Weekly One Liner Current Affairs 8th to 15th April 2021

Weekly One Liner Current Affairs 8th to 15th April 2021

Dear Aspirants,

As we all know that General Awareness/ Current Affairs Part is playing a major role in any exam weather it will be SBI PO, SBI Clerk, IBPS PO, IBPS Clerk, LIC, SSC, Railway, or any other government examinations. So here we are providing the weekly one liner current affairs for every upcoming exam which has GA section. Weekly one liner current affairs consist top news in one line which is important for every exams. Check Weekly current affairs below and update yourself with weekly one liner current affairs here.

National News

• India-Japan: MoU signed for Academic and Research Cooperation
• FM Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman attends 2nd Virtual G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting under the Italian Presidency
• PM Modi Declares Tika Utsav From April 11-14
• Odisha launched Mask Abhiyan
• India-Netherlands Strategic Partnership in Water Sector
• FM Nirmala Sitharaman participates in 103rd Meeting of World Bank Development Committee Plenary
• Health Minister launched “Aahaar Kranti” Mission
• PM Modi inaugurates 6th Edition of Raisina Dialogue; Theme: viral World: Outbreaks, Outliers and Out of Control
• Bohag Bihu Bird count began in Assam
• India’s 1st Floating LNG Storage and Regasification Unit Arrives In Maharashtra
• “Online Grievance Management Portal of National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC)” launched by Ravi Shankar Prasad

International News

• Niger President Mohamed Bazoum Names Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou as New Prime Minister
• Indian Army Officer Bharat Pannu Breaks 2 Guinness World Records For Fastest Solo Cycling
• IISc Bangalore tops ARWU ranking 2020, Calcutta University best Indian varsity
• United Arab Emirates names Noura al-Matroushi as its first female astronaut
• Tropical cyclone Seroja rips across 1000 kilometers stretch of Western Australia
• Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan trans-border trade center
• Ecuador’s Guillermo Lasso Won Presidential Election
• Haiti PM Joseph Jouthe resigns amid violence, political strife

Banking and Financial

• RBI decides to open up RTGS, NEFT facilities for payment system operators
• RBI increases WMA limits for the State Governments/UTs to 47,010 crores
• RBI enhances maximum balance limit per account in Payments Banks from Rs 1 lakh to Rs 2 lakh
• ADB approves 484 million USD for CKIC (Chennai-Kanyakumari Industrial Corridor) Project in Tamil Nadu
• SBI MF becomes first mutual fund company to cross Rs 5 lakh crore average assets under management (AAUM)
• Ghaziabad issues India’s first municipal green bonds
• Bharti AXA Life and Fincare SFB join hands for bancassurance partnership
• Nomura revises India’s FY22 growth to 6% from 13.5%
• Airtel Payments Bank announces ‘Rewards123’ savings account

Appointment and Resignation

• S Ramann appointed as SIDBI Chairman & MD
• Vivo ropes in Virat Kohli as brand ambassador
• Poonam Gupta to head NCAER as its first woman director general
• Punjab appoints Sonu Sood as state’s covid vaccination ambassador
• President appoints Shri Sushil Chandra as the Chief Election Commissioner
• Siddharth Longjam appointed new NADA DG
• Elista ropes in the Suresh Raina as its brand ambassador

Awards

• Dutee Chand selected for inaugural Chhattisgarh Veerni Award
• BAFTA Awards 2021: Best Film: Nomadland; Best Leading Actress: Frances McDormand, Nomadland; Best Leading Actor: Anthony Hopkins, The Father
• Lilavati Awards 2020: The awards were presented based on the theme “Women Empowerment”
• Indian Business Tycoon Yusuffali MA Gets Top Civilian Award In UAE
• Guneet Monga conferred with Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters honour

Defence

• Indian Navy participate in multi-lateral maritime exercise La Pérouse by France

Sports

• FIFA suspends Pakistan and Chadian football federations
• Nethra Kumanan, the first Indian woman sailor to qualify for Olympics
• Bhuvneshwar Kumar wins ICC Player of the Month award in March

Book and Author

• A book titled exam warriors updated version released by PM Modi

Weekly One Liner Current Affairs 1st to 7th April 2021

Important day

• 9 April: CRPF Valour Day (Shaurya Diwas)
• 10 April: World Homoeopathy Day (WHD); (Theme 2021: “Homoeopathy – Roadmap for Integrative Medicine”)
• 11 April: National Siblings Day
• 11 April: National Safe Motherhood Day (NSMD)
• 11th April: National Pet Day
• 12th April: International Day of Human Space Flight
• 13 April: Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
• 13 April: International Turban Day
• 13th April: 37th Siachen Day
• 14 April: Ambedkar Jayanti
• 14th April: National Fire Service Day
• 15th April: Himachal Day
• 15th April: World Art Day

Obituary

• Prince Philip, husband of Queen Elizabeth II, passes away at 99
• Actor Satish Kaul passed away
• Legendary shooting coach Sanjay Chakravarty Passed away
• Hockey Player Balbir Singh Junior Passed away
• Pakistan human rights icon I.A. Rehman Passed away at 90 in Lahore

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