Daily GK Update: 13th April 2022

Sports

The Netherlands has lifted their fourth title of FIH Junior Women's Hockey World Cup 2022 after beating Germany at Potchefstroom, South Africa.
England claimed the bronze medal in the third-place match after defeating India by 3-0 in the shoot-out.
The FIH has banned Russia from the 2022 Women's FIH Hockey Junior World Cup due to 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Most successful team: Netherlands
2023 Women's FIH Hockey Junior World Cup: Santiago, Chile

National Affairs

Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has launched the 'SVANidhi se Samriddhi' program in addition to 126 cities across 14 States and UT.
SVANidhi se Samriddhi is an additional program of PM-SVANidhi which was launched in January 2021 in 125 cities in Phase one.
Prime Minister Street Vendors AtmaNirbhar Nidhi (PM SVANidhi) has been implementing since June 2020
Aim: Provide working capital loans to Street Vendors

Banking & Finance

The government of India has signed USD 2 mn Project Readiness Financing Loan with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for Nagaland.
Focus area: Designing climate-resilient urban infrastructure; Strengthening institutional capacity; and improving municipal resource mobilization in 16 districts.
Towns and cities of Nagaland are facing long-term challenges of lack of basic amenities, climate change, and poor connectivity.
Nagaland CM: Neiphiu Rio, Governor: Jagdish Mukhi

International Affairs

The High Commissioner of India Vikram Doraiswami has laid the foundation stone for the first IT/ Hi-Tech Park was laid at Keraniganj near Dhaka along with Bangladesh State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak, and Minister of Power, Energy and Mineral Nasrul Hamid.
This is the first park under the Line of Credit (LOC) extended by the Indian government to Bangladesh.
With a committed LOC of over USD 7.86 bn Bangladesh becomes India’s largest development partner.

International Affairs

India has delivered the consignment 3 lakh 25 thousand doses of Made in India Covishield vaccines to PM of Cambodia, Hun Sen, in Phnom Penh under the Quad’s flagship Vaccine Partnership to Cambodia.
India has committed to donate 500,000 doses of Covid vaccines to the Indo-Pacific under the Quad vaccine initiative.
The Quad Vaccine Partnership was announced by the Quad Leaders at their first Summit in 2021.
Ambassador of India to Cambodia: Devyani Khobragade

Science & Technology

Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd. (BPCL) and Microsoft have come into a strategic cloud partnership to speed up the digital transformation in the oil and gas industry.
The partnership will accelerate the BPCL’s digital transformation effort named ‘Project Anubhav’.
The services will be provided by Microsoft to BPCL including platform-as-a-service, infrastructure-as-a-service, network and security services on the cloud and many more.
BPCL Chairman: Arun Kumar Singh

National & International Organizations

The International Delphic Council has announced that India will host the National Delphic Games in 2023.
Aim: Encompassing arts and cultures from 36 States/UT to celebrate the vast diversity of India's cultures.
It includes 6 categories of the arts: Musical Arts and Sounds, Performing Arts and acrobatics, Language Arts and Rhetoric, Visual Arts and Crafts, Social Arts and communications, Ecological Arts & Architecture
International Delphic Council: Berlin, Germany

Honours & Awards

National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC), under the Ministry of Steel has been awarded with one gold and one silver award in the 80th SKOCH Summit in New Delhi.
The Theme 80th SKOCH Summit 2022 is ‘State of BFSI & PSUs’.
NMDC won gold in the category of social responsibility and silver in the category digital inclusion for the ‘Project Kalpataru’ for ERP implementation.
NMDC Headquarters: Hyderabad, Chairman & MD: Sumit Deb

National Affairs

The Union government has extended the grant of ₹40 cr to the Dalai Lama’s Central Tibetan Relief Committee (CTRC) for another five years (up to 2025-26).
The scheme to provide grants to CTRC was launched in 2015.
Annual grant: Rs 8 crores
Purpose: To meet the administrative expenses of settlement offices and social welfare
Karnataka, Himachal Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal and Jammu and Kashmir are the major concentration of the Tibetan refugees

Honours & Awards

United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (UNFAO) and Arbor Day Foundation have recognised Mumbai city as 'Tree City of the World’ for 2021 after Hyderabad (2020 Tree City of the World)
Mumbai has received recognition for its commitment towards growing and maintaining urban trees and greenery in building healthy, resilient and happy cities.
CEO of Arbor Day Foundation: Dan Lambe
UNFAO Director-General: Qu Dongyu, Headquarters: Rome

Honours & Awards

The actress Divyanka Tripathi has been honoured with Madhya Pradesh Champion Of Change Award 2021 for her phenomenal work as an artist.
The event was organized by the Interactive Forum on Indian Economy (IFIE) at Kushabhau Thackeray auditorium in Bhopal.
Other awardees:
Chief Minister: Shivraj Singh Chouhan
Former Governor of UP and Mizoram: Dr Aziz Qureshi
Music performer: Padma Vibhushan Teejan Bai
Mayor of Indore: Malini Laxmansingh Gaur

Important Dates

Indian Army observed the 38th edition of Siachen Day on April 13 2022. This day has been observed to celebrate the bravery of the Indian Army under "Operation Meghdoot".
On April 13, 1984, Operation Meghdoot was launched which was led by the Lieutenant-General Prem Nath Hoon.
The Day also honours the Siachen Warriors who serve India successfully from the enemy.
The Siachen Glacier is the highest battleground on the earth.