The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced the introduction of risk-based internal audit norms for large urban cooperative banks (UCBs) and non-banking financial companies (NBFCs), as part of measures aimed at improving governance and assurance functions at supervised entities. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The RBI also moved to harmonise the guidelines on appointment […]
Bangladesh has begun sending Rohingya refugees to Bhasan Char, the site where from the overcrowded camps at Cox’s Bazar, is an island formed by sedimentation (char is Bengali for sediment) close to the coast. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points It is estimated that more than 8 lakh Rohingya, who fled an army crackdown in
Lakshwadweep’s Administrator and former Intelligence Bureau chief Dineshwar Sharma passed away at a Chennai hospital at the age of 66 years. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Sharma, a 1979-batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer, hailed from Bihar. He served as IB Director from 2014 to 2016. He headed the bureau when the government announced
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Six years after Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission was launched, it is set to return back to Earth on December 6 carrying with it samples from the one-kilometre wide Ryugu asteroid that orbits the Sun. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The mission is similar to NASA’s OSIRIS-REX mission that brought back samples from asteroid Bennu late
The Singapore Food Agency (SFA) has recently approved the sale of a lab-grown meat product. This is the first time cultured meat has been cleared for sale anywhere in the world. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The product approved by the SFA is cultured chicken, produced by US-based East Just. The company has announced
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The Minister of Science and Technology and Vice President of Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Dr HarshVardhan virtually inaugurated the 2ndTCGA 2020 conferencein New Delhi. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points TCGA is a landmark cancer genomics program that molecularly characterized over 20,000 primary cancer and matched normal samples spanning 33 cancer types.
A 15-year-old Colorado high school student and young scientist who has used artificial intelligence and created apps to tackle contaminated drinking water, cyberbullying, opioid addiction and other social problems has been named Time Magazine’s first-ever “Kid of the Year.” Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Gitanjali Rao (born 2005) is an American inventor, author, scientist
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Pakistan has issued special permits to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and two other members of the royal family to hunt the internationally protected houbara bustards during the hunting season 2020-21. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The houbara bustard, which lives in arid climates, comes in two distinct species as recognised by the
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According to the state media report, China successfully powered up its “artificial sun” nuclear fusion reactor for the first time, marking a great advance in the country’s nuclear power research capabilities. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The HL-2M Tokamak reactor is China’s largest and most advanced nuclear fusion experimental research device, and scientists hope
IIT-Bombay researchers have come up with an urban quality of life index tailored to the reality of life in India. And, for the first time, they have factored in gender parity. Chennai, it turns out, is the most women-friendly and Patna the least. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Overall, Mumbai tops the list of
