An Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Technologies Park (ARTPARK), set up in Bengaluru, will promote technology innovations in AI and robotics. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points ARTPARK, is a unique not-for-profit foundation established by Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru with support from AI Foundry in a public-private model. With seed funding of Rs. 170 […]
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The Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has expressed deep grief over the demise of Shri FC Kohli. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Faqir Chand Kohli (1924 – 2020) was an Indian industrialist. He was the founder and the first CEO of Tata Consultancy Services, India’s largest software services company. He had been a president
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Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), in a first-of-its-kind study, has projected that numbers of the Malayan Giant Squirrel could decline by 90% in India by 2050, and it could be extinct by then if urgent steps are not taken. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The Malayan Giant Squirrel, one of the world’s largest squirrel
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In reviewing a series of World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations on marijuana and its derivatives, the CND zeroed-in on the decision to remove cannabis from Schedule IV of the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs — where it was listed alongside deadly, addictive opioids, including heroin. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points In reviewing a series of
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Scientists from the world’s three leading research institutions took part in this extensive research and suggested that oxidative potential of air particles should also be taken into account in future air-quality regulation measures to reduce the adverse health impact of inhaling poor quality air by the people. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Exposure to
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MDH Spices owner Dharampal Gulati, fondly known as “Mahashayji”, died at the age of 98 years. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Dharampal Gulati (1923 – 2020), also known as Mahashay Dharampal Gulati, was an Indian businessman, and founder and CEO of MDH (Mahashian Di Hatti), an Indian spice company. He was referred to as
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India’s first homes for transgender children in need of care and protection will soon be established in Bengaluru. Two government-run homes for transgender children will be established in Bengaluru Urban. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The Ministry of Women and Child Development gave its nod for the project last week. Many transgender children in
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Puerto Rico’s massive Arecibo telescope, famous for its stellar contributions to astronomy, collapsed, leaving many among the scientific community in shock and anguish. The collapse was devastating also for many Puerto Ricans, for whom the observatory was culturally significant. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The second-largest single-dish radio telescope in the world, Arecibo was
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The government has finally approved the creation of a crucial new Army post, the acute operational need for which was felt during the 73-day troop face-off at Doklam with China in 2017, amidst the ongoing military confrontation in eastern Ladakh. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points In an order issued on December 2, the government
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British Indian journalist and author Anita Anand’s book that tells the story of a young man caught up in the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar has won a prestigious history-literary prize in the UK. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points ‘The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge and the Raj’ beat six
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