The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has paid tribute to Lachit Borphukan on Lachit Diwas. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points  Lachit Borphukan (1622 - 1672) was a commander and Borphukan (Phu-Kon-Lung) in the Ahom kingdom, located in present-day Assam. He is known for ...

India receives rainfall during two seasons. About 75 per cent of the country’s annual rainfall is received from the Southwest monsoon between June and September. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points  The Northeast monsoon, on the other hand, occurs during October to December, ...

Former Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi died at the age of 86 years. He represents Titabor Assembly constituency in Jorhat district, was among 24 legislators from the state to have contracted the infection. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Tarun Gogoi (1936 – 2020) was an Indian ...

An online conference was organized under the chairmanship of Minister for Electronics and Information Technology, Ravi Shankar Prasad to mark the occasion of 3 years of UMANG and 2000 plus services milestone. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points It will help Indian international ...

Indian Coast Guard (ICG) averted a major ecological disaster off the bio-sensitive ecology of pristine Nicobar Islands after an oil tanker MT Anasthasia-1 enroute to Dubai carrying approximately 910 MT of bunker fuel, was towed to safety after the vessel suffered a power breakdown and was ...

Cyclone Nivar over southwest Bay of Bengal has moved westwards and lay about 380 km east-southeast of Puducherry and 430 km south-southeast of Chennai. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The Bay of Bengal will see its second Severe Cyclone of the year, after Super Cyclone Amphan ...

A tunnel boring machine (TBM) drilling for the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) formidable Veravali-Powai-Ghatkopar water provide project, has been stuck in its personal partially-dug tunnel close to Powai for over a year, with no respite in sight. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 ...

China is attempting its most complex and ambitious space mission to date with the launch of its Chang’e-5 spacecraft, which will attempt to do something that has not been done since the 1970s: bring pristine pieces of the moon back to Earth. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points ...

The Italian Culture Ministry announced on November 21 the discovery of well-preserved remains of two men, who perished during the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. The eruption was a catastrophic event that destroyed the ancient Roman city of Pompeii and killed around 16,000 people. ...

China sold negative-yield debt for the first time, and this saw a high demand from investors across Europe. As yields in Europe are even lower, there was a huge demand for the 4-billion-euro bonds issued by China. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points China’s 5-year bond was priced ...

Union Education Ministry inaugurated 46 online AICTE Training and Learning (ATAL) Academy Faculty Development Programmes (FDPs) to train teachers of higher education institutions associated with All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) in thrust and emerging areas in technology. Daily ...

Union Cabinet Secretary, Shri Rajiv Gauba has chaired a meeting of the National Crisis Management Committee (NCMC) to review the status of impending Cyclone through video conferencing with the Chief Secretaries of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 ...