Current Affairs: April 21, 2021
India
- Cyclone Amphan of 2020 resulted in $14 billion economic losses in India: UN’s ‘State of the Global Climate 2020’ report
- Covid-19: First ‘Oxygen Express’ train leaves from Mumbai region to Vizag in AP
- Australia-India Indo-Pacific Oceans Initiative Partnership (AIIPOIP) grant program launched to widen Indo-Pacific partnership with India
Economy & corporate
- Former RBI Governor (1977) Maidavolu Narasimham dies in Hyderabad at 94
- India’s crude oil output drops 5% to 30.5 million tonnes, gas production falls 8% to 28.67 billion cubic meters in 2020-21: Govt data
- Cabinet gives ex-post facto approval for amendments to Finance Bill, 2021
- Cabinet gives ex post facto approval to MoU between DG of Trade Remedies, India and the Bangladesh Trade and Tariff Commission
- Cabinet approves MoU between Competition Commission of India (CCI) and Administrative Council for Economic Defense of Brazil, (CADE)
- Cabinet approved MoU between the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) and Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand, (CA ANZ)
- Cabinet approved an exclusive subsidy policy for urea produced through coal gasification by Talcher Fertilizers Limited.
- Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) allows Boeing 737 MAX 8s to overfly India after 2-year ban
World
- Global CO2 emissions set for second-biggest spike in history: says IEA in its Global Energy Review 2021
- Cuba’s Communist Party chooses President Miguel Díaz-Canel as leader
- Former U.S. Vice President Walter Mondale (1977-81) dies at 93
