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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Human Freedom Index presents the state of human freedom in the world based on a broad measure that encompasses personal, civil, and economic freedom in which placed India at the 111th spot out of 162 countries. India ranked 94 on the index in 2019. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 ...

Jupiter and Saturn will align in the night sky on 21 December 2020 in an event astronomers call the "great conjunction" — also referred to as the "Christmas Star" — marking the planets' closest encounter in nearly 400 years. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points On the day almost all ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a first-of-its-kind intentional genomic alteration (IGA) in a line of domestic pigs referred to as GalSafe pigs. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Genetically modified (GM) pigs have been approved for food and medical use in the ...

Reliance Industries Ltd and BP (British Petroleum) have announced the start of gas production from the R cluster, the deepest off-shore gas field in Asia. The field is the first of three deep water gas projects in the KGD6 block jointly developed by RIL and BP to come on stream. Daily Current ...