Current Affairs in Short: April 19 2023

India named as World’s Most Populous Country 

• According to a recent survey, India exceeds China in terms of the population across the world. Currently, the nation is home to 142.86 crore people.
• The UN World Population Report reveals that while China has a total of 142.57 crores, India’s populace increased this year.
• There are a number of factors that affect population growth including life expectancy, fertility rate and international migration.

Centre Accepts National Quantum Mission

• In order to escalate Quantum Technology Industry, the centre gave approval to the National Quantum Mission to make India a powerful country in the respective sector.
• The objective of this mission is to accelerate scientific research and development. Also, this scheme will benefit tremendously to multiple sectors like Finance, Health and Communications. 
• With this, it will come up with intermediate-level quantum computers having 50 to 1000 qubits. 

World Liver Day Celebrated to Spread Liver-Related Awareness

• On April 19, World Liver Day is observed to make people conscious about their own eating habits and what are they leading to nowadays. 
• The plan is to spread information about liver diseases which include hepatitis, cirrhosis, jaundice, fatty liver, etc. 
• By mindful exercising, having nutritional food and staying away from alcohol, high-calorie foods, and sugary items, one can have sound functioning of the liver. 

Solar Eclipse Tomorrow: Will Create Ring of Fire Effect

• The first Solar Eclipse of this year will be on April 20, 2023 (Wednesday). It will be a hybrid solar eclipse while the last of this kind occurred in November 2013.
• It will be visible across Australia and some countries of Southeast India but not in India. This spectacular view is one in a ten-year experience. 
• The partial phase will start around 7:04 IST in the morning and will be in its complete mode around 8:07 IST. 

National Goddess Ganga Cleansing Mission

• Namami Gange Programme (NMCG) was introduced by the Jal Shakti Ministry. Along with this, several other missions have also been launched. 
• For worth Rs 638 crore, the Clean Ganga mission will be implemented across many districts. While Hindon River Rejuvenation Programme will be taken in the Saharanpur district.
• Eight projects have been approved for Clean Ganga and four projects worth Rs 407 crore for the Hindon River. 

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