The government has appointed Suman K. Bery as vice Chairman of NITI Aayog. 

Chairman of NITI Aayog - Shri. Narendra Modi, PM

BOI Recruitment 2022

Bank of India recruitment on Regular and Contract basis. 

Vacancies :

Regular basis - 594

On contract Basis - 103

BOI Official Notification

Appointment of Principal Scientific Advisor

Padma Shri Ajay kumar sood named as the Principal Scientific Advaisor to the government by Appointments Committee of the cabinet(ACC). 

Danish Open Swimming 2022

Indian Swimmer Sajan Prakash clinch a gold medal in men's 200m butterfly swimming🏊. He has finished in 1:59:27.

Teenager Vedaant Madhavan wins silver in men's 1500m freestyle event and finished in 15:57:86s.

New Appointment - IPGA

India Pulse and Grains Association (IPGA), the apex body for India's pulses and trade industry has appointed Bimal Kothari as New Chairmen. 

Malcolm Adiseshiah Award 2022

Indian economist and political commentator Shri. Prabhat Patnaik has wins Malcolm Adiseshiah Award 2022.

Foreign currency Rating

S&P Global Rating lowered Sri Lankan's 🇱🇰 foreign currency rating to CC from CCC. 

Sri Lankan Currency - Rupee. 

Australian Grand Prix

Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc Won Australian Grand Prix Winner. 

Winner's of Korea Open Batminton

Korea Open Badminton🏸 Open held in Suncheon. 

Men's Singles Winner - Weng Hongyang, China

Women's Singles Winner - An Se-Young, South Korea. 

RBI Bimonthly Monetary Policy April 2022

RBI Bimonthly Monetary Policy April 2022 with no change in Key rates. 

Repo Rate : 4.00%

Reverse Repo : 3.35%

MSF : 4.25%

CRR : 4.00%

SDF : 3.75%

Inflation projection for FY 2022-23 is 5.70%

GDP projection for FY 2022-23 is  7.20%

RBI has introduced a non-collaterlised Standing Deposit Facility (SDF) to absorb surplus liquidity from Banking system at a higher interest rate. 

SDF rate replaced Fixed rate reverse repo for Liquidity Adjustment Facility (LAF). 

Digital Banking Unit's (DBUs)

RBI has permitted Scheduled Commercial Banks to open Digital Banking Unit's (DBUs) in Tier I to Tier VI centers. 

Union Budget announcement for FY 2022-23 for the setting up of 75 DBUs in 75 Districts to mark 75 years of India's Independence. 

A DBU is a special fixed point Business Units / hub / Business Outlets with minimum digital infrastructure for delivering digital banking products and services to improve digital banking strategy of Banks. 

Products offered by DBU should cover assest and liability side in Balance sheet. 

Liability side coverage by account opening, Digital Banking kits for customers and merchants. 

Assest side to enable making applications for onboarding new retail, MSME and Government sponsored schemes covered under national portal. 

Services to allow cash withdrawal and cash deposit thru ATMs and cash deposit machine. Passbook printing, statement generation, internet banking kiosk, transfer of funds and updation of KYC/V-CHIP (Video KYC) etc... 

India's Growth Projection

ADB projects India FY 2022-2023 growth at 7.5%.

Inflation rate at 5.8 in FY 2022-2023.

Grammy 2022 - Best children's album

Falguni 'Falu' Shah won Grammy Award 2022 for "A Colourful World" in the "best children's album" category. 

Knowledge Quest 4

1) IRDAI has recently extended the validity of two Corona-specific policies - Corona Kavach and Corona Rakshak - till March 2022.

2) Sebi Chairmen - Ajay Tyagi

3) NFRA - National financial reporting authority. 

Grammy 2022 - Best New Age Album

Rickey Kej won Grammy Award for the second time with Stewart Copeland. He got the Grammy Award 2022 for category "Best New Age Album" for "Divine Tides".

Rickey Kej won first Grammy in 2015 for same category album "Winds of samsara".

New Foreign Secretary

Union Government appointed Shri Vinay Mohan Kwatra as New Foreign Secretary. He is set to assume charge on April 30.

Broadcast Seva Portal

Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting Anurag Singh Thakur Launched the Broadcast Seva Portal. A initiative of "ease of Doing Business" and the portal aims in speedy filing and Processing of applications by Broadcasters for various kinds of licence, permissions and registrations. 

13 New Districts in Andhra Pradesh

Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh inaugurated 13 New Districts. 

1) Parvathipuram Manyam

2) Anakapalli

3) Alluri Seetharama Raju

4) Kakinada

5) Konaseema

6) Eluru

7) Palnadu

8) Bapatla

9) Nandyala

10) Sri Sathya Sai

11) Sri Balaji

12) Annamaya

13) NTR