Smartphone brand TECNO has announced Bollywood actor Ayushmann Khurrana as its brand ambassador for the current calendar.

In Tennis, Stefanos Tsitsipas (Greece) beat Andrey Rublev (Russia) in a straight-sets 6-3 6-3 to claim the 2021 Rolex Monte Carlo Masters singles title.

RBL Bank and Mastercard have partnered to launch a mobile-based consumer-friendly payment solution – the Pay by Bank App, a first-of-its-kind payment functionality in India.

United Nations Population Fund(UNFPA), formerly the United Nations Fund for Population Activities, has launched its flagship report State of World population 2021 titled “My Body is My Own – Claiming the right to autonomy and self-determination”.

Puglya, a Marathi film, has won the ‘Best Foreign Language Feature’ at the Moscow International Film Festival 2021. The achievement continues Puglya’s immensely successful international stint as the movie has been winning accolades at foreign festivals. Director Vinod Sam Peter’s movie is about a pug and two boys.

The National Climate Vulnerability Assessment Report has named 8 eastern states as highly vulnerable to climate change. Those 8 states are- West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Mizoram and Jharkhand.

Chinese smartphone brand Vivo announced that it has onboarded Virat Kohli as the company’s brand ambassador.

Airtel Payments Bank announced its new savings account ”Rewards123” which offers benefits and value to customers when they transact digitally using the bank account.

 Reserve Bank of India (RBI) extended the National Electronic Funds Transfer (NEFT) and Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) facilities to non-bank payment system operators.

 India has contributed an additional $500,000 to the United Nations Trust Fund for Counter-Terrorism, taking the country’s donation to the UN office set up to combat terrorism to over $1 million.

SBI Funds Management Pvt. Ltd has informed that it has become the first mutual fund house in India to cross the Rs. 5 lakh crore average assets under management (AAUM) mark.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently appealed to the Chief Ministers of the States to organise “Tika Utsav”. Tika Utsav is a vaccine festival. It is to be held between April 11, 2021, and April 14, 2021.

In a bid to give a fillip to digital payments banks, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) today announced that it has hiked the maximum end of day balance for payment banks to Rs 2 lakh from Rs 1 lakh.

The National Safe Motherhood Day marks the birth anniversary of Kasturba Gandhi, the wife of the father of Nation Mohan Das Karam Chand Gandhi.

On April 9, 2021, Singapore ratified the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement, the world’s largest free trade agreement, led by China.

In a bid to fight against the surging COVID-19 cases, the Government of India has launched a mass vaccination programme “Teeka Utsav (vaccine festival)” from April 11 to 14, 2021. It must be noted that April 11 marks the birth anniversary of Jyotiba Phule and April 14 is the birth anniversary of Baba Saheb Ambedkar.

 SBI Funds Management Pvt. Ltd has informed that it has become the first mutual fund house in India to cross the Rs. 5 lakh crore average assets under management (AAUM) mark. SBI MF has seen a growth of 35 % during the financial year 2020-21

Union Minister for Sports & Youth Affairs Shri Kiren Rijiju inaugurated Khelo India State Centre of Excellence for Rowing discipline at the Jammu & Kashmir Sports Council Water Sports Academy in Srinagar on 10th April 2021. He was joined by Shri Manoj Sinha, Lt.

In a decision of seminal significance, the Kerala High Court has held that a child born out of a live-in relationship and acknowledged so by the mother of the child, would have to be treated as a child born to a married couple for the purposes of surrendering a child for adoption under Juvenile Justice (Care and …

Nethra Kumanan became the first Indian woman ever to qualify for the Olympics in Sailing when she finished first in the laser radial class at the Mussanah Open.

National Safe Motherhood Day is celebrated on April 11 each year. In 2003, the Government of India declared April 11, the birth anniversary of Kasturba Gandhi as National Safe Motherhood Day. The declaration is an initiative of White Ribbon Alliance India (WRAI), an alliance of 1800 organizations.

The Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal chaired a high-level meeting on the implementation of National Education Policy 2020 and released an implementation plan for school education called ‘Students’ and Teachers’ Holistic Advancement through Quality Education’ (SARTHAQ)

Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Minister Narendra Singh Tomar today launched Madhukranti portal and Honey Corners of National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation, NAFED in New Delhi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday chaired the meeting of the High Level Committee to commemorate 400th Birth Anniversary (Prakash Purab) of Guru Tegh Bahadur.

Highlights. New Delhi: Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Wednesday (April 7) launched the Tribal Health Collaborative ‘Anamaya’ through a video conference.

India has contributed an additional USD 500,000 to the United Nations Trust Fund for Counter-Terrorism.

In a major move in the online payments segments, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has decided to allow payment system operators to take direct membership of Centralised Payment Systems (CPS), such as RTGS and NEFT.

Union Minister for Finance & Corporate Affairs Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman participated virtually in the Second G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors (FMCBG) meeting under the Italian Presidency to discuss policy responses to global challenges to restore strong, sustainable, balanced and inclusive growth.

Synopsis. Based on the recommendations of a working group on revisiting guidelines on trade credit insurance, the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) has now come up with draft guidelines on trade credit insurance.

The center has named S Ramanan as Chairman and Managing Director of Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI). The appointment is made for the tenure of three years from the date he assumes the charge of the new post until further orders, stated the center’s official statement.