November 2020

Yashvardhan Kumar Sinha appointed new Chief Information Commissioner

Yashvardhan Kumar Sinha appointed new Chief Information Commissioner

Yashvardhan Kumar Sinha was appointed as the Chief Information Commissioner (CIC). Before the appointment, he has been serving as an Information Commissioner (IC) in the Central Information Commission since January 1, 2019. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The RTI Act 2005 provides for the constitution of a Central Information Commission and State Information Commissions […]

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Protests Abound as Uttarakhand Prepares to Slash 10,000 Trees

Protests Abound as Uttarakhand Prepares to Slash 10,000 Trees

As 28-year-old filmmaker, Varchasva Dhunta, steered his camera through a vast crowd cheering “Jungle jyaada jaroori hai” (forest is more important), several demonstrators hugged the Thano forest trees along Dehradun’s Jolly Grant Airport Road, enacting the famous “Chipko Aandolan.” Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Many even tied the Raksha Sutra – a sacred thread

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CSIR-SERC, Chennai Developed Indigenous Emergency Retrieval System (ERS) for Power Lines

CSIR-SERC, Chennai Developed Indigenous Emergency Retrieval System (ERS) for Power Lines

Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) constituent laboratory Structural Engineering Research Centre (SERC) based in Chennai has developed an indigenous technology, Emergency Retrieval System (ERS), for quick retrieval of power transmission in the event of failure of transmission line towers. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points  CSIR-SERC has signed an agreement for licensing of

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8th BRICS STI Ministerial Meeting

8th BRICS STI Ministerial Meeting

The Science, Technology and Innovation Ministers of the BRICS grouping (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) met on November 13 through a virtual platform to discuss S & T cooperation among the member countries. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points  The Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Russia organized the meeting, Russian Federation

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Khelo India Youth Games 2020 in Assam

Sports Ministry announced new incentive structure to fund 500 private academies

The Sports Ministry has introduced a incentivisation structure to extend monetary support to 500 private academies, through the Khelo India Scheme over the next four years starting FY 2020-21. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points  In this model, private academies shall be graded into different categories based on quality achievement of players trained by the

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Bhagwan Birsa Munda Jayanti

Bhagwan Birsa Munda Jayanti

The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has paid tributes to Bhagwan Birsa Munda on his Jayanti. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points  Birsa Munda was an Indian tribal freedom fighter, and folk hero who belonged to the Munda tribe. He spearheaded a tribal religious millenarian movement that arose in the Bengal Presidency (now Jharkhand) in

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Jharkhand Statehood Day

Jharkhand Statehood Day

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has greeted the people of Jharkhand on their Statehood Day. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points  Jharkhand was carved out of 18 districts of Bihar in the year 2000 on November 15. Later, six more districts were carved out by reorganizing the existing districts. The 23rd and 24th districts, Khunti and

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