A powerful new telescope ASKAP, in Australia has mapped vast areas of the universe in record-breaking time, revealing a million new galaxies and opening the way to new discoveries. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points ASKAP is a telescope designed over a decade ago and located about 800 km north of Perth. It became fully […]
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NASA has confirmed that the Near-Earth Object called 2020 SO is the rocket booster that helped lift the space agency’s Surveyor spacecraft toward the Moon in 1966. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The Surveyor-2 spacecraft was supposed to make a soft landing on the Moon’s surface in September 1966, during which time one of
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The United Kingdom became the first country to formally approve the Pfizer and BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, a symbolic milestone in the fight against the pandemic. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The British regulator Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) declared that the vaccine offers protection of up to 95 per cent and is
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International Day of Persons with Disabilities is observed on 3 November each year by the United Nations since 1992. It has been observed with varying degrees of success around the planet. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The annual observance of the International Day of Disabled Persons was proclaimed in 1992 by United Nations General
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The International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA) obtained membership of International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS). Established in 1994, the IAIS headquartered in Switzerland. Key-Points Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 It is a voluntary membership organization of insurance supervisors and regulators from more than 200 jurisdictions, constituting 97% of the world’s insurance premiums. Some of
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The Attorney General for India, KK Venugopal, has granted consent to initiate contempt of court proceedings against comic illustrator Rachita Taneja, for her tweets on the bail granted to Republic TV editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami in an abetment to suicide case. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The Contempt of Courts Act, 1971, lays down the
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IIT Kanpur researchers have demonstrated how with the use of a micro-structured hour-glass shaped metastructure in the lattice unit, one can get a wider variation of propagation and stop bands. The hour-glasses are developed in the Smart Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Inspiration of the lattice they developed has come from a two-headed drum
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The World Malaria Report (WMR) 2020 released by WHO, which gives the estimated cases for malaria across the world, based on mathematical projections, indicates that India has made considerable progress in reducing its malaria burden. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points India is the only high endemic country which has reported a decline of 17.6%
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The theremin is an electronic musical instrument controlled without physical contact by the thereminist (performer). Theremin instrument turned 100 years old this year. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The instrument was invented in 1920. It is named after its inventor, Leon Theremin, who patented the device in 1928. The instrument’s controlling section usually consists
The Centre has set up high-level inter-ministerial Apex Committee for Implementation of Paris Agreement (AIPA) under the chairmanship of Secretary, MoEFCC to oversee the implementation of climate change targets that India has committed to under the 2015 Paris Agreement. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The purpose of AIPA is to generate a coordinated response
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