Current Affairs:April 13, 2021
India
- President appoints Sushil Chandra as the Chief Election Commissioner in the Election Commission of India
- VP releases commemorative postage stamp in memory of former Chief of Brahma Kumaris Rajyogini Dadi Janki
- 1 crore plants along national highways geotagged across the country: Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar
- Centre extends ceasefire pacts with 3 Naga insurgent groups by a year
- Sonu Sood appointed brand ambassador for Punjab’s COVID vaccination drive
Economy & corporate
- Minister for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Dr Jitendra Singh launches 75 series Pension awareness to mark 75 years of independence
- Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal launches trade facilitation mobile app of Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT)
- Factory output, measured in terms of Index of Industrial Production (IIP), contracts 3.6% in February 2021
- Consumer price index (CPI)-based inflation rises to 5.5% in March
- No meals in domestic flights with a duration of less than two hours
World
- Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan launch construction of trans-border trade center named ‘Central Asia’
- Norway raises alarm over unhindered exploitation of dual use technology by Pakistan
- Tropical cyclone Seroja rips across 1000 kilometers stretch of Western Australia
- International Day of Human Space Flight celebrated on April 12; commemorates the historic space flight that Yuri Gagarin took on 12 April, 1961.
