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Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia have signed an agreement to end military conflict over the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points As per the new peace deal, both sides will now maintain positions in the areas that they currently hold, which will mean a significant gain for Azerbaijan as it has reclaimed […]
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Indian astronomers had worked closely with Nobel Laureate Andrea Ghez on the design of back-end instruments and possible science prospects of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) project being installed at Mauna Kea in Hawaii. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points TMT project is an international partnership between CalTech, Universities of California, Canada, Japan, China, and
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A massive asteroid named ‘Apophis’ expected to pass extremely close or may hit the Earth in 2068 due to a phenomenon called Yarkovsky effect. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Researchers at University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy (IfA) in the US, have announced the detection of Yarkovsky acceleration on the near-Earth asteroid Apophis. The
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China has cited COVID-19 regulations for denying departure to a stranded Indian merchant ship loaded with Australian coal. The ship named Jag Anand been awaiting anchorage at the Chinese port Jingtang near Tangshan in China’s Hebei province since June this year. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points 23 crew members are stuck on the ship
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In Maharashtra, the Central Railway workshop at Parel in Mumbai has manufactured a fifth Narrow Gauge locomotive which will chug between Kalka to Shimla route, a UNESCO World Heritage Railway. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The Kalka–Shimla railway is a 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) narrow-gauge railway in North India which traverses a
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The air quality in Delhi continues to remain in ‘severe’ category. According to the Central Pollution Control Board, the city’s air quality index was recorded 487 at 11 A.M. An Air Quality Index between 201 and 300 is considered poor, 301 to 400 very poor and 401 to 500 severe. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020
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Rajasthan government has accepted the Centre’s borrowing proposal to meet GST revenue shortfall and will get over Rs 4,600 crore through the special window. The Government of Rajasthan has communicated its acceptance for Option-1out of the two options suggested by the Ministry of Finance to meet the shortfall in revenue arising out of GST implementation.
Even as the counting of votes is underway in Bihar, the RJD accused the Nitish Kumar government of intimidating officials and tampering with the results. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The penultimate round of Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) counting doesn’t start unless the counting of postal ballots is over. In case the victory margin
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India Army gifted 20 fully trained military horses and 10 mine detection dogs to the Bangladesh Army. The handing over was done in a ceremony at the Benapole-Petrapole Integrated Check Post (ICP) on the India – Bangladesh Border. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The fully trained military horses and mine detecting dogs were gifted
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Hunar Haat has been restarted from 11 November, 2020 after a gap of about seven months due to the Corona pandemic. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Minority Affairs Minister inaugurated the Hunar Haat at Delhi Haat at Pitampura. The theme of this event is Vocal for Local where indigenous exquisite products made from Maati
