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Navy reviewed operational situation at commanders’ conference

The Indian Navy has effectively carried out Mission Based Deployments (MBD) to protect maritime interests by deploying naval ships and aircraft at major and sensitive locations. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The geo-strategic importance of the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) has seen a gradual increase in the recent past. Indian Navy regularly deploys ships […]

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National Strategy for Financial Education 2020-2025

The Reserve Bank of India has released a national strategy for financial education to be implemented in the period of 2020-2025. The multi-stakeholder led approach is aimed at creating a financially aware and empowered India. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points It has been prepared by the National Centre for Financial Education (NCFE) in consultation

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Private firms employ more women in R&D

According to data in the Science and Technology Indicators (STI), 2018, a periodic compendium of the state of scientific research in India, the private sector research companies of India appear to employ a larger proportion of women in core research and development activities than government-funded major scientific agencies do. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points

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Turkey to convert another former church to mosque

Turkish President ordered another ancient Orthodox church that became a mosque and then a popular Istanbul museum to be turned back into a place of Muslim worship. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The decision to transform the Kariye Museum into a mosque came just a month after a similarly controversial conversion for the UNESCO

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Thumbimahotsavam 2020

World Wide Fund-India State unit has joined hands with the Society for Odonate Studies (SOS) and Thumbipuranam for the first-ever State Dragonfly Festival in Kerala, christened Thumbimahotsavam 2020. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points A dragonfly is an insect belonging to the order Odonata. Adult dragonflies are characterized by large, multifaceted eyes, two pairs of

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Nuakhai Juhar 2020

Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi has greeted the people on the auspicious occasion of Nuakhai Juhar. It an important social festival of Western Odisha and adjoining areas of Simdega in Jharkhand. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points It is an agricultural festival which is observed to welcome the new rice of the season. The

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Telangana Srisailam power plant fire

Nine people killed in a massive fire swept through the Srisailam hydroelectric plant on the Telangana-Andhra Pradesh border in the early hours on 21 August. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The Srisailam Dam is constructed across the Krishna River in Kurnool district, Andhra Pradesh near Srisailam temple town. It is the 2nd largest capacity

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Nithyananda Plans to Set up Hindu Parliament of Kailaasa

Nithyananda is planning to set up a Hindu parliament in the next six months. Nithyananda launched the ‘Reserve Bank of Kailasa’ and presented its official currency, called ‘Kailashian dollars’. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points An announcement on Kailasa’s website states that the launch marked a “milestone and historical moment for the SHRIKAILASA Nation, the

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National movement to empower women

The Vice President Venkaiah Naidu has called for a national movement for women’s empowerment and to ensure that no girl child is left out of school. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The report mentioned that there has not been any change in the sex ratio at birth in India from 2001-2017–the number of girl

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National Food Security Act 2013

The Department of Food and Public Distribution under Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution has sent letters to States Governments/UTs to include all eligible disabled persons under the National Food Security Act 2013. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Section 38 of the Act mandates that the Central Government may from time to

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