April 2026 current affairs

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Appointments & Resignations

• Apple CEO:  John Ternus (replaced Tim Cook).

• NASSCOM Chairman:  Srikanth Bellamkonda.

• NITI Aayog Vice Chairman:  Ashok Lahiri (replaced Suman Bery).

• HDFC Life MD & CEO:  Vibha Padalkar.

• Intel MD (Asia Pacific & Japan):  Santosh Viswanathan.

• FICCI Secretary General:  Anand Swaroop.

• NDRF Director General:  Piyush Anand.

• Nepal’s Parliament Speaker:  Dhol Prasad Aariyal.

• Nepal’s youngest Prime Minister:  Belendra Shah (age 35).

• Bihar CM:  Nitish Kumar resigned; Samrat Chaudhary became new CM.

• BWF Athletes’ Commission Chair:  P.V. Sindhu.

• Open AI MD (Asia Pacific):  (Name not clearly specified).

Defence & Military (Exercises, Vessels, Systems)

• Exercise Cyclone - IV:  Joint special forces exercise between  India and Egypt  in Egypt.

• Exercise Dustlik - VII:  India-Uzbekistan army exercise held in  Uzbekistan .

• Exercise Pragati (Inaugural):  Multilateral military exercise hosted by Indian Army in  Meghalaya .

• INS Nirikshak:  Diving Support and Submarine Rescue Vessel (Mazagon Dock) visited  Colombo, Sri Lanka .

• Malvan:  2nd indigenous Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft (ASWSWC) built by  Cochin Shipyard .

• INS Shachi:  Lead ship of next-gen offshore patrol vessels, launched by  Goa Shipyard Ltd ; crest features  Ursa Major (Saptarishi)  constellation.

• INS Taragiri:  Stealth frigate under  Project 17A  (Mazagon Dock), commissioned at Visakhapatnam.

• Prajnan:  Indigenous, AI-enabled satellite imaging system by DRDO, handed to Ministry of Home Affairs.

• INS Sunayna:  Saryu-class offshore patrol vessel (Goa Shipyard) sent to  Male, Maldives .

• ALH MK3:  Four maritime role helicopters (Dhruv variant) by  HAL  handed to Indian Coast Guard.

• Atlas Drone Swarm System:  Developed by  China (CETC)