The ‘gregarious flowering of bamboo’ inside the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary (WWS) and the nearby Mudumalai Tiger Reserve and Gudalur forest division in Tamil Nadu may pose a threat to wildlife in the Nilgiri biosphere, a major tiger and elephant habitat. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Bamboosa bambos is a monocarpic (flowering only once) plant belonging […]
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The CPI(M) Polit Bureau called the Supreme Court notice to the government seeking a response on the PIL filed by advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay, challenging the Places of Worship (Special Provision) Act, 1991, “unfortunate”. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The Act mandates that the character of all religious places of worship should be maintained as
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China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) ended its annual parliamentary session at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 This paves the way for sweeping changes in how Hong Kong, the Special Administrative Region (SAR) that has been ruled under the “one country, two systems” model since its return to China in
In 2004, NASA’s Mars exploration rover ‘Opportunity’ found several small spheres on the planet, informally named Martian blueberries. Opportunity’s mini spectrometers studied the mineralogy and noted they were made of iron oxide compounds called haematites. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 This caused excitement, as the presence of haematites suggests that there was water present on
Citizens can now get the water quality in their own taps tested at reasonable rates, as part of a monitoring framework rolled out by the Centre’s flagship Jal Jeevan Mission. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The “drinking water quality testing, monitoring and surveillance framework and guidelines” released mandate a network of National Accreditation Board for
A Mizoram-based group representing the Zo indigenous people of India, Bangladesh and Myanmar has petitioned President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi to impose sanctions on military-ruled Myanmar. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The Zo Reunification Organisation (ZORO) comprising the Chin-Kuki-Mizo-Zomi group of people has also asked the Centre not to turn away
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The decision of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to slap restrictions on mutual fund (MF) investments in additional tier-1 (AT1) bonds has raised a storm in the MF and banking sectors. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The Finance Ministry has asked the regulator to withdraw the changes as it could lead to
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The Himachal Pradesh government has decided to start planting seabuckthorn in the cold desert areas of the state this year, Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur announced in his budget speech. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Seabuckthorn is a shrub which produces an orange-yellow coloured edible berry. In India, it is found above the tree line
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Current Affairs 14 March 2021 is the most important area from which a major share of questions come in SSC, Railway, state government recruitment exams, UPSC prelims and mains. 1st meeting of the BRICS contact group on Economic and Trade Issues The BRICS Contact Group on Economic and Trade Issues (CGETI) leads held their first
Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’, the celebration of 75 years of independence, in Ahmedabad and flagged off a symbolic ‘Dandi March’. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The padyatra or foot march started from Sabarmati Ashram to commemorate the 91st anniversary of Gandhi’s historic ‘Salt Satyagrah’. The 24-day march from March 12
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