• The Indian Air Force(IAF) has successfully conducted a test-fire of the live firing of BrahMos supersonic cruise missile from a Su30- MKI fighter aircraft.

• The missile hit a decommissioned Indian Navy ship under close coordination with the Indian Navy.

• The BrahMos can be fired from submarines, ships, fighter jets and land.

• The Supreme Court of India has reconstituted the expert committee to check the compensatory afforestation and other mitigation measures for the Delhi-Dehradun Economic Corridor Expressway project.

• The committee was previously formed by the National Green Tribunal (NGT).

• The committee will be headed by CP Goyal, the Director-General of the Ministry of Environment and Forests, which was previously headed by Uttarakhand’s Chief Secretary, Sukhbir Singh Sandhu.

• The International Monetary Fund(IMF) has reduced the global growth for the calendar year 2022 to 3.6% from 4.4%.

• IMF released the World Economic Outlook report 2022.

• IMF slashed the rate due to commodity price volatility and disruption of supply chains caused by the war.

• IMF also cut its forecast for India’s FY23 GDP growth to 8.2% from 9%.

• The apex body for India’s pulses trade and industry, India Pulses and Grains Association (IPGA) has appointed Bimal Kothari as the new Chairman with immediate effect.

• He replaced Jitu Bheda who stepped down as the current chairman.

• He is the third chairman of the association after Pravin Dongre and Jitu Bheda.

• Indian-American Navy veteran Shanti Sethi has been appointed as USA Vice President Kamala Harris's Defence Adviser.

• Shanti Sethi is the first Indian-American commander of a major US Navy combat ship.

• Shanti Sethi commanded the guided-missile destroyer, USS Decatur, from December 2010 to May 2012.

• India has signed an MoU with Finland to establish an Indo-Finnish Virtual Network Centre on Quantum Computing.

• Aim to stimulate innovative research and development projects, demonstrate high industrial relevance, and commercial potential

• India has identified three premier institutes IIT Madras, IISER Pune, and C-DAC Pune for Virtual Network Centre on Quantum Computing.

• Digit Insurance has appointed Jasleen Kohli as the company's new managing director (MD) and chief executive officer (CEO) with effect from April 20, 2022.

• She succeeds Vijay Kumar who retired from the company on April 19, 2022.

• She served as chief distribution officer (CDO) at Digit, where she was responsible for all of the company's sales and distribution channels.

• The nation's first portable solar rooftop system has been inaugurated at Swaminarayan Akshardham temple complex in Gandhinagar, Gujarat.

• The 10 Photovoltaic Port has been manufactured by Servotech Power Systems Ltd (New Delhi).

• It is designed by the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ).

• Export of India's non-basmati rice has witnessed tremendous growth of 109% from USD 2925 million in FY 2013-14 to USD 6115 million in FY 2021-22.

• Export of non-basmati rice has registered a growth of 27% in 2021-22.

• West African country, Benin is one of the major importers of non-basmati rice from India.

• Union Defence Secretary Ajay Kumar has inaugurated the eighth edition of National Level Pollution Response Exercise NATPOLREX being conducted by the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) off Mormugao harbour in Goa.

• The objective of NATPOLREX-VIII is to enhance the preparedness and response capability of all the stakeholders in combating marine spills.