INDIA
– IAF successfully test-fires BrahMos missile from Su30-MkI fighter jet
– Indian and foreign higher education institutions can offer joint or dual degrees: UGC
– Gujarat: PM lays foundation stone of WHO Global Centre for Traditional Medicine in Jamnagar
ECONOMY & CORPORATE
– IMF slashes India’s 2022-23 GDP growth forecast to 8.2% from 9% earlier in its World Economic Outlook report
– Govt sets foodgrain output target at 328 million tonnes for 2022-23 crop year (July-June)
– RBI caps lending limits of NBFCs to bring them on a par with those of banks
– India’s first portable solar rooftop system inaugurated at Swaminarayan Akshardham temple complex in Gandhinagar
WORLD
– Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman meets International Monetary Fund (IMF) managing director Kristalina Georgieva during annual spring meetings of IMF and the World Bank in Washington
– Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla arrives in Hanoi, Vietnam on a three-day visit
– Citing Russia’s war, IMF cuts global growth forecast for 2022 to 3.6% from 4.4% made in January
– Russia seizes Kreminna, a town in Donbas region in eastern Ukraine
– South Africa: President Cyril Ramaphosa declares ‘national state of disaster’ over floods
– US Vice President Kamala Harris announces decision to ban US anti-satellite weapons tests
– World Liver Day observed on April 19
