Current Affairs 2021: Today’s News Headlines: April 10, 2021

April 10, 2021

Here are Today’s News Headlines by GK Today for April 10, 2021:

PM Modi holds virtual summit with PM of Netherlands Mark Rutte
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh holds talks with Defence Minister Kazakhstan Lieutenant General Nurlan Yermekbayev in New Delhi
US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry calls on PM Modi in New Delhi
US Navy conducts exercise in India’s Exclusive Economic Zone without prior consent; 130 nautical miles west of the Lakshadweep Islands
Deposit compensation for 2 Indian fishermen killed off Kerala coast by Italian marines in Feb 2012, SC tells Centre
NanoSniffer, world’s first microsensor-based explosive trace detector, launched; developed by NanoSniff Technologies, an IIT Bombay incubated startup

India’s consumption of petroleum products contracts 9.1% in 2020-21; first since 1998-99
Net direct tax mop up exceeds revised estimates by 5% at Rs 9.45 lakh crore in 2020-21
India’s foreign exchange reserves decline by $2.415 billion to $576.869 billion in the week ended April 2
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman participates in 103rd meeting Development Committee Meeting of World Bank-IMF

Covid-19: IMF policy panel endorses $650 billion increase in resources to support for vulnerable countries
1 NASA astronaut, 2 Russian cosmonauts arrive at International Space Station on Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft that had taken off from Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan
UK’s Prince Philip, husband of Queen Elizabeth II, dies at age of 99