June 2020

One of the most archaic laws that punishes attempts to commit suicide, Section 309 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), contrary to popular perception that it has been repealed, continues to exist in the statute book and, as reports suggest, is often misused. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Anyone who survives an attempted suicide

June 21 is the longest day of the year in the North hemisphere, when people around the world is witness a celestial event known as the ‘Ring of Fire’ solar eclipse or an annular solar eclipse. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The eclipse occurs when the moon while orbiting the Earth, comes in between

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched an employment scheme Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyan for migrant workers on June 20, 2020. Those whose labour and skills were behind the rapid growth of cities will now boost development of villages with the help of this scheme. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The Abhiyaan was formally launched

The International Yoga Day is celebrated on June 21 every year. The proposal to observe Yoga Day was introduced by PM Modi in his address during the opening of the 69th Session of the General Assembly back in 2014. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The draft resolution establishing the International Day of Yoga was

Recently the Supreme Court held in a judgement that the choice of a voter should be free. It stated that the secrecy of ballot ensures free and fair elections. The judgment came on an appeal against the Allahabad High Court’s decision. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The decision sets aside the voting of a

Primatologists have observed that the Gee’s golden langur (Trachypithecus geei), endemic to the semi-evergreen and mixed-deciduous forests straddling India and Bhutan, induce stillbirth of babies killed inside the womb of females, besides practising infanticide. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points It is an endangered species of monkey, found only in Assam and parts of Bhutan.

A study commissioned by the Ministry of Rural Development has observed that the Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY) has not made any significant impact and that in the current format, it is not achieving the desired purpose. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The study, conducted as part of the Fifth Common Review Mission (CRM)

A study by the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) an autonomous institute of Department of Science and Technology which detected the presence of singly ionised fluorine for the first time in the atmospheres of hot Extreme Helium Stars makes a strong case that the main formation of these objects involves a merger of a carbon-oxygen