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‘Lifeline Udan’ flights are being operated by MoCA to transport essential medical cargo to remote parts of the country to support India’s war against COVID-19. 316 flights have been operated under Lifeline Udan by Air India, Alliance Air, IAF and private carriers during Covid-19 lockdown. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points 196 of these flights […]
Among other strategies to beat the novel coronavirus, researchers at the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) are also repurposing existing drugs. And one of their latest candidates – Sepsivac, a commercial drug used to treat patients with gram-negative sepsis – seems to offer some promise. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The drug
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The Ministry of Information & Broadcasting has issued an advisory to all electronic and print media journalists covering the COVID-19 crisis asking them to take precautions to safeguard their health. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The advisory asked the management of media houses to take necessary care of their field as well as office
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Iran successfully launched its first military satellite Noor-1 (“light”) into low-earth orbit and simultaneously announced its parallel military space program run by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard’s Corps (IRGC). Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Satellite reached an orbit of 425 kilometers (264 miles) above the Earth’s surface. The two-stage launch took place in Iran’s Central
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The 2020 edition of The Global Report on Food Crises describes the scale of acute hunger in the world. It provides an analysis of the drivers that are contributing to food crises across the globe, and examines how the COVID-19 pandemic might contribute to their perpetuation or deterioration. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The
Indian herpetologists have discovered a new species of viper family in Pakke Tiger Reserve in Arunachal Pradesh and named it after Salazar Slytherin, a fictional character in JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The viper called Trimeresurus Salazar. It has a unique orange to reddish stripe present on the head
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India has dropped two places on a global press freedom index to be ranked 142nd out of 180 countries in the annual Reporters Without Borders analysis. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Paris-based Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF), or Reporters Without Borders, is a non-profit organization that works to document and combat attacks on journalists around
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India sent 23 tonnes of essential medicines to Nepal to help it fight the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic which has infected 45 people in the country. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The country’s Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli thanked his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi for the generous support. The package 8.25 lakhs dosage of essential
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Government has refuted claims that Centre is preparing to procure thousands of wristbands which will be embedded with its Arogya Setu app to monitor movements of COVID-19 patients in hospital and home quarantine. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points These bands will help medical personnel and authorities keep track of the movement of patients in
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Adam Higginbotham’s “Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster” has won a $5,000 prize. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The award is named for the late CIA director William E. Colby. In 1999, the Colby Award was established. Previous winners of the award include Karl Marlantes’ novel Matterhorn and
