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MacKenzie Bezos is become the world's third richest woman. She is also Amazon's second largest shareholder after her ex-husband Jeff Bezos. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos earlier this week filed the paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission revealing that he had transferred 968,148 Amazon ...

Lok Sabha passes Dam Safety bill to set up an institutional mechanism for surveillance, inspection, operation and maintenance of specified dams across the country with the centre asserting it has no intention of taking over power of the states. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 The provisions ...

NDTV journalist Ravish Kumar wins Ramon Magsaysay Award 2019 for "harnessing journalism to give voice to the voiceless" and his "unfaltering commitment to a professional, ethical journalism of the highest standards". Ravish Kumar is among the five recipients of the 2019 Magsaysay award, the Asian ...

The Milky Way is "warped and twisted" and not flat as previously thought, according to researchers who have developed a large-scale three-dimensional (3D) map of our galaxy. By measuring the distance from the Sun to thousands of individual pulsating stars scattered across the Milky Way, the ...

S. Jaishankar, foreign minister said that he had conveyed to the US in clear terms that any talks to resolve the Kashmir dispute can only be held between India and Pakistan, and that he will not invite third-party mediation. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 This came on a day US President ...

Rajya Sabha passed the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment Bill (UAPA Bill), 2019 to a select committee with 147 votes in favour and 42 against it. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 Home Minister Amit Shah, during a discussion on the Bill, said that terrorism had no religion and every ...

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman started the process of rolling out a slew of measures to boost industry’s access to credit, including opening a ₹10,000 crore liquidity window for home financiers. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 Sitharaman will meet chiefs of all state-run as well as ...

Gross GST collection grows 5.8% to Rs 1.02 lakh crore in July, marginally up from the previous month, official data showed. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 Revenue collection from the Goods and Services Tax (GST) had slipped below the Rs 1 lakh crore mark for the first time in the current ...

The Reserve Bank of India allowed Bank of China to offer regular banking services in the country. All commercial banks, like SBI, HDFC Bank, Punjab National Bank and ICICI Bank, are in the Second Schedule. Banks falling under this schedule have to adhere to the norms of the RBI. Daily Current ...