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Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh reported that police are looking into a scam about manipulation of TRPs (Television Rating Points) by rigging the devices used by the Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) India, which has the mandate to measure television audience in India. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points TRPs represent how many people, […]
The Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded to Louise Glück after several years of scandals and controversy for the world’s pre-eminent literary accolade. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Gluck, 77, was honoured “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal,” the Academy said. A professor at Yale University,
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The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has nearly doubled fund allocation for Special Accelerated Road Development Programme in North Eastern Areas (SARDP-NE) in the current fiscal to Rs 760 crore. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Government of India has undertaken massive road development programme under SARDP-NE Scheme in NE Region. The scope
Union Environment Minister has said that the Pusa Decomposer will be used on a trial basis this year in Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The burning of paddy stubble left in the fields after harvest has been a cause of concern for the past several years as it
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Union Food and Consumer Affairs Minister and Lok Jan Shakti Party patriarch Ram Vilas Paswan passed away at a private hospital in New Delhi on 8 October, 2020. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points He was 74 and had recently undergone a heart surgery. Ram Vilas Paswan (1946 – 2020) was an Indian politician from
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BRICS Bank (New Development Bank) has approved infrastructure projects worth 741 million dollars in India. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points BRICS Bank Board of Directors approved a loan of USD 500 million for the Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS) Project and a loan of USD 241 million for Mumbai Metro Rail II (Line
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Union Minister for Science and Technology Dr Harsh Vardhan has inaugurated the “DBT-BIRAC Clean Tech Demo Park” at Barapullah drain site, near Sundial Park, Sarai Kale Khan, New Delhi in a virtual event. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The DBT-BIRAC Clean Tech Demo Park will be used to demonstrate innovative Waste-to-Value technologies with support
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Union Minister for Education Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ virtually inaugurated the Gyan Circle Ventures, a MeitY funded Technology Business Incubator (TBI) of Indian Institute of Information Technology, Sri City (Chittoor), Andhra Pradesh through Video Conference. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Gyan Circle Ventures would function as a Technology Incubation and Development of Entrepreneurs (TIDE
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World Post day is celebrated on October 9, the anniversary of the Universal Postal Union, which started in 1874 in Switzerland. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The UPU was the start of the global communications revolution, introducing the ability to write letter to others all over the world. World Post Day started in 1969.
The Indian Air Force (IAF) Day is celebrated every year on October 8. On this day, the Air Force in India was officially raised in 1932 as the supporting force of the Royal Air Force of the United Kingdom. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The first operational squadron came into being in April 1933.
