SpaceX Crew-1 is the first crewed operational flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft. It is also the first crewed night launch by the United States since STS-130. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The Crew Dragon spacecraft Resilience, launched on 16 November 2020 on a Falcon 9 from the Kennedy Space Center, LC-39A. The mission […]
The United States territory of Puerto Rico has voted in favour of statehood, and thus be treated at par with the current 50 states of the country. On November 3, the same day US voters chose Joe Biden over Donald Trump in the US election, a majority of Puerto Ricans voted yes in a non-binding
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The isolated UK Overseas Territory of Tristan da Cunha, which is home to the world’s most remote human settlement, declared the largest fully protected marine reserves in the Atlantic Ocean at 687,000 square kilometres. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points This will close over 90 percent of their waters to harmful activities such as bottom-trawling
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The Union Ministry of Labour and Employment has notified the draft rules under the Code on Social Security, 2020, inviting objections and suggestions, if any, from the stakeholders. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The draft rules also provide for Aadhaar based registration including self-registration by unorganised workers, gig workers and platform workers on the
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The Leonid meteor showers are currently making their yearly appearance, and will reach their peak in India on November 17 and 18. In 2020, these showers are active from November 6th to November 30th. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The Leonids emerge from the comet Tempel-Tuttle, which requires 33 years to revolve once around
Yashvardhan Kumar Sinha was appointed as the Chief Information Commissioner (CIC). Before the appointment, he has been serving as an Information Commissioner (IC) in the Central Information Commission since January 1, 2019. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The RTI Act 2005 provides for the constitution of a Central Information Commission and State Information Commissions
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As 28-year-old filmmaker, Varchasva Dhunta, steered his camera through a vast crowd cheering “Jungle jyaada jaroori hai” (forest is more important), several demonstrators hugged the Thano forest trees along Dehradun’s Jolly Grant Airport Road, enacting the famous “Chipko Aandolan.” Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Many even tied the Raksha Sutra – a sacred thread
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Legendary Bengali actor Soumitra Chatterjee passed away. Soumitra Chatterjee (1935 —2020) was an Indian film actor. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points He was best known for his collaborations with Oscar-winning film director Satyajit Ray, with whom he worked in fourteen films. In 1999 Soumitra Chattopadhyay became the first Indian film personality to be conferred
United States is considering withdrawing as many as 4,000 troops from South Korea if Seoul does not pay more money to maintain the U.S. deployment there. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Trump wants allies to pay more to compensate the United States for its protection. Trump’s antagonism toward NATO members has received the most
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Fifteen countries on 15 November, 2020 have signed the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) trade deal, which includes 10 Southeast Asian economies along with China, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand and Australia. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points RCEP is the world’s largest trade pact in terms of GDP. First proposed in 2012, the deal
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