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April 23 , 2021 1238 days 881 0
  • Bengaluru-based e-commerce company and Walmart-backed Flipkart announced its plan to acquire Cleartrip for $40 million.
  • Soliha Shabir from Srinagar added her name in "India's World Records".
    • She is the youngest and first author in Jammu and Kashmir "who has recreated the life of Habba Khatoons poetry (Zoon Book)."
  • The UK Government approves extradition of fugitive economic offender Nirav Modi.
    • He has been accused of fraud worth over Rs 14000 crores in the Punjab National Bank (PNB), which is India's biggest scam so far.
  • A book titled ‘Believe – What Life and Cricket Taught Me’, Suresh Raina’s autobiography, is set to be released.
    • The book is co-authored by Raina and the sports author Bharat Sundaresan.
  • Mirabai Chanu set a new World Record in the women’s 49kg at Asian Weightlifting Championships in Tashkent.
    • She won the bronze medal at the event.
  • The United States space agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has picked Elon Musk’s SpaceX for its Artemis programme.
    • It is to develop the first commercial lander and take the next two US astronauts to the moon by 2024.

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