• This day is observed on [latex]28^{th}[/latex] April every year by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) since 2003.


• This day marks how to improve occupational safety, health and looks for continuing these efforts through several changes like technology, demographics, climate change etc.

• World Veterinary Day is observed on [latex]28^{th}[/latex] April globally to raise awareness in the public about the important roles veterinarians plays.


• This day is created by the World organisation for Animal Health and the World Veterinary Association.

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• After Russian President Vladimir Putin said his country was considering offering all Ukrainian citizens fast-tracked Russian passports, Ukraine's President-elect Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the citizens of his country will reject Putin's offer.


• "We'll provide Ukrainian citizenship [to people] who suffer from authoritarian regimes. In the first place, the Russians, who probably suffer most".

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• India’s decision to skip the Belt and Road Forum (BRF) may have led to the exclusion of the Bangladesh- China- India- Myanmar (BCIM) Economic corridor from the list of projects covered by the China-led Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) umbrella.


• In an annex tagged with the Joint Communiqué of the Leaders’ Roundtable of the BRF, which concluded in Beijing on Saturday, the Chinese Foreign Ministry website has not listed the BCIM as a project covered by the BRI — the giant connectivity initiative speared by China to revive the ancient Silk Road across Eurasia and Africa.


• Instead, South Asia is covered by three major undertakings — the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor (CMEC); the Nepal-China Trans-Himalayan Multi-dimensional Connectivity Network, including Nepal-China cross-border railway; and the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).

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• Britain’s Home Office is under investigation by the country’s spending watchdog over its treatment of thousands of students — mostly from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh — whose visas were cancelled over allegations of cheating in English language tests that they had taken to come to the UK.


• The investigation follows years of warnings from campaigners that tens of thousands of students had been unjustly treated, after being mistakenly deemed to have cheated in their tests in a crackdown by the government that followed revelations of fraud at two testing centres.

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• International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) has recently released Global Food Policy Report-2019.


• IFPRI’s flagship report reviews the major food policy issues, developments, and decisions of 2018, and considers challenges and opportunities for 2019.


• This year’s Global Food Policy Report highlights the urgency of rural revitalization to address a growing crisis in rural areas.


• Rural population account for 45.3% of the world’s total population and at least 70% of the world’s population remains extremely poor.


• The rural population suffers from rapid population growth rates, inadequate job and enterprise creation, poor infrastructure, scarce financial services.


• In addition, rural communities bear the brunt of climate change impacts.


• Nearly 50% of rural youth all over the world do not have any formal job they are either unemployed or under-employed.


• Rural revitalization is important to end hunger and malnutrition.

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• Air India has reportedly offered three new-generation engines that power its Airbus A320neo fleet as collateral to lenders for financing the purchase of five engines.


• The national carrier is yet to receive one of the engines being offered as collateral, the report added. This comes after the ₹2,000-crore sovereign guarantee provided by the government to the carrier ended last year.

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• Indian Army signed an MoU with National Hydroelectric Power Corporation Limited (NHPC) to construct tunnels on borders with China and Pakistan for storage of ammunition and other war-related equipment.


• Under the pilot project, three tunnels will be built on China border while one will be built along the Line of Control with Pakistan. The project is meant to bolster the Indian Army’s capabilities along the Chinese border where India’s infrastructural development is far outpaced by that of China.

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• The Cyclone Warning Division of the MeT department said Cyclone Fani, which has been forming in south-east Bay of Bengal and the adjoining Indian Ocean, is very likely to intensify into a 'severe cyclonic storm' in the next six hours and further soar into a 'very severe cyclonic storm' in the next 24 hours.


• The Cyclone Warning Division said Fani currently lays over 745 kilometres east-southeast of Trincomalee (Sri Lanka), 1,050 kilometres southeast of Chennai (Tamil Nadu) and 1,230 kilometres south-southeast of Machilipatnam (Andhra Pradesh).


• Heavy falls at isolated places are very likely over Kerala on April 29 and 30. The cyclone will not make landfall in Tamil Nadu, but may bring light rain in some northern parts, the weather department said. Earlier, it was expected to cause heavy rains in northern Tamil Nadu, including Chennai.

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• A fire broke out today in Sector 7 of Delhi's RK Puram. The fire was reported outside the Sonia Gandhi Camp in RK Puram. Four fire tenders are said to be present at the site. The fire fighters are trying to douse the fire outside the Sonia Gandhi Camp.


• No casualty has been reported so far. The cause of the fire has not been ascertained.


• At least eight shanties were gutted after a fire broke out at RK Puram .

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• Union Minister Suresh Prabhu said the country is working on a district-based developmental model to achieve aggregate growth.


• The private sector should bring in investments to complement the growth as service-led growth would not be sustainable, he added. Six districts have been selected in different parts of the country for the development programme.

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• Canara Bank and its life insurance partner Canara HSBC Oriental Bank of Commerce Life Insurance launched ’Webassurance’ to enable its customers to purchase life insurance in a convenient and hassle-free way.


• Total Four life insurance products of Canara HSBC OBC Life would be made available to its customers with various facilities like key needs of child future, savings, and investments, retirement planning and protection.


• Through this Webassurance, the bank will be able to service the protection needs of its younger and net-savvy customers.


• This Life Insurance is jointly owned by Canara Bank (51 percent) and Oriental Bank of Commerce (23 percent) and HSBC Insurance Holdings (26 percent), the Asian insurance arm of HSBC.

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• Recently, Supreme Court bench headed by Justice L Nageswara Rao has directed the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to disclose information related to its annual inspection report of banks under the Right to Information (RTI) Act until and unless they are exempted under law.


• The bench has also directed the RBI to review its policy to disclose information relating to banks under RTI.


• The bench was hearing a contempt petition filed by RTI activists Subhash Chandra Agarwal and Girish Mittal against the Reserve Bank of India.


• According to the petitioners, they had asked copies of RBI’s inspection reports of ICICI Bank, Axis Bank, HDFC Bank, and SBI between April 2011 and December 2015 but the central bank rejected to provide this information by stating that it is exempted under section 8(1)(e) of the RTI Act and section 45NB of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934.

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• The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) hiked the basic customs duty (BCD) on wheat to 40% from 30%.


• The objective is to restrict imports so that domestic prices of wheat do not come under pressure as the country’s wheat production in this season might cross 100 million tonnes.


• Last year in May, the government hiked the basic customs duty on wheat to 30% from 20%.

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• Abhishek Verma won the 10m air pistol gold medal at the ISSF World Cup at Beijing, China. He clinched the top spot with a total score of 242.7.


• Russia's Artem Chernousov took silver. His brilliant performance in the Shooting World Cup Final also secured a fifth Olympic quota for India.

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• India won 13 medals, including 2 gold, 4 silver, and 7 bronze at the Asian Boxing Championships in Bangkok. Boxers Pooja Rani and Amit Panghal gave India 2 gold medals.


• While the men won 1 gold, 3 silver, and 3 bronze, the women bagged 1 gold, 1 silver, and 4 bronze medals.

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• M S Yadav has been elected as general secretary of the newly formed, All India Federation of PTI Employees’ Unions (AIFPTIEU) by the 45 elected council members from different centres of PTI (Press Trust of India) during the two days meeting in Lucknow.


• In other appointments, Bhuwan Choubey was elected as president, P C Maity was elected as treasurer, Md. Sallimuddin and O J Tomy were elected vice-presidents, M S Hasan and B T Mohan Rao were elected assistant general secretaries.


• In addition of this, a 16-member executive body was constituted which comprised Meheruddin, Sunil Gaur, Jagmohan Rawat, Arvind Kumar Singh, Naresh Pal, Rajbir Singh, K K Verma, Kulbhusan Yadav, Salav Rastogi, Sudip Ghosh Choudhury, Gopal Prasad Sav, G N Patnaik, R S Batwal, Mahender Verma, A K Tripathy and Sayeed Latifudfin.

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• Tammy Duckworth, the helicopter pilot who lost her legs when she was shot down over Iraq 15 years ago, returned to the country for the first time last week as a US Senator.


• she said "I returned in a role I never expected". Duckworth served in the Reserve Forces for 23 years before retiring from military service in 2014.

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• First earthquakes, then moonquakes, now marsquakes: a robotic lander comes through with the first detection of seismic activity on Mars.


• Planetary scientists are quivering with delight at the first detection of possible seismic activity beneath Mars’s surface.


• This potential marsquake was recorded by NASA’s Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) lander 128 Martian days (sols) after landing.

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