With severe groundwater depletion, the cropping intensity or the amount of land planted in the winter season may decrease by up to 20% by 2025 in India. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 India is the second-largest producer of wheat in the world, with over 30 million hectares in the country dedicated to producing this crop. […]
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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will issue cybersecurity norms for payment service providers (PSPs) soon, following a series of data breaches faced by operators including Mobikwik and payment aggregator JusPay. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 While the standards for fintech-driven payment services providers will be similar to cyber hygiene norms issued recently for banks
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NASA has logged another extra-terrestrial first on its latest mission to Mars: converting carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere into pure, breathable oxygen. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The unprecedented extraction of oxygen on Mars was achieved by a device called MOXIE aboard Perseverance, a six-wheeled science rover. MOXIE is short for Mars Oxygen In-Situ
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Scientists have discovered what may be the smallest-known black hole in the Milky Way galaxy and the closest to our solar system – an object so curious that they nicknamed it ‘the Unicorn.’ Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Nicknamed ‘Unicorn’ the researchers said the black hole is roughly three times the mass of our Sun,
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Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will purchase oxygen concentrators for using them for Covid patient treatment in the Safe Homes across the city. The city has been witnessing a steep rise in Covid cases since the past few days with the number of daily cases breaching the 2500-mark. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 With oxygen cylinders
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Government of India had established a national multi-agency consortium, Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomic Consortium (INSACOG) in December 2020, consisting of ten laboratories of the Department of Biotechnology, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoHF&W) with the overall aim of monitoring the genomic
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Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) gave a restricted emergency use approval to the Zydus Cadila’s ‘Virafin’ for treating the patients showing moderate COVID-19 symptoms. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Virafin is a pegylated interferon alpha-2b(PegIFN), which when subcutaneously injected to the patient in the early stages of infection, resulted in their faster recovery. For
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The 19th edition of the Indian and France Navy bilateral exercise ‘VARUNA-2021’ is scheduled to be conducted in the Arabian Sea from 25th to 27th April 2021. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 From the Indian Navy’s side, guided missile stealth destroyer INS Kolkata, guided missile frigates INS Tarkash and INS Talwar, Fleet Support Ship INS
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Senior IIS officer Manikant Thakur passed away following COVID-19 infection. Mr Thakur was serving as Chief of Media in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. In his illustrious career of 30 years in IIS, he served in different departments of Ministry of I&B including Bureau of Outreach & Communication, News Services Division of AIR
