Current Affairs 2020

World Sickle Cell Awareness Day is observed on June 19 every year. The international awareness day is observed annually with the goal to increase public knowledge and an understanding of sickle cell disease, and the challenges experienced by patients and their families and caregivers. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Sickle cell disease (SCD) is […]

Council of Scientific and Industrial Research constituent lab CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI) Lucknow has received approval for carrying out Phase III randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of efficacy, safety and tolerability of antiviral drug Umifenovir. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The Phase III Clinical Trials will be carried out at King George’s Medical University

Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia has announced an investment of ₹11,367 crore in Jio Platforms Ltd, the digital assets unit of Reliance Industries Ltd. With this investment, Jio Platforms has raised about ₹1.16 trillion from 11 investors in just eight weeks, signifying the rapid digitization opportunity in India. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points

Recently, India has entered the United Nations Security Council as a non-permanent member. Now, India will serve as the president of the powerful 15-nation UN body for the month of August, 2021. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The presidency of the Council is held by each of the members in turn for one month,

ICICI Bank has divested 18,000,000 equity shares of face value of ₹10 each of ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Limited. It is representing 3.96% of its equity share capital at March 31, 2020, on the stock exchange for an approximate total consideration of Rs. 2,250 crore. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points ICICI Bank shares

The North Central Railway authorities have started a first of its kind airport-like boarding facility at Prayagraj railway station as part of a move to promote contactless ticket checking due to the spread of Covid-19. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The counters are fully contactless keeping in view the safety of passengers due to

Recently, the Kodumanal excavation of 10 pots and bowls, instead of the usual three or four pots, placed outside three-chambered burial cists and inside the cairn-circle, threw light on burial rituals and the concept of afterlife in megalithic culture. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The rectangular chambered cists, each two metres long and six

Procurement of Minor Forest Produce items has been initiated in 17 States with total procurement worth Rs. 835  Cr through Central Government and State funds and almost Rs 1200 crore through private trade (through sales at Mandis/ haat bazaars) since April 2020. This takes the total procurement for the year to Rs 2000 crore and

The Minister for Science & Technology, Earth Sciences and Health & Family Welfare inaugurated and flagged off India’s first I-Lab (Infectious disease diagnostic lab) for Covid testing in rural and inaccessible areas of India. It is the first lab of its kind in the country, has been developed jointly by the Department of Biotechnology (DBT)

India will become a manufacturing hub for electric vehicles as reported by Union Minister for Road Transport& Highways and MSMEs Shri Nitin Gadkari. The Government is trying to extend best possible concessions to this sector, and has lowered the GST on electrical vehicles to 12 per cent. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The Government