International Current Affairs

The UK is set to conduct the first COVID-19 human challenge trials (HCT) within a month from now. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021  The UK government is spending £33.6 million for the trials, being conducted jointly by the government’s Vaccines Taskforce, Imperial College London, the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust and the clinical company called […]

In Catalonia saw the pro-Madrid Socialist Party claim a narrow victory ahead of the secessionist Republican Left, although both parties are set to command an equal number of seats in the region’s 135-seat parliament. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Catalonia is an autonomous community in the north-eastern corner of Spain. Catalonia consists of four provinces:

Former European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi was formally sworn in as Italy’s new prime minister, against the backdrop of the deadly coronavirus pandemic and a crippling recession. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Mario Draghi (born 1947) is an Italian economist, central banker and politician, who is serving as Prime Minister of Italy since 13

In a development that could ratchet up tensions between the United States and Germany, the consortium building the Nord Stream 2 pipeline has said that it has resumed work on the controversial project. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 In 2015, Gazprom and 5 other European energy firms decided to build Nord Stream 2, valued at

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to inaugurate the World Sustainable Development Summit 2021 on 10th February. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The theme of the Summit is ‘Redefining our common future: Safe and secure environment for all’. It is the 20th edition of The Energy and Resources Institute’s (TERI) flagship event The Summit will

The Biden administration is set to announce this week that it will reengage with the much-maligned U.N. Human Rights Council that former President Donald Trump withdrew from almost three years ago. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The Human Rights Council is an inter-governmental body within the United Nations system. It was founded in 2006. It

Denmark approved plans to construct an artificial island in the North Sea and use it as clean energy hub. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The project is being called the largest construction project to be undertaken in Denmark’s history with an estimated cost of DKK 210 billion. An energy island is based on a platform

Canada labeled far-right group the Proud Boys a terrorist organization, less than a month after some of its members participated in the deadly U.S. Capitol riot. Canada’s public safety department said it had “reasonable grounds” to believe the Proud Boys is a group that “has knowingly participated in or facilitated a terrorist activity.” Daily Current

United States has extended the New START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) nuclear arms control treaty with Russia for five years. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 President Joe Biden and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin reportedly discussed it by phone a week ago, and subsequently Mr Putin signed it into law on Friday. The treaty had