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Prime Minister Modi has released the autobiography of Dr Balasaheb Vikhe Patil and renamed Pravara Rural Education Society as ‘Loknete Dr Balasaheb Vikhe Patil Pravara Rural Education Society’. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Balasaheb Vikhe Patil (1932 – 2016) was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He was seven time MP, […]
World Arthritis Day is celebrated on October 12, every year to raise awareness about Arthritis around the world. The theme of the World Arthritis Day 2020 is “Time2Work”. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Arthritis is not a single disease but a collection of more than 100 different conditions that affect the joints, tissues around
Bangladesh Cabinet approved a draft law to include death penalty as the highest punishment for rape. The decision to amend the Prevention of Women and Children Repression Act-2000 was announced after the Cabinet meeting Chaired by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Dhaka. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs
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Rashtriya Kamdhenu Aayog (RKA) has started a nation-wide campaign to celebrate Kamdhenu Deepawali Abhiyan this year on the occasion of Deepawali festival. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Through this campaign, the RKA is promoting extensive use of cow-dung and products during this Diwali Festival. Manufacture of Cow dung-based Diyas, Candles, Dhoop, Swastik, Wall-piece, Paper-weight,
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Health Ministry’s telemedicine initiative – E-Sanjeevani is rapidly gaining popularity amongst patients and doctors. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points It has recorded five lakh teleconsultations in a short span of time and the last one lakh consultations were completed in a record time of 17 days. As a digital modality of health care services
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The Monetary Policy Committee of the Reserve Bank of India kept the repo rate unchanged at four per cent. The committee unanimously voted to keep rates unchanged, and decided to maintain its accommodative monetary policy stance to support growth amid the pandemic. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points RBI governor said India’s GDP would contract
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray announced that the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress government has decided to move the proposed car-shed for the underground Metro 3 rail out of Aarey. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points This has long been a contentious issue between environmental activists and the government. The tussle has been ongoing since 2014. While the
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International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction is observed on 13 October, 2020. The International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction was started in 1989, after a call by the United Nations General Assembly. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Held every 13 October, the day celebrates how people and communities around the world are reducing their
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Delhi girl Chaitanya Venkateswaran recently became the British high commissioner to India for a day. The 18-year-old won the ‘High Commissioner for the Day’ contest organised by the mission in the run-up to the International Day of the Girl Child, which is on October 11. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The British High Commission
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India received the prestigious ‘Blue Flag’ certification for all its eight beaches that it recommended. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The beaches that have been awarded the ‘BLUE FLAG” are Shivrajpur (Dwarka-Gujarat), Ghoghla (Diu), Kasarkod and Padubidri (Karnataka), Kappad (Kerala), Rushikonda (AP), Golden (Puri-Odisha) and Radhanagar (A&N Islands). India is also the first country
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