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The Union Minister of Science and Technology has given Gandhian Young Technological Innovation (GYTI) Awards to encourage technology students to move towards setting up biotechnology and other start-ups. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Gandhian Young Technological Innovation awards constitute two categories of awards: Students Innovations for Advancement of Research Explorations – Gandhian Young Technological […]
An advanced version of the DRDO-developed Pinaka rocket was successfully flight tested from Integrated Test Range, Chandipur off the coast of Odisha. A total of six rockets were launched in series and all the tests met complete mission objectives. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The enhanced Pinaka along with guidance Pinaka will cover the
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India’s public broadcaster Prasar Bharati entered into a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU with Bhaskaracharya National Institute for Space Applications and Geo-Informatics, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Under the MoU, 51 DTH education TV channels will be available as DD co-branded channels to all DD FreeDish viewers. This move
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According to the Supreme Court of India, if an estranged wife gave up her job to take care of children and the elderly in the family, then this will have to be taken into consideration by the family court while quantifying monthly interim maintenance payable to her by the husband. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020
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States formally exited from the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change which is a global deal to take collective actions for saving the world from disastrous consequences of global warming. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Though the US under President Donald Trump had announced his decision to withdraw from the Agreement in 2017, the
To recognize the significant contributions towards defining the survival tactics of Leishmania donovani, Society of Biological Chemists (India) has chosen Dr Susanta Kar, Senior Scientist, Molecular Parasitology and Immunology, CSIR-CDRI, Lucknow for this year’s Prof. A N Bhaduri Memorial Lecture Award. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Leishmania Donovani is a protozoan parasite that infects
The scheduled initial public offering (IPO) of Ant Group has been delayed for now, after its plans of listing on the Shanghai and Hong Kong’s stock exchanges were thwarted by authorities. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The company had hoped to raise up to $37 billion from the market, in an IPO that would
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Assam’s Health, Finance and Education Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has stirred a controversy in the state by saying that his government would not allow a ‘Miya museum’ despite a legislative committee dominated by BJP and its allies recommending a museum to showcase exhibits from Muslim-majority riverine areas. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The ‘Miya’
Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem (IPBES) report that future pandemics will emerge more often, they’ll spread more rapidly, do more damage to the world and kill more people than COVID-19, unless significant measures are taken. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The report notes that COVID-19 is at least the sixth pandemic to
On November 3, voters in Mississippi approved a new flag, “The New Magnolia”, featuring a magnolia flower. The flag will replace the old one that has been in use for 126 years, and which carried the Confederate battle emblem on it. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Mississippi is nicknamed the “Magnolia State”, a reference
