Current Affairs 20 April 2021 is the most important area from which a major share of questions come in SSC, Railway, state government recruitment exams, UPSC prelims and mains. Health Ministry sanctions 162 oxygen plants Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan the government had sanctioned 162 Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) plants of which 33 had been […]
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International Day for Monuments and Sites is celebrated on April 18 every year in many countries. The theme for this year is is “Complex Pasts: Diverse Futures”. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Globally, the day is promoted by the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS). ICOMOS in 1982 had decided to celebrate April 18
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Eight institutions and individuals have applied for on-tap licences to set up universal banks and small finance banks. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 This comes weeks after RBI set up an advisory panel, led by former deputy governor Shyamala Gopinath, to evaluate applications for universal and small finance banks, which are mandated to focus on
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During the 11th round of discussions between the senior military commanders of India and China on April 9, to resolve the over 11-month long standoff in eastern Ladakh, China had refused to vacate two of the four original friction points. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 At two friction points, Patrolling Point 15 (PP15) in Hot
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Meghalaya has yielded India’s first bamboo-dwelling bat with sticky disks, taking the species count of the flying mammal in the country to 130. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The disc-footed bat (Eudiscopus denticulus) was recorded in the north-eastern State’s Lailad area near the Nongkhyllem Wildlife Sanctuary, about 1,000 km west of its nearest known habitat
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The Rajasthan state government recently announced a Jan Anushasan Pakhwara (JAP), or the Public Discipline Fortnight. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The decision came on a day when the state crossed 10,000 new cases for the first time since the Covid 19 pandemic began. The JAP is essentially an extension of the curfew the Rajasthan
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Reports of rare blood clots occurring after COVID-19 vaccination have led some countries to limit the usage of AstraZeneca’s vaccine for certain categories of people, while other countries have paused the administration. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 An adverse effect following immunisation with the AstraZeneca jab is not merely blood clots in large vessels, but
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Skygazers watched a rare celestial event when the moon came between Earth and Mars. The phenomenon is known as occultation. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 An occultation is an event that occurs when one object is hidden by another object that passes between it and the observer. The term is often used in astronomy. If
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China has asked Japan to take back its “wrong decision” to release more than 1 million tonnes of treated water from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant is a disabled nuclear power plant located on a 3.5-square-kilometre site in the towns of Ōkuma
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Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu paid tributes to the great philosopher, saint & social reformer, Shri Ramanujacharya Ji on his Jayanti. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Ramanuja or Ramanujacharya (c. 1017–1137 CE) was an Indian philosopher, Hindu theologian, social reformer, and one of the most important exponents of the Sri Vaishnavism tradition within Hinduism. His
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