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Eight Asiatic lions test positive for coronavirus in Hyderabad zoo

Eight Asiatic lions at Hyderabad’s Nehru Zoological Park have tested positive for the deadly coronavirus, perhaps the first known case of the human infecting the felines and making them sick in India. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 LaCONES or Laboratory for the Conservation of Endangered Species, is a Council of Scientific and Industrial Research lab […]

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19 companies apply under PLI scheme for IT hardware

19 companies apply under the PLI scheme for IT hardware

Apple’s contract manufacturers Foxconn and Wistron, computer firm Dell and domestic firms Dixon and Lava are among the 19 companies that have applied for investments under the production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme for IT hardware manufacturing. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Production Linked Incentive Scheme (PLI) for IT Hardware was notified on 03.03.2021. The PLI Scheme

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CSIR- CCMB develops possibly 1st specific drug for COVID-19 treatment

The CSIR- Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology has developed, possibly the first specific drug for COVID-19 treatment, which contains therapeutic antibodies. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The Drug Controller General of India (DGCI) has given its approval for human trials, Phase-I and Phase-II for the VINCOV-19 and expected to be tried next week in

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Lifting food grains from FCI for free distribution to poor under PMGKAY

The government recently said that 28 States and Union Territories have started lifting food grains from Food Corporation of India depots for free distribution of food grains to the poor under Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The Department of Food & Public Distribution has started implementation of Pradhan Mantri

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Yoga to mitigate the hardships of the pandemic

The Ministry of Ayush and the Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports (MYAS) have tapped into the spirit of IDY to encourage the public to pursue Yoga as a daily routine for good health and well-being. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The two Ministries came together to organise a virtual event on 2nd May 2021

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RBI releases ₹50000 crore fund support to healthcare liquidity push

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) unveiled a host of measures to boost fund flow to the healthcare sector and ease the pain of small borrowers and units. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The RBI has opened an on-tap liquidity window of Rs 50,000 crore with tenors of up to three years at the repo

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Daily Current Affairs Quiz 5 May 2021 -Gkseries

Daily Current Affairs Quiz 5 May 2021 are very important for Competitive Exams like SSC, Railway, RRB, Banking, IBPS, PSC, UPSC etc. We gkseries team compose these Current Affairs Quiz from Newspapers like The Hindu and other competitive magazines.

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Liquid oxygen therapy can be used to treat

Liquid oxygen therapy can be used to treat A. Asthma B. Lung disease C. Pneumonia D. All of these Explanation: Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) has become India’s largest producer of medical-grade liquid oxygen from a single location. Liquid oxygen, abbreviated LOx, LOX or Lox in the aerospace, submarine and gas industries, is the liquid form

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The virus family Filoviridae includes which of the following genera?

The virus family Filoviridae includes which of the following genera? A. Cuevavirus B. Marburgvirus C. Ebolavirus D. All of these Explanation: The Democratic Republic of Congo declared the end of an Ebola outbreak that infected 12 people in the eastern province of North Kivu and killed six of them. The outbreak was contained using Merck’s

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Which of the following statements is/are correct with reference to the CoWin API?

Which of the following statements is/are correct with reference to the CoWin API? A. National Health Authority (NHA), the nodal agency managing the CoWin app has recently opened up the application programming interface (API) for vaccine appointments to the public. B. An open API refers to a publicly available application programming interface (API) that provides

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