The Fighting between the Taliban and Afghan government forces resumed in the restive southern province of Helmand, ending a three-day ceasefire agreed by the warring sides to mark the Id-ul-Fitr holiday. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Helmand is also known as Hillmand or Helman and, in ancient times, as Hermand and Hethumand. It is one […]
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As Covid-19 has struck back to ravage our surroundings, most of us find ourselves continuously scrolling through pandemic-related news and social media feed almost compulsively. That is what is called “doomscrolling” or “doomsday scrolling”. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Doomsday Surfing refers to the tendency to continue to surf or scroll through bad news, even
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Recently, a new Northwestern Medicine study of placentas from patients who received the COVID-19 vaccine during pregnancy found no evidence of injury, adding to the growing literature that COVID-19 vaccines are safe in pregnancy. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Placenta is a key organ in pregnancy. The placenta is the first organ that forms during
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Recently, Suspended police officer Sachin Waze, arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in connection with the Mukesh Ambani terror scare case, was dismissed from service by Mumbai Police Commissioner under Article 311 (2) (b) of the Indian Constitution without a departmental enquiry. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Article 311 says that no government employee
A piece of the Winchcombe meteorite, from the first meteorite fall, to have been recovered in the UK for 30 years, is to be put on display at the Museum. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Meteoroids are objects in space that range in size from dust grains to small asteroids. But when meteoroids enter the
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More than three centuries after it disappeared from Ireland, the common crane has returned to the island nation. A bird that is part of its folklore and was a popular pet during medieval times. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 A pair of cranes was spotted last year on a restored peat bog –a type of
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Activist Ranjana Nirula recently passed away who was working as a committee member and former Treasurer of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU). Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 She was introduced to the Left movement as a student in the United States, and was active in the anti-Vietnam war movement. She came back to
Recently 18 elephants died on a hilltop in Assam. The preliminary post-mortem report indicates they had been struck by lightning. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Lightning may injure or kill animals in a number of ways such as: Direct Flash: An animal in an open field may be struck directly by lightning if part of
India Railways recently completed a challenging tunnel drive of 800m in Kolkata in spite of Covid challenges. The tunneling work gets completed by Tunnel Boring Machine in East-West Metro Corridor with the breakthrough of “Urvi” at Bowbazar, Kolkata. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 With this breakthrough the entire TBM tunneling for the Kolkata East-West Metro
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Famous mathematician Professor MS Narasimhan has passed away on May 16. Known for the Narasimhan-Seshadri theorem, the mathematician was the only Indian to receive the King Faisal International Prize in the field of science. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Mudumbai Seshachalu Narasimhan (1932 – 2021) was an Indian mathematician. He is known, along with C.
