World Hepatitis Day is celebrated each year on 28 July to enhance awareness of viral hepatitis, an inflammation of the liver that causes a range of health problems, including liver cancer. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The day is marked in honour of American physician and geneticist Baruch Samuel Blumberg for his work on […]
Saffron grown in Kashmir has received the geographical indication (GI) even as the saffron crop sees both decline in its production as well as shrinking of the land under cultivation. The Union government issued a certificate of GI registration for the saffron grown in the Kashmir Valley. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The GI
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Governor is bound to convene a meeting of the Assembly for a floor test on the recommendation of the Cabinet. The five-judge Constitution Bench judgment of the Supreme Court in Nabam Rebia versus Deputy Speaker on July 13, 2016 held that a Governor cannot employ his ‘discretion’, and should strictly abide by the “aid and
Tamil Nadu state government has launched a free mask distribution scheme to benefit over 69 lakh families in the first phase, as part of measures to help fight COVID-19. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Palaniswami gave away the masks to five people at the Secretariat marking the inauguration of the first phase of the
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The first container train has arrived at the Benapole railways station of Bangladesh carrying FMCG products and other items. It had started from Majerhat station near Kolkata on Friday with a consignment of soaps, shampoos, other FMCG items and textile fabric in 50 containers. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The Container Train Service is
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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has signed an agreement for extending a $400-million currency swap facility to Sri Lanka to boost the foreign reserves and ensure financial stability of the country, which is badly hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. The currency swap arrangement will remain available till November 2022. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020
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About 200 investment proposals from China are waiting for security clearance from the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) after new rules were notified in April, making prior government approval mandatory for foreign direct investments (FDI) from countries which share a land border with India. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The Department for Promotion of
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Arun Kumar, Director General of the Railway Protection Force (RPF), has been nominated to be the vice-chairman of the Security Platform of the Paris-based Union Internationale Des Chemins /International Union of Railways (UIC). He is a 1985-batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Arun Kumar, presently serving as Director General
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The Rural Development Ministry will soon rank states on efficient management of financial resources allocated for implementing half a dozen rural development schemes. The department has developed a financial management index that will map the performance of states and rank them on the basis of five parameters. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points These include
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A study by the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology (WIHG) an autonomous institute of the Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government of India, exploring the elastic properties of rocks and seismicity in this easternmost part of India revealed that the area is generating moderate earthquakes at two different depths. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020
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