Today’s Current Affairs News Headline- 22 April 2022

National News Headlines

• Prime Minister Modi received the Prime Minister of UK Boris Johnson at Rashtrapati Bhavan today. The Prime Minister of Britain is in India on a two-day visit.
• Guwahati Municipal Elections 2022: Voting begins for 57 out of 60 wards under GMC. The candidates for three wards have already been elected unopposed.
• The Delhi government has made the COVID-19 precautionary dose free for the beneficiaries in the age group of 18 to 59 years.
• The government has now increased the risk and hardship allowance of the military personnel to be at par with the CAPFs.
• A Hindu temple-like structure was found during the renovation of a mosque near Mangaluru.
• Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla arrived in Cambodia with an Indian parliamentary delegation, which included MPs and others.
• Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman met IMF Deputy Managing Director Gita Gopinath on the sidelines of IMF-SB Spring Meeting 2022 in Washington DC.
• Subject matter expert panel recommends Corbevax COVID-19 vaccines for children aged 5-11.
• Air courier service for IB, Central Armed Police Forces, NDRF is resuming from 23rd April, 2022.
• NITI Aayog, UNICEF India signed Statement of Intent on SDGs with focus on children.

International News Headlines

• Dozens have been killed and injured in four explosions in Afghanistan.
• Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan praised India’s foreign policy on importing oil from Russia.
• US President Joe Biden announced a new program to allow Ukrainians from Europe to seek asylum in the United States directly.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that Ukraine needs $7 billion a month to cover the economic losses.
• Elon Musk announced that he has secured USD 46.5 billion to finance the Twitter buyout bid.
• The World Health Organization strongly recommends Pfizer’s COVID-19 pill for at-risk patients.
• The United States hopes that the recent talks between the US Secretary of Defense and the Chinese Defense Minister will lead to further negotiations in the future.
• Biden official says US lawmaker Ilhan Omar’s informal, personal visit to Pakistan does not represent US government policy.

Sports News Headlines

• Mumbai Indians has become the only team to lose the first 7 matches in the IPL season.
• Mumbai Indians captain Rohit Sharma now has the most number of ducks in the history of the Indian Premier League.
• Sarita Mor, Sushma Shokeen won bronze medals for India in Asian Wrestling Championships.