World Food Programme (WFP) has been awarded with the Nobel Peace Prize for 2020. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The World Food Programme (WFP) is the food-assistance branch of the United Nations and the world’s largest humanitarian organization focused on hunger and food security. World Food Programme was founded in 1961, it is headquartered […]
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The Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded to Louise Glück after several years of scandals and controversy for the world’s pre-eminent literary accolade. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Gluck, 77, was honoured “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal,” the Academy said. A professor at Yale University,
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Three Laureates share this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics for their discoveries about one of the most exotic phenomena in the universe, the black hole. Roger Penrose showed that the general theory of relativity leads to the formation of black holes. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Roger Penrose used ingenious mathematical methods in his
Americans Harvey J Alter and Charles M Rice, and British scientist Michael Houghton were chosen for the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology for the discovery of the Hepatitis C virus. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The prestigious award comes with a gold medal and prize money of 10 million Swedish kronor (over $1,118,000),
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The National Council for Science & Technology Communications (NCSTC) Division of Department of Science & Technology (DST), Ministry of Science & Technology Government of India, has invited nominations for National Awards 2020 for Science & Technology Communication to recognize outstanding work in communication of science and technology. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The awards
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Rajesh Kumar Mohapatra, a biologist associated with Nandankanan Zoological Park, has been awarded the prestigious Prani Mitra Award 2020 for his contribution towards conservation, research and zoo management. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The awards were given in four categories viz. the Outstanding Director / Curator, Outstanding Veterinarian, Outstanding Biologist /Educationist, Outstanding Biologist /Educationist
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The Results of the first edition of National Startup Awards has released by Minister of Railways and Commerce & Industry, Shri Piyush Goyal on 6thOctober, 2020 at 3:30 PM, at the National Media Centre, New Delhi. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) has conceived the
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Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri, a renowned Malayalam poet was conferred the Jnanpith award, the country’s highest literary award at a special function held at his house at Kumaranallur, near Palakkad. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Jnanpith Award is given by Bharatiya Jnanpith, a literary and research organization based in Delhi. It is given annually to
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Historian-author Rana Safvi has been conferred an award instituted in memory of Yamin Hazarika, the first woman from the Northeast to join the central police service. She published several books on culture, history, and monuments of India, which was chosen for her “contribution to the syncretic culture of India”. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points
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The prestigious Nobel prizes Winners will receive an extra 1 million crowns ($110,000) this year. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel left around 31 million crowns – about 1.8 billion crowns in today’s money according to the Foundation – to fund the prizes, which have been awarded since 1901. The prize
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