World Water Week is observed on August 23 to 27 each year. It is the annual focal point for the globe’s water issues. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Organized by SIWI, this year’s event will be held entirely online, in a new, digital format designed to ensure that people across the world can collaborate to […]
Egypt has closed its main border crossing point with the Gaza Strip amid tensions with the territory’s Hamas rulers. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 It was the first time the Rafah crossing was shuttered during a workday since early this year. Egyptian authorities had kept it open during the 11-day war between Israel and Hamas
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Union Minister Narayan Rane was formally arrested by Maharashtra police for his slap remarks against Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Two FIRs were registered against the Union Minister, one in Pune and the other one in Nashik, regarding his remarks. Rane had also approached the Bombay High Court earlier seeking
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The first of two additional Krivak class stealth frigates being built by Russia is expected to be delivered to India in the middle of 2023. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 In October 2016, India and Russia signed an Inter-Governmental Agreement (IGA) for four Krivak or Talwar class stealth frigates — two to be procured directly
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The government launched a new geospatial planning portal, ‘Yuktdhara’, which Union Minister Jitendra Singh said will help in facilitating new MGNREGA assets using remote sensing and geographic information system-based data. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The “Yuktdhara” Geospatial Planning Portal will serve as a repository of assets (Geotags) created under various national rural development programmes
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The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has paid tributes to Sree Narayana Guru on his Jayanti. Narayana Guru was a philosopher, spiritual leader and social reformer in India. He was born into a family that belonged to the Ezhava caste. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 He led a reform movement against the injustice in the
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence (SCOD) visited the prestigious ab-initio sailors training establishment of Indian Navy, INS Chilka on 23 Aug 21. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence (SCOD) is a Department Related Standing Committee (DRSC) of selected members of parliament for legislative oversight of the defence policies and
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The Indian Army’s Selection Board has cleared the way for the promotion of five women officers to Colonel (Time Scale) rank, post completion of 26 years of reckonable service. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 This is the first time that women officers serving with the Corps of Signals, Corps of Electronic and Mechanical Engineers (EME)
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Greece has completed building a 40-km long wall and installed a hi-tech surveillance system on its border with Turkey to avoid the influx of Afghan migrants following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The development comes amid apprehensions about heavy migration of Afghan citizens into Greece via Turkey, and then further
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Union minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Narayan Rane moved the Bombay High Court seeking anticipatory bail and quashing of three FIRs filed against him over his statements that he would have “tightly slapped” chief minister Uddhav Thackeray, who he claimed was ignorant of the country’s independence year. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 If
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