India and Iran signed an agreement to construct a rail line from Chabahar port to Zahedan, along the border with Afghanistan four years ago. Now the Iranian government has decided to proceed with the construction on its own, citing delays from the Indian side in funding and starting the project. ...

Indian Navy will get the new twin-engine aircraft carrier-based fighter aircraft being developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) by 2032 and it will be a replacement for the Russian MiG-29K carrier jets in service. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The ...

NITI Aayog presented India’s second Voluntary National Review (VNR) at the United Nations High-level Political Forum (HLPF) on Sustainable Development, 2020. The HLPF is the foremost international platform for follow-up and review of progress on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Dr ...

The White House has rejected China's disputed claims to offshore resources in most of the South China Sea, a move that Beijing criticised as inciting tensions in the region and which highlighted an increasingly testy relationship. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points China has ...

The United Arab Emirates plans to make history with the scheduled launch of the "Hope" mission, which will make it the first Arab nation to send a probe to Mars. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points A rocket carrying the unmanned spacecraft is due to take off from Japan's remote ...

A new White House-backed ad campaign has opened with aims to encourage people who are unemployed or unhappy in their jobs or careers to go out and “find something new.” Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The Trump administration has long emphasized skills-based job and vocational ...

A new study in the UK has found that patients who recover from the Covid-19 may have an antibody response that makes them immune to the deadly virus only for a few months. Research, led by Dr Katie Doores of King’s College London, found levels of antibodies that can destroy the virus peaked about ...

The foreign trades China rises as economy recovers from coronavirus slump all over the world. China’s imports of U.S. goods rose 10.6% in June over a year ago and its global trade also increased in a fresh sign the world’s second-largest economy is gradually recovering from the coronavirus ...

Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu has released a book titled Tangams: An Ethnolinguistic Study of The Critically Endangered Group of Arunachal Pradesh. The community has reportedly 253 speakers concentrated in one small hamlet of Arunachal Pradesh. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 ...

Land and De­vel­op­ment Of­fice (L&DO) of Union Hous­ing and Ur­ban Af­fairs Min­istry has is­sued no­tice to the news agency Press Trust of In­dia over dues for its of­fice on Par­lia­ment Street, giv­ing it time till Au­gust 7 to pay ₹84.48 crore or face penalty and fur­ther ac­tion un­der ...

Pakistan allows Afghanistan to send goods to India using the Wagah border from July 15. The decision, which is part of Islamabad’s commitment under Pakistan-Afghanistan Transit Trade Agreement, is expected to boost Afghanistan’s exports to India. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points ...

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras have shown that curcumin, the active compound from turmeric curcumin can enhance cancer cell death. Finding agents that can trigger apoptosis, or programmed cell death, has been of interest to cancer researchers. Daily Current Affairs ...