Current Affair April 4, 2021 at 07:45AM
1) Goods and Services Tax (GST) revenue collection for March 2021 has touched nearly ₹1.24 trillion.
GST Revenue collection for March 2021 has set a new record with the highest-ever collection.
The tax collection is higher than the December 2020 record set in the last round, which witnessed an unexpected rise of 11.6 per cent.
Goods and Services Tax (GST) :-
GST has been implemented under Article 279 of the Indian constitution.
Based on the Canadian model.
Vijay Kelkar Committee.
First state in India - Assam
GST in India was implemented on July 1, 2017.
First implemented in France.
GST has been implemented by the 101st Constitution Amendment Act, 2016.
2) In Kargil Ladakh, Rural Development Department Kargil organised one-day Training and Awareness Programme for Self Help Groups under National Rural Livelihood Mission at Sankoo block.
Hemis National Park is a high altitude national park in Ladakh.
The Central Government approved eight hydropower projects of 144 MW on the Indus River and its tributaries in Ladakh.
Ladakh (UT) - Shri Radha Krishna Mathur (Lieutenant Governor)
Jammu and Kashmir (UT) - Shri Manoj Sinha (Lieutenant Governor)
3) With a wealth of Rs 44,270 crores, Mangal Prabhat Lodha (65) and family of Lodha Group is the richest real estate developer on the GROHE Hurun India Real Estate Rich List 2020 for the fourth consecutive year. His wealth increased by 39 percent in the current year.
4) India will be joining a French naval exercise in the Bay of Bengal from April 5 to 7.
India will join its Quad partners — Australia, Japan, and the United States in the Bay of Bengal.
It is the first French naval exercise that Indian Navy will be a part of. The exercise is named as La Perouse.
Ministry of Defence :-
Headquarters - New Delhi
Founded - 15 August 1947
Chief of Defence Staff (CDS):- General Bipin Rawat
Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) :- General Manoj Mukund Naravane
Chief of the Navy Staff - Admiral Karambir Singh
Chief Of The Air Force Staff - Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria
5) The Asia's largest tulip garden was thrown open in Srinagar, with around 4,000 visitors enjoying the bloom of the 25% of the 15 lakh flowers planted over 30 hectares located at the foothills of the Zabarwan Range.
Jammu and Kashmir :-
Rajparian Wildlife Sanctuary
Hirapora Wildlife Sanctuary
Dachigam National Park
Salim Ali National Park
6) Mountaineers Rohtash Khileri and Anu Yadav set the record for 24 hours on Kilimanjaro, the highest peak of the continent of Africa.
7) The Gujarat Assembly passed an amendment bill which provides for a prison sentence of upto ten years and a maximum fine of Rs 5 lakh for fraudulent or forcible conversion by marriage.
The bill amended a 2003 law which penalises religious conversion through coercion or allurement.
Gujarat Freedom of Religion (Amendment) Bill, 2021 sought to curtail "emerging trend in which women are lured to marriage for the purpose of religious conversion".
8) India has fallen 28 places in the WEF's Global Gender Gap Report 2021 and is now ranked 140 among 156 countries.
According to the report released by the WEF, India is now one of the worst performers in South Asia, trailing behind neighbours Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and Myanmar.
World Economic Forum :-
Headquarters - Cologny, Switzerland
Founder - Klaus Schwab
Founded - January 1971
9) 'In The Dream House: A Memoir' by Carmen Maria Machado won The Rathbones Folio Prize 2021. The prize is open to all genres – fiction, non-fiction, and poetry- for writers from around the world.
10) Girl Gang, a track by New Zealand singer Gin Wigmore, has been announced as the official song of the 2022 ICC Women's World Cup.
The tournament is set to be hosted in New Zealand from March 4 to April 3, 2022.
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