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Current Affairs 1 to 30 April 2024
• Indian Badminton Team for the 2024 Paris Olympics
• Maheshwari Chauhan secured a Paris 2024 quota for India in shotgun
event.
• Jean-Georges Noverre “father” of modern ballet, birthday April 29 :
International Dance Day
• Nethra Kumanan secured a Paris Olympics quota in Sailing
• Jyothi Surekha Vennam achieved a hat-trick of gold medals at Archery
World Cup in Shanghai
• Defence Secretary Giridhar Aramane attended the SCO Defence Ministers’
meeting in Astana, Kazakhstan
• General Elections 2024 Second phase : Voters turnout across around 61%
• World Intellectual Property Day, celebrated annually on April 26
• Lok Sabha Election: Second Phase Voting on 26 April 2024
• “Sunflowers Were The First Ones To Know,” selected for 77th Cannes Film
Festival
• Kotak Mahindra Bank to stop issuing new credit cards and online customer
immediately : RBI
• National Panchayati Raj Day : 24 April
• Lightest Bullet Proof Jacket developed by DRDO
• Maldives: President Mohamed Muizzu’s ruling PNC win majority in
Parliamentary Election
• World Earth Day, observed on April 22
• Dommaraju Gukesh becomes youngest ever to win Fide Candidates Chess
tournament
• Padma Awards 2024: President conferred Padma Awards at Rashtrapati
Bhavan
• Balraj Panwar Secures Paris Olympics Quota in Rowing in Men’s Single
Scull Event
• Vinesh Phogat, Anshu Malik, and Reetika Hooda secured quotas for the
Paris Olympics 2024
• Vice Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi appointed as Next Chief of Naval Staff
• Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Phase 1 conducted peacefully, more than 60%
voter turnout
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• DRDO conducted successful Flight Test of Indigenous Technology Cruise
Missile from ITR Chandipur
• Lok Sabha Election : First phase of polling, scheduled for April 19, 2024
• India clinches 2 Silver and 2 Bronze Medals At European Girls’
Mathematical Olympiad 2024
• Smoking Ban in the UK : Bill to gradually phase out smoking
• Exoskeleton Technology: International Workshop in Bengaluru on April 16-
17
• IMF forecast India’s GDP growth projection to 6.8% for FY 2024-25
• UPSC Result : Aditya Srivastava secured the first position
• Population decline in Greece reaches alarming levels
• Indian wrestlers Anju and Harshita won silver medals at Asian Wrestling
Championships 2024 in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
• India-France Joint Working Group meeting on Counter Terrorism took
place in New Delhi
• Iran-Israel Tensions: Iran launched attack on Israel, deploying more
than 300 drones and missiles
• DRDO and Indian Army conduct successful trials Man Portable Anti-tank
Guided Missile Weapon System (MPATGM)
• World Quantum Day on April 14
• Ambedkar Jayanti: April 14th
• Jallianwala Bagh Massacre : 13 April 1919
• India-Uzbekistan Joint Military Exercise ‘DUSTLIK’ from 15 to 28 April 2024
in Termez District, Uzbekistan.
• Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and Voter-Verified Paper Audit Trail
(VVPAT)
• Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) emerged as Highest-Ranked Indian
University in World
• Eid-ul-Fitr celebrated on April 11, 2024
• Simon Harris became Ireland’s youngest ever prime minister
• ISRO’s Chandrayaan-3 Team Honoured With John L ‘Jack’ Swigert Jr Award
• World Homoeopathy Day is observed annually on April 10th
• Sumit Nagal becomes first ever Indian to win main draw match in Monte
Carlo Masters
• Chaitra Sukladi, Ugadi, Gudi Padwa, Cheti Chand, Navreh and Sajibu
Cheiraoba
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• World’s largest power plant : Adani Green Energy Limited renewable
energy plant in Khavda, Gujarat
• Tri-Service Conference ‘Parivartan Chintan’ held in New Delhi on April 8,
2024
• Income Tax Returns (ITRs) for Assessment Year 2024-25 from April 1, 2024
• World Health Day: 7th April
• Deposit cash through Cash Deposit Machines using Unified Payments
Interface (UPI)
• RBI Keeps Repo Rates Unchanged at 6.5 Percent for Seventh Consecutive
Time
• Bilquis Mir from J&K : First woman from India to serve as a jury member
at Paris Olympics 2024
• International Day of Conscience : April 5th
• Ponkaliamman Festival in Tamil Nadu
• Strategic Forces Command (SFC) and DRDO conducted successful test
flight of the next-generation ballistic missile, Agni-Prime
• India’s First Home-Grown Gene Therapy for Cancer at Indian Institute of
Technology, Bombay
• Unified Payments Interface (UPI) Transactions Surge in India
• Moon to get own Standard Time: NASA to Develop Coordinated Lunar
Time (LTC)
• Air Force largest exercise, ‘Gagan Shakti,’ at the Pokhran Field Firing Range
in Jaisalmer from 1 to 10 April 2024
• India rejects China’s renaming of places in Arunachal Pradesh
• Abdel Fattah al-Sisi elected president of Egypt for third term
• Katchatheevu Island row : Know the details
• Mirabai Chanu qualify for Paris Olympics in Weightlifting
• Hindustan Aeronautics Limited delivered two Dornier 228 planes to the
Guyana Defence Force
• Bassirou Diomaye Faye is elected President of Senegal
• Reserve Bank of India (RBI) enters its 90th year on 1st April 2024.
• Rohan Bopanna and Matthew Ebden won the men’s doubles Miami Open
Tennis Tournament
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