About 9,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers buried a teenager with hunting tools in the Andes mountains of South America. When researchers analysed the remains, unearthed in 2018, they found that the hunter was a female, aged between 17 and 19 at her death. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Between 30% and 50% of the hunters […]
Pakistan’s Ministry of Climate Change opened the 129-year-old Moto Tunnel for tourists after its revival at the Ayubia National Park in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The 250-feet long, 6-feet high and 4-feet wide Moto Tunnel carved out of stones and clay, is part of the longer ‘nature pipeline
States formally exited from the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change which is a global deal to take collective actions for saving the world from disastrous consequences of global warming. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Though the US under President Donald Trump had announced his decision to withdraw from the Agreement in 2017, the
The scheduled initial public offering (IPO) of Ant Group has been delayed for now, after its plans of listing on the Shanghai and Hong Kong’s stock exchanges were thwarted by authorities. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The company had hoped to raise up to $37 billion from the market, in an IPO that would
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On November 3, voters in Mississippi approved a new flag, “The New Magnolia”, featuring a magnolia flower. The flag will replace the old one that has been in use for 126 years, and which carried the Confederate battle emblem on it. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Mississippi is nicknamed the “Magnolia State”, a reference
French defence minister Florence Parly announced that airstrikes by France had neutralised over 50 Al-Qaeda-linked extremists in Mali. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The curiosity was built on the backdrop of speculations that these strikes could have been directly connected to the recent terror attack in France. But the French operation in the African
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The precious jewellery belonging to Maharani Jindan Kaur was sold at an auction at Bonhams Islamic and Indian Art sale in London, in the United Kingdom. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Rani Jindan (1817-1863) was the youngest wife of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, founder of the Sikh empire, whose boundaries stretched from Kabul to Kashmir
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Super Typhoon Goni slammed into the Philippines with authorities warning of “catastrophic” conditions in the region expected to receive the hardest hit, where nearly a million people have been evacuated. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The strongest typhoon of the year so far made landfall on Catanduanes Island with maximum sustained wind speeds of
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As per preliminary referendum results, a majority of voters in New Zealand have voted in favour of the End of Life Choice Act 2019. As people voted in the general elections, they also had the option to vote in two referendums. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The End of Life Choice Act 2019 is
The government of Bangladesh has launched a mega scheme to dredge 10,000 kilometres of riverways in the country to improve inland river navigability. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points It will also help the agriculture and fisheries sectors by improving water flow in the rivers, said the minister. The dredging work will be carried out
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