Indonesia’s Mount Sinabung erupted spewing a massive column of smoke and ash up to 2,800 meters into the sky. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The volcano has been active since 2010 when it erupted after nearly 400 years of inactivity. Indonesia is home to many active volcanoes owing to its location in the “Ring of […]
An unfamiliar lineament is among four factors behind frequent earthquakes in northern Assam’s Sonitpur area. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 A lineament is a linear feature in a landscape dictated by an underlying geological structure such as a fault. According to the Geological Survey of India (GSI), Sonitpur district lies within a tectonically complex triangular
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President of South Sudan, Salva Kiir has dissolved Parliament, opening the way for lawmakers from opposing sides of the country’s civil war to be appointed under a 2018 peace accord. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The setting up of a new legislative body was part of an accord signed in September 2018 between Mr. Kiir
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The RBI has been set up an advisory group to assist the second regulatory review authority (RRA 2.0) which was constituted by the central bank earlier this month to streamline regulations and reduce the compliance burden of regulated entities. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Headed by SBI Managing Director S. Janakiraman, the group will assist
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German intelligence services reviled that they would widen their surveillance of Islamophobic protest movement Pegida in its home state of Saxony, as the group had become “extremist” and “anti-constitutional”. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 While Pegida had previously attracted “heterogeneous” support and taken “moderate” positions, it had developed “an increasingly right-wing extremist orientation”, Saxony’s domestic
An airport built for warplanes in 1939 took commercial wings, heralding the best of times for western Assam’s Dhubri district during the worst of times. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Rupsi airport near Gauripur, about 15 km from district headquarters Dhubri, was one of South Asia’s largest airports with a 1.8 km runway used by
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The Centre alone is empowered to identify socially and educationally backward classes and include them in the Central List for claiming reservation benefits. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The President (that is the Central government) alone, to the exclusion of all other authorities, is empowered to identify SEBCs and include them in a list to
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Acute shortage of anti-fungal injection ‘amphotericin’ and other anti-fungal medicines used to treat mucormycosis, a life-threatening infection that follows Covid-19 in roughly 30% of diabetics, is now adding to the difficulties of patients. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Amphotericin B injection is used to treat serious and potentially life-threatening fungal infections. Amphotericin B injection is
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The Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine of China has been approved by the World Health Organization for emergency use. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The UN health agency signed off on the two-dose vaccine, which is already being deployed in dozens of countries around the world. The WHO has already given emergency use listing to the vaccines
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China has warned Bangladesh against joining the US-led Quad alliance. According to China, Dhaka’s participation in the anti-Beijing “club” would result in “substantial damage” to bilateral relations. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Quad is a “small group of elites” working against China. Initiated in 2007, the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, Quad for short, is an informal
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