Current Affairs One-Liner : 16th April 2023

• The CM of Telangana unveiled the Ambedkar statue in Hyderabad. The height of the statue is 125 Ft.
• As per the ADR report, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Jagan Mohan Reddy is the richest Chief Minister in India.

• Uzbekistan has invited the election commissioner of India to witness the referendum regarding the constitution making.
• On 16th April 2023 Save Elephant Day was celebrated. The theme for Save the Elephant Day 2023 might be centered around “Safeguarding Elephant Habitats for a Sustainable Tomorrow”.
• SBI has launched its coffee table book ‘The banker to every Indian’.
• World’s Art Day was celebrated on 15th April every year. This was first celebrated in the year 2012.
• Kolkata successfully conducted trial run of India’s 1st metro train to run under river.
• Shakib Al Hasan and Henriette Ishim we won the ICC Player of the month awards for March 2023.
• Aria from Kerala becomes the second K-Pop idol from India.
• Telangana state launched the initiative to prevent controllable blindness ‘Kanti Velugu Program’.
• Bangladesh country will get electricity from the new power plant opened by Adani Power Ltd in Jharkhand.
• Haryana state has launched the ‘DRISHYA Scheme’ for the survey of agriculture and horticulture crops.
• The ISRO and NASA have jointly developed a forthcoming satellite called NISAR. It will map the most earth quake prone regions in the Himalayas.
• World’s 1st Drone Carrier, Turkey Commissions - World's First Drone Carrier- TCG Anadolu. The TCG Anadolu is a landing helicopter dock (LHD) type amphibious assault ship based on Spain's flagship, the Juan Carlos I. It is 32 meters broad and 231 meters long, with a displacement of 27,436 tonnes.
• The Index of Industrial Production (IIP)-based industrial growth in February 2023 is 6.44%:Consumer Price Index (CPI)-based retail inflation declined to 5.66% in March 2023.
• In February 2023, Consumer Price Index (CPI)-based retail inflation stood at 6.44%.
• Retail inflation has come below the upper tolerance level of RBI’s inflation range of 2-6% because of the strong base effect and decline in vegetable and oil prices
• India, Japan and France have come forward to help Sri Lanka financially, together the three countries have started a debt restructuring program for troubled Sri Lanka.Its purpose is to bring Sri Lanka out of the economic crisis.
• Aman Sherawat has won India's first gold medal at the Asian Wrestling Championships 2023 in Astana, Kazakhstan.He won this medal in the men's 57 kg freestyle category by defeating Almaz Samanbekov of Kyrgyzstan 9-4.
• India’s overall exports have registered a growth of 13.84% in the financial year 2022-23 over 2021-22.
• Suhelwa Wildlife Sanctuary of Uttar Pradesh has for the first time recorded photographic proof of tigers.

Question:

Q.1‘Kanti Velugu Program’ which is a initiative to prevent controllable blindness?
a. Telangana
b. Andhra Pradesh
c. Kerala
d. Tamil Nadu

Q.2 How much has been the Index of Industrial Production (IIP)-based industrial growth in February 2023?
a. 5.6%
b. 4.7%
c. 6.4%
d. 5.9%
Q.3 India, Japan and France have launched a common platform for financial assistance to which country?
a. Ukraine
b. Sri Lanka

c. Mongolia
d. Iraq