Daily Current Affairs 2023 : 15 April 2023 Current Affairs by Westbengaljob.in

1) Kolkata Metro became the first metro rail in the country to make an under-river journey as its rakes passed through an underwater tunnel below the Hooghly river.

West Bengal :-
➠CM - Mamata Banerjee
➠GOVERNOR - C.V. Ananda Bose
➠Folk Dances - Lathi, Gambhira, Dhali, Jatra, Baul, Chhau, Santhali Dance
➠Kalighat Temple

2) The President of India, Smt Droupadi Murmu presented the 11th Biennial National Grassroots Innovation and Outstanding Traditional Knowledge Awards of NIF at Rashtrapati Bhavan Cultural Centre (RBCC).

 

3) Kumar Mangalam Birla, Chairman of Aditya Birla Group, received the ‘Business Leader of the Decade Award’ at All India Management Association's (AIMA) 13th Managing India Awards ceremony.

4) Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) has appointed Ratnakar Patnaik as the Chief Investment Officer.
➨Patnaik is an industry veteran and has an experience of 32 years. Patnaik had joined LIC as a Direct Recruit Officer in September 1990.

Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) :-
➨Founder - Government of India
➨Founded - 1 September 1956
➨Headquarters - Mumbai
➨Chairperson - Siddharth Mohanty
➨Managing Director - B C Patnaik

5) The Unified Portal of the Central Bureau of Narcotics has been launched by the Revenue Secretary Shri Sanjay Malhotra to strengthen the vision of Digital India in the period of ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’.

6) NSE Indices Ltd, a subsidiary of National Stock Exchange (NSE), has launched India’s first ever Real Estate Investment Trusts (Reits) and Infrastructure Investment Trusts (InvITs) Index.

7) The President of India appointed Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh, Judge of Jharkhand High Court as the Chief Justice of Tripura High Court.

Tripura :-
➨CM - Manik Saha
➨Governor - Satyadev Narayan Arya
➨Bison (Rajbari) National Park
➨Clouded Leopard National Park

8) The Raman Research Institute (RRI), under the Department of Science and Technology (DST), recently entered into a five-year partnership with the Indian Navy to explore secure naval communications through quantum technologies.

9) World Chagas Disease Day is observed every year on April 14 to raise awareness about a life-threatening illness that can cause severe heart and digestive problems.
➨The theme for World Chagas Disease Day 2023 is Time to integrate Chagas disease into primary health care.

10) Indian politician Ghulam Nabi Azad's tell-all autobiography 'Azaad' has been launched by Dr Karan Singh, the former Sadr-e-Riyasat of Jammu and Kashmir and former member of Rajya Sabha.

11) Shakib Al Hasan, the star Bangladesh all-rounder, and Rwandan star Henriette Ishimwe clinched the ICC Men’s and Women’s Player of the Month awards for the month of March.
➨ Shakib won the award for the second time after July 2021.

12) Five states, including Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Rajasthan and Telangana are the front-runners in the State Energy Efficiency Index (SEEI) 2021-22 with a score more than 60 points on various parameters under SEEI to assess state-level energy efficiency initiatives.

13) Periyar Tiger Reserve (PTR) in Kerala has secured the first position in the country in the latest report on management effectiveness evaluation (MEE) of tiger reserves in India.

Kerala :-
➠Cherai Beach
➠Idukki Dam on Periyar River
➠Pamba River
➠Kumarakom National Park
➠Anamudi Shola National Park
➠Eravikulam National Park
➠Silent Valley National Park