Current Affairs 8 April 2021 – Gkseries
Current Affairs 8 April 2021 is the most important area from which a major share of questions come in SSC, Railway, state government recruitment exams, UPSC prelims and mains.
EVM transport and campaign bans in Assam
In the last Assembly elections in Assam saw the Election Commission at the centre of two controversies. In the first, an Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) was found in a private vehicle belonging to a political party candidate’s spouse. Read More
Chintan Vaishnav appointed as AIM mission director
Renowned socio technologist Dr. Chintan Vaishnav has been named Mission Director of Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), NITI Aayog’s flagship government initiative. Vaishnav will take over from Ramanathan Ramanan later this month. Ramanan has been leading AIM as its first mission director since June 2017. Read More
CWC should double its storage capacity by the end of 2023
CWC should double its warehouse storage capacity by end of year 2023 and achieve a turnover of Rs 10000 crore by the Financial Year 2024-25. At present, CWC warehouse storage capacity is 125 LMT. Read More
All India Trade Test for Craft Instructor Training Scheme (CITS) 2019-2020
The Directorate General of Training (DGT), under the aegis of Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (MSDE) announced results of the All India Trade Test (AITT) for CITS Academic session 2019-2020. Read More
Bangladesh ferry accident in Shitalakhsya River
A Bangladesh ferry carrying around 50 passengers collided with a cargo vessel and sank in the Shitalakhsya River south of the capital Dhaka. Shitalakshya River (also known as Lakhya River) is a distributary of the Brahmaputra. Read More
World Health Day 2021
The World Health Day is celebrated every year on 7 April, under the sponsorship of the World Health Organization, as well as other related organizations. Read More
India emerging a leader in supercomputing
India is fast emerging a leader in high power computing with the National Super Computing Mission (NSM) boosting it to meet the increasing computational demands of academia, researchers, MSMEs, and startups in areas like oil exploration, flood prediction as well as genomics and drug discovery. Read More
Russian President signed law that could keep him in power till 2036
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law that could keep him in office in the Kremlin until 2036. Putin, a former KGB officer who is now 68, completes his ongoing six-year tenure — his fourth as President — in 2024. Read More
President appoints NV Ramana as CJI with effect from April 24
President Ram Nath Kovind appointed Justice N.V. Ramana as Chief Justice of India with effect from April 24 in exercise of the powers conferred by clause (2) of Article 124 of the Constitution. Read More
Central Vigilance Commission officers to be transferred every 3 years
The Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) has modified the guidelines pertaining to the transfer and posting of officials in the vigilance units of government organisations, restricting their tenure to three years at one place. Read More