Former Australia spinner Shane Warne feels that the pink ball should be used in all Test matches and not just day-night Tests, citing that the red ball “doesn’t do anything” and goes soft after 25 overs. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Test matches are played with a red ball. But in case of Day/Night […]
The Election Commission’s (EC) proposal to grant postal voting rights to Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) may get implemented first for voters based in the US, Canada, New Zealand, Japan, Australia, Germany, France and South Africa. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The ECI proposed amending the Conduct of Election Rules, 1961, in order to allow this
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Any exploitation of the North Sentinel Island of the Andamans for commercial and strategic gain would spell the death knell for its occupants, the Sentinelese, a most secluded, particularly vulnerable tribal group (PVTG) who reside in complete isolation on the island. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points In a policy document, which comes almost two
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Ministry of Communications and Electronics &IT has presented the Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Telecom Skill Excellence Awards including cash award of Rs 50,000 and Rs 30,000 respectively, to both awardees. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Department of Telecommunications (DoT) launched Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Telecom Skill Excellence Awards scheme in 2017. Objective is to reward the
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According to a top DRDO scientist’s report, ATAGS howitzer is the best gun in the world with the capability to strike targets at the longest range of 48 kilometers. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The indigenous gun can meet Indian Army’s full requirement of 1800 artillery guns systems and there was no need for
The MP government has issued an order for the appointment of committees led by mothers to ensure better monitoring of services delivered at Anganwadi or day-care centres across the State. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points These Committees will comprise 10 mothers at each anganwadi representing the concerns of different sets of beneficiaries under the
Iran has begun construction on a site at its underground nuclear facility at Fordo amid tensions with the U.S. over its atomic program. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant (FFEP) is an Iranian underground uranium enrichment facility located 20 miles northeast of the Iranian city of Qom, near Fordow village. It
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The Justice Jain committee was constituted by the Supreme Court in September 2018. Its work is to unravel the rogue officials responsible for the infamous ISRO “frame-up” case of 1994, which destroyed the life and reputation of Nambi Narayanan, one of the country’s prominent space scientists. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The Justice Jain
The Lancet Citizens’ Commission on Reimagining India’s Health System, a cross-sector initiative to develop a citizens’ roadmap to achieving universal health coverage (UHC) in India over a period of ten years, was launched online. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points It was a first-of-its-kind participatory, countrywide initiative, in collaboration with world’s leading health journal The
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Tropical montane grasslands (TMG) in the Shola Sky Islands of the Western Ghats have suffered big reductions due to invasions by exotic trees such as acacias, pines and eucalyptus, shrinking the range sizes of endemic species, including plants, birds, amphibians and mammals. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points TMG are high elevation grasslands forming only
