Today’s Current Affairs Headline- 6 April 2022

National News

• Parliament passed the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (Amendment) Bill, 2022 to merge the three municipal corporations in Delhi by voice vote.
• Rajya Sabha passes bill to amend chartered accountancy, cost accountancy, company secretary laws
• The Constitution (Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes) Order (Second Amendment) Bill, 2022 was passed in Lok Sabha.
• More than 200 voting took place in Rajya Sabha before passing the CA bill.
• Piyush Goyal visits the University of Melbourne as part of a 3-day Australia tour.
• Haryana has jurisdiction over Chandigarh with a separate HC for the state: CM Manohar Lal Khattar
• Environment Minister launches ‘Prakriti’ green initiative for effective plastic waste management.
• India is deeply concerned at the deteriorating situation and reiterates its call for an immediate end to violence and an end to hostilities.

International News

• Ukraine’s President Zelensky called for Russia’s expulsion from the UN Security Council, demanding accountability for Russian crimes in the wake of the Russo-Ukraine War.
• Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has issued a gazette notification revoking the state of emergency in Sri Lanka from the midnight of 5 April.
• King Willem Alexander of the Netherlands hosted a state banquet in honor of President Ram Nath Kovind at the Royal Palace
• Russian President Vladimir Putin says Russia will “monitor” food exports to “hostile” countries.
• Twitter took steps to limit access to Russian government accounts.
• Russia supplied 8,500 tons of humanitarian cargo to Ukraine, Russian media syss.
• Peru’s President Castillo announced the end of the Lima curfew aimed at stopping the protests.
• US to ban ‘all new investment’ in Russia
• US, UK, Australia will cooperate on hypersonic weapons.
• NASA delayed the final test of its giant Moon rocket to allow the launch of a SpaceX rocket later this week.
• Mexico seeks ‘miracle’ to save near-extinct vaquita porpoise.