Recently, India and the US have signed an MoU to develop a strategic petroleum reserve and the two countries are in advanced stage of discussion to store crude oil in America to increase India’s stockpile in a virtual US-India Strategic Energy Partnership. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The memorandum on cooperation in the field […]
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An international study led by a University of Cincinnati College of Medicine researcher suggests that the anxious behaviour or depressed mood in COVID-19 patients may be a sign that the virus affects the central nervous system. These two psychological symptoms were most closely associated with a loss of smell and taste rather than the more
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Prime minister of India Narendra Modi has reported that the fury of the COVID-19 pandemic provides the context for the “rebirth and reform” of the United Nations, calling on nations to pledge to reform the global multilateral system to enhance its relevance and make it the basis of a new type of “human-centric globalisation.” Daily
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In Indian Institute of Technology, Madras a start-up incubated has developed a portable hospital. The students involved in the project say the modular structure can be installed anywhere within two hours by just four people. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Called ‘MediCAB,’ the portable structures can be used to screen, isolate and treat COVID-19
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Nelson Mandela International Day is celebrated each year on 18 July. It is an annual international day in honour of Nelson Mandela on his birthday. The day was officially declared by the United Nations in November 2009, with the first UN Mandela Day held on 18 July 2010. The Day is a global call to
Hundreds of US scientists and military personnel, who had taken cover at bunkers located around 10,000 yards away from the bomb celebrated the dawn of the nuclear age. On July 16, 1945 (exactly 75 years ago), the world’s first super bomb exploded in a desert in New Mexico, destroying everything in its vicinity and marking
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United Nations has designated the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) terror group’s leader Noor Wali Mehsud as a global terrorist for participating in the financing, planning and perpetrating acts on behalf of and in support of entities associated with al-Qaida. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The UN Security Council’s 1267 ISIL and al-Qaida Sanctions Committee added
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The Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) in India has declined to 113 in 2016-18 from 122 in 2015-17 and 130 in 2014-2016. This inference has been released in the special bulletin on Maternal Mortality in India 2016-18, by the Office of the Registrar General’s Sample Registration System (SRS). Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The Maternal
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The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2020 (SOFI 2020) report presents the most recent and authoritative estimates of the extent of hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition around the world. It is produced jointly by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD),
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The 15th Summit between India and the European Union (EU) was held in virtual format on 15th July 2020. India was represented by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi. The EU was represented by Mr. Charles Michel, President of the European Council, and Ms. Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission. Daily Current Affairs
