Current Affairs 2021: Today’s News Headlines: April 14, 2021

April 14, 2021

Here are Today’s News Headlines by GK Today for April 14, 2021:

Raisina Dialogue being organised by the Ministry of External Affairs and the Observer Research Foundation from April 13 to 16
Raisina Dialogue theme: “#ViralWorld: Outbreaks, Outliers and Out of Control”
‘Poshan Gyan’, a digital repository on health and nutrition, launched by NITI Aayog in tie up with Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Ashoka University

Minister for Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal launches e-SANTA – an electronic marketplace connecting aquaculture farmers and buyers
Govt’s indirect tax collections at Rs 10.71 lakh crore for FY21, 12% up vs FY20
NCDC (National Cooperative Development Corporation) secures Rs. 600 crores loan from Germany’s Deutsche Bank for onward lending to cooperatives in the country
Private weather forecast company Skymet forecasts ‘healthy normal’ monsoon in 2021
Atal Innovation Mission collaborates with Bayer to work towards healthcare and agriculture innovations
India gets third coronavirus vaccine as DCGI approves Russia’s Sputnik V for ‘restricted use in emergency situations’

Ecuador: Guillermo Lasso elected new President
Pakistan human rights icon I.A. Rehman dies at 90 in Lahore
Japan to release over 1 million tonnes of contaminated water from Fukushima nuclear plant into sea
Fukushima nuclear plant was crippled by a 2011 earthquake and tsunami