India abstained from voting on the resolution at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) critical of Sri Lanka and aims to establish a central international database to enable future persecutions of war crimes. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Resolution 46/L1 has decided, among other ...

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed reported that Eritrea will pull its troops out of Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region. It is a potential breakthrough in a drawn-out conflict that has seen atrocities carried out against civilians. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The Tigray Region is the ...

A giant container ship the length of four football pitches has become wedged across Egypt's Suez Canal, blocking one of the world's busiest trade routes. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 A human-made waterway, the Suez Canal is one of the world’s most heavily used shipping lanes, carrying ...

India recently abstained from a crucial vote on Sri Lanka’s rights record at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The resolution on ‘Promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka’ was, however, adopted after 22 states of ...

Ties between China and Taiwan, which have historically been rocky over issues such as sovereignty, foreign relations and military build-up, are now being tested by an unusual subject – pineapples. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 On March 1, China banned the import of pineapples from Taiwan, ...

The United States, the European Union, Britain and Canada have imposed sanctions on several Chinese officials for human rights abuses against the Muslim Uyghur minority in China's Xinjiang province, prompting retaliation from China. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 This is the first ...

India could take part in a multi-nation exercise to be hosted by Pakistan later this year at its premier anti-terrorism centre in Pabbi in Nowshera district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The exercise will be held under the aegis of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). Daily Current Affairs Quiz ...

The Philippines has demanded that China recall more than 200 Chinese boats it said had been spotted at a disputed reef claimed by both Manila and Beijing, describing their presence as a "clear provocative action." Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 It urged China to recall the boats saying the ...

Tanzania's Samia Suluhu Hassan was sworn in as the country's first female president after the sudden death of John Magufuli from an illness shrouded in mystery. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 John Pombe Joseph Magufuli (1959 – 2021) was a Tanzanian politician who served as the fifth ...

Italy has signed the International Solar Alliance under the amended ISA Framework Agreement. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The amendments to the Framework Agreement of the ISA entered into force, opening its Membership to all Member States of the UN. The International Solar Alliance is ...