Union Food and Consumer Affairs Minister and Lok Jan Shakti Party patriarch Ram Vilas Paswan passed away at a private hospital in New Delhi on 8 October, 2020. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points He was 74 and had recently undergone a heart surgery. Ram Vilas Paswan (1946 – 2020) was an Indian politician from […]
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BRICS Bank (New Development Bank) has approved infrastructure projects worth 741 million dollars in India. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points BRICS Bank Board of Directors approved a loan of USD 500 million for the Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS) Project and a loan of USD 241 million for Mumbai Metro Rail II (Line
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Union Minister for Science and Technology Dr Harsh Vardhan has inaugurated the “DBT-BIRAC Clean Tech Demo Park” at Barapullah drain site, near Sundial Park, Sarai Kale Khan, New Delhi in a virtual event. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The DBT-BIRAC Clean Tech Demo Park will be used to demonstrate innovative Waste-to-Value technologies with support
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Union Minister for Education Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ virtually inaugurated the Gyan Circle Ventures, a MeitY funded Technology Business Incubator (TBI) of Indian Institute of Information Technology, Sri City (Chittoor), Andhra Pradesh through Video Conference. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Gyan Circle Ventures would function as a Technology Incubation and Development of Entrepreneurs (TIDE
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World Post day is celebrated on October 9, the anniversary of the Universal Postal Union, which started in 1874 in Switzerland. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The UPU was the start of the global communications revolution, introducing the ability to write letter to others all over the world. World Post Day started in 1969.
The Indian Air Force (IAF) Day is celebrated every year on October 8. On this day, the Air Force in India was officially raised in 1932 as the supporting force of the Royal Air Force of the United Kingdom. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The first operational squadron came into being in April 1933.
Union Minister of Textiles and Women & Child Development launched the 1st ever Brand & Logo for Indian Cotton on 2nd World Cotton Day on 7th October, 2020 through Video Conferencing. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Now India’s premium Cotton would be known as ‘Kasturi Cotton’ in the world cotton Trade. The Kasturi Cotton
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World Cotton Day is celebrated on 7th October to celebrate the advantages of cotton, ranging from its qualities as a natural fibre to the benefits people obtain from its production, transformation, trade and consumption. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points At the initiative of the Cotton-4 (Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad and Mali), the WTO hosted
The Union Cabinet has approved the Ratification of seven (7) chemicals listed under Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs). Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points These are: Chlordecone, Hexabromobiphenyl Hexabromodiphenyl ether and Heptabromodiphenylether Tetrabromodiphenyl ether and Pentabromodiphenyl ether Pentachlorobenzene Hexabromocyclododecane Hexachlorobutadiene The ratification process would enable India to access Global Environment Facility (GEF) financial
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The Union Cabinet has apprised of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed in June 2020 between the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) and International Barcode of Life (iBOL), a Canadian not-for-profit corporation. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points ZSI and iBOL have come together for further efforts in DNA barcoding, a methodology for rapidly and
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