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Times Group chairperson Indu Jain passed away due to Covid-related complications at the age of 84. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Indu Jain (1936 – 2021) was a prominent Indian media personality who belonged to the Sahu Jain family. She was the chairperson of India’s largest media group, Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd., which is […]
CHIEF Justice of India (CJI) NV Ramana recently launched a special facility for granting media access to the Supreme Court’s new mobile application. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The apex court’s website would have a new feature, called “Indicative Notes” that would aim to provide concise summaries of landmark judgments in an easy-to-understand format. This
The Government of India, in consultation with the Reserve Bank of India, has decided to issue Sovereign Gold Bonds. The Sovereign Gold Bonds will be issued in six tranches from May 2021 to September 2021. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The Bonds will be sold through Scheduled Commercial banks (except Small Finance Banks and Payment
Recently the Supreme Court has thrown open the door to the legislature to “ponder” over the idea of placing convicts under house arrest to avoid overcrowding of prisons. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 A Bench of Justices U.U. Lalit and K.M. Joseph, in a judgment, highlighted the “alarming” statistics of prisons. The suggestion is relevant
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The Union government has accepted the recommendation for extension of the gap between the first and second doses of Covishield vaccine to 12-16 weeks. The present one is 6-8 weeks. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Based on the available real-life evidences, particularly from UK, the COVID-19 Working Group agreed for increasing the dosing interval to
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Housing Finance Companies (HFCs) have come under the direct supervision of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) since August 2019 and existing home loan customers are getting differential treatment from banks and HFCs. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Over the last 18 months to 5 years, if bank customers have seen better transmission of rate
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Union Finance & Corporate Minister recently handed over possession to homebuyers virtually as Government of India’s Special Window for Affordable & Mid-Income Housing (SWAMIH) completes its first residential project. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The residential project – Rivali Park, located in suburban Mumbai, was the first housing project in India to have received funding
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The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) recently developed a prototype of a moveable electric cremation system that claims to be using first-of-its-kind technology that involves smokeless cremation despite using wood. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 It uses half of the wood otherwise required for the cremation and still is eco-friendly because of the technology that
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India’s first Olympic-bound Fencer Sabre Fencer Bhavani Devi was looking forward to giving off her best performance in Tokyo2020. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Chadalavada Anandha Sundhararaman Bhavani Devi, who is widely known as Bhavani Devi (born 1993), is an Indian sabre(fencer). She is the first Indian fencer to ever qualify for the Olympics after
The International Day of Families is celebrated on May 15 each year to remembering the importance of families and the work started during the International Year of Families. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The United Nation General Assembly proclaimed the International Year of the Families in its resolution 44/82 of 9 December, 1989. The General
