Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked people to go vocal for local while shopping during the festival season, and particularly extolled the virtues of khadi – the handwoven cloth popularised by Mahatma Gandhi. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Khadi Oaxaca is a farm-to-garment collective which comprises around 400 families, which live and work on traditional […]
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US President Donald Trump referred to it as “filthy India” during the final presidential debate and India received a lot of unwanted attention. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points While he was talking with reference to the Paris Climate Accord, the attempt here is to look at the filth in terms of poor or inadequate
World Polio Day is celebrated on October 24th. It was established by Rotary International to commemorate the birth of Jonas Salk, who led the first team to develop a vaccine against poliomyelitis. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points As per the WHO, since 1980, the cases of wild poliovirus have decreased by over 99.9 per
Sudan became the third Arab nation in recent weeks to normalise relations with Israel, days after the US removed it from its State Sponsor of Terrorism list, of which the North African country was a part for over 27 years. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points President Donald Trump said he would be removing Sudan
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As per a new report released by the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU), some areas in the UK could experience greater levels of air pollution due to large numbers of people working from home due to the pandemic this winter season. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points During the course of winter, air pollution,
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Veteran Gujarati film musician, singer and former Lok Sabha MP from Patan constituency Mahesh Kanodia has passed away following prolonged illness. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points He was a Veteran Gujarati film musician, singer and former Lok Sabha MP from Patan constituency. He was 83. He was a member of the 10th, 11th, 12th
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India and the US have inked a landmark defence pact today that will provide for sharing of high-end military technology, logistics and geospatial maps between their militaries. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) organizes this National Conference coinciding with ‘Vigilance Awareness Week’, which is observed in India every year
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A recent study suggests that the drug tocilizumab may not prevent mortality in Covid-19 patients. It is the second such study on this drug. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Tocilizumab is the second drug, after hydroxychloroquine, that had quickly earned global popularity as a Covid-19 treatment before its efficacy came under question in the
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Uttar Pradesh government has secured the first rank in central government’s one of the most ambitious schemes the PM Atmanirbhar Nidhi Scheme (SVANidhi Scheme) by approving the highest number of loans under the scheme in the country. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points State has ranked first in all the categories – Applications, Sanctions and
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The World Day for Audiovisual Heritage takes place every 27 October. This commemorative day was chosen by UNESCO in 2005 to raise awareness of the significance and preservation risks of recorded sound and audiovisual documents. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points UNESCO established the Memory of the World Programme in 1992. The vision of the
