Bangladesh Cabinet approved a draft law to include death penalty as the highest punishment for rape. The decision to amend the Prevention of Women and Children Repression Act-2000 was announced after the Cabinet meeting Chaired by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Dhaka. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs […]
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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 Key-Points Charpentier, 51, and Ms. Doudna, 56, are
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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 is a first of its-kind, global meeting of minds on Artificial Intelligence to
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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 Nagorno-Karabakh, a breakaway region that is inside Azerbaijan but is run by ethnic Armenians, declared martial law
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 nation aims to complete the process of becoming a republic
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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 Commission is an education commission proposed by
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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 disease that mainly infects cattle, swine, goats, sheep and dogs. Humans can get
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 airport serving Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia. It is named after Aden Abdullah
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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 International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation, this is also the first UN treaty
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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 takes over, Suga will serve out
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