Emmanuelle Charpentier of France and Jennifer Doudna of the U.S. on October 7 won the Nobel Chemistry Prize for the gene-editing technique known as the CRISPR-Cas9 DNA snipping "scissors", the first time a Nobel science prize has gone to a women-only team. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 ...

Prime Minister Modi will inaugurate a global virtual summit on Artificial Intelligence (AI), RAISE 2020 - 'Responsible AI for Social Empowerment 2020' on October 5, according to the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points RAISE 2020 ...

Clashes erupted between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the volatile Nagorno-Karabakh region, reigniting concern about instability in the South Caucasus, a corridor for pipelines transporting oil and gas to world markets. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Armenia and ...

Barbados decided to retain the British monarch as head of state even after achieving independence. Queen Elizabeth II is the head of state in the UK and 15 other Commonwealth realms, including Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The Caribbean ...

In a move aimed at pleasing his conservative voter base less than two months before the November 3 election, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order to set up a “national commission to promote patriotic education” in the US. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The 1776 ...

Thousands of people in northwest China’s Lanzhou city have tested positive for a bacterial infection. The outbreak was caused by a leak at a state-owned biopharmaceutical company making animal vaccines last year. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Brucellosis is a bacterial ...

A cargo plane crashed at Aden Adde International Airport in capital Mogadishu in Somalia. The Somalia Civil Aviation Authority confirmed the incident after witnesses claimed they saw the crash. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Aden Adde International Airport is an international ...

To provide a more effective way for enforcing mediated settlements of corporate disputes involving businesses in India and other countries the Singapore Convention on Mediation came into force. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Also known as the United Nations Convention on ...

Yoshihide Suga was elected as the new head of Japan's ruling party, received 377 votes in the Party election to pick a successor to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who announced last month that he would resign due to health problems. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Once he formally ...

External Affairs Minister of India S. Jaishankar has co-chaired the ASEAN-India Ministerial Meeting along with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Thailand H.E. Don Pramudwinai. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points It reviewed the status of ...