Weekly Current Affairs (Beepedia) 1st-8th May 2023

RBI, Banking and Economy

• RBI launches G20 TechSprint competition to improve cross-border payments

• RBI updates KYC instructions on wire transfers for banks, institutions

• Aurionpro Payments gets RBI approval to operate as payment aggregator

SEBI and FINANCIAL AWARENESS

• SEBI fines Future Corporate Resources, Kishore Biyani, 13 others for open offer lapses

• SEBI mandates Legal Entity Identifier for debt security issuers

• IRDAI Asks Insurers to lay Down Social Media Norms for Employees

NABARD & AGRICULTURE

• Nationwide AHDF KCC campaign for 2023-24 launched for providing Kisan Credit Card facility to all eligible Animal Husbandry, Dairy and Fishery Farmers

• E-commerce platform for livestock economy launched

• Gujarat govt announces relief package for farmers hit by unseasonal rains

NATIONAL

• Abhilash Tomy scripted maritime history

• ‘Poshan Bhi, Padhai Bhi’: Centre to push Early Childhood Care and Education through Anganwadis

• NTPC and NPCIL signed Agreement for joint development of Nuclear Power Plants

INTERNATIONAL

• Santiago Pena won Paraguay election

• Canadian government proposed ban on assault-style firearms

• World Bank to provide 2.25 billion dollars to Bangladesh to support development projects

STATES

• PM Modi inaugurated NAMO Medical Education and Research Institute in Silvassa

• HP Cabinet approved Rs 1,500 per month to women aged 18 to 60 in Spiti valley

• Union Minister Nityanad Rai inaugurated Dawki land port in Meghalaya

REPORTS AND INDEXES

• India slips in World Press Freedom Index, ranks 161 out of 180 countries

• Cristiano Ronaldo takes over Lionel Messi as the highest paid athletes –Forbes

• India's additional green financing need at 2.5% of GDP: RBI report

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• New Machine Learning tool by IIT Madras to detect brain, spinal cord tumour

DEFENCE

• Indian Army Commissioned Five Women Officers In Artillery Regiments

• Inaugural ASEAN-India maritime exercise in South China Sea

• INS Magar decommissioned after 36 years of service

EVENTS

• India To Join International Climate Action In Civil Aviation From 2027

• UAE govt launched ‘Machines Can See 2023’ Summit

• National Mission For Clean Ganga Organizes River-Cities Alliance Global Seminar

AWARDS AND REWARDS

• Shakira has been named Billboard's inaugural "Latin Woman of the Year"

• British-Indian Meera Syal to be awarded BAFTA TV fellowship

SPORTS

• Dinesh Khanna after Satwik-Chirag’s men’s doubles gold medal win at Asian Championship

• Table tennis star and three-time Olympic medalist Kasumi Ishikawa announced retirement

• Ding Liren became China's first male world chess champion