Current Affairs (CONSOLIDATION) APRIL 2021 (PART – II) Drishti, 641, First Floor, Dr. Mukherjee Nagar, Delhi-110009 Phone: 87501 87501, WhatsApp: 92058 85200, IVR: 8010-440-440 Email: [email protected] Contents Polity and Governance ........................................................................................................1 zz National Commission for Minorities ....................................................................................................................... 1 zz Section 144 of CrPC ................................................................................................................................................ 2 zz Fifth Session of Codex Committee on Spices and Culinary Herbs .......................................................................... 3 zz RESPOND Program : ISRO ....................................................................................................................................... 4 zz Mizoram Bru Refugees ........................................................................................................................................... 5 zz Aahaar Kranti Mission ............................................................................................................................................ 6 zz India Restores E-Visa for 156 Countries ................................................................................................................. 6 zz EatSmart Cities Challenge and Transport 4 All Challenge ...................................................................................... 7 zz FASTag and Right to Freedom of Movement ......................................................................................................... 8 zz Extradition .............................................................................................................................................................. 9 zz World Press Freedom Index 2021 ........................................................................................................................ 10 zz Civil Services Day .................................................................................................................................................. 11 zz Subsidy Policy for Urea Produced from Coal Gasification .................................................................................... 12 zz Disaster Management Act, 2005 Invoked ............................................................................................................ 12 zz National Panchayati Raj Day ................................................................................................................................. 14 zz #FOSS4GOV Innovation Challenge ....................................................................................................................... 15 zz Chandler Good Government Index ....................................................................................................................... 17 zz Agriculture Infrastructure Fund ............................................................................................................................ 18 zz Government of NCT of Delhi (Amendment) Act, 2021 ......................................................................................... 18 zz Differential Pricing for Covid-19 Vaccines ............................................................................................................ 19 Economic Scenario ............................................................................................................21 zz Power Grid Infrastructure Investment Trust ........................................................................................................ 21 zz Ways and Means Advance ................................................................................................................................... 22 zz Madhu Kranti Portal & Honey Corners ................................................................................................................. 23 zz NEFT & RTGS Direct Membership for Payment System Operators ...................................................................... 24 zz China Not Leaving Hot Springs & Gogra Post ....................................................................................................... 25 zz Britain Considering New Digital Currency Britcoin ............................................................................................... 26 zz Startup India Seed Fund Scheme .......................................................................................................................... 27 zz India’s Falling Crude Oil & Natural Gas Production .............................................................................................. 29 zz AIM-PRIME ........................................................................................................................................................... 30 zz Microfinance Institutions ..................................................................................................................................... 31 zz Crop Diversification .............................................................................................................................................. 32 zz Oxygen Crisis: Covid-19 ........................................................................................................................................ 33 zz Launch of Supply Chain Resilience Initiative ........................................................................................................ 35 zz RBI Report on Asset Reconstruction Companies .................................................................................................. 36 zz MACS 1407: Variety of Soybean ........................................................................................................................... 37 zz Corporate Social Responsibility Expenditure ....................................................................................................... 37 International Relations ......................................................................................................39 zz India-Japan ........................................................................................................................................................... 39 zz UK’s Indo-Pacific Tilt ............................................................................................................................................. 40 zz Project Dantak ...................................................................................................................................................... 41 zz The Armenian Genocide ....................................................................................................................................... 42 zz Kulbhushan Jadhav Case....................................................................................................................................... 43 zz Reassessment of Regional Trading Agreements for India .................................................................................... 44 zz India in US Currency Practices Monitoring List ..................................................................................................... 46 zz EU & Indo-Pacific .................................................................................................................................................. 47 zz India-Cuba Relations ............................................................................................................................................. 48 zz Chad President Idriss Deby Dies ........................................................................................................................... 49 zz International Religious Freedom Report 2021 .................................................................................................... 50 zz Boao Forum .......................................................................................................................................................... 52 zz US Supports India in Covid-Crisis .......................................................................................................................... 52 zz Post-Brexit Trade Treaty Ratified ......................................................................................................................... 53 Science and Technology .....................................................................................................56 zz CSF and Sheep Pox Vaccine ................................................................................................................................. 56 zz Harlequin Ichthyosis: Rare Genetic Disorder ........................................................................................................ 57 zz Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children ............................................................................................... 58 zz Monkeydactyl: Pterosaur Species ........................................................................................................................ 58 zz Initiatives of National Internet Exchange of India ................................................................................................ 60 zz Whitest Ever Paint Reflects 99% of Sunlight 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