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Protests Abound as Uttarakhand Prepares to Slash 10,000 Trees

As 28-year-old filmmaker, Varchasva Dhunta, steered his camera through a vast crowd cheering “Jungle jyaada jaroori hai” (forest is more important), several demonstrators hugged the Thano forest trees along Dehradun’s Jolly Grant Airport Road, enacting the famous “Chipko Aandolan.” Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Many even tied the Raksha Sutra – a sacred thread […]

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Bengali actor Soumitra Chatterjee passed away

Legendary Bengali actor Soumitra Chatterjee passed away. Soumitra Chatterjee (1935 —2020) was an Indian film actor. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points He was best known for his collaborations with Oscar-winning film director Satyajit Ray, with whom he worked in fourteen films. In 1999 Soumitra Chattopadhyay became the first Indian film personality to be conferred

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US wants South Korea and Japan to pay more for defense

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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World’s largest trade deal RCEP signed without India

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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CSIR-SERC, Chennai Developed Indigenous Emergency Retrieval System (ERS) for Power Lines

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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8th BRICS STI Ministerial Meeting

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

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Sports Ministry announced new incentive structure to fund 500 private academies

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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Bhagwan Birsa Munda Jayanti

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

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Jharkhand Statehood Day

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

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India lodges strong protest over unprovoked ceasefire violations along LoC by Pakistan

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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