Current Affairs - April 2022
Name the Indian official who has recently been appointed as the vice-chairperson of the Council Standing Committee on Administration and Management of International Telecommunication Union (ITU) for 2023 and 2024?
Aprajita Sharrma, an Indian Post & Telecom Account and Finance (IP&TAF) Service officer from 1995 batch, has been appointed as the vice-chairperson of Council Standing Committee on Administration and Management of International Telecommunication Union (ITU).
Expert panel of the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) has recommended granting emergency use authorisation for Corbevax for children in the 5 to 12 years age group.
Extreme poverty in India declined by 12.3 percentage points between 2011 and 2019, with rural areas doing better than urban centres, according to a working paper of the World Bank. The extreme poverty rate in India fell from 22.5% in 2011 to 10.2% in 2019.
Serial entrepreneur Babita Singh has been conferred as a Global Peace Ambassador for promoting Peace through Education, Sports, Art, Culture & Diplomacy at the India International Conclave 2022.
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