November 2020

Prakash Javadeker launched India Climate Change Knowledge Portal

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Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Prakash Javadekar launched the India Climate Change Knowledge Portal. The portal will have all the major steps the Government is taking at both national and international levels to address the climate change issues. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The portal will have all the major steps the […]

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India’s push for gender equity in science

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One of the focuses of the new Science, Technology and Innovation Policy, currently being drafted by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), to be to increase the participation of women in science. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points To this end, the DST will incorporate a system of grading institutes depending on the enrolment

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Brereton War Crimes Report

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The Australian army moved to discharge 13 soldiers in connection with a recent report that alleged that a number of Afghani civilians and prisoners were unlawfully killed. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The Inspector-General of the Australian Defence Force Afghanistan Inquiry Report is commonly known as the Brereton Report. It is a report into

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What is a climate emergency?

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New Zealand’s government will decide next week if a climate emergency should be declared in the country or not. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points In 2019, the Oxford dictionaries declared “climate emergency” to be the word of the year, a word that reflects “the ethos, mood, or preoccupations of the passing year, and have

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The accused in Hathras rape case to undergo brain fingerprinting

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A team of CBI officers probing the alleged rape and murder of a 19-year-old Dalit girl in Hathras, Uttar Pradesh, arrived at the Gandhinagar-based Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) with the four accused. A brain electrical oscillation signature profiling (BEOSP) test will be conducted on all four. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Brain Electrical Oscillation

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Blue tide spotted at Mumbai beaches

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The visitors to beaches in Maharashtra have witnessed the spectacle of a fluorescent bluish glow when the waves hit the shoreline. Bioluminescence or light-emitting tide made an appearance on Juhu beach in Mumbai and Devgad, Velas and Murud along the state’s coastline. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The phenomenon is called ‘blue tide’, and

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GITA is a catalyst for nurturing innovation & industrial R&D

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Union Minister of Science & Technology underlined how Global Innovation and Technology Alliance (GITA) served as a catalyst for nurturing innovation and industrial R&D. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points GITA is a “not–for–profit” Section-8 Public Private Partnership (PPP) company. It is promoted jointly by the Technology Development Board (TDB), Department of Science & Technology

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Inter Modal Station at Ajni in resonance with Environmental Impact Assessment

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Speculation is around the corner that about 7,000 trees are proposed to be felled for the proposed InterModal Station Project (IMS) at Ajani in Nagpur. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Regional office of National Highway Authority of India clarified that the IMS project is in resonance with Environment Impact Assessment. As per Detailed Project

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President’s powers to pardon in US

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US President Donald Trump exercised his powers under the Constitution to pardon Michael Flynn, his former National Security Advisor, who had twice pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The President of the US has the constitutional right to pardon or commute sentences related to federal crimes. The US

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Permitting industrial houses to own banks

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An Internal Working Group (IWG) of the RBI has recently made a far-reaching recommendation. According to the report, the main benefit is that industry-owned banks would increase the supply of credit, which is low and growing slowly. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The IWG acknowledges that it ignored the experts the group had consulted.

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