The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved ‘natural gas marketing reforms’ with an aim to standardise the procedure to discover the price of gas sold in the market. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The policy aims to provide standard procedure for sale of natural gas in a transparent and competitive manner to discover […]
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The government appointed RBI’s senior-most executive director M Rajeshwar Rao as the deputy governor of the central bank. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Rao was appointed to the post vacated by N S Vishwanathan, who stepped down three months ahead of his extended tenure on health grounds. The RBI needs four Deputy Governors: two
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The World Bank reported that global extreme poverty is expected to rise for the first time in 20 years because of the disruption caused by COVID-19, exacerbating the impact of conflict and climate change, which were already slowing down poverty reduction. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The pandemic may push another 88 million to
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The central government has appointed SBI’s senior-most Managing Director Dinesh Kumar Khara as the chairman of the the country’s largest lender. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points He has been appointed as SBI Chairman for a period of three years. On August 28, Bank Board Bureau had recommended the appointment of Dinesh Kumar Khara to
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Emmanuelle Charpentier of France and Jennifer Doudna of the U.S. on October 7 won the Nobel Chemistry Prize for the gene-editing technique known as the CRISPR-Cas9 DNA snipping “scissors”, the first time a Nobel science prize has gone to a women-only team. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Charpentier, 51, and Ms. Doudna, 56, are
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The Supreme Court has found the indefinite “occupation” of a public road by the Shaheen Bagh protestors unacceptable. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The verdict came on a plea against the Anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protests which had led to blocking of a road in Shaheen Bagh in the national capital last December. It said
Three Laureates share this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics for their discoveries about one of the most exotic phenomena in the universe, the black hole. Roger Penrose showed that the general theory of relativity leads to the formation of black holes. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Roger Penrose used ingenious mathematical methods in his
Americans Harvey J Alter and Charles M Rice, and British scientist Michael Houghton were chosen for the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology for the discovery of the Hepatitis C virus. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The prestigious award comes with a gold medal and prize money of 10 million Swedish kronor (over $1,118,000),
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According to Union Water Resources Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, the Centre will determine the jurisdictions of the Krishna and Godavari river management boards (KRMB and GRMB). Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points He was speaking after convening an apex council meeting involving the Centre, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, the second since 2016. The meeting is
iPhone maker Apple’s contract manufacturers Foxconn Hon Hai, Wistron and Pegatron, apart from Samsung and Rising Star and a bunch of home-grown players are among the mobile phone manufacturing firms that have won approvals to do business in India under the PLI (Performance-linked incentives) scheme. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Production Linked Incentive Scheme
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