World Food Programme (WFP) has been awarded with the Nobel Peace Prize for 2020. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The World Food Programme (WFP) is the food-assistance branch of the United Nations and the world’s largest humanitarian organization focused on hunger and food security. World Food Programme was founded in 1961, it is headquartered […]
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The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has decided to discontinue the system-based automatic caution-listing of exporters in view of the impact of COVID-19 pandemic. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The decision will also empower exporters to negotiate better terms with overseas buyers. As part of automation of the
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Prime Minister Modi has launched the physical distribution of property cards under the ‘SVAMITVA’ (ownership) scheme via video conferencing, and asserted that it is a “historic move” set to transform rural India. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The SVAMITVA scheme, which was launched in April this year, aims to provide the record of rights
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The Jal Shakti Ministry announced that Goa has become the first state in India to provide 100 per cent tap water connections in the rural areas covering 2.30 lakh households. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The state has provided tap water connection to two lakh 30 thousand rural households. North Goa with one lakh
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International Migratory Bird Day is celebrated on 10 October, a conservation initiative that brings awareness on conserving migratory birds and their habitats throughout the Western Hemisphere. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points This program is dedicated to international conservation efforts and environmental education in Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central and South America, and the
World Mental Health Day is celebrated on 10 October each year for global mental health education, awareness and advocacy against social stigma. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points It was first celebrated in 1992 at the initiative of the World Federation for Mental Health, a global mental health organization with members and contacts in more
Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh reported that police are looking into a scam about manipulation of TRPs (Television Rating Points) by rigging the devices used by the Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) India, which has the mandate to measure television audience in India. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points TRPs represent how many people,
The Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded to Louise Glück after several years of scandals and controversy for the world’s pre-eminent literary accolade. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Gluck, 77, was honoured “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal,” the Academy said. A professor at Yale University,
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The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has nearly doubled fund allocation for Special Accelerated Road Development Programme in North Eastern Areas (SARDP-NE) in the current fiscal to Rs 760 crore. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Government of India has undertaken massive road development programme under SARDP-NE Scheme in NE Region. The scope
Union Environment Minister has said that the Pusa Decomposer will be used on a trial basis this year in Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The burning of paddy stubble left in the fields after harvest has been a cause of concern for the past several years as it
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