World Urbanism Day, also known as “World Town Planning Day”, is observed on 8th November globally, to recognize and promote the role of planning in creating livable communities. WUD is organized by the International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISOCARP). The day was founded in 1949 by the late Professor Carlos Maria Della Paolera of the University of Buenos Aires, to advance public and professional interest […]
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Renowned Indian author Sudha Murty has authored her new book for children named “The Sage with Two Horns”, which has been published by Puffin and has illustrations by Priyankar Gupta. The book is about to revolve around lesser-known facts of Indian mythology. It is the fifth and final in the series of ‘Unusual Tales from
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson have launched a ‘green grids’ initiative—the One Sun One World One Grid (OSOWOG) project—on the sidelines of the COP26 summit during the World Leaders’ Summit of COP26 on November 02, 2021. The project aims to connect energy grids across borders to facilitate a faster transition
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Britain’s health regulators, Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) have approved the world’s first pill to treat cases of symptomatic COVID-19. Britain became the first country in the world to approve a potentially game-changing COVID-19 antiviral pill jointly developed by U.S.-based Merck & Co Inc (MRK.N) and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics, in a boost to the fight against the pandemic.
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The Reserve Bank of India will launch a web-based supervisory system that will enable off-site and on-site supervision of modern functions such as digital banking and cyber security. RBI Deputy Governor M. K. Jain informed this while speaking at a private function in Mumbai. After this, banks need to be careful in complying with rules
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Global giants like Amazon and Apple in addition to Mahindra Group and Dalmia Cement (Bharat) from India have joined as founding members of the ‘First Movers Coalition’ to work in direction of driving demand for zero-carbon applied sciences, the World Economic Forum has mentioned. The Coalition has been launched on the COP26 Summit being held in Glasgow. To jump-start, this effort, the WEF,
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The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay has been ranked as best in the country by the latest Asian University Ranking 2022 released by Quacquarelli Symonds Rankings. The National University of Singapore has come up as Asia’s best university for the 4th consecutive year. China’s Peking University at 2nd position and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and the University of Hong Kong
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UPSC Daily Current Affairs Quiz 7 November 2021 composed by gkseries team is very helpful to UPSC aspirants.
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UPSC Daily Static Quiz 7 November 2021 composed by the Gkseries team is very helpful to UPSC aspirants.
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DEBATE ON THE ORIGIN OF INDUS VALLEY CIVILIZATION: Theory 1- Aryan Theory Representative historians are SR Roy, TR Ramachandran, KV Shastri. They say that IVC was developed by Aryan, same Aryan associated with vedic Culture. This theory is refuted because of great contrast between IVC and vedic culture. Theory 2 – Diffusionist Theory In a
