India

• West Bengal Assembly elections: 4 killed in CISF firing at a polling booth in Cooch Behar district
• Centre to observe ‘Tika Utsav’ on April 11-14 across the country; aim to vaccinate maximum eligible people
• World Homeopathy Day celebrated on April 10; the birth anniversary of Dr. Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843)
• World Homeopathy Day theme for India: “Homeopathy- Roadmap for Integrative Medicine”
• S. Swaminathan felicitated for work towards TB eradication by Chennai-based NGO REACH
• CSIR removes NEERI (National Environment Engineering and Research Institute), Nagpur head Rakesh Kumar as Director over corruption allegations

Economy & corporate

• NITI Aayog launches Online Dispute Resolution Handbook

World

• BASIC nations oppose European Union’s idea of ‘carbon border tax’ as part of its green push; call it trade barrier
• ICCR (Indian Council for Cultural Relations) launches ‘Little Guru’ app to promote Sanskrit learning, in the Indian embassy at Beijing
• La Soufrière volcano erupts on Caribbean island of St. Vincent
• Indonesia: 6.0 magnitude earthquake on Java Island kills seven
• Sri Lanka: Jaffna Mayor Viswalingam Manivannan arrested for ‘promoting LTTE ideology’; released on bail
• Iran unveils advanced nuclear centrifuges at Natanz uranium enrichment plant
• UAE names first female astronaut Noura al-Matroushi for its space programme
• China imposes $2.8 bn penalty on Jack Ma’s Alibaba Group in monopoly probe

Sports

• Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju inaugurates Khelo India State Centre of Excellence for Rowing at Water Sports Academy in Srinagar
• Women wrestlers Anshu Malik (57 kg), Sonam Malik (62 kg) qualify for Tokyo Olympics