News Headlines : 11th April 2022

  • National Safe Motherhood Day is being observed today. The objective of the day is to create awareness on proper health care and maternity facilities to pregnant and lactating women.
  • Gujarat, Kerala and Punjab have emerged as the top three performers states in the NITI Aayog’s State Energy and Climate Index (SECI).
  • Prime Minister Narendra Modi to hold virtual meeting with US President Joe Biden tonight; To review Bilateral ties and global issues of mutual interest.
  • Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said that India and US are natural partners as they are two of the biggest democracies of the world.
  • India-US two plus two Ministerial Dialogue to take place in Washington; Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh and External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar to lead Indian delegation.
  • Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be honoured with the first ever Lata Deenanath Mangeshkar Award, instituted in the memory of the veteran singer who passed away in February this year.
  • First flight of Made in India HAL Dornier Do-228 will take off from Dibrugarh in Assam to Pasighat in Arunachal Pradesh tomorrow.
  • India successfully flight-tests Anti-Tank Guided Missile HELINA.
  • A two-day National Conference on Cooperation Policy is being organized in New Delhi from tomorrow. The conference will be inaugurated by the Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah.
  • Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah to inaugurate ‘Amrit Samagam’, a two-day conference in New Delhi tomorrow.
  • A group of scientists from Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, IICT, Hyderabad have designed a hybrid material which can absorb greenhouse gas methane and convert it to clean hydrogen.
  • Women and Child Development Minister Smriti  Irani to chair Zonal Conference of States and Union Territories and stakeholders of Western region in Mumbai tomorrow.
  • First flight of Made in India HAL Dornier Do-228 to take off from Dibrugarh in Assam to Pasighat in Arunachal Pradesh tomorrow.
  • Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, Secretary, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, Apurva Chandra convened a meeting in Srinagar today regarding preparedness and wide media publicity to be provided to the forthcoming 43-day Shri Amarnathji Yatra scheduled to commence from 30th of June this year.
  • Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has said that Indian democracy is people centric and it has set an example to the world how democratic system is working successfully in this vast and diverse country.
  • Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz President Shehbaz Sharif elected as country’s 23rd Prime Minister after Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf stages walkout from National Assembly.
  • In Sri Lanka, former President Maithripala Sirisena calls for formation of an interim government with a view to resolving ongoing economic crisis.