India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) contracted 7.5% in the second quarter of 2020-21, following the record 23.9% decline recorded in the first quarter, as per estimates released by the National Statistical Office. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The country has now entered a technical recession with two successive quarters of negative growth. Agriculture, which […]
The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has issued the Motor Vehicle Aggregator Guidelines 2020 as per the requirements and provisions of the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Act, 2019 and further as per the amended Section 93 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points License issued by the State Government is
The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has issued a press brief which says that the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has revised the safety standards for two-wheeler helmets in India. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Now helmets in India will come under compulsory Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) certification and publication of Quality
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National Organ Donation Day is observed every year from the past 10 years on 27 November. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The National Organ & Tissue Transplant Organisation (NOTTO) is mandated under the Transplantation of Human Organs (Amendment) Act 2011 to carry out activities for promotion of organ donation from deceased persons. Tamil Nadu
Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Prakash Javadekar launched the India Climate Change Knowledge Portal. The portal will have all the major steps the Government is taking at both national and international levels to address the climate change issues. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The portal will have all the major steps the
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One of the focuses of the new Science, Technology and Innovation Policy, currently being drafted by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), to be to increase the participation of women in science. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points To this end, the DST will incorporate a system of grading institutes depending on the enrolment
The Australian army moved to discharge 13 soldiers in connection with a recent report that alleged that a number of Afghani civilians and prisoners were unlawfully killed. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The Inspector-General of the Australian Defence Force Afghanistan Inquiry Report is commonly known as the Brereton Report. It is a report into
New Zealand’s government will decide next week if a climate emergency should be declared in the country or not. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points In 2019, the Oxford dictionaries declared “climate emergency” to be the word of the year, a word that reflects “the ethos, mood, or preoccupations of the passing year, and have
A team of CBI officers probing the alleged rape and murder of a 19-year-old Dalit girl in Hathras, Uttar Pradesh, arrived at the Gandhinagar-based Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) with the four accused. A brain electrical oscillation signature profiling (BEOSP) test will be conducted on all four. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Brain Electrical Oscillation
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The visitors to beaches in Maharashtra have witnessed the spectacle of a fluorescent bluish glow when the waves hit the shoreline. Bioluminescence or light-emitting tide made an appearance on Juhu beach in Mumbai and Devgad, Velas and Murud along the state’s coastline. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The phenomenon is called ‘blue tide’, and
