Current Affairs February 2021

'KAPILA' for patent awareness

‘KAPILA’ for patent awareness

The Government has launched a campaign namely Kalam Program for Intellectual Property Literacy and Awareness Campaign (KAPILA) for Intellectual Property Literacy and creating patent awareness. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The objectives of the scheme include creating awareness regarding Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) in Higher Education Institutions(HEIs), enabling of IP protection of inventions originating from […]

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Micro Irrigation Fund (MIF) has been created under NABARD

Micro Irrigation Fund (MIF) has been created under NABARD

The Department of Agriculture, Cooperation & Farmers Welfare (DAC&FW) is implementing a Centrally Sponsored Scheme of  ‘Per Drop More Crop’ component of ‘Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (PMKSY-PDMC)’ from  2015-16 in all the States of the country which  focuses on enhancing water use efficiency at farm level through Micro Irrigation viz. Drip and Sprinkler irrigation

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US extends New START Nuclear Arms Control Treaty with Russia for five years

US extends New START Nuclear Arms Control Treaty with Russia for five years

United States has extended the New START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) nuclear arms control treaty with Russia for five years. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 President Joe Biden and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin reportedly discussed it by phone a week ago, and subsequently Mr Putin signed it into law on Friday. The treaty had

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Pandit Bhimsen Joshi Jayanti

Pandit Bhimsen Joshi Jayanti

Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, the legendary vocalist, is being rerembered on his birth anniversary on 4th February. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Pandit Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi (1922 –2011) was an Indian vocalist from Karnataka, in the Hindustani classical tradition. He is known for the khayal form of singing, as well as for his popular renditions of

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Groundhog Day 2021

Groundhog Day 2021

Groundhog Day is observed in the United States and Canada on 2 February each year. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The groundhog (Marmota monax) is also known as a woodchuck. It is a rodent of the family Sciuridae, belonging to the group of large ground squirrels known as marmots. It is native to North America.

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