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The US has imposed sanctions on six Pakistani nationals and four of their organisations for aiding Russian companies to evade sanctions by fraudulent measures. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 It also mentioned the companies, namely, Second Eye Solution (SES), also known as Forwarderz, along with its three other frontals Fresh Air Farm House, Like Wise, […]
The Indian programme to study the Sun and the region between the Sun and the Earth from space – Aditya-L1 – is due to be launched next year (2022). It will carry seven payloads which have been developed by various institutions across the country. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 This role will be played by
The Nagaland government has decided to form a joint consultative committee (JCC) involving all traditional tribal bodies and, civil society organisations for taking an exercise to register the State’s indigenous inhabitants. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The JCC will be headed by Home Commissioner Abhijit Sinha. The decision was taken at a meeting on the
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The Tiki Formation in Madhya Pradesh, a treasure trove of vertebrate fossils, has now yielded a new species and two genera of cynodonts, small rat-like animals that lived about 220 million years ago. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, used scanning electron microscopy to study about 10
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The recent shooting of two Great Indian Bustards (GIBs) in Pakistan’s Cholistan desert, with the poachers brazenly getting themselves photographed with the carcasses of birds in their hands and guns on their shoulders, has left wildlife activists in Rajasthan shocked and outraged. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The GIB, which is the State bird of
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India has undertaken various steps for the conservation of migratory species. In February last year, India hosted the 13th Conference of Parties to the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS). Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 India was able to successfully list Asian Elephant, Great Indian Bustard and Bengal Florican to the Appendix I of CMS for
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Raul Castro confirmed he was handing over the leadership of the all-powerful Cuban Communist Party to a younger generation that was “full of passion and anti-imperialist spirit”. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Cuba is a country comprising the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos. Cuba is located
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According to a new study from National Institutes of Health scientists, the experimental antiviral drug MK-4482 significantly decreased levels of virus and disease damage in the lungs of hamsters treated for SARS-CoV-2 infection. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 SARS-CoV-2 is the virus that causes COVID-19. MK-4482, delivered orally, is now in human clinical trials. Remdesivir,
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has paid homage to former Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar on his Jayanti. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Chandra Shekhar Singh (1927 – 2007) was an Indian politician who served as the eighth Prime Minister of India, between 10 November 1990 and 21 June 1991. He headed a minority government of a
Two Russian warships transited the Bosphorus en route to the Black Sea today and 15 smaller vessels completed a transfer to the sea as Moscow beefs up its naval presence at a time of tense relations with the West and Ukraine. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The Black Sea is a marginal sea of the
