National

World Craft City

• World Crafts Council International (WCCI) has picked Srinagar for mapping its craft clusters before its final nomination as the World Craft City (WCC) from India this year.
• WCCI is a Kuwait-based organisation working on recognition and preservation of traditional crafts.

International

Seto Machindranath Rath Jatra

• The three-day-long Seto Machindranath Rath Jatra concluded in Kathmandu, Nepal.
• Seto Machindranath, also known as the White Machindranath, is revered as the deity who brings rain and ensures good harvests.

Defence

Indigenous Technology Cruise Missile

• Defence Research and Development Organisation achieved a significant milestone with the successful flight-test of an Indigenous Technology Cruise Missile (ITCM) off the coast of Odisha.
• The missile has been developed by the Bengaluru-based DRDO laboratory Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE).

AFMS & IIT Kanpur signs MoU

• Armed Forces Medical Services (AFMS) signed a Memorandum of Understanding for collaborative research and training with Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.
• The MoU aims to collaborate on developing technologies to address health problems faced by soldiers in difficult terrains.

Person in News

Dinesh Kumar Tripathi

• Vice-Admiral Dinesh Kumar Tripathi has been appointed the next Chief of the Naval Staff.
• He will take over on superannuation of the current Chief, Admiral R. Hari Kumar on April 30.

 Raman Subba Row

• Former England men’s Test cricketer and international referee Raman Subba Row has passed away.

Kento Momota

• Japan’s two-time World champion and former World No.1 Kento Momota is retiring from badminton after the Thomas Cup.

Miscellaneous

Infectious Respiratory Particles

• Pathogens that transmit through the air will be described by the term ‘infectious respiratory particles’ or IRPs, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

Aryabhata

• On April 19, 1975, India’s first satellite ‘Aryabhata’ was launched into space.
• The Aryabhata spacecraft, named after the famous Indian astronomer, was completely designed and fabricated in India and launched by a Soviet Kosmos-3M rocket from Kapustin Yar.