Correct Answer :   Aman Sehrawat

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Aman Sehrawat clinched India’s first gold medal at the Asian Wrestling Championships 2023 in Astana, Kazakhstan.

* Sehrawat topped the podium in men’s 57 kg freestyle category on the penultimate day of the competition.

* He defeated Kyrgyzstan's Almaz Smanbekov 9-4 to win the gold medal.

* Aman Sehrawat’s victory in Astana ensured the men’s freestyle 57kg gold medal stayed with India for the fourth year running.

* This was Aman Sehrawat’s second podium of the year. Last year, Sehrawat was the first Indian wrestler to win gold at the Under-23 world championships in Spain.

* With two freestyle medals India’s tally rose to 13 in the competition. The Greco-Roman wrestlers won four medals while the women’s wrestlers bagged seven..

Source : AIR

Correct Answer :   Shakib Al Hassan

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Bangladesh’s Shakib Al Hasan scooped the ICC Men’s Player of the Month (March 2023) while Rwanda’s Henriette Ishimwe bagged the ICC Women’s Player of the Month (March 2023) as the International Cricket Council (ICC) on Thursday (13th April 2023) announced the winners of the awards for March 2023.

* Both all-rounders edged out their fellow contenders following a vote conducted among a specialist panel — comprising ICC Hall of Famers, former international players, and media representatives — and global cricket fans registered at icc-cricket.com, who had been voting since the nominees were announced last week.

* In claiming the ICC Men’s Player of the Month for March, Shakib wins his second Player of the Month crown after first winning in July 2021.

* He triumphs following a string of fine displays with bat and ball, cementing his position at the summit of the ICC Men’s T20I Player Rankings for all-rounders. As well as an impressive series win over Ireland, Shakib was instrumental in securing a historic 3-0 T20I series victory over touring world champions England..

Source : News18

Correct Answer :   07

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Indian women wrestlers have bagged seven medals – two silver and five bronze – in Asian Wrestling Championship 2023 at Astana in Kazakhstan and finished 3rd in the Women’s Teams Ranking.

* In the last edition, India won 5 medals and settled at the 4th spot.

* Antim Panghal won silver in the 53-kg category. Nisha Dahiya also claimed silver in the 68-kg category.

* Anshu Malik, Sonam Malik, Manisha, and Reetika bagged bronze medals..

Source : News On Air

Correct Answer :   HDFC Bank

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HDFC Bank on Wednesday (12th April 2023) announced that it has signed a "Master Inter Bank Credit Agreement" with Export Import Bank of Korea for a USD 300 million line of credit.

* The pact was signed by the two entities at GIFT City in Gujarat's capital Gandhinagar on Wednesday (12th April 2023), said a release by the HDFC Bank.

* This agreement will help HDFC Bank raise foreign currency funds which it would extend to Korea-related businesses, said the release.

* This line of credit would be utilised by HDFC Bank towards funding requirements of companies having equity participation by Korean companies as well as companies having business relationship with Korean companies.

* It will also be utilised towards funding requirements of consumers for the purchase of cars manufactured by Korea related companies, said the release.

* The pact is likely to promote and increase the HDFC Bank's business with Korean entities and products. The first drawdown under the programme would happen by May, said the release.

* The signing ceremony was attended by the Export Import Bank of Korea's team led by Choun-Jae Lee, Director General, Head of Interbank Finance Department. HDFC Bank was represented by Arup Rakshit and Anand Iyer, Head, GIFT City IBU, among others.

* The Export-Import Bank of Korea (Korea Eximbank) is an official export credit agency of South Korea having a balance sheet size of close to USD 100 billion, which provides export-import and overseas investment credit to support Korean enterprises conducting business overseas...

Source : Economic Times

Correct Answer :   Karnataka Bank

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Private sector lender Karnataka Bank has been authorised to collect direct and indirect taxes on behalf of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) and the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC), the bank said in a regulatory filing on Wednesday (12th April 2023).

* This authorisation is provided by the Reserve Bank of India.

* The RBI gave this authorisation on the recommendation from the Controller General of Accounts (CGA), Ministry of Finance, the filing said.

* The statement further said that customers are already enjoying seamless online payments for custom duty by selecting Karnataka Bank in the Indian Customs Electronic Gateway 'ICEGATE' portal of CBIC.

* According to the filing, the (ICEGA TE) portal of CBIC provides e-filing services to the trade, cargo carriers and other trading partners electronically..

Source : Economic Times

Correct Answer :   Canara Bank

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Canara Bank and NPCI Bharat BillPay Ltd (NBBL) have announced Wednesday (12th April 2023) the launch of cross-border inward bill payment services for Indians based in Oman.

* NRIs can now leverage the robust platform offered by the Bharat Bill Payment System (BBPS) to make bill payments on behalf of their families through the Musandam Exchange.

* This initiative signifies a milestone for Canara Bank as the first public sector bank in India to offer inbound cross-border bill payments through BBPS, it added. With the development, it said, Indians living in Oman will now be able to make quick, simple and secure payments of bills for services back home.

* Musandam Exchange, managed by Canara Bank, is also the first exchange house in Oman to go live on cross-border inbound bill payments, the statement said. The cross-border bill payment service is already live in Kuwait, facilitating inbound remittances across utilities like electricity, water, mobile phone, gas, credit card bills, and more.

Source : Outlook India

Correct Answer :   South Korea

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South Korea plans to conduct its first launch of a commercial-grade satellite aboard a domestically built rocket next month (May 2023) as part of its space development program, officials said Tuesday (11th April 2023).

* South Korea’s officials say its homegrown Nuri space launch vehicle has no military purposes. But some experts say the development of such rockets would eventually help the country acquire technologies needed to build bigger missiles and launch reconnaissance satellites amid animosities with rival North Korea.

* In June 2022, South Korea conducted its first satellite launch using the Nuri rocket.

* That launch involved what South Korean officials called a “performance verification” satellite mainly designed to examine the capacity of the rocket while next month’s event is meant to put a commercial-grade satellite into orbit for the first time.

* The Science Ministry said the rocket will blast off from the country’s space launch center on a southern island on May 24, 2023. A ministry statement said it had set a backup launch date from May 25-31, in case of possible schedule changes due to weather.

* The rocket will carry one main satellite called “Next Generation Small Satellite 2” and seven other smaller cube-shaped satellites. The main satellite is tasked with verifying imaging radar technology and observing cosmic radiation in near-Earth orbit, the statement said.

* Authorities have completed the assembly of the rocket’s first and second stages and are conducting final environmental tests of the eight satellites that are to be placed on the rocket’s third stage.

* 2022 launch was the Nuri rocket’s second liftoff. In its first launch in 2021, the rocket’s dummy payload reached the desired altitude but failed to enter orbit. After next month’s launch, South Korea plans three more Nuri rocket launches..

Source : CNBC

Correct Answer :   ICICI Bank

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The ICICI Bank on Tuesday (11th April 2023) announced that it has introduced an EMI facility for UPI payments made by scanning a QR code.

* The private sector lender said that customers, who are eligible for the PayLater facility, can avail of the EMI facility using the Bank’s ‘buy now, pay later’ option.

* The bank in a press release stated, “This first-of-its-kind facility enhances affordability of lakhs of the Bank’s customers as they can now instantly buy products or services just by scanning the required merchant QR code at a store and making payments in EMIs.”

* The EMI facility for UPI payments can be availed across a host of categories such as electronics, groceries, fashion apparel, travel, and hotel bookings, the private bank said.

* Through this facility, ICICI Bank customers can pay transaction amounts above Rs 10,000 in easy installments in three, six, or nine months. The bank stated that the new facility will be extended shortly for online shopping as well..

Source : Indian Express

Correct Answer :   Asian Development Bank

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Multilateral funding agency Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Monday (10th April 2023) said it proposes to subscribe non-convertible debentures worth Rs 150 crore of Tata Power Delhi Distribution Ltd (TPDDL).

* To enhance Delhi’s power distribution through grid enhancements. Besides, Asian Development Bank (ADB) agreed to provide $2 million grant to partially finance the purchase and integration of a pilot battery energy storage system (BESS), a statement by Manila-based funding institution said.

* The senior secured financing will be used to commission a new 66/11-kilovolt grid, augment and expand transformers, substations, feeder lines, and switching stations, install smart meters, and replace obsolete electrical equipment and meters, it said.

* The 10-megawatt-hour (MWh) BESS is South Asia’s first grid-scaled energy storage project at the distribution transformer level.

* It will enable electricity to be stored and delivered on demand, reducing grid instability, and providing the flexibility to integrate intermittent solar and wind energy resources, it said. The grant to finance the BESS is provided by Goldman Sachs and Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Climate Innovation and Development Fund (CIDF) and administered by ADB, it added...

Source : Outlook India

Correct Answer :   Nisha Dahiya

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India's Nisha Dahiya won silver at the women's 68kg category at the Asian wrestling championships 2023 in Astana, Kazakhstan on 11th April 2023.

* This is the biggest-ever medal of her career in the women's 68kg category.

* Nisha, on a fine injury comeback, reached the final but fell to Japan’s Ami Ishii 10-0 and finished as a runner-up. Nisha had defeated China's Feng Zhou 7-6 in the semi-finals.
 
* Another Indian wrestler, Priya Malik clinched a bronze in 76 kg category. She defeated Japan's Mizuki Nagashima in the repechage round.

* Overall, India have won six medals so far..

Source : AIR