Current Affairs Today Headline- 22 April 2022

National News

• Prime Minister Modi received UK PM Boris Johnson at Rashtrapati Bhavan today. UK Prime Minister is in India for a two-day visit.
• Guwahati Municipal Polls 2022: Voting begins for 57 out of 60 wards under GMC. Candidates in three wards have already been uncontested.
• Delhi Government makes COVID-19 precautionary dose free for the beneficiaries aged between 18 and 59.
• Government raises risk and hardship allowance of military personnel, to be on par with CAPF now.
• Hindu temple-like structure was found during the renovation of a mosque near Mangaluru.
• Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla arrived in Cambodia with an Indian Parliamentary delegation comprising MPs and others.
• Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman meets Gita Gopinath, Dy Managing Director of IMF, on the sidelines of IMF-SB Spring Meetings 2022, in Washington DC.
• Subject expert panel recommends Corbevax COVID-19 vaccines for children aged between 5-11.
• Air Courier service for IB, Central Armed Police Forces, NDRF resuming from April 23, 2022.
• NITI Aayog, UNICEF India sign Statement of Intent on SDGs with focus on Children.

International News

• Dozens of people were killed and injured in four explosions across Afghanistan.
• Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan praises India’s Foreign Policy over importing oil from Russia.
• US President Joe Biden announced a new program to enable Ukrainians seeking refuge to come directly from Europe to the United States.
• President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has said that Ukraine needs $7 billion a month to make up for economic losses.
• Elon Musk announced that he has secured USD 46.5 billion for funding the Twitter buyout bid.
• World Health Organisation strongly recommends Pfizer’s COVID-19 pill for at-risk patients.
• United States hopes that the recent talks between the US Secretary of Defence and China’s Defence Minister will further lead to future conversations.
• US Lawmaker Ilhan Omar’s unofficial, personal visit to Pakistan does not represent US Government Policy, says Biden official.

Sports News

• Mumbai Indians becomes the only team to lose the first 7 matches in IPL Season.
• Mumbai Indians Skipper Rohit Sharma has now the most ducks in the history of the Indian Premier League.
• Sarita Mor, Sushma Shokeen bags Bronze medal for India in Asian Wrestling Championships.

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