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India got its first ever Brand & Logo for its Cotton on 2nd World Cotton Day

Union Minister of Textiles and Women & Child Development launched the 1st ever Brand & Logo for Indian Cotton on 2nd World Cotton Day on 7th October, 2020 through Video Conferencing. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Now India’s premium Cotton would be known as ‘Kasturi Cotton’ in the world cotton Trade. The Kasturi Cotton […]

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World Cotton Day 2020

World Cotton Day is celebrated on 7th October to celebrate the advantages of cotton, ranging from its qualities as a natural fibre to the benefits people obtain from its production, transformation, trade and consumption. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points At the initiative of the Cotton-4 (Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad and Mali), the WTO hosted

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Ratification of seven Persistent Organic Pollutants listed under Stockholm Convention

The Union Cabinet has approved the Ratification of seven (7) chemicals listed under Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs). Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points These are: Chlordecone, Hexabromobiphenyl Hexabromodiphenyl ether and Heptabromodiphenylether Tetrabromodiphenyl ether and Pentabromodiphenyl ether Pentachlorobenzene Hexabromocyclododecane Hexachlorobutadiene The ratification process would enable India to access Global Environment Facility (GEF) financial

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Cabinet approved MoU between Zoological Survey of India, International Barcode of Life

The Union Cabinet has apprised of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed in June 2020 between the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) and International Barcode of Life (iBOL), a Canadian not-for-profit corporation. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points ZSI and iBOL have come together for further efforts in DNA barcoding, a methodology for rapidly and

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Cabinet nod for reforms in natural gas marketing

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved ‘natural gas marketing reforms’ with an aim to standardise the procedure to discover the price of gas sold in the market. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The policy aims to provide standard procedure for sale of natural gas in a transparent and competitive manner to discover

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M Rajeshwar Rao appointed deputy governor of RBI

The government appointed RBI’s senior-most executive director M Rajeshwar Rao as the deputy governor of the central bank. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Rao was appointed to the post vacated by N S Vishwanathan, who stepped down three months ahead of his extended tenure on health grounds. The RBI needs four Deputy Governors: two

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Coronavirus pandemic could push 150 million into extreme poverty

The World Bank reported that global extreme poverty is expected to rise for the first time in 20 years because of the disruption caused by COVID-19, exacerbating the impact of conflict and climate change, which were already slowing down poverty reduction. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The pandemic may push another 88 million to

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Centre appointed Dinesh Kumar Khara as SBI chairman

The central government has appointed SBI’s senior-most Managing Director Dinesh Kumar Khara as the chairman of the the country’s largest lender. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points He has been appointed as SBI Chairman for a period of three years. On August 28, Bank Board Bureau had recommended the appointment of Dinesh Kumar Khara to

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U.S.-French duo won Nobel Chemistry Prize for gene editing tool

Emmanuelle Charpentier of France and Jennifer Doudna of the U.S. on October 7 won the Nobel Chemistry Prize for the gene-editing technique known as the CRISPR-Cas9 DNA snipping “scissors”, the first time a Nobel science prize has gone to a women-only team. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Charpentier, 51, and Ms. Doudna, 56, are

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Public places cannot be occupied indefinitely

The Supreme Court has found the indefinite “occupation” of a public road by the Shaheen Bagh protestors unacceptable. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The verdict came on a plea against the Anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protests which had led to blocking of a road in Shaheen Bagh in the national capital last December. It said

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