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Daily Current Affairs – 15 April 2023

Daily Current Affairs – 15 April 2023

This post contains the current affairs for 15 April 2023. These current affairs are important for banking exams, insurance exams and other competitive exams like IBPS PO and Clerk, SBI PO and Clerk, RBI Assistant and Grade B, etc. You can also attempt our Current Affairs Quiz after reading our daily current affairs.

National

Assam’s Bihu creates Guinness World Record for largest traditional dance at single venue

  • The Northeastern state of India, Assam created history on April 13, 2023, when as many as 11,304 dancers and 2,548 drummers performed ‘Bihu’, the traditional folk dance of Assam, to mark the beginning of the state’s spring festival.
  • In doing so, Assam marked its name in the Guinness Book of World Records for performing the largest traditional Bihu dance at a single venue. The event was held at the Sarusajai Stadium in Guwahati.
  • Two world records were made, one for the largest traditional dance, and the other record for the largest musical instrument group.
  • The performers once again performed the folk dance in front of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on April 14 during his day-long visit to Guwahati.
  • Prior to this, the largest traditional dance record was for 7,700 participants in China set in 2015.

India’s tallest 125-ft tall bronze statue of Dr. BR Ambedkar unveiled in Hyderabad

  • In Telangana, the Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao unveiled the 125-ft tall bronze statue of Dr. BR Ambedkar in Hyderabad on April 14, 2023, on the occasion of the 132nd birth anniversary of the architect of the Indian Constitution.
  • The 125-ft tall bronze statue in Hyderabad is the tallest statue of Ambedkar in India.
  • The statue costs ₹ 146.50 crore. It is built using 360 tonnes of stainless steel and 114 tonnes of bronze.

CREDAI partners with IGBC to develop 4000 certified green buildings by 2030

  • The Confederation of Real Estate Developers Association of India (Credai) has partnered with the Indian Green Building Council (IGBC) to build over 1,000 certified green projects across India in the next two years, and 4,000 projects by 2030.
  • CREDAI is the apex body of private real estate developers in India.
  • Mr. Boman Irani has been named as the new National President of Credai for the term 2023-2025.
  • The Indian Green Building Council (IGBC) is the part of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). It was formed in the year 2001 to enable a sustainable built environment for all and facilitate India to be one of the global leaders in the sustainable built environment by 2025.
Military Exercise

IAF to participate in multilateral exercise, ‘Orion’ in France from April 17

  • The Indian Air Force (IAF) will participate in Exercise Orion to be conducted from 17 April to 05 May 2023 in France.
  • The multilateral exercise will be held at Mont-de-Marsan, an Air Force base of the French Air and Space Force (FASF).
  • The IAF Contingent will participate with four Rafale, two C-17, two ll-78 aircraft and 165 air warriors. This would be the first overseas exercise for the IAF’s Rafale aircraft.
  • Besides India and France, other Air Forces will be from Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Spain and United States of America.
Economy

The US was largest source of foreign portfolio investment (FPI) inflows into India in FY23; Mauritius witnessed sharpest decline

  • As per the data released by the National Securities Depository, the overseas FPI inflow into Indian capital markets from Mauritius witnessed the sharpest decline in FY23.
  • The total assets under custody (AUC) from Mauritius declined nearly 42 percent to Rs 3.25 trillion as of March 2023. This was Rs 5.55 trillion in 2022.
  • Overall, FPI AUC fell 4.44 percent in FY23.
  • The US was the biggest source for foreign portfolio investor (FPI) flows in India in FY23, with total AUC of Rs 19.19 trillion.
  • Singapore (4.56 trillion), Luxemburg (3.64 trillion), Mauritius (3.25 trillion) and the United Kingdom (2.55 trillion), are the top 5 countries respectively.
  • Norway (1.47 trillion) and Singapore witnessed highest growth in FPI AUC in FY23.
International

European Space Agency successfully launches its  mission JUICE to reach Jupiter’s moons

  • The European Space Agency (ESA) successfully launched its mission to Jupiter’s moons on April 13, 2023.
  • The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) project of ESA was launched on the Ariane 5 rocket from the spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
  • The 1.6 billion Euros Project JUICE  aims to send a satellite on an eight-year journey to reach the major icy moons of the Jupiter, namely Ganymede, Callisto and Europa and find whether they have the conditions to support simple life. 
  • The spacecraft is scheduled to finally reaching the gas giant in July 2031.
Sports

Indian Wrestler Aman Sehrawat clinches Gold Medal at 2023 Asian Wrestling Championships in 57 kg category

  • Indian wrestler Aman Sehrawat has clinched India’s lone gold medal at the Asian Wrestling Championships 2023, held in Astana, Kazakhstan from April 09 to 14, 2023.
  • Sehrawat won the medal in men’s 57 kg freestyle category, after defeating Kyrgyzstan’s Almaz Smanbekov 9-4.
  • India clinched 14 medal in total, which included 1 gold, 3 silver and 10 bronze.
Days

World Art Day 2023: 15 April

  • The World Art Day is observed every year on 15 April to celebrate fine arts and promote awareness of creative activity around the world.
  • The day was declared by the International Association of Art (IAA), an NGO working in official partnership with UNESCO.
  • The first celebration of World Art Day was held on April 15, 2012.
  • The date has been selected in honor of the birthday of Leonardo da Vinci, the famous painter of Mona Lisa.
  • He was chosen as a symbol of world peace, freedom of expression, tolerance, brotherhood and multiculturalism as well as art’s importance to other fields.
Obituary

Aerospace pioneer in satellite land imaging, Virginia Norwood, passes away at age 96

  • Virginia Norwood, an  American aerospace pioneer who developed technology to scan the surface of the moon to map and study the earth from space, has passed away. She was 96.
  • Norwood is best known for developing the Multispectral Scanner System that flew on the first Landsat satellite.
  • The scanner have been used for more than 50 years for scanning safe landing sites and map our planet from space.
  • For this invention,  NASA has called her “the mother of Landsat.”

Ireland’s top rally driver Craig Breen passes away at 33

  • Ireland’s top rally driver Craig Breen has passed away in an accident, due to a crash while he was driving his Hyundai i20 N Rally1 rally car in a testing session for the 2023 Croatia Rally.
  • He was 33.

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