Current Affairs November 2020

GITA is a catalyst for nurturing innovation & industrial R&D

Union Minister of Science & Technology underlined how Global Innovation and Technology Alliance (GITA) served as a catalyst for nurturing innovation and industrial R&D. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points GITA is a “not–for–profit” Section-8 Public Private Partnership (PPP) company. It is promoted jointly by the Technology Development Board (TDB), Department of Science & Technology […]

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Inter Modal Station at Ajni in resonance with Environmental Impact Assessment

Speculation is around the corner that about 7,000 trees are proposed to be felled for the proposed InterModal Station Project (IMS) at Ajani in Nagpur. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Regional office of National Highway Authority of India clarified that the IMS project is in resonance with Environment Impact Assessment. As per Detailed Project

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President’s powers to pardon in US

US President Donald Trump exercised his powers under the Constitution to pardon Michael Flynn, his former National Security Advisor, who had twice pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The President of the US has the constitutional right to pardon or commute sentences related to federal crimes. The US

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Permitting industrial houses to own banks

An Internal Working Group (IWG) of the RBI has recently made a far-reaching recommendation. According to the report, the main benefit is that industry-owned banks would increase the supply of credit, which is low and growing slowly. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The IWG acknowledges that it ignored the experts the group had consulted.

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Delhi and other parts of north India are bracing for near cold wave conditions

Delhi is bracing for another phase of near cold wave conditions in the coming days. The minimum or night time temperature in the capital rapidly fell between November 16 and November 24, reaching up to 6.3 degrees Celsius and marking a 17-year low for the current month. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points A cold

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Information Management and Analysis Centre

The Navy’s Information Management and Analysis Centre (IMAC), the nodal agency for maritime data fusion set up after the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, will soon become a National Maritime Domain Awareness (NDMA) centre, with all stakeholders having their presence there. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points IMAC, based in Gurgaon, was established in November 2014.

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France approving a law to ban discrimination against people with pronounced regional accents

France’s national assembly has taken the first steps towards approving a law that would ban discrimination against people with pronounced regional accents across the country. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points A new bill banning accent-based discrimination, or ‘la glottophobie’, was approved with 98 votes against three, and spurred a lively debate in the lower

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Portrait of astrophysicist Jocelyn Burnell

The Royal Society unveiled a new portrait of astrophysicist Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell who is credited with discovering pulsars when she was a PhD student at Cambridge University. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell (born 1943) is an astrophysicist from Northern Ireland who, as a postgraduate student, discovered the first

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Dev Deepawali Festivities

Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits his parliamentary constituency Varanasi on November 30 on the occasion of Dev Deepawali. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The Dev Deepavali is also known as “the Diwali of the Gods” or “Festival of Lights of the Gods”. It is the festival of Kartik Poornima celebrated in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh.

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International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People 2020

The International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People is observed on 29 November each year. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points In 1977, the General Assembly called for the annual observance of 29 November as the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. On that day, in 1947, the Assembly adopted the resolution

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