• Introduced in Indian Institute of Technology Madras, OmegaBall was a special 3 team variant of football, which was firstly held in India and contributed to the new dimension of sports innovation.
• A research done by Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences recognised India as a major location of origin and early development of Jamun plant genus.
• The ancient rock carvings that are of historical and cultural significance will be conserved by development of the first dedicated Petroglyph Conservation Park in Sindhu Ghat in Ladakh.

Daily Current Affairs One Liners 21 April 2026.

• Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur has unveiled the creation of Vikram Sodhi Centre of Excellence, a project that will see the development of Artificial Intelligence applications in geological and mining systems with a special fund.

• An example that demonstrates that water management practices can be adopted in the railway business in a sustainable manner is the Kankaria Coaching Depot in Ahmedabad, which has become water-neutral.

One-liners Daily Current Affairs 19 and 20 April 2026.

• The third phase of the VAANI scheme has been implemented by the All India Council of Technical Education in order to facilitate the use of Indian languages in technical education and research, which has eased the learning process.
• The 2026 Bill on the Constitution (131 st Amendment) Bill, which sought to provide women with 33 per cent reservation in Parliament and in State Assemblies, was defeated in the Lok Sabha by failing to get the required two-thirds majority.

• The government of Chattisgarh has passed a resolution under Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai to constitute a high level committee to prepare a framework to adopt Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in the state.
• The first high level conference of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) will be chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to enhance coordination and internal security mechanisms.

• In March 2026, the unemployment rate in India hit five months later with an all-time high of 5.1% which was released by the National Statistics Office as part of the Periodic Labour Force Survey.
• The Karnataka High Court instructed the state government to establish a policy on menstrual leaves in both organised and unorganised sectors.