2021 April GK and Current Affairs

• Indian Council for Cultural Relations joined hands withe a private company named Gamapp Sportswizz Tech Private Ltd. for launching a game application. The name of the application is "Little Guru". This is a gamified application for learning Sanskrit in a 'fun and easy' way. The interactive platform makes the learning easier. 
• Noura al Matroushi is named the first female Astronaut of UAE. She will receive training in NASA for its future space missions. UAE has launched a satelite to Mars in 2020. It has future plan of sending an unmanned one to Moon.
• BAFTA award presented in London. Nomadland is the best picture. Chloe Zhao received best director award for movie Nomadland. Best actress is also from the same movie. Frances Mc Dormand is the best female actor. As for male actor, Anthony Hopkins won the award for the film 'The Father'.
• In Sports Japan's Hideki Matsuyama is the winner of Masters Golf tournament.
• In Vietnam, Nguyen Xuan Phuc sworn in as its new President.
• Ministry of Finance notified some changes in Post Office Savings Account Scheme 2019 to open a basic savings bank account. No deposit is required to open account. The account can be opened in India Post Payment Bank or a Scheduled Commercial Bank.
• What was the theme by India for World Homoepathy Day celebrated on April 10?
• Homeopathy-Roadmap for INtegrative Medicine
• In Indonesia a 6.0 magnitude earthquake killed several people on Java Island.
• Which women wrestler from India qualified for Tokyo Olympics? Anshu Malik and Sonam Malik
• Union Education Minister launched world's first Explosive Trace Detector named "Nano Sniffer". It is said that this device can detect explosives in less than 10 seconds. It is developed by IIT Bombay incubated startup called NanoSniff Technologies.
• Which will become the The Government of India recently launched the Unique Land Parcel Identification Number (ULPIN) scheme in ten states. The system is to be rolled out in the country by March 2022.first controlled aircraft to fly in another planet?
• Ingenuity. This will be called aadhaar for land. There will be 14 digits which will be alphanumeric.
• A new bird species "three banded Rosefinch" identified by Bombay Natural History Society from Arunachal Pradesh.
• A new technology named "Robo Plant" which will enable farmers to control the plants using smart phones developed by scientists of Singapore.
• "Crusing the Curve" is the mass vaccination programme launched by Government of Kerala to arrest COVID19 pandemic.