Important April Current Affairs 2024

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Current Affairs 2024 are the most important part of General Studies. We must know daily events which are going around us both internationally and nationally. It is therefore being part of many examinations in recent times. Current Affairs has equal weightage as compared to other subjects hence, it is important to go through important topics of current events.

Therefore, we have made easy for you to read in a simpler way in least number of words. Below are the April current affairs you must read:

12th April current affairs

  1. TB (Tuberculosis) elimination target of India by 2025.
  2. International day of human space flight– 12 April.
  3. C-Dome, a naval version of Iron Dome is part of Israel defence system.
  4. Former Pakistan PM Yousuf Raza Gillani elected as chairman of senate.
  5. The first Swami Vivekanand U20 men’s national football championship kicked off in Narainpur, Chhattisgarh. It is being hosted by Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama.
  6. IIT-Bombay ranks 45th in QS World University Rankings. 1st in South Asia.
  7. JNU secured top position in the QS World University Rankings by subject (Developmental studies) 2024.
  8. 2024 Google Cloud Sales partner of the year for India was given to Brio Technologies.
  9. IIT Jodhpur unveils Nano-sensor for disease tracking.
  10. Phonepe with eSewa and The HAN (Hotel Association of Nepal), Pokhra is set to promote UPI in Nepal.
  11. WTO released Global Trade Outlook and Statistics.
  12. IPPB enables Aadhaar ATM services. It works on AePS (Aadhaar enabled payment system).
  13. Avantika Vandanapu – South Asian Person of the Year by Harvard.
  14. Citroen has become 1st company to export electric vehicles manufactured in India. Citroen is a French automobile company.
  15. Ingmar De Vos Elected as President of Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF). Ignmar De Vos is from Belgium.
  16. CMD SIDBI- Manoj Mittal.
  17. MD NHB (National Housing Bank)- Sanjay Shukla.
  18. United Kingdom’s first woman High Commissioner to India- Lindy Cameron.
  19. Nasa and Japan to send Japanese astronauts to Moon. It will be a part of Artemis Mission. Two Japanese will be selected. One will become the first non-American to land on the Moon. Artemis is scheduled for 2026.

11th April current affairs

  1. EU and India to promote Start-up collaboration on recycling of E-V batteries.
  2. NTPC to launch its new initiative on corporate social responsibility- GEM (Girl Child Empowerment mission). 3000 meritorious children to join GEM.
  3. A total of 12,349 km of National Highways were constructed in FY24.
  4. India ranks 2nd in Hepatitis B and C cases in the World.
  5. Peter Higgs passes away (British)- discovery of God Particle or Higgs Boson Particle.
  6. INS Sharda awarded ‘On The Spot Unit citation 23-24’ for anti-piracy operations.
  7. Jagjit Pavadia Re-elected for third term of International Narcotics Control Board.
  8. Harendra Singh – new coach of Indian women’s hockey team until 2028.
  9. Tarun Bajaj appointed as US-India Tax Forum (USISPF).
  10. HDFC becomes first private bank to open branch in Kavaratti island, Lakshadweep.
  11. World Parkinson’s Day- 11th April.

10th April current affairs

  1. Youngest PM of Ireland- Simon Harris. (37 years).
  2. Hurun’s Global Unicorn Index- India ranked 3rd with 67 unicorns. USA topped with 703 unicorns.
  3. ISRO‘s Chandrayaan 3 has been awarded with 2024 John L. “Jack” Swigert, Jr. Award for space exploration by US.
  4. WOW World Literary Prize given to Kannada poet Mamta G. Sagar.
  5. GUJCOST (Gujarat Council on Science and Technology) has been made Nodal centre for ISRO’s START program.
  6. World Homeopath Day– 10th April.
    • Theme– Homeoparivar: One Health, One Family.
    • Father of modern homeopathy– Dr. Samuel Hahnemann.
  7. NASA launches 3 sounding rockets For Atmospheric Perturbations around Eclipse Path (APEP). It aims to study disturbances in ionosphere.
  8. 100 5G Experimental License Module launched at IIT Madras.
  9. National Women’s Hockey league 2024-25 to be held in Ranchi.
  10. First UK banknotes with King Charles Portrait presented to king.
  11. Bombay Stock market cap hits Rs. 400 lakh crore for the first time.
  12. Sushil Sharma– new Chairman of SJVN.
  13. Virat Kohli– set a record for most centuries in IPL – 8.

9th April current Affairs

  1. Manoj Panda has been appointed as the member of 16th Finance Commission.
  2. Government of India to develop a plant for recycling lithium-ion batteries and e-waste in Sitarganj, Uttarakhand.
  3. Aleksei Navalny and Yulia Navalnaya honored with Freedom Prize of the Media by Germany. This prize is given by Ludwig Erhard Summit.
  4. Zimbabwe has launched new currency Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG) replacing its local currency Zimbabwe dollars.
  5. Mudra Loans record surge crossing Rs 5 Lakh crore mark in FY24.
  6. SpaceX launched Bandwagon-1. It carried 11 satellites.
    • SpaceX founded in 2002.
    • HQ- Hawthorne, California, USA
  7. Tata Advanced Systems Ltd. (TASL) and Satellogic collaborated to launched India’s first privately build sub meter resolution Earth observation satellite, TSAT-1A.
  8. India acquired Igla-S Man Portable Air Defence Systems (MANPADS) from Russia.
  9. China took over India as primary importer of crude oil from Russia.
  10. Yoga Mahotsav held in Pune.
  11. India has gained operational control over Sittwe port of Myanmar.
  12. Jayaram Shanmugam appointed as global airport operations head by Air India.
  13. India is helping 5 countries to develop early warning weather system. They are Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Mauritius and Maldives.
  14. Sumit Nagal (Tennis) became 1st Indian singles player to win ATP Masters 1000 match on clay courts.

8th April current affairs

  1. Peter Pellegrini – Slovakia’s new President.
  2. Japanese Grand prix- Max Verstappen of Red Bull.
  3. The United States and Britain joined forces to enhance AI safety.
  4. Indian Coast Guard inaugurates Aquatic Centre at Mandapam, Rameshwaram, Tamil Nadu.
  5. GLOFs Stands for Global Lake Outburst Floods- Uttarakhand raised proactive measure for GLOFs.
  6. Punjab launches- Booth Raabta for election related information.
  7. World’s first refrigerator cooled with artificial muscles made of Nitinol, a nickel-titanium alloy.
  8. Section 144 imposed in Leh as Sonam Wangchuk prepares for Pashmina march.
  9. Najmi Waziri – head of committee for protection of forests in Delhi.
  10. First ever conference of the head of all tri services chaired by CDS, General Anil Chauhan- “Parivartan Chintan“.

7th April current affairs

  1. New CEO of Wipro- Srinivas Pallia.
  2. BEML and BEL to develop Indigenous Train Control Management System (i-TCMS).
  3. The Idea of Democracy written by Sam Pitroda.
  4. Valeri Adams (olympian) named Ambassador of TCS world 10K bengaluru.
  5. Maharashtra handicraft received GI tag- Miraj Tanpura and Miraj Sitar.
  6. J&K bank partners with Paymart India to launch virtual ATM facility.
  7. World health day 2024– 7th April.
    • Theme– My Health, My Right.
  8. Dr. Meenesh Kumar Champaklal shah elected as chairman of National Cooperative Dairy Federation of India.
  9. WADA’s doping offenders list 2022 – India topped.

6th April current affairs

  1. India aims to end urea imports by 2025.
  2. National handmade day 2024- first Saturday of April – 6th April.
  3. Bilquis Mir– First Indian woman on the Paris summer Olympics jury. She is a canoeist from Jammu and Kashmir.
  4. CIDC Vishwakarma awards-
    • Sutlej Jal Vidyut Nigam (SJVN) for corporate social responsibility (CSR).
    • GAIL India given for Best construction projects.
  5. Sagar Kavach– Coastal security exercise conducted in Lakshadweep.
  6. Business Environment Rankings by EIU- Singapore best place for conducting business. India ranked 51.
  7. India is expected to lose around 5.8% daily working hours due to increasing temperature by 2030.
  8. Young Global Leaders Community: The Class 2024 by WEF held in Geneva, Switzerland.
  9. UN appointed Astrid Schomaker of Germany as Executive Secretary of CBD.
  10. International Day of Sport for Development and Peace 2024– 6th April.
    • Theme– Sport for the Promotion of Peaceful and Inclusive Societies

5th April current affairs

  1. World Future Energy Summit and annual Green Hydrogen Summit to be hosted by Masdar (UAE company).
  2. DRDO successfully test fires new generation Ballistic missile “Agni Prime”.
    • Also known as Agni P.
    • Medium range- 1000km to 2000km.
  3. A human skeleton, along with pottery and animal bones has been discovered near Padta Bet, Kutch Harappan graveyard.
  4. IWF World Cup (weightlifting) was held at Phuket, Thailand.
    • Bindyarani Devi wins bronze.
    • Mirabai Chanu qualifies for Paris Olympics.
  5. Mirabai Chanu – only Indian weightlifter to qualify for Paris Olympics.
  6. World’s most powerful laser made by Romania. It is based on Chirped-Pulse Amplification given by Gerard Mourou and Donna Strickland (Nobel winners).
  7. Drought declared national disaster in Zimbabwe.
  8. DRDO to establish testing center in Junput, West Bengal to address saturation in Odisha’s Chandipur Integrated Test Range.
  9. Himachal Pradesh hit by 5.3 magnitude Earthquake.
  10. NATO celebrates 75 years.
    • founded- 1949
    • HQ- Brussels, Belgium.
  11. National Maratime day- 5 April.
    • Theme– Navigating the future: safety first!
  12. Global life expectancy increased by an average of 6.2 years between 1990 and 2021.
  13. Akashteer system inducted by Army to enhance air defence. It is developed by Bharat Electronics Limited.
  14. Rakesh Mohan appointed as member of World Bank’s Economic Advisory Panel.
  15. India targets 100 GW nuclear capacity by 2047.

4th April current affairs

  1. Earthquake of magnitude 7.4 hit Taiwan’s Yonaguni island.
  2. International mine awareness day- 4 April observed by UN.
    • Theme– Protecting Lives, Building Peace.
  3. Rajeev Singhal appointed as MD of Tata International.
  4. Japan introduced e-Visa only for Indian tourists (90 days).
  5. India to build first commercial crude oil strategic storage by 2029-2030. Plans to construct 2 new SPRs in Padur and Odisha.
    • Strategic petroleum reserves in India.
      • Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh.
      • Mangaluru, Karnataka.
      • Padur, Karnataka.
      • Chandikhol, Odisha.
  6. Forbes World’s billionaires- Mukesh Ambani ranks 9th globally.
    • Topped by Bernard Arnault, LVMH (Louis Vuitton).
    • US leads in overall.
  7. Kathiya Gehu of Bundelkhand granted GI tag.
  8. Adani Green Energy Ltd. became 1st company in India to exceed 10,000 MW of renewable energy capacity, after commissioning 2,000 MW in Khavda solar park, Gujarat.
  9. Indo-Mozambique Trilateral Exercise- IMT TRILAT-2024 in Tanzania.
  10. National Fame Award by Brands Impact given to Dr. Karthik Kommuri.
  11. India’s first home grown gene therapy for cancer at IIT Bombay. Known by CAR-T Cell therapy namely “NexCAR19“.
  12. Shangai Cooperation Organization (SCO) held in Astana, Kazakhstan. India was led by Ajit Doval.
    • SCO established- 2001
    • Total members – 9 (including India, joined in 2017)
    • HQ – Beijing.
  13. Youngest Indian Billionaire Forbes- Nikhil Kamath (Zerodha).
  14. Fide rankings (chess)- Arjun Erigaisi ranked 1 in India and 9th in the world.

3rd April current affairs

  1. Indian Coast Guard ship Samudra Paheredar reached Vietnam for Asean Mission.
  2. Digital India Trust Agency (DIGITA) initiative by RBI to curb illegal lending apps.
  3. EVI (Empathetic Voice Interface) – World’s first conversational AI with Emotional intellgence. It is developed by Hume. It is based on Empathetic large language model (eLLM).
  4. IOCL and Panasonic to manufacture Lithium-ion Cell in India.
  5. kodaikanal Solar Observatory completes its 125 years.
  6. NHAI has launched “One Vehicle, One FASTag” rule.
  7. Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi sworn in for the third term.
  8. Paradip Port of Odisha tops the cargo handling capacity for 2023-24.
  9. New ASSOCHAM president- Sanjay Nayar.
  10. UPI FY24 reached record high to 199.89 trillion mark.
  11. Indian Army Tests New Integrated Anti-Aircraft Weapon System. Tested by Airawat Gagan Rakshaks division.
  12. Merger of AU small finance bank and FinCare small finance bank.
  13. PepsiCo to establish manufacturing plant in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh.
  14. Germany to legalize recreational cannabis uses.
  15. Korean Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR) – An artificial sun nuclear fusion reactor. The temperature achieved was seven times hotter than the Sun’s core i.e. 100 million degrees Celsius for 48 seconds.
  16. Param Vir Chakra Garden was inaugurated by R.N Ravi at the Kanchi Mahaswami Vidya mandir in Tambaram, Chennai.
  17. World’s oldest man Juan Vincente P rez dies at 114.
  18. National Kho-Kho championship-held in Delhi.
    • Men’s winner- Maharashtra.
    • Women’s winner- Maharashtra.

2nd April current affairs

  1. Credit cards reach 100 million mark in India. HDFC remains at top.
  2. SEBI unveils “SCORES 2.0” for faster redressal of complaints within 21 days.
    • SEBI Chairmain-Madhabi Puri Buch.
  3. Shigmotsav-Spring festival held in Goa.
  4. BALCO, unit of Vedanta Aluminium became first Indian company to get certified with ASI (Aluminium Stewardship initiative) performance standard V3 certification.
  5. Defence exports of India hit record ₹21,000 crore in FY 2023-24.
  6. Novak Djokovic becomes the oldest world no 1. in ATP rankings history.
  7. Dornier 228 Planes delivered to Guyana by HAL. HAL headquarters- Bengaluru.
  8. ENBA Lifetime Achievement Award 2023- Vineet Jain (MD Times Group).
  9. CoViNet-A global initiative enhance the detection, monitoring and assessment of Corona viruses. It is initiative of WHO.
  10. PIB principal director- Ms Sheyphali B.Sharan .
  11. China renames 30 places in Arunachal Pradesh. Beijing has claimed it as the southern region of Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), called Zangan.
  12. India achieved 1 billion tonnes coal production for the first time.
  13. REC wins SKOCH ESG Award 2024 in renewable category.
  14. World Autism Awareness Day – 2 April.
    • Theme- Empowering Autistic Voices.
  15. First female President of Congo- Judith Suminwa Tuluka.
    • Congo capital- Kinshasa.
  16. Gagan Shakti– Exercise by IAF.
  17. GI tag- Tripura– Matabari Pera Prasad, Rignai Pachara Textiles, Risa (tribal women’s artistic creation).
  18. Dosti-16 – Indo-Maldives Coast Guards exercise held in Maldives.

1st April current affairs

  1. France considers law to ban discrimination based on texture, length or style of someone’s hair.
  2. Dhoni became first wicketkeeper to take 300 wickets in T20 cricket.
  3. GOI- Task force to explore use of Biochar in steel production as means of reducing carbon emissions.
    • Biochar is a carbon-rich material that is made from biomass through a thermochemical conversion process known as pyrolysis.
  4. International Culture Award- Prof. Meena Charanda (principal kalindi college, Delhi University).
  5. Saudi Arabia to chair UN commission on the Status of Women (CSW).
  6. Vinay Kumar wins gold at para powerlifting World Cup in Egypt. He is 1st from UP.
  7. Hockey India Awards 2023-
    Player of the year- men- Hardik Singh.
    Player of the year- women- Salima Tete.
  8. T+0 settlement beta version on an optional basis launched by SEBI.
  9. Rohan Bopanna (Indian) and Matt Ebden won doubles title at Miami Open.
  10. Akashvani Vanhlupui ( Notable Mizo artist-singer) passes away.
  11. GI tags – 6 Assam crafts – Asharikandi terracotta, Pani Mateka craft, Sarthebari Metal Craft, Missing Handloom products, Bihu Dhol, Jaapi.
  12. Utkal Diwas – Odisha foundation day.
  13. National Maritime Week- Maritime vision 2030- 20% Indian seafarers reach in international seafaring jobs.
  14. Bulgaria and Romania join Schengen Travel Zone. Schengen Area established in 1985.
  15. India’s first AI based Hindi film- IRAH (Director-Sam Chatterjee).
  16. OpenAI and Microsoft to build “Stargate” AI Supercomputer.
  17. 2023- International year of Millets by FAO.
    FAO HQ- Rome, Italy.
  18. Katchatheevu Island – Dispute between India and Srilanka.
  19. FICCI ladies organization- New President- Joyshree Das Verma.

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