December 2020

PM condoles demise of Shri FC Kohli

PM condoles demise of Shri FC Kohli

The Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has expressed deep grief over the demise of Shri FC Kohli. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Faqir Chand Kohli (1924 – 2020) was an Indian industrialist. He was the founder and the first CEO of Tata Consultancy Services, India’s largest software services company. He had been a president […]

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Malayan Giant Squirrel

Malayan Giant Squirrel

Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), in a first-of-its-kind study, has projected that numbers of the Malayan Giant Squirrel could decline by 90% in India by 2050, and it could be extinct by then if urgent steps are not taken. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The Malayan Giant Squirrel, one of the world’s largest squirrel

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UN commission reclassifies cannabis, no longer considered risky narcotic

UN commission reclassifies cannabis, no longer considered risky narcotic

In reviewing a series of World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations on marijuana and its derivatives, the CND zeroed-in on the decision to remove cannabis from Schedule IV of the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs — where it was listed alongside deadly, addictive opioids, including heroin. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points In reviewing a series of

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Scientists suggest a new indicator for measuring its health impact

Scientists suggest a new indicator for measuring its health impact

Scientists from the world’s three leading research institutions took part in this extensive research and suggested that oxidative potential of air particles should also be taken into account in future air-quality regulation measures to reduce the adverse health impact of inhaling poor quality air by the people. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Exposure to

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Why the collapse of the Arecibo telescope is a loss for astronomy

Why the collapse of the Arecibo telescope is a loss for astronomy

Puerto Rico’s massive Arecibo telescope, famous for its stellar contributions to astronomy, collapsed, leaving many among the scientific community in shock and anguish. The collapse was devastating also for many Puerto Ricans, for whom the observatory was culturally significant. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The second-largest single-dish radio telescope in the world, Arecibo was

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British Indian author Anita Anand’s Jallianwala Bagh story wins history prize

British Indian author Anita Anand’s Jallianwala Bagh story wins history prize

British Indian journalist and author Anita Anand’s book that tells the story of a young man caught up in the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar has won a prestigious history-literary prize in the UK. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points ‘The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge and the Raj’ beat six

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