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The Copernicus Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite, designed to monitor oceans, was launched from the Vandenberg Air Force base in California aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on November 21. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points This is a part of the next mission dedicated to measuring changes in the global sea level. Other satellites that […]
Tamil Nadu government banned online gaming in the state with a fine up to Rs 5,000 and imprisonment of up to six months. Governor Banwarilal Purohit promulgated an ordinance that banned online gaming in the state. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points In the ordinance banning the game, the Governor said that due to online
Scottish writer Douglas Stuart has won the 2020 Booker Prize for fiction with his debut novel Shuggie Bain, which described a boy growing up in Glasgow in the 1980s with a mother battling addiction. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The Booker Prize for Fiction, formerly known as the Booker–McConnell Prize and the Man Booker
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Life Insurance Corporation of India has launched a digital application for agents for on boarding to get a life insurance policy. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points ANANDA will enable an agent to complete a policy even without physically meeting the customer. This application has evoked tremendous response from all intermediaries of the Corporation. LIC
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India will see an investment of Rs 2 lakh crore in setting up 5,000 plants that will produce gas from bio and crop wastes by 2023-24. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points To boost the availability of affordable and clean transport fuel, an agreement was signed for setting up 900 compressed bio-gas or CBG plants
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The Virtual Court (traffic) and e-Challan project have been recently (12th November, 2020) inaugurated in Assam by Shri Sarbananda Sonowal, the chief minister of Assam. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Committee of Gauhati High Court in association with Government of Assam and Assam Police, under the aegis of
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NABARD has so far released a total amount of Rs. 1754.60 crore Interest Sub-vented Loan from Micro-Irrigation Fund (MIF). Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Micro Irrigation Fund with a corpus of Rs. 5000 crore created with NABARD was operationalised in 2019-20. The objective of the Fund is to facilitate the States in availing an
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Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan inaugurated the Seismic Survey Campaign by Oil India Limited. The survey under the Open Acreage Licensing Policy, OALP, will be undertaken in 5 blocks of 8 districts of Odisha in the Mahanadi basin and nearby areas. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The survey under the Open
Rural Development Minister Narendra Singh Tomar virtually interacted with Rural Development Ministers and officials of the States on the occasion of “Awaas Diwas” celebration. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The Rural Housing Scheme, Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana – Gramin (PMAY-G) was launched by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 20th of November 2016 at
World Fisheries Day is celebrated every year on 21st of November to demonstrate solidarity with all fisher-folk communities, fish farmers and concerned stakeholders throughout the world. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The day is celebrated every year on November 21 throughout the fishing communities to highlight the importance of lives of water creatures to
