26th April 2024 Daily Current Affairs 

26th April 2024 Daily Current Affairs

National & International Appointments

1. Indonesia commission formally declares Prabowo next President

• Indonesia’s election commission formally declared Prabowo Subianto (72-years) as the next president of the world’s third-largest democracy, after the country’s constitutional court shot down challenges to his first-round majority victory.
• Subianto, who is currently defence minister, will succeed Joko Widodo in October.
• He noted that the elected pair secured a total of 96,214,691 votes, or 58.59 percent of the total national valid votes.

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International Affairs

2. Ministerial Round Table Conference at World Energy Congress 2024

• A Ministerial Round Table Conference was held at the ongoing 26th edition of World Energy Congress in Rotterdam, Netherlands
• The Round Table Conference discussed how the COP28 UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai was a game changer
• The Ministerial Round Table also discussed energy innovation and collaboration, and implications in managing the evolving energy trilemma trade-offs
• During the conference, the Union Power Secretary highlighted India’s pivotal role in COP28.

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National Affairs

3. India Fourth Largest Arms Spender in World in 2023: SIPRI

• According to a Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) report, India was the fourth largest military spender in the world in 2023 after the United States, China and Russia.
• The Indian expenditure on military 2023 was $83.6 billion.
• In the interim Union Budget of 2024-25 the government of India allocated Rs 6.21 lakh crore for defence spending.
• The 2024-25 allocation for defence accounts for 1.89% of India’s GDP.

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