Current Affairs- Today’s Headlines: April 1, 2022
Here are Today’s News Headlines by GK Today for April 1, 2022.
INDIA
– Chief Justice of India (CJI) N V Ramana launches software FASTER (Fast and Secured Transmission of Electronic Records) to transmit court orders swiftly and securely through electronic mode
– AFSPA ambit to be reduced in three North-Eastern states Nagaland, Assam and Manipur: Home Minister Amit Shah
– Navies of India and France start 5-day ‘Varuna’ Exercise in Arabian Sea
– Gurjar community leader Kirori Singh Bainsla dies at 84; was face of Gurjar quota agitations in Rajasthan in 2007-08
– Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrives in New Delhi on two-day visit
– EAM S. Jaishankar holds bilateral consultations with UK Secretary of State Elizabeth Truss in New Delhi
– Prof. Dr. Ashutosh Kumar appointed as 1st Visiting Professor to T. N. Seshan Chair at IIIDEM, New Delhi
ECONOMY & CORPORATE
– RBI gives banks time till March 2023 to banks to implement its direction on use of only lockable cassettes for replenishing cash in their ATMs
– Canara Bank cuts its stake in India Debt Resolution Company Ltd (IDRCL) to 5 per cent
– Non-linking of PAN-Aadhaar will attract Rs 500 fine after March 31; PAN to become inoperative after March 2023 if not linked
– India’s external debt rose to $614.9 billion at end of December 2021
– Government to borrow Rs 8.45 lakh crore in first half of 2022-23
– Govt keeps interest rate of small savings schemes unchanged for Q1 of 2022-23
– Import allowed under open general licence to check edible oil prices
– ONGC to open Vindhyan Basin in MP for gas production in Damoh district
– Microsoft launches Founders Hub platform in India to support startups
– Amazon India announces ‘Smbhav Entrepreneurship Challenge 2022’ for startups in India
– SpiceJet settles $24-mn financial dispute with Credit Suisse; the airline hadn’t paid bills for maintenance, repairing, and overhauling of the aircraft engines and components
WORLD
– China and the Solomon Islands sign a draft version of a security pact that could see Chinese police and other forces take up duties in the Pacific Island nation
– Russian spacecraft carrying NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei and two Russian cosmonauts lands in Kazakhstan
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