• The General Assembly of the United Nations decided to proclaim on [latex]6^{th}[/latex] April as "International Day of Sport for Development and Peace."


• This date commemorates the inauguration, in 1896, of the first Olympic games of the modern era, in Athens.

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• Pakistan has opened one of its 11 air routes for west-bound flights from India and Air India has started using it.


• Pakistan has been opening its airspace in tranches. It opened one of the 11 routes for west-bound flights. Therefore, airlines such as Air India and Turkish Airlines have started using it.

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• South Korea launches the world’s first fully-fledged 5G mobile networks. Hyper-wired South Korea has long had a reputation for technical prowess, and Seoul has made the 5G rollout a priority as it seeks to stimulate stuttering economic growth.


• The system will bring smartphones near-instantaneous connectivity 20 times faster than the existing 4G allowing users to download entire movies in less than a second.

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• Under the Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Electric Vehicles II (FAME II) scheme, the NITI Aayog and Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) have released a report titled ‘India’s Electric Mobility Transformation Progress to Date and Future Opportunities’. The report is based on opportunities for the automobile sector and government.


• The Indian and global non-profit organisation, Rocky Mountain Institute is focused on making effective use of the resources by making a total expenditure of Rs. 10,000 crore from three years i.e. 2019 to 2022.


• In February 2019, the FAME II scheme was notified by the Union Cabinet. The objective of the scheme is to enhance the government’s commitment to a clean mobility future with a major focus on electric automobiles.


• The FAME II is a vital part of the National Electric Mobility Mission Plan.


• The lifetime cumulative oil and carbon savings deployed through the FAME II scheme will be much smaller than the ones deployed through electric automobiles which could amount to a total savings of 846 million tonnes of carbon dioxide.


• The electric buses covered under FAME II scheme would be able to travel for 3.8 billion vehicle kilometres (e-vkt) over their entire lifetime.

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• Indian Navy and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) have signed Memorandum of understanding to tackle joint research and development of advanced technologies for the Indian Navy.


• The agreement will facilitate a formal framework for interaction between Indian Navy and CSIR.


• This will be a collaborative arrangement between labs of Indian Navy and CSIR to facilitate joint R&D activities in diverse fields of Mechanical, Electronics, Communication, Computer Science, etc.

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• Ex-Jammu and Kashmir CM Farooq Abdullah alleged that the Centre knew about the Pulwama terror attack, but allowed it to happen so that PM Narendra Modi could win 2019 general elections.


• His comment came after the state government banned civilian traffic for 2-day/week on Jammu-Srinagar national highway. Authorities must lift the ban before there's more "bloodshed" in Kashmir.

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• Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu is visiting Lucknow where he will be the chief guest at National Cardiology Conference 2019 being held at Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of medical sciences.


• He will inaugurate the 3-day conference organised by Dept of Cardiology in which leading national and international experts from Europe, USA, Japan, Singapore South Korea, Indonesia and Australia will deliberate on the latest topics of Interventional cardiology and cutting edge technology.


• The conference being held for the first time in Uttar Pradesh offers an opportunity to showcase newer innovations in Cardiology that can help deliver cost-effective cardiology care to patients.

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• The Competition Commi­ssion of India (CCI) approved engineering and construction major Larsen & Toubro’s (L&T’s) proposal to acquire up to 66.15% stake in Mindtree.


• With this nod, L&T has overcome the first major regulatory hurdle in its bid for ‘hostile’ takeover of the Bengaluru-headquartered IT services firm.

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• The board of Lakshmi Vilas Bank (LVB) approved the merger of the private sector lender with India bulls Housing Finance (IBH) through a share swap deal.


• The merger will also enable Tamil Nadu-based LVB to obtain a larger geographical presence. The merged entity will have a net worth Rs 19,472 crore and a loan book Rs 1,23,393 crore for the nine months of FY19.

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• Praful Patel, president of All India Football Federation (AIFF), has become the first Indian to be elected as a member of FIFA Executive Council.


• Patel, who serves as a Senior Vice President at the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), was one of the eight candidates vying for the spot in the election, which was held during the 29th AFC Congress in Kuala Lampur in Malaysia.

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• Gianni Infantino, President of FIFA (Federation Internationale de Football Association) hailed the re-election of Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa, Asian football chief to help the region move forward in stability.


• Sheikh Salman will extend his term as president until at least 2023.


• He has returned unopposed in the election after Mohammed Khalfan Al Romaithi and Saoud Al Mohannadi withdrew last month.

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• Shri Anwar Haleem, IFS (Indian Foreign Service, batch of 1991 is appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. He will succeed Mrs. Shubhdarshini Tripathi.


• Anwar Haleem is currently working as the Senior Directing Staff in the National Defence College.

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• Viharidas Gopaldas Patel, noted economist and ‘Father of Entrepreneurship Movement’ in India, passed away in Ahmedabad after a brief illness. He was 79.


• In 2017, the Government of India had decorated him with a Padma Shri for his contribution to the entrepreneurship movement.


• Patel’s work towards inclusion of entrepreneurship in the formal education system, sensitisation of support system, and entrepreneurship research has been widely recognised.