The Environment Pollution (Prevention & Control) Authority has directed Delhi and neighbouring States to implement air pollution control measures under very poor and severe category air quality of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) from 15th October 2020. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Approved by the Supreme Court in 2016, GRAP was notified in […]
Archaeologists from the University Museum of Bergen have found proof of a 1200-year-old pagan construction in Norway. Once a wood building, it dates again to the Viking Age. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Once a wooden construction, it dates back to the Viking Age. The large wooden temple is said to have been used
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Scientists have found a rare Rose-breasted Grosbeak, a bird with both female and male plumage colours, in the United States’ Pennsylvania. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The Rose-breasted Grosbeak derives its name from the male of the species who have a ruby-red triangular marking on a white chest and dark black wings with pink
Brahma Kamal flowers, which used to bloom from August to mid-September, are now blooming in Garhwal of Chamoli district, Uttarakhand in October due to climate change. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points It is said that Brahma Kamal – named after God Brahma who is believed to have created the universe – takes about two
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Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has requested the Centre to repeal the Odisha Universities (Amendment) Bill 2020, which was passed in the state Assembly during the Monsoon Session recently. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Describing the bill as anomalous, Mr Pradhan said, in his letter to Union Education Minister, that the bill is in
Union Government has permitted export of Bangalore Rose Onions and Krishnapuram Onions of up to ten thousand metric tonnes each. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Bangalore rose onion, locally called gulabi eerulli, is a variety of onion grown in and around Bangalore in Karnataka. Rose onions are not cultivated in any other place in
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The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and KPIT successfully ran trials of India’s first Hydrogen Fuel Cell (HFC) prototype car running on an indigenously developed fuel cell stack at CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The fuel cell is a low temperature PEM (Proton Exchange Membrane) type Fuel Cell
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has greeted all the Indian Foreign Service officers on the occasion of IFS Day. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The Indian Foreign Service is the diplomatic civil service under Group A and Group B of the Central Civil Services of the executive branch of the Government of India. The service
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Prime Minister Modi has paid tribute to Bhai Taru Singh on his 300th birth anniversary. Bhai Taru Singh chose to die instead of compromising with his religious beliefs, He died in 1745. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Bhai Taru Singh (1720 – 1745) was a prominent Sikh martyr known for sacrificing his life, in
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International Day of the Girl Child is celebrated on 11 October to amplify the voice of girls and those who are in the forefront of saving girl child from all kinds of exploitation. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Every year on 11th October, the International Day of the Girl, UNICEF launches an annual campaign
