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Odisha celebrated a 3-day festival Raja Parba. During this period, it is believed that Mother Earth menstruates and prepares herself for future agricultural activities with the arrival of monsoon. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Raja Parba or Mithuna Sankranti is a three-day-long festival and the second day signifies beginning of the solar month of Mithuna […]
The International Cricket Council (ICC) recently inducted 10 players into its Hall of Fame, including the great Indian all-rounder Vinu Mankad. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Mankad became the seventh Indian cricketer to be inducted into the Hall of Fame after Sachin Tendulkar, Sunil Gavaskar, Rahul Dravid, Kapil Dev, Anil Kumble and Bishan Singh Bedi.
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The Union Territory of Ladakh has been declared Open Defecation Free UT in India under the First Phase of Swachh Bharat Mission. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 This was stated by Director of Rural Development Department Tahir Hussain Zubdavi. RDD Ladakh is taking scientific segregation of Waste and Garbage upon to Village Level and will
Giving a possible boost to the potential of farm exports from the eastern region, India exported the first commercial consignment of Geographical Indications (GI) certified ‘Jardalu’ mangoes from Bhagalpur, Bihar, to the United Kingdom. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority, APEDA, in collaboration with Bihar government, Indian
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The Indian Coast Guard’s “Operation Olivia”, conducts in every year, initiated in the early 1980s, helps protect Olive Ridley turtles as they congregate along the Odisha coast for breeding and nesting from November to December. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The Olive Ridley (Lepidochelys olivacea) is listed as vulnerable under the International Union for Conservation
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IIT Ropar recently developed a device ‘Jivan Vayu’ which can be used as a substitute for a CPAP machine. Dr Khushboo Rakha, Assistant Professor, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering developed the device at the Advanced Materials and Design Lab of IIT Ropar. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The device is the nation’s first such device that
IITs Ropar developed the first electrical free CPAP device Jeevan Vayu Read More »
Suresh Raina, one of India’s most successful international cricketers, has published his own memoir ‘Believe: What Life and Cricket Taught Me’ along with cricket writer Bharat Sundaresan. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 ‘Believe’, the word Sachin Tendulkar told him-and he took it to heart, getting the word etched on his arm as a tattoo. In
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Former India women’s volleyball captain, Nirmal Milkha Singh, passed away in Chandigarh at the age of 85. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Nirmal was born as in Sheikhupura, Pakistan, on October 8, 1938. She was captain of the Punjab volleyball team on three separate occasions. In 1955, she also went on tour to Ceylon (Sri
Volleyball player Nirmal Milkha Singh passed away Read More »
According to the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, exports of agriculture and allied products jumped to 41.25 billion US dollars and registered an increase of 17.34 per cent during the fiscal year 2020-21. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Exports of agriculture and allied products including marine and plantation products jumped to 41.25 billion US dollars
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A 15-meter-tall tree that belongs to the genus of the coffee family has recently been discovered from the Andaman Islands by a team of researchers from India and the Philippines. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The new species, Pyrostria laljii, is also the first record of the genus Pyrostria in India. Plants belonging to genus
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