World Energy Transitions Outlook report, brought out by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) says that the COVID-19 crisis offers an unexpected opportunity for countries across the world to decouple their economies from fossil fuels and accelerate the shift to renewable energy ...

Myanmar’s first satellite built by Japan’s Hokkaido University in a joint project with Myanmar’s government-funded Myanmar Aerospace Engineering University (MAEU) with the cost of $15 million is being held on board the International Space Station following the Myanmar coup. Daily Current ...

Having left the European Union’s flagship Erasmus scholarship programme after Brexit, the UK launched its own replacement called the Turing scheme to enable UK students to study abroad. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Named after the celebrated English mathematician and codebreaker Alan ...

Sri Lanka will soon ban the burqa or face veil, a Cabinet Minister said, as he announced the Rajapaksa administration’s latest policy decision impacting the minority Muslim community. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The authorities would henceforth use the Prevention of Terrorism (PTA) law — ...

China's National People's Congress (NPC) ended its annual parliamentary session at Beijing's Great Hall of the People. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 This paves the way for sweeping changes in how Hong Kong, the Special Administrative Region (SAR) that has been ruled under the “one country, ...

People living in same-sex couples will be barred from adopting children in Poland even as single parents, under a new law from a nationalist ruling party which has made anti-gay policies a major part of its governing platform. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The resolution reads, ‘‘LGBTIQ ...

Twenty years after being blasted out of Afghanistan's rugged central highlands, one of the country's famed Buddha statues made a brief virtual return as a three-dimensional projection. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 In March 2001, the Taliban began blowing up two monumental Buddha statues ...

A draft of China’s new Five-Year Plan (2021-2025), which is set to be formally approved on March 11, has given the green light for the first dams to be built on the lower reaches of Yarlung Zangbo river, as the Brahmaputra is known in Tibet, before it flows into India. Daily Current Affairs ...

A Saudi-led military coalition mounted air strikes on Yemen’s Houthi-controlled capital Sanaa after it intercepted 10 drones launched by the Iran-backed rebels, state media reported. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Sanaa also spelled Sanaʽa or Sana, is the largest city in Yemen. Under the ...

In a move aimed at improving its relations with former colony Algeria, France has admitted that its soldiers tortured and killed the Algerian lawyer and freedom fighter Ali Boumendjel, whose death in 1957 had until now been covered up as a suicide. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 37 years ...