Static GK is an important part of the Banking and Insurance exams. Most of the static GK Questions asked in these exams are from the recent news. For example, the capital or currency of a country may be asked for such a country with whom India has signed an agreement recently or where our politicians made a visit recently.

In this post, we will cover up such Static GK that is in news in the month of April 2021. The content is arranged category wise for your quick revision.

Current Static GK in News – April 2021

Headquarters

International

World Bank – Washington, D.C., United States [April 01, 2021]
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)– Bangkok, Thailand [April 03 & 04, 2021]
Facebook Inc. – California, United States [April 03 & 04, 2021]
Google – California, United States [April 03 & 04, 2021]
International Monetary Fund (IMF) – Washington, D.C., United States[April 05, 06 & 07, 2021]
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) – Beijing, China[April 05, 06 & 07, 2021]
United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) – New York, United States [April 05, 06 & 07, 2021]
World Health Organisation (WHO) – Geneva, Switzerland [April 05, 06 & 07, 2021]
Nomura – Tokyo, Japan [April 12 & 13, 2021]
Amazon – Washington, United States [April 16, 2021]
Mastercard – New York, United States [April 18, 2021]
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) – Washington, D.C., United States [April 18, 2021]
SpaceX – California, United States [April 18, 2021]
International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) – Paris, France [April 18, 2021]
UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) – New York, United States [April 22, 2021]
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) – Paris, France [April 23, 2021]
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) – The Hague, Netherlands [April 23, 2021]
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) – Geneva, Switzerland [April 26 & 27, 2021]
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) – Stockholm, Sweden [April 28, 2021]
International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) – Brussels, Belgium [April 28, 2021]
International Labour Organization (ILO) – Geneva, Switzerland [April 28, 2021]
Asian Development Bank (ADB) – Mandaluyong, Metro Manila, Philippines [April 29, 2021]
IHS Markit Ltd – London, United Kingdom [April 29, 2021]

National

Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) – Mumbai [April 01, 2021]
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) – Delhi [April 02, 2021]
Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) – New Delhi [April 02, 2021]
CRISIL – Mumbai [April 03 & 04, 2021]
National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) – Mumbai[April 03 & 04, 2021]
PhonePe – Bengaluru [April 03 & 04, 2021]
Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) – Lucknow[April 09, 2021]
Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineering (GRSE) – Kolkata [April 10, 2021]
All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) – New Delhi [April 14, 2021]
National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) – New Delhi [April 14, 2021]
Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) – New Delhi [April 17, 2021]
Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) – New Delhi [April 21, 2021]
ICRA Limited – Gurugram [April 22, 2021]
National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM) – New Delhi [April 21, 2021]
Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) – Mumbai [April 29, 2021]
BEML Limited – Bengaluru [April 29, 2021]

Banks

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) – Mumbai [April 01, 2021]
Central Bank of India – Mumbai [April 01, 2021]
Indian Overseas Bank – Chennai [April 01, 2021]
Bank of India – Mumbai [April 01, 2021]
UCO Bank – Kolkata [April 01, 2021]
Punjab Sind Bank – New Delhi [April 01, 2021]
Union Bank of India – Mumbai [April 01, 2021]
State Bank of India – Mumbai [April 01, 2021]
Airtel Payments Bank – New Delhi [April 12 & 13, 2021]
Axis Bank – Mumbai [April 14, 2021]
RBL Bank – Mumbai [April 18, 2021]
DCB Bank – Mumbai [April 19 & 20, 2021]
HDFC Bank – Mumbai [April 24, 2021]
Shivalik Small Finance Bank Limited – Saharanpur district, Uttar Pradesh [April 28, 2021]
ICICI Bank – Mumbai [April 30, 2021]

Country – Capital, Currency

United States – Capital: Washington, D.C.; Currency : United States dollar ($) (USD) [April 01, 2021]
Bangladesh – Capital: Dhaka; Currency: Bangladeshi taka [April 02, 2021]
Russia – Capital: Moscow; Currency: Russian ruble [April 05, 06 & 07, 2021]
Kosovo – Capital: Pristina; Currency: Euro [April 09, 2021]
Vietnam – Capital: Hanoi; Currency: Vietnamese dong [April 09, 2021]
Seychelles – Capital: Victoria; Currency: Seychellois rupee [April 10, 2021]
Netherlands – Capital: Amsterdam, The Hague; Currency: Euro [April 11, 2021]
Singapore – Capital: Singapore; Currency: Singapore dollar[April 11, 2021]
Niger – Capital:Niamey and Currency: West African CFA franc [April 11, 2021]
France – Capital : Paris; Currency : Euro, CFP franc [April 16, 2021]
Haiti – Capital: Port-au-Prince; Currency: Haitian gourde [April 16, 2021]
Kyrgyz Republic (Kyrgyzstan) – Capital: Bishkek; Currency: Kyrgyzstani som [April 18, 2021]
Italy – Capital: Rome; Currency: Euro [April 19 & 20, 2021]
New Zealand – Capital: Wellington Currency: New Zealand dollar [April 21, 2021]
Germany – Capital: Berlin; Currency: Euro [April 21, 2021]
Cuba – Capital: Havana; Currencies: Cuban peso, Cuban convertible peso [April 21, 2021]
Australia – Capital: Canberra; Australian dollar (AUD) [April 22, 2021]
Chad – Capital: N’Djamena; Currency: Central African CFA franc. [April 22, 2021]
Indonesia – Capital; Jakarta; Currency: Indonesian rupiah [April 28, 2021]
China – Capital: Beijing; Currency: Renminbi [April 29, 2021]

Books & Author

‘Manohar Parrikar: Brilliant Mind, Simple Life’ – Nitin Gokhale [April 03 & 04, 2021]
‘Suparipalana’ – Dr Shailendra Kumar Joshi. (Telugu translation of “Echo T Calling: Towards People-Centric Governance”) [April 03 & 04, 2021]
‘Believe – What Life and Cricket Taught Me’ – Memoir of Suresh Raina, co-authored by Raina and sports author Bharat Sundaresan [April 18, 2021]
“The Christmas Pig” – JK Rowling [April 21, 2021]
‘Climate Change Explained – for one and all’ – Aakash Ranison [April 24, 2021]
“The Living Mountain: A Fable for Our Times” – Amitav Ghosh [April 28, 2021]
“Whereabouts” – Jhumpa Lahiri [April 28, 2021]

Reports and Index

Global Gender Gap Report – World Economic Forum [April 02, 2021]
Inclusive Internet Index 2021 – Economist Intelligence Unit(EIU), in partnership with Facebook [April 16, 2021]
World Press Freedom Index – Reporters Without Borders (RSF) [April 21, 2021]
Energy Transition Index (ETI) – World Economic Forum (WEF), in collaboration with Accenture [April 23, 2021]
Chandler Good Government Index (CGGI) – Chandler Institute of Governance, Singapore [April 29, 2021]

Miscellaneous

Saraswati Samman is a prestigious and highest literary award in India instituted by K K Birla Foundation in 1991. The work should be in any of the 22 languages of India listed in Schedule VIII of the Constitution of India. [April 01, 2021]
Dadasaheb Phalke Awards – the highest film honour in India [April 02, 2021]
Shistura Hiranyakeshi Biological Heritage Site – Sindhudurg district, Maharashtra [April 03 & 04, 2021]
Indira Gandhi Memorial Tulip garden in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir is the largest tulip garden in Asia spread over an area of about 30 ha (74 acres) [April 05, 06 & 07, 2021]
Tulip Festival – Jammu & Kashmir [April 05, 06 & 07, 2021]
Tehri Dam Reservoir – Uttarakhand [April 22, 2021]

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