According to a top DRDO scientist’s report, ATAGS howitzer is the best gun in the world with the capability to strike targets at the longest range of 48 kilometers. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The indigenous gun can meet Indian Army’s full requirement of 1800 artillery guns systems and there was no need for […]
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The MP government has issued an order for the appointment of committees led by mothers to ensure better monitoring of services delivered at Anganwadi or day-care centres across the State. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points These Committees will comprise 10 mothers at each anganwadi representing the concerns of different sets of beneficiaries under the
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Iran has begun construction on a site at its underground nuclear facility at Fordo amid tensions with the U.S. over its atomic program. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant (FFEP) is an Iranian underground uranium enrichment facility located 20 miles northeast of the Iranian city of Qom, near Fordow village. It
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The Justice Jain committee was constituted by the Supreme Court in September 2018. Its work is to unravel the rogue officials responsible for the infamous ISRO “frame-up” case of 1994, which destroyed the life and reputation of Nambi Narayanan, one of the country’s prominent space scientists. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The Justice Jain
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The Lancet Citizens’ Commission on Reimagining India’s Health System, a cross-sector initiative to develop a citizens’ roadmap to achieving universal health coverage (UHC) in India over a period of ten years, was launched online. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points It was a first-of-its-kind participatory, countrywide initiative, in collaboration with world’s leading health journal The
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Tropical montane grasslands (TMG) in the Shola Sky Islands of the Western Ghats have suffered big reductions due to invasions by exotic trees such as acacias, pines and eucalyptus, shrinking the range sizes of endemic species, including plants, birds, amphibians and mammals. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points TMG are high elevation grasslands forming only
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The Human Freedom Index presents the state of human freedom in the world based on a broad measure that encompasses personal, civil, and economic freedom in which placed India at the 111th spot out of 162 countries. India ranked 94 on the index in 2019. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points India’s scored 6.30 out
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Jupiter and Saturn will align in the night sky on 21 December 2020 in an event astronomers call the “great conjunction” — also referred to as the “Christmas Star” — marking the planets’ closest encounter in nearly 400 years. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points On the day almost all the viewers across the world
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a first-of-its-kind intentional genomic alteration (IGA) in a line of domestic pigs referred to as GalSafe pigs. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Genetically modified (GM) pigs have been approved for food and medical use in the US, drawing mixed reactions. The pigs are only the second
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Reliance Industries Ltd and BP (British Petroleum) have announced the start of gas production from the R cluster, the deepest off-shore gas field in Asia. The field is the first of three deep water gas projects in the KGD6 block jointly developed by RIL and BP to come on stream. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020
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