CURRENT AFFAIRS
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1. Lieutenant General Manoj Kumar Katiyar has been appointed as the next Director General of Military Operations. He would take charge of the new office on May 1st.
▪️Ministry of Defence :-
➨Headquarters - New Delhi
➨Founded - 15 August 1947
➨ Chief of the Air Staff - Air Chief Marshal Vivek Ram Chaudhari
➨Chief of the Navy Staff - Admiral R. Hari Kumar
2. The College of Air Warfare entered into an MoU with the Institute of Indo Pacific Studies, Osmania University for the award of a Master’s degree in International Studies to Course Officers of Higher Air Command Course (HACC) being conducted by the CAW.
➠CAW is associated with Osmania University for the last 16 years since 29 HACC were for the award of M Phill degree.
3. President Ram Nath Kovind has given his assent to the Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill, which empowers the police to obtain physical and biological samples of convicts and of those accused of crimes.
4. Nitin Gadkari, Minister for Road Transport and Highways, presented the 2021 AIMA Managing India Awards (AIMA) in multiple categories in Delhi.
➠ In the films category, Shoojit Sircar was honoured with the Director Of The Year award for Sardar Udham.
5. Oranges grown in Madhya Pradesh's Chhindwara district will now have a distinct identity of their own from the ones produced in Nagpur in neighbouring Maharashtra, and will be called Satpuda orange under the “one district one produce” scheme of the government.
6. Border Roads Organisation (BRO) will start the construction of the tunnel connecting Himachal Pradesh to Zanskar Valley in Ladakh by July this year.
▪️Border Roads Organisation :-
Director General - Lt. Gen. Rajeev Chaudhary
Headquarters - New Delhi
Founder - Jawaharlal Nehru
Founded - 7 May 1960
7. Union Agriculture Minister, Narendra Singh Tomar inaugurated National Conference on Agriculture for Kharif Campaign 2022-23 recently at NASC Complex, New Delhi.
8. World Earth Day, also known as International Mother Earth Day, is celebrated every year on April 22.
➠ The theme of Earth Day 2022 is to 'Invest in our planet'.
➠ In 2021, the theme was to 'Restore our Earth' and in 2020, the theme was 'Climate action'.
➠ The Earth Day was first celebrated on April 22, 1970.
9. Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC) has approved the appointment of Pomila Jaspal as Director (Finance) and Chief Financial officer of the company with immediate effect.
➠ Pomila Jaspal is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Cost Accountants of India and is also a Gold Medalist.
10. Telengana, an Indian state, has joined the Metaverse bandwagon with its ambitious Space Tech metaverse project.
▪️Telangana :-
➨CM - Kalvakuntla Chandrashekhar Rao
Governor - Tamilisai Soundararajan
➨KBR National Park
➨Amrabad Tiger Reserve
➨Kawal Tiger Reserve
➨ Pakhal Lake And Wildlife Sanctuary
11. National Security Adviser Ajit Doval inaugurated the National Cyber Security Incident Response Exercise along with National Cyber Security Coordinator Lt Gen (Retd) Rajesh Pant and DRDO Secretary Satheesh Reddy.
▪️Defence Research and Development Organisation( DRDO) :-
➠ Founded - 1958
➠ HeadQuarter - New Delhi
➠ Chairman - G. Satheesh Reddy
12. In a first of its kind initiative, the second edition of the Khelo India University Games to be held in the tech capital Bengaluru will have its own mobile application which is free to download.
13. Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Global Ayush Investment & Innovation Summit 2022 at Gandhinagar, Gujarat.
▪️Gujarat:-
➨CM - Bhupendra Patel
➨Governor - Acharya Devvrat
➨Nageshwar Temple
➨Somnath Temple
➠ Marine( Gulf of Kachchh) WLS
➠Nal Sarovar Bird Santuary