Find here Today’s Current Affairs News Headlines by Jagran Josh for 7 April 2022.
Current Affairs Today Headline- 7 April 2022
National News
- Parliament passes criminal procedure identification bill that seeks to decrease crime rate, increase rate of conviction of criminals and boost the security of the country.
- Centre intends to establish more research centres in country to support research of ISRO, says Union Minister Jitendra Singh.
- India, Netherlands sign four agreements during President Kovind’s state visit
- Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh to release third list of indigenised defence equipments today.
- Evidence doesn’t suggest presence of XE COVID variant in India, says Health Ministry
- 100 Gati Shakti Cargo Terminal to be set up by Railways in next three financial years.
- Lok Sabha passes bill that seeks to prohibit financing of any activity in relation to weapons of mass destruction and their delivery systems.
- Budget session of Parliament to be adjourned sine die today.
- Lok Sabha passes the Weapons of Mass Destruction and their Delivery Systems (Prohibition of Unlawful Activities) Amendment Bill, 2022.
- The construction of India’s first underwater river tunnel metro-rail station underway in Kolkata
International News
- US, G7 & EU impose severe and immediate costs on Russia for its atrocities in Ukraine, including in Bucha.
- US announces new sanctions on Russia including first-time individual sanctions on 2 daughters of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
- Pakistan Supreme court adjourned the hearing in the case related to the legality of National Assembly deputy speaker dismissing the no-trust vote against Imran Khan till April 7th.
Zimbabwe to introduce a new 100-dollar note, its highest paper money denomination. - EU medicines watchdog approves second Covid booster shot for those over 80 years old.
- Burkina ex-president Blaise Compaore gets life term for the 1987 assassination of revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara.
- NATO chief Stoltenberg warns Ukraine war could last ‘many months, even years’.
- Hundreds of protestors throw stones at police and block roads in Peru’s coastal region of Ica to protest rising fuel prices and tolls.
Environment News
- An earthquake of magnitude 4.4 hit 63 km northeast of Campbell Bay, Andaman and Nicobar island, today.
- The number of spider species in the world now stands at 50,000, says the World Spider Catalog says and there could be 50,000 more.
Sports News
- Pat Cummins hits joint fastest fifty in just 14 balls to help KKR beat Mumbai Indians by five wickets at MCA Stadium on April 6th.
- French tennis player Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, a former world number five, said he will retire after this year’s French Open.
