26 April 2022 : Latest Current Affairs 26th April
Important Current Affairs 26th April 2022
In this article, we will discuss all the Current Affairs of 26th April about national, international, banking, finance, sports, awards, and many others. So if you are interested to know about the latest 26th April 2022 current affairs then read this article till the end.
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Current Affairs of 26th April – National
1. AAHAR 2022, Asia’s largest international food and hospitality fair, kicked off in New Delhi.
◉ Asia’s largest international food and hospitality exhibition, AAHAR 2022, will be held in New Delhi by the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) in collaboration with the India Trade Promotion Organization (ITPO).
◉ APEDA has also set up booths for exporters from the North East, Himalayan states, women entrepreneurs, start-ups, and millet exporters. The event will include around 80 exporters from a variety of industries.
2. Palli village was the first carbon-neutral panchayat in India.
◉ Palli village in Jammu’s Samba district has become the country’s first carbon-neutral panchayat, thanks to solar energy.
◉ With the cooperation of the locals, this project (500 KW solar plant) was built in a record time of three weeks. At a cost of Rs 2.75 crore, the solar project was finished.
3. The first digital bus service in India was launched in Mumbai, with the ‘Tap In, Tap Out’ function.
◉ Aditya Thackeray, Maharashtra’s State Tourism, Environment, and Protocol Minister, has unveiled India’s first totally digital bus, which runs from the Gateway of India to Churchgate and features a unique ‘Tap-in Tap-out’ function.
◉ Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport (BEST) is the country’s first fully digital bus service. The ‘Tap-in Tap-out’ feature will only be offered in two buses at first.
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International News
4. The World Economic Forum’s Class of Young Global Leaders 2022 includes Raghav Chadha and Radhika Gupta.
◉ Raghav Chadha, the leader of the Aam Aadmi Party, Mykhailo Fedorov, the Ukrainian Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Transformation, and Radhika Gupta, the CEO of Edelweiss Mutual Fund, have all been named to the World Economic Forum’s list of Young Global Leaders under 40 for 2022.
◉ The list was announced just days before the annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, which will take place from May 22nd to 26th, 2022.
5. At the Paris Book Festival 2022, India was the Guest of Honour.
◉ India was named a Guest of Honor Country at the Paris Book Festival 2022, which took place from April 21 to April 24, 2022.
◉ The India Pavilion was developed by the National Institute of Design (NID). The works of 65 Indian publishers are represented in digital and physical exhibitions in various Indian languages.
Banking
6. Elon Musk paid $44 billion for Twitter.
◉ Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, agreed to pay $44 billion for Twitter, putting an end to a saga that featured hostile takeover threats before handing him personal control of one of the world’s most prominent social media networks.
◉ According to Twitter, the publicly-traded company will now become a private company owned by Musk, who paid $54.20 a share for the stock. Musk had already purchased a 9.2 percent interest in Twitter.
7. M S Sahoo, the chairman of SEBI’s Market Data Advisory Committee, has been reconstituted.
◉ The advisory committee on market data, which proposes regulatory actions in areas like securities market data access and privacy, has been reformed by SEBI.
◉ M S Sahoo (Professor at National Law University in Delhi and former chairperson of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI)) is the committee’s chairman.
Awards
8. Laureus Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year:
◉ Max Verstappen and Elaine Thompson-Herah 2022 F1 champion Max Verstappen has been crowned Laureus Sportsman of the Year, while Jamaican Olympic sprinter Elaine Thompson-Herah has been chosen Sportswoman of the Year.
◉ The awards honor the best sporting achievements of 2021, with one of the highlights being the Italian Men’s Football Team’s European Championship victory, which earned them their second Laureus Team of the Year Award.
9. The World Summit on the Information Society Forum (WSIS) Prizes, 2022, was awarded to Meghalaya’s re-proposal system.
◉ The state planning department of Meghalaya has won a prestigious UN Award – World Summit on the Information Society Forum (WSIS) Prizes, 2022 in the category of “the role of governments and all stakeholders in the promotion of Information and Communication Technologies for development.”
◉ Meghalaya Enterprise Architecture (MeghEA), which includes the e-proposal system, has managed to remove 75 percent of physical file work.
Important day
10. The 26th of April is designated as International Chernobyl Disaster Remembrance Day.
◉ Every year on April 26th, the International Chernobyl Disaster Remembrance Day is commemorated to raise awareness of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster and the dangers of nuclear energy in general.
◉ The day not only educates people about man-made disasters, but also about the dangers of nuclear energy in general.
11. World Intellectual Property Day is celebrated on April 26th.
◉ On April 26th, World Intellectual Property Day, also known as World IP Day, is commemorated with the goal of emphasizing the value of the intellectual property (IP) and how it fosters creativity and innovation.
◉ The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) organized the day to raise awareness about how IP may be used by youngsters to create a better and more sustainable future.
Obituary
12. M. Vijayan, a structural biologist, died.
◉ M. Vijayan, the DAE Homi Bhabha Professor of structural biology at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), died in Bengaluru.
◉ Vijayan, who was a pioneer in the field of macromolecular crystallography in India, died at the age of 80.
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