Raksha mantri Shri Rajnath Singh, attended the 14th ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting Plus organized online at Hanoi, Vietnam on 10 December 2020 that marked the 10th anniversary of ADMM Plus. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points ASEAN Defense Minister’s Meeting-Plus (ADMM-Plus). ADMM-Plus is the only official framework of Defense Minister’s meetings in the Asia-Pacific Region. […]
The Foreign Ministers of Nepal and China jointly certified the elevation of Mount Everest at 8,848.86 metres above sea level 86 cm higher than what was recognised since 1954. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The common declaration meant that the two countries have shed their long-standing difference in opinion about the mountain’s height 29,017
Bangladesh recently has signed its first Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) with Bhutan allowing duty free access to a range of goods between the two countries. This is the first PTA Bangladesh has signed with any country in the world. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The agreement was signed on the occasion marking the 50
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Bangladesh has begun sending Rohingya refugees to Bhasan Char, the site where from the overcrowded camps at Cox’s Bazar, is an island formed by sedimentation (char is Bengali for sediment) close to the coast. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points It is estimated that more than 8 lakh Rohingya, who fled an army crackdown in
Pakistan has issued special permits to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and two other members of the royal family to hunt the internationally protected houbara bustards during the hunting season 2020-21. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The houbara bustard, which lives in arid climates, comes in two distinct species as recognised by the
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The United Kingdom became the first country to formally approve the Pfizer and BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, a symbolic milestone in the fight against the pandemic. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The British regulator Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) declared that the vaccine offers protection of up to 95 per cent and is
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The International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA) obtained membership of International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS). Established in 1994, the IAIS headquartered in Switzerland. Key-Points Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 It is a voluntary membership organization of insurance supervisors and regulators from more than 200 jurisdictions, constituting 97% of the world’s insurance premiums. Some of
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US President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on November 29 announced an all-women team of the White House staff to serve in senior communication roles. Biden’s office claims that this will be the first time the communications positions will be filled entirely by women. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The move to
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India strongly hit out at the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) for making factually incorrect and unwarranted references to Jammu and Kashmir in resolutions adopted by the grouping at a meeting in Niger, and asserted that the union territory is an integral and inalienable part of the country. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The
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The “world’s loneliest elephant” embarked on a mammoth move from Pakistan to retirement in a Cambodian sanctuary. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Kaavan is dubbed the “world’s loneliest elephant” after languishing alone for years in a Pakistani zoo. The plight of the male Asian elephant, who’s been alone since the death of his partner
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