1. A team of four undergraduate students from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (IIT-K) emerged as winners at the Core Net Global Academic Challenge 6.0, sponsored by Cushman and Wakefield, KI and IA: Interior Architects.
2. The Maharashtra government said singer Asha Bhosle has been selected for the Maharashtra Bhushan award, the State government’s highest honour.
3. Senior bureaucrat Saurabh Garg has been named as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI). Prior to Garg, Ajay Bhushan Pandey was the CEO of UIDAI.
4. Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju said the government has included Yogasana in Khelo India Youth Games 2021 in a bid to develop it as a competitive sport.
5. The Chairman of ISRO K. Sivan has informed that India and France have been working on their third Joint satellite Mission, even as the bilateral space collaboration has been entering into multiple domains, including the human space flight programme.
6. Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister Nirmala Sitharaman launched Central Scrutiny Centre and Investor Education and Protection Fund Authority, IEPFA mobile App to leverage digital solutions to achieve Prime Minister’s vision of ‘Digitally empowered India.
7. The e-commerce sector in India is predicted to grow at a 27% CAGR over 2019-24 and is expected to reach $99 billion by 2024, according to a report released by EY-IVCA Trend Book 2021.
8. Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot has named the newly announced universal health coverage scheme CM Chiranjeevi Yojna. This scheme will cover annual medical insurance of up to ₹5 lakh for every family in the state beginning May 1.
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