Tropical montane grasslands (TMG) in the Shola Sky Islands of the Western Ghats have suffered big reductions due to invasions by exotic trees such as acacias, pines and eucalyptus, shrinking the range sizes of endemic species, including plants, birds, amphibians and mammals. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points TMG are high elevation grasslands forming only […]
The Human Freedom Index presents the state of human freedom in the world based on a broad measure that encompasses personal, civil, and economic freedom in which placed India at the 111th spot out of 162 countries. India ranked 94 on the index in 2019. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points India’s scored 6.30 out
Jupiter and Saturn will align in the night sky on 21 December 2020 in an event astronomers call the “great conjunction” — also referred to as the “Christmas Star” — marking the planets’ closest encounter in nearly 400 years. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points On the day almost all the viewers across the world
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a first-of-its-kind intentional genomic alteration (IGA) in a line of domestic pigs referred to as GalSafe pigs. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Genetically modified (GM) pigs have been approved for food and medical use in the US, drawing mixed reactions. The pigs are only the second
Reliance Industries Ltd and BP (British Petroleum) have announced the start of gas production from the R cluster, the deepest off-shore gas field in Asia. The field is the first of three deep water gas projects in the KGD6 block jointly developed by RIL and BP to come on stream. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020
The ‘SolarWinds hack’, a cyberattack recently discovered in the United States, has emerged as one of the biggest ever targeted against the US government, its agencies and several other private companies. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points This is being called a ‘Supply Chain’ attack: Instead of directly attacking the federal government or a private
The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has published a draft notification GSR 757(E) dated 11th December 2020, seeking comments from the public for adoption of E20 fuel, i.e, blend of 20% of ethanol with gasoline, as an automotive fuel and for the adoption of mass emission standards for this fuel. Daily Current Affairs Quiz
Indian Railways issued draft National Rail Plan in order to address the inadequacies of capacity constraints and improve its modal share in total freight ecosystem of the country. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The objective of the Plan is to create capacity ahead of demand by 2030, which in turn would cater to growth
The World Minorities Rights Day is observed every year on December 18, to safeguard the Constitutionally-guaranteed rights of religious minorities. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points United Nations on December 18, 1992 adopted and broadcast the Statement on the individual’s Rights belonging to religious or Linguistic National or Ethnic Minorities. The same year the National
Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare digitally addressed the Platinum Jubilee of the National Conference of Tuberculosis and Chest Diseases (NATCON). Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The Tuberculosis Association of India (TAI) is one of the oldest and largest voluntary organizations having its affiliates all over the country. It was set up in
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