Infosys acquired GuideVision, an enterprise

prise service management

GuideVision for Euro 30 consultancy specialised in offering strategic
Million advisory, consulting, implementations, training and
support on the ServiceNow platform.
Government announced Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal
74% FDI in defence sector Trade (DPIIT) announced increase from earlier 49%
through automatic route investment cap via automatic route

Launch news/Initiatives

News Narration
The Ministry of External The app aims to create a three-way
way communication
Affairs launched Global between the Indian missions, ministry, and the
Pravasi Rishta Portal and Indian diaspora.
app

Paytm launched its first The PoS machine comes bundled with Paytm's
pocket Android PoS device 'Scan to Order' service,
ervice, which is said to be gaining
for contactless ordering traction in places like restaurants and takeaway
and making payments, for joints. This product is also expected to make
SMEs. payments easier for logistic players, Kirana stores,
and small shopkeepers.
The Government made use The Aarogya Setu app was developed to track
of Aarogya Setu app COVID-19
19 positive cases, their movement & contact
compulsory for all the with others, using Bluetooth and location data
Centre Government
employees

General Awareness
Personalities
Key positions held

(a) Chief Ministers Personality (Post assembly elections)

Bihar Nitish Kumar
Tamil Nadu MK Stalin

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West Bengal Mamta Banerjee
Assam Himanta Biswa Sarma
Puducherry N. Rangaswamy
Kerala Pinarayi Vijayan
Uttarakhand Tirath Singh Rawat

(b) Union cabinet Personality

Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Defence Raj Nath Singh
Home Ministry Amit Shah
External Affairs S Jaishankar
Road Transport and Highways; Micro, Nitin Gadkari
Small and Medium Enterprises
Finance & Corporate Affairs Nirmala Sitharaman
Chemicals and Fertilizers D.V. Sadananda Gowda
Law and Justice; Communications; Ravi Shankar Prasad
Electronics and IT
Women and Child Development; Smriti Irani
Textiles
Social Justice and Empowerment Thaawar Chand Gehlot
Agriculture and Farmers Welfare; Rural Narendra Singh Tomar
Development
Railways, Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal
17th speaker of Lok Sabha Om Birla
Environment, Forest and Climate Prakash Javadekar
Change; Information and Broadcasting
; Heavy industries
Piyush Goyal (Addl. Charge)
Union Ministry of Consumer Affairs,
Food and Public Distribution

(c) Government Personality

RBI Deputy Governors T Rabi Sankar

Mukesh Kumar Jain

Rajeshwar Rao
Michael D Patra

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Economic Affairs secretary Ajay Seth
Revenue secretary Tarun Bajaj
Finance secretary T V Somanathan
Chief Information Commissioner Yashvardhan Kumar Sinha
Central Vigilance Commissioner Sanjay Kothari
Chief of Defence Staff Bipin Rawat
Chief Army Staff Manoj Mukund Naravane
Foreign secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla
Chief Justice of India N V Ramana
CEO, Ayushman Bharat scheme R S Sharma
Law Secretary A K Mendiratta
Air Chief Marshal of India Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria
Principal Secretary to Prime P K Mishra
Minister
Chairman, Press Trustt of India Aveek Sarkar
Cabinet Secretary of India Rajiv Gauba
Defence secretary Ajay Kumar
Director General, BSF Rakesh Asthana
Home secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla
Chief, Research & Analysis Wing Samant Goel
Director, Intelligence Bureau Arvind Kumar
Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Karambir Singh

Chairman, Indian Banks Association Rajkiran Rai G

MD & CEO, Indian Post Payments Bank J Venkatramu
Chief Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra
Chairman, UIDAI J Satyanarayana
CEO, UIDAI Saurabh Garg
Chairman, Central Admin. Tribunal (CAT) Justice L. Narasimha Reddy
Governor, RBI Shaktikanta Das
NITI Aayog Chairperson - Mr. Narendra
Modi
CEO - Amitabh Kant
Vice Chairman - Rajiv Kumar
National Security advisor to the PM Ajit Doval
Director-General, CRPF Kuldiep Singh
Chairman, 7th pay commission Justice A K Mathur
Chairman, SEBI Ajay Tyagi

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Attorney General of India K K Venugopal
Director General, National Security Guard Anup Kumar Singh
Chairman, University Grant Commission Dhirendra Pal Singh
CMD, Air India Rajiv Bansal
Chairman, 15th Finance Commission N K Singh
Chairman, Economic Advisory Committee Bibek Debroy
Chairman, GSTN Ajay Bhushan Pandey
Comptroller & Auditor General of India G C Murmu
Chairperson, Competition Commission of India Ashok Kumar Gupta
Chairman, National Company Law Tribunal Justice B L Bhat
Chairman, Railway Board V K Yadav
Chief Economic Advisor Krishnamurthy Subramanian
Chairman, IRDA Subhash Chandra Khuntia
First CFO, RBI Sudha Balakrishnan
MD & CEO, NPCI Dilip Asbe
Chairman, Airports Authority of India Sanjeev Kumar
Chairman, National Green Tribunal (2010) Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel

(d) Science Related (Estb year) Name

ISRO (1969) K Sivan
TIFR (1945) Sandip Trivedi
BARC (1954) Director – A K Mohanty
Atomic Energy Commission of India Chairman – K N Vyas
DRDO (1958) Chairman - G Satheesh Reddy
Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (1963) Director - S Somanath
Director General, CSIR (1942) Shekhar Mande

(e) Others Personality

Chairman, FTII (1960) Shekhar Kapur
Chairman, CBFC (1951) Prasoon Joshi
Chairperson, National Commission for Rekha Sharma
Women
Deaths

Name Narration

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Rajan Mishra Renowned Hindustani classical vocalist & Padma
Bhushan awardee belonged to Banaras gharana
Soli Sorabjee Former Attorney General and leading human rights
lawyer
Tarun Gogoi A congressman & the longest serving chief minister of
Assam
Union Minister Ram The president of the Lok Janshakti Party & the current
Vilas Paswan Rajya Sabha MP served the portfolio of the Union
Cabinet Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public
Distribution in the present Modi government. Earlier, he
was elected to the Lok Sabha eight times & was a major
political face from Bihar
SP Balasubrahmanyam Padma ShShri
ri & Padma Bhushan awardee was a musician,
playback singer, music director, actor, dubbing artist
and film producer who worked predominantly in
Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Hindi and Malayalam and sang
around 40000 songs in multiple languages
Jaswant Singh He handled critical portfolios like finance, defense and
external affairs in Vajpayee government from 1996-
1996
2004
S. Padmavati India’s first female cardiologist was awarded Fellowship
of the American College of Cardiology and FAMS,
Padma Bhushan & Padma Vibhu Vibhushan
Gulshan Ewing She edited two of India's most popular magazines –
women's journal Eve's Weekly and film magazine Star &
Style – between 1966 and 1989.
Pranab Mukherjee He was a 7-time
7 time MP & served in the cabinet of several
prime ministers. In 2012, Mukherjee
Mukherjee was elected
President of India. A Padma Vibhushan & Bharat Ratna
awardee handled finance, defence & external affairs
portfolios in various governments

People in news

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Name Narration
Mountaineer Priyanka Mohite Priyanka also holds the record of being the
became first Indian woman to first Indian woman to scale Mt Makalu, the
scale Mt Annapurna fifth highest mountain range in the world at
8,485 meters.

Kami Rati Sherpa scaled the Kami Rita, 51, first scaled Everest
verest in 1994 and
summit of Mt. Everest for a 25th has been making the trip nearly every year
time since then.

Heath Streak accepted charges of breaching

Former Zimbabwe captain Heath the ICC Anti-Corruption
Corruption Code. They include
Streak banned for eight years disclosing inside information under both the
ICC Code and various domestic Codes, in
circumstances where he knew or should have
known that such information may be used for
betting purposes. It also includes directly or
indirectly soliciting, inducing, enticing,
persuading, encouraging, or intentionally
facilitating any participant to breach the Code
UNEP extended Dia Mirza's term One of Dia's big campaigns during her first
as Goodwill Ambassador till tenure as the ambassador was
2022 #BeatPlasticPollution that helped in
highlighting the issue at the highest levels and
led to a clarion call from Prime Minister
Narendra Modi to make India Single Use
Plastics free by 2022

Entities in News

Entities Narration
Mithali Raj became first Indian Mithali became the second international
female cricketer to score 10,000 woman cricketer to achieve the feat after
international runs England’s Charlotte Edwards

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World’s largest Cricket Stadium The president inaugurated the world's
inaugurated in Gujarat largest cricket stadium at Motera in Gujarat.
The stadium was renamed Narendra Modi
Stadium and surpassed the Melbourne
Cricket Ground in size

Hyderabad became first city to be Recognized by the Arbor Day Foundation

recognised as Tree City of the and the UN Food od and Agriculture
World 2020 Organisation- FAO, Hyderabad was
recognized for maintaining and growing the
urban forest
Kumbh Mela 2021 was held in Held for 30 days this year in Haridwar,
April (Uttarakhand), the religious festival is
celebrated four times over 12 years at four
venues - Haridwar (Ganges), Ujjain (Shipra),
Nashik (Godavari) & Prayag (Confluence of
the Ganges, the Jamuna, and the mythical
Sarasvati)
Once cut off in Indo-Pak
Pak war in 1965, the
55 years old Chilahati-Haldibari
Haldibari rail link was reopened to enhance the transport
link inaugurated between the two nations. The railway link
will facilitate the movement of goods cargo
& the passengers can start traveling as soon
as the required infrastructure is in place
Tso Kar Wetland Complex of The Tso Kar Basin is a high-altitude
altitude wetland
Ladakh was recognised as the 42nd complex, consisting of two principal
Indian Ramsar wetland of waterbodies, Startsapuk Tso, a freshwater
international importance & 2nd lake of about 438 hectares to the south, and
from Ladakh Tso Kar itself, a hypersaline lake of 1800
hectares to the north
Orchha and Gwalior cities of This increases number of heritage sites in
Madhya Pradesh were added to India to 40 (36 sites, 4 cities)
UNESCO World Heritage City list

Statue of Peace unveiled in Pali, Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled the
Rajasthan statue to mark the 151st Jayanti
celebrations of Jainacharya Shree Vijay
Vallabh Surishwer Ji Maharaj

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Bhubaneswar became the first The state capital of Odisha received
Indian city to get an ISO 9001:2015 Certification for 'Fecal Sludge and Septage
certification Management (FSSM) services'.
Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC)
was the first civic body to implement FSSM
regulations in the state
The UNESCO included Panna UNESCO's recognition mentioned Panna
National Park off MP under its list Tiger Reserve as a critical tiger habitat. The
of Biosphere reserves area has undergone substantial ecosystem
restoration in the buffer zone
Fossils of Dickinsonia discovered in Researchers have discovered the fossils of
Bhimbetka the world’s oldest and the earliest known
living animal, Dickinsonia. The fossils have
been found on the roof of the Bhimbetka
rock shelters which are about 40 km from
Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh

World’s longest highway

hway tunnel The 9.02 km-long-tunnel,
tunnel, built by the Border
was inaugurated at Rohtang Roads Organisation (BRO), is the world’s
longest highway tunnel and connects Manali
to Lahaul-Spiti
Spiti valley. It provides all-weather
all
connectivity to the landlocked valley of
Lahaul-Spiti,
Spiti, which remains cutcut-off for
nearly six months in a year as the Rohtang
Pass is usually snow-bound
bound between
November and April.
Served for 30 Years, INS Viraat will It had served in the UK's Royal Navy as HMS
be dismantled at Alang in Gujarat Hermes and was named INS Viraat after
being inducted in the Indian Navy
Cyclone Amphan caused havoc in A powerful super-cyclone
cyclone Amphan made
India and Bangladesh landfall between Digha in West Bengal and
Hatiya island in Bangladesh. It killed at least
22 people, destroying thousands of homes

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