On april 25 2024 china’s shenzhou-18 spacecraft also known as the divine vessel was launched aboard the long march 2-f rocket with 3 astronauts to its tiangong space station shenzhou-18 was launched from jiuquan satellite launch center on the edge of the gobi desert in

” On 23rd april 2024, the competition commission of india (cci) approved the subscription to compulsory convertible debentures (ccds) of napino auto and electronics limited (napino) by the international finance corporation (ifc).• napino manufactures electrical and electronic products primarily for 2-wheelers and a small segment of 3-wheeler and 4-wheeler vehicles.”

” The alliance of digital india foundation (adif) and the indian institutes of technology guwahati(assam) technology incubation centre (iitg tic) signed a memorandum of understanding (mou) to promote entrepreneurship and provide support to technology startups.• the two-year mou aims to strengthen the startup ecosystem by facilitating collaboration between adif’s network of startups and entrepreneurs, and iit guwahati’s source of innovators, faculty, and incubation facilities.”

” Former indian wrestler narsingh pancham yadav was elected chairman of the 7 member athletes’ commission of the wrestling federation of india (wfi), the governing body of wrestling in india.• in 2012, he was honoured with the arjuna award in wrestling.other elected members of athletes commission:i. sahil (delhi), smitha as (kerala), bharti bhaghei (uttar pradesh), khushboo s pawar (gujarat), sweta dubey (west bengal), nikki (haryana) will be the convener of the athletes commission.”

” Sbi cards and payment services limited (sbi card) introduces its first travel-focused credit card, ‘sbi card miles,’ featuring three variants:sbi card miles elite, sbi card miles prime, and sbi card miles.• the cards are available on mastercard and rupay networks.• the elite variant has a joining and annual fee of rs. 4,999 + taxes, while prime and miles variants cost rs 2,999 and rs 1,499 + taxes, respectively• the travel credits can be converted into air miles / hotel points of respective partners.”

” On april 25, 2024, the national bank for agriculture and rural development announced its partnership with the reserve bank innovation hub (rbih), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the reserve bank of india (rbi), to develop a system that will help speed up the process of agricultural loans.• according to the agreement, nabard will integrate its electronic kisan credit card (e-kcc) loan origination system portal with public tech platform for frictionless credit(ptpfc) of rbih.• the digitization of agricultural lending will ensure instant delivery of credit to farmers. the collaboration will simplify the loan process and reduce the turnaround time for loans from 3-4 weeks to 5 minutes for 12 crore farmers in india.”

” Hitachi payment services private limited, a 100% subsidiary of hitachi ltd., launched india’s first upgradable automated teller machine (atm) that can be converted to a cash recycling machine (crm) as and when a bank needs it, eliminating the need for a separate crm.• these upgradable machines feature upi-enabled cash deposits and withdrawals.• crm enables customers to make cash deposits and withdrawals in the same machine.”

The united nations has observed international chernobyl disaster remembrance day 2024 across the globe on april 26 2024 to commemorate the anniversary of the chernobyl nuclear disaster which took place on april 26 1986

The unhcr climate resilience fund was launched on april 24 2024 aimed at raising usd 100 million by 2025 for protection of refugees and displaced communities from climate change impacts and promoting their inclusion in climate-related measures it will also support a range of activities in line with unh

” The fourth quarterly (Q4) report for 2023 of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) states that India’s service exports increased by 11.4% to USD 345 billion in 2023, amid uncertainty in the global economy.• As per the report, World services export increased at 8.9% to USD 7.9 trillion in 2023.• The United States of America(USA) is the top performing country (developed economy) with the biggest services exports in the world at USD 999 billion followed by the United Kingdom(U.K.) at USD 584 billion and Germany at USD 440 billion.• Whereas China’s service export decreased by 10.1% to USD 381 billion in 2023. But, China emerged as the top performer among the developing countries in terms of services exports followed by India.”