China is going to build a “super” dam on the lower reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo river, close to the Line of Actual Control, in Tibet, in a move that could have long-term impact on northeast India’s water security. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Originating in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), the trans-border Yarlung […]
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US President Donald Trump exercised his powers under the Constitution to pardon Michael Flynn, his former National Security Advisor, who had twice pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The President of the US has the constitutional right to pardon or commute sentences related to federal crimes. The US
France’s national assembly has taken the first steps towards approving a law that would ban discrimination against people with pronounced regional accents across the country. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points A new bill banning accent-based discrimination, or ‘la glottophobie’, was approved with 98 votes against three, and spurred a lively debate in the lower
The Royal Society unveiled a new portrait of astrophysicist Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell who is credited with discovering pulsars when she was a PhD student at Cambridge University. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell (born 1943) is an astrophysicist from Northern Ireland who, as a postgraduate student, discovered the first
Members of the Scottish Parliament unanimously passed The Period Products (Free Provision)(Scotland) Act which makes it legally mandatory for all public institutions to provide period products, including tampons and pads to all those who need them. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The bill is titled, “Period Products (Free Provision) (Scotland) Bill” and was passed
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New Zealand’s Greg Barclay has been elected as the new independent chairman of the International Cricket Council (ICC). The head of the New Zealand Cricket team, NZC, Barclay beat Imran Khwaja in the second round of voting. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The International Cricket Council (ICC) is the world governing body of cricket.
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India has announced the launch of Phase-IV of the High Impact Community Development Projects in Afghanistan. It envisages more than 100 projects worth 80 million dollars that India would undertake in Afghanistan. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar said this during the 2020 Afghanistan Conference organized in Geneva. The
A working group of Germany’s ruling coalition parties headed by Chancellor Angela Merkel agreed to impose a mandatory quota for the number of women working in senior management positions in the country’s listed firms. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points A final decision on the key points of the legislation, called the Second Management Positions
China is attempting its most complex and ambitious space mission to date with the launch of its Chang’e-5 spacecraft, which will attempt to do something that has not been done since the 1970s: bring pristine pieces of the moon back to Earth. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Chang’e-5 probe is the Chinese National Space
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The Italian Culture Ministry announced on November 21 the discovery of well-preserved remains of two men, who perished during the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. The eruption was a catastrophic event that destroyed the ancient Roman city of Pompeii and killed around 16,000 people. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Located in
