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United States is considering withdrawing as many as 4,000 troops from South Korea if Seoul does not pay more money to maintain the U.S. deployment there. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Trump wants allies to pay more to compensate the United States for its protection. Trump’s antagonism toward NATO members has received the most […]
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Fifteen countries on 15 November, 2020 have signed the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) trade deal, which includes 10 Southeast Asian economies along with China, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand and Australia. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points RCEP is the world’s largest trade pact in terms of GDP. First proposed in 2012, the deal
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Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) constituent laboratory Structural Engineering Research Centre (SERC) based in Chennai has developed an indigenous technology, Emergency Retrieval System (ERS), for quick retrieval of power transmission in the event of failure of transmission line towers. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points CSIR-SERC has signed an agreement for licensing of
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The Science, Technology and Innovation Ministers of the BRICS grouping (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) met on November 13 through a virtual platform to discuss S & T cooperation among the member countries. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Russia organized the meeting, Russian Federation
The Sports Ministry has introduced a incentivisation structure to extend monetary support to 500 private academies, through the Khelo India Scheme over the next four years starting FY 2020-21. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points In this model, private academies shall be graded into different categories based on quality achievement of players trained by the
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The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has paid tributes to Bhagwan Birsa Munda on his Jayanti. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Birsa Munda was an Indian tribal freedom fighter, and folk hero who belonged to the Munda tribe. He spearheaded a tribal religious millenarian movement that arose in the Bengal Presidency (now Jharkhand) in
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has greeted the people of Jharkhand on their Statehood Day. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Jharkhand was carved out of 18 districts of Bihar in the year 2000 on November 15. Later, six more districts were carved out by reorganizing the existing districts. The 23rd and 24th districts, Khunti and
India has lodged a strong protest over unprovoked ceasefire violations along the Line of Control by Pakistan. The Ministry of External Affairs summoned the Charge Affaires of the High Commission of Pakistan and a strong protest was lodged over unprovoked ceasefire violations by Pakistani forces, on multiple sectors along the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir
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Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, has developed an antimicrobial food wrapping material. The team of researchers led by Professor Mukesh Doble of the Department of Biotechnology in the institute has said in a release, the novel material is biodegradable and can prevent the contamination of packaged food by bacteria during storage. Daily Current Affairs Quiz
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Public Service Broadcasting Day is celebrated on 12 November every year to commemorate the first and only visit of the Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi, to the studio of All India Radio, Delhi in 1947. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Mahatma Gandhi addressed the displaced people (a refugee from Pakistan), who had temporarily
