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The International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict is observed annually on November 6. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points In 2001, the UN General Assembly declared 6 November of each year as the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict […]
World Tsunami Awareness Day is observed on 5 November each year designated by UN General Assembly. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points In 2020, World Tsunami Awareness Day encourages the development of national and community-level, local disaster risk reduction strategies to save more lives against disasters. This year’s observance promotes “Sendai Seven Campaign,” target (e).
The government issued an ordinance to amend the arbitration law to ensure that all stakeholder parties get an opportunity to seek an unconditional stay on enforcement of arbitral awards where the arbitration agreement or contract is “induced by fraud or corruption”. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The Ordinance aims to ensure that all the
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The Bombay High Court resumed hearing of the habeas corpus petition moved by Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami challenging his arrest in an abetment to suicide case. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The Indian Constitution empowers the Supreme Court to issue writs for enforcement of any of the fundamental rights conferred by Part III
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United Nations Industrial Development Organisations (UNIDO) has been closely working with India to implement UN’s activities in harmony with national policy priorities and development strategies. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points UNIDO is the specialized agency of the United Nations. As of 1 April 2019, 170 States are Members of UNIDO. The mission of the
Regional Cluster concept of economic development Read More »
The Vice President Shri M Venkaiah Naidu has observed that ‘avadhanam’ as a literary feat has greatly contributed to the Telugu language’s glorious tradition. ‘Avadhanam’ is like a test of the poet’s literary prowess and scholarship, he added. This extraordinary feat, a historical and unique feature of only a few languages, should be further promoted,
Vice President launched ‘International Satavadhanam’ event Read More »
Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Prakash Javadekar has said that India is on the way forward towards achieving its commitments done at the Paris agreement and the country is acting on its Nationally Determined Contributions(NDC’s). Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points CEOs of companies like Reliance Industries Ltd, Tech Mahindra, Dalmia Cement, Ambuja Cement,
Declaration of private sector on Climate Change is a historic step Read More »
India strongly condemned Pakistan’s decision to transfer the management and maintenance of Kartarpur Sahib Gurdwara to a non-Sikh body. The government said Pakistan’s move was against the spirit of Kartarpur corridor, as also the religious sentiments of the Sikh community. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The Gurdwara Darbar Sahib, also known as Gurdwara Kartarpur
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Telegram and Signal have had disappearing messages for a long time, and even Facebook’s own Messenger lets you set delete timers on messages in secrets chats. Now WhatsApp has announced that it’s joining its competitors ephemeral messages are rolling out to the stable version of WhatsApp. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Ephemeral messaging or
About 9,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers buried a teenager with hunting tools in the Andes mountains of South America. When researchers analysed the remains, unearthed in 2018, they found that the hunter was a female, aged between 17 and 19 at her death. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Between 30% and 50% of the hunters
