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IFFCO gives order for its 2nd Oxygen plant                 Assam government is setting up three covid care
                                                            centres in and around Guwahati with 1405 bed
 Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Limited,
                                                            capacities.
  IFFCO has given an order for its 2nd oxygen plant
                                                           255-bed covid care centre at Kahikuchi , 400 bed
  in Aonla, Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh to fulfill the
                                                            centre at Sarusajai and 750-bed temporary
  demand of medical grade oxygen in the country.
                                                            hospital including 200 bed ICU is coming up at
 It will give free oxygen to hospitals in the nation’s
                                                            Khanapara.
  service.
                                                           The state government has increased the testing,
 The medical oxygen plant with a capacity of 130
                                                            tracing and vaccination along with increasing
  Cubic meters per hour will commence by 30th
                                                            infrastructure.
  May 2021.
                                                          2nd phase of ‘Kill Corona Campaign’: MP
Processed food products exports grow over 26%
                                                           In MP, the 2nd phase of the Kill Corona Campaign
 India’s processed food products exports have
                                                            is being conducted in rural areas of all districts
  witnessed a growth of over 26% from April to
                                                            from 24 April 2021 till May 9, 2021.
  February in the last financial year (2020-2021).
                                                           The state government has also launched a new
 The total value of export of processed products
                                                            initiative 'Yog se Nirog' programme.
  was 43,798 crore rupees during this period.
                                                           The aim of the programme is to boost the mental
 The major processed food products exported
                                                            and physical health of the Covid patients living
  from India include pulses, processed vegetables,
                                                            in home isolation and Covid Care Centres.
  fruits and juices, groundnuts, cereals
  preparations, etc.                                      Chhattisgarh govt to deduct 1 day salary
Govt extends deadline for Vivad Se Vishwas                 The Chhattisgarh government will deduct one day
                                                            salary of officers and employees for April 2021 for
 The government has extended certain timelines in
                                                            contribution to the Chief Minister Relief Fund in
  order to give relief to taxpayers in difficult COVID
                                                            order to help the needy people of the state
  times.
                                                            affected by corona infection.
 It has extended the deadline for making payment
                                                           About 600 medical officers and staff nurses have
  under the tax dispute resolution scheme Vivad Se
                                                            been given special training for the ICU and
  Vishwas by two months till the 30th of June 2021.
                                                            ventilator management as well as the use of
 The time limit for passing of any order for
                                                            oxygen therapy devices.
  assessment or reassessment under the Income
  Tax Act has been extended till 30th June 2021.          Oxygen manufacturing plant at Kolavada
Assam govt setting up three covid care centres             Union Home Minister Amit Shah inaugurated an
                                                            oxygen manufacturing plant at Kolavada village in
                                                            Gandhinagar on 24 April 2021.
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 He informed that it is better compared to other        An emergency financial power of Rs 5 crore has
  states as Gujarat is an industrial state.               been delegated to Director Generals Medical
 The PM CARES fund has approved 100s of plants           Service of Army, Navy, and Air Force and Rs 3
  for oxygen production across India.                     crore to Major General and its equivalent rank.
 Out of these, Gujarat will get 11 plants which will   84% reduction in malaria cases in India
  be operational soon.
                                                         The country has witnessed 84% reduction in
US to boost public climate finance
                                                          malaria cases in 2020 as compared to 2015.
 The US will boost public climate finance to help       Union Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan
  poor countries reduce greenhouse gas emissions          declared this while chairing the Reaching Zero
  and adapt to a changing climate.                        forum on malaria elimination.
 The US administration released its climate finance     Over 83% reduction in deaths has also been
  plan in tandem with a new goal to cut emissions         reported in 2020.
  by 50%-52% from 2005 levels.                           Every year, 25th April is observed as World
 US International Development Finance                    Malaria Day.
  Corporation will also change its development           The theme 2021 is Reaching the Zero Malaria
  strategy to include climate for the first time.         target.
Japan declares three months emergency                   DRDO to set up COVID hospital in Ahmedabad
 Japan has declared a state of emergency in Tokyo,      Another dedicated 1200 bed Covid hospital will
  Osaka, Kyoto, and Hyogo from April 25, 2021,            be set up at Gandhinagar in Gujarat.
  after a recent surge in COVID-19 cases.                It will be set up at Helipad ground in Gandhinagar
 Announcing the emergency till 11th May 2021,            and will have 600 ICU beds.
  PM Yoshihide Suga informed that the emergency          It will be set up by DRDO in collaboration with
  is intended to be short and intensive.                  Tata Trust.
 It is to stop people from travelling and spreading     A 900 bed dedicated Covid hospital has already
  the virus during Japan’s Golden Week holidays.          been set up by DRDO and Gujarat Government at
                                                          Gujarat University Convention and Exhibition
DPIIT sets up a control room
                                                          Centre in Ahmedabad
 Department for Promotion of Industry and
                                                        National Panchayati Raj Day: 24 April
  Internal Trade, DPIIT has set up a Control room to
  monitor the issues of internal trade,                  National Panchayati Raj Day is celebrated on April
  manufacturing, delivery, and logistics of essential     24.
  commodities.                                           On this day, work done by the Panchayat leaders
 In the event of any manufacturing,                      are recognized and appreciated.
  transportation, distribution, wholesale companies      In 1993, the 73rd Constitutional Amendment
  facing difficulties in transportation, information      came into force institutionalizing the Panchayati
  can be given at numbers- 011 - 23062383 and             Raj system.
  23062975.                                              Former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh
Emergency financial powers given to AFMS                  declared the first National Panchayati Raj Day in
                                                          2010.
 Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has sanctioned
  delegation of emergency financial powers to           Justice N V Ramana takes oath as 48th CJI
  Armed Forces Medical Services, AFMS to fight the       Justice Nuthalapati Venkata Ramana took oath as
  recent surge in COVID-19 cases across the               the 48th Chief Justice of India on 24 April 2021.
  country.

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 President Ram Nath Kovind administered him the        Scientists have discovered one of the smallest
  oath of office at a brief ceremony held at the         black holes on record and the closest one to Earth
  Rashtrapati Bhavan.                                    found as of 24 April 2021.
 He succeeds Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde who           The blackhole is about three times the mass of
  demitted office on 23 April 2021.                      our sun, which measures tiny for a black hole.
 Justice Ramana will have a tenure of nearly 16        This black hole is 1,500 light years away from
  months as the Chief Justice.                           Earth, still inside the Milky Way galaxy.
                                                        The researchers have dubbed it as “The Unicorn”.
Centre to airlift 23 oxygen generation plants
                                                       25 new Remdesivir production sites approved
 The Defence Ministry has decided to airlift 23
  mobile oxygen generating plants from Germany          The Centre has approved 25 new manufacturing
  amid an acute shortage of medical oxygen due           sites for production of anti-viral drug Remdesivir
  to a massive surge in coronavirus case.                since 12th of April 2021.
 The each plant will have a capacity to produce 40     The production capacity of drug Remdesivir has
  lit of oxygen per minute and 2,400 lit every hour.     now ramped up from 40 lakhs vials per month to
 The plants will be deployed in the Armed Forces        around 90 lakhs vials per month.
  Medical Services hospitals for treating COVID-19      This will make production of Remdesivir to reach
  patients.                                              the target of three lakh vials per day soon.
4chan founder Chris Poole leaves Google                Centre to provide 5 kg free food grains
 Chris Poole, the founder of controversial online      The centre will provide 5 kg of food grains free-of-
  forum 4chan, has left Google after five years of       cost to around 80 crore Pradhan Mantri Garib
  service.                                               Kalyan Anna Yojana (PM-GKAY) beneficiaries
 Poole had joined Google in 2016 as a product           during May and June 2021 amidst the second
  manager.                                               wave of COVID-19 cases.
 Poole launched 4chan in 2003 and sold it to           The central gov will spend Rs 26,000 crore for this
  internet entrepreneur Hiroyuki Nishimura in            scheme.
  2016.                                                 The government had announced PM-GKAY in
 4chan was the controversial forum, became              March 2020 when the first nationwide lockdown
  infamous for hosting hackers and sharing explicit      was imposed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
  images.
                                                       RBI restricts American Express, Diners Club
Chithra Thomas: HR head for Tesla India
                                                        The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has restricted
 The US-headquartered electric vehicle giant Tesla      American Express and Diners Club International
  has hired Chithra Thomas as its human resources        Ltd. from adding new domestic customers from 1
  (HR) lead in India.                                    May'21 for not complying with data storage rules.
 Thomas has joined Tesla after spending over six       American Express Banking Corp. and Diners Club
  years at Reliance Retail, where she was vice           International Ltd. are payment system operators
  president and head of HR for the company’s e-          authorized to operate card networks in the
  commerce initiative Ajio.com.                          country under the Payment and Settlement
 Tesla has earlier appointed Manuj Khurana as           Systems Act, 2007.
  Policy and Business Development head for India
                                                       PM to launch distribution of e-property cards
  operations.
                                                        PM Modi will launch the distribution of e-
Closest black hole to Earth discovered
                                                         property cards under the SWAMITVA scheme on
                                                         24 April 2021.

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 In a virtual event over 4 lakh property owners will     million (around USD542 million) 4.5-year bond in
  be given their e-property cards.                        the Australian dollar kangaroo market.
 SVAMITVA (Survey of Villages and Mapping with          The 7-year bond has a coupon of 1.5 per cent
  Improvised Technology in Village Areas) scheme          payable semi-annually and a maturity date of May
  was launched by PM Modi on 24th April 2020 to           4, 2028.
  promote a socio-economically empowered and
                                                        SpaceX rocketship launches 4 astronauts
  self-reliant rural India.
                                                         NASA and Elon Musk's commercial rocket
Zydus gets emergency use approval for Virafin
                                                          company SpaceX launched a new four-astronaut
 Zydus Cadila has received restricted emergency          team on a flight to the International Space Station
  use approval from the Drug Controller General of        on 23 April 2021.
  India (DCGI) to use the antiviral drug Virafin for     It is the first crew ever propelled into orbit by a
  the treatment of moderate COVID-19 infections.          rocket booster recycled from a previous
 A single-dose subcutaneous regimen of the               spaceflight.
  antiviral drug will make treatment of COVID-19         The company's Crew Dragon capsule, Endeavour,
  disease more convenient.                                streaked into the sky atop a SpaceX Falcon 9
 Virafin will help patients recover faster and avoid     rocket from Florida.
  much of the complications.
                                                        Godrej Protekt partners with Northern Railways
US Senate passes bill to fight hate crimes
                                                         Godrej Consumer Products Ltd (GCPL) has tied up
 The US Senate has passed a bill that would help         with the northern zone of Indian Railways.
  combat the rise of hate crimes against Asian           The company will provide passengers as well as
  Americans and Pacific Islanders.                        railway staff with Godrej Protekt branded
 The measure would expedite the review of hate           personal and home hygiene products such as
  crimes and provide support for local law                sanitizers and reusable face masks.
  enforcement in response to thousands of                Around 45,000 products from Godrej Protekt will
  reported violent incidents in the past year.            be utilised to drive larger behavioural change.
 Police have seen a noted uptick in such crimes
                                                        Arjun Kalyan becomes 68th Indian Grandmaster
  against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.
                                                         Tamil Nadu teenager Arjun Kalyan has become
Virat: 1st player to reach 6000 IPL runs
                                                          India’s 68th Chess Grandmaster.
 Virat Kohli has become the first player in history     He crossed the 2500 ELO (Electric Light Orchestra)
  to score 6000 runs in IPL during Royal Challengers      mark after beating Dragan Kosic in the fifth round
  Bangalore’s ten-wicket win over Rajasthan Royals        of GM Round Robin “Rujna Zore-3” in Serbia.
  at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on 22 April          Arjun is coached by IM Saravanan and Ukrainian
  2021.                                                   GM Aleksandr Goloshchapov and began playing
 He extended his all-time run-scoring record over        chess at the age of nine.
  other batsmen in the league by getting to 6021
                                                        First Oxygen Express starts journey
  runs in 196 matches.
 He has five hundreds and 40 fifties.                   The first ‘Oxygen Express’ carrying liquid medical
                                                          oxygen departed for Maharashtra from
ADB issues gender bonds
                                                          Visakhapatnam on 22 April 2021.
 The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has launched          It is a Ro-Ro (roll-on-roll-off) train with seven
  back-to-back gender bonds with a CAD750 million         tankers.
  (around USD596 million), a 7-year bond in the
  Canadian dollar maple market, and an AUD700

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 Railways had announced it will run Oxygen             The awards are given to members for working to
  Express over the next few days to transport            grow cricket in emerging markets in partnership
  oxygen.                                                with the ICC.
 Empty tankers will be loaded with liquid medical      The global award for the ICC Development
  oxygen from Visakhapatnam, Jamshedpur,                 Initiative of the Year has been awarded to Cricket
  Rourkela, and Bokaro.                                  Argentina for producing 17 coaching,
                                                         umpiring courses in Spanish.
India: 'Country of Particular Concern'
                                                       Jagan Mohan Reddy releases Rs 128.47 cr
 United States Commission on International
  Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has recommended            Andhra Pradesh CM YS Jagan Mohan Reddy
  that India be designated as a “country of              has released Rs 128.47 crore as interest
  particular concern” for the second consecutive         subvention amount directly into savings accounts
  year.                                                  of 6,27,906 farmers who took crop loans of up to
 USCIRF is a US government organisation that            Rs 1 lakh during the 2019-20 Rabi season and
  monitors international religious freedom.              repaid them in the stipulated time.
 It recommended that the state department              The amount was credited to their accounts under
  should designate 14 countries a “countries of          YSR Zero Interest Crop Loan Scheme (Sunna Vaddi
  particular concern (CPCs)”.                            Panta Runalu).
Global death penalties at lowest in a decade           Energy Transition Index released
 A report released by Amnesty International has        India has been ranked at the 87th position among
  shown that executions were on the decline in           115 countries in the Energy Transition Index (ETI).
  2020.                                                 The index tracks nations on the current
 Worldwide, at least 483 executions were carried        performance of their energy systems across
  out in 2020, according to the report — the lowest      various aspects, according to a report.
  tally recorded by Amnesty in about 10 years.          The report from the World Economic Forum
 At the same time, the number of executions             (WEF) was released on 21 April 2021 and
  tripled in Egypt, and India, Oman, Qatar and           prepared in collaboration with Accenture.
  Taiwan also resumed the form of punishment.           It also draws on insights from ETI.
ISRO to support eight joint research projects          World Immunization Week: 24-30 April
 The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)         World Immunization Week will be observed from
  will support eight joint research projects mooted      April 24th-30th, 2021.
  by the Space Technology Cell (STC), IIT-Delhi.        The theme for the week is ‘Vaccines bring us
 The ISRO will support the projects under its           closer’.
  RESPOND programme with varying duration of 1-         It aims to promote the use of vaccines to protect
  3 years.                                               people of all ages against disease.
 The Space Technology Cell was set up at IIT, Delhi    Immunization saves millions of lives and is widely
  under an MoU signed between the ISRO and IIT-D         recognized as one of the world’s most successful
  in November 2019.                                      and cost-effective health interventions.
Argentina: Winner of ICC development awards
 Argentina, Brazil, Uganda and Vanuatu have been
  announced as the global winners of the ICC
  development awards for 2020.

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