Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Dr Harsh Vardhan has chaired the virtual meeting on the occasion of World Population Day emphasised on the significance of population stabilisation and its vital role in future. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points In the last decade ...

Turkey's Istanbul's Hagia Sophia has opened to Muslim worship after a top court ruled that the building's conversion to a museum by modern Turkey's founding statesman was illegal. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The centuries-old structure, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe was at the right place at the right time to capture a unique view of comet NEOWISE on July 5, 2020. Parker Solar Probe’s position in space gave the spacecraft an unmatched view of the comet’s twin tails when it was particularly active just after its closest approach to ...

Union Minister for Science & Technology, Health and Family Welfare and Earth Sciences Dr. Harsh Vardhan has released a white paper on “Focused Interventions for ‘Make in India’. It has been prepared by Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC). Daily Current Affairs ...

Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India, IRDAI has allowed 30 general and health insurers to launch short-term ‘Corona Kavach' health insurance policies. The policy will cover medical expenses occurred due to coronavirus disease. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points ...

Recently, Boeing India has handed over the last of the five AH-64E Apache attack helicopters to the Indian Air Force (IAF), completing the contract for 22 Apaches. The Apaches were deployed at the Leh airbase as part of the forward movement of assets, amid the stand-off with China in Ladakh. ...

The Swabhiman Anchal, which was surrounded by water and an inhospitable terrain, recently gained accessibility after the construction of the Gurupriya Bridge which connected it with rest of the State. People in Swabhiman Anchal in Odisha’s Malkangiri district saw a passenger bus plying for the ...

Assam government has decided to take the necessary steps to upgrade the Dehing Patkai Wildlife Sanctuary into a national park. The announcement comes just months after the National Board of Wildlife (NBWL) gave conditional clearance to a coal mining project by Coal India Limited (CIL) in the ...

The Smart Cities Mission (under the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs) opened the registration for India Cycles4Change Challenge on 10th July, 2020. The challenge was launched on 25th June, 2020 by Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points It ...

The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has criticised the Rajasthan state government for its new guidelines on elementary education. Rajasthan’s Department of School Education issued guidelines stating that admissions to private schools under the RTE Act, 2009 for the ...

India's 2018 Tiger Census has made it to the Guinness Book of World Records for being the world's largest camera trapping wildlife survey. Almost 75% of total tiger population in the world are in India with around 2,900 tigers as was extrapolated by the census. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 ...

Centre for Global Health Research (CGHR) at the University of Toronto, Canada, with Indian and UK partners reports that a staggering 58000 snakebite deaths in India over per year. The World Health Organization (WHO) recognises snakebite as a top-priority neglected tropical disease. Daily ...