India recently abstained from a crucial vote on Sri Lanka’s rights record at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The resolution on ‘Promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka’ was, however, adopted after 22 states of ...

Ties between China and Taiwan, which have historically been rocky over issues such as sovereignty, foreign relations and military build-up, are now being tested by an unusual subject – pineapples. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 On March 1, China banned the import of pineapples from Taiwan, ...

The United States, the European Union, Britain and Canada have imposed sanctions on several Chinese officials for human rights abuses against the Muslim Uyghur minority in China's Xinjiang province, prompting retaliation from China.  Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 This is the first ...

India could take part in a multi-nation exercise to be hosted by Pakistan later this year at its premier anti-terrorism centre in Pabbi in Nowshera district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The exercise will be held under the aegis of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). Daily Current Affairs Quiz ...

The Philippines has demanded that China recall more than 200 Chinese boats it said had been spotted at a disputed reef claimed by both Manila and Beijing, describing their presence as a "clear provocative action." Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 It urged China to recall the boats saying the ...

Tanzania's Samia Suluhu Hassan was sworn in as the country's first female president after the sudden death of John Magufuli from an illness shrouded in mystery. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 John Pombe Joseph Magufuli (1959 – 2021) was a Tanzanian politician who served as the fifth ...

Italy has signed the International Solar Alliance under the amended ISA Framework Agreement. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The amendments to the Framework Agreement of the ISA entered into force, opening its Membership to all Member States of the UN. The International Solar Alliance is ...

World Energy Transitions Outlook report, brought out by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) says that the COVID-19 crisis offers an unexpected opportunity for countries across the world to decouple their economies from fossil fuels and accelerate the shift to renewable energy ...

Myanmar’s first satellite built by Japan’s Hokkaido University in a joint project with Myanmar’s government-funded Myanmar Aerospace Engineering University (MAEU) with the cost of $15 million is being held on board the International Space Station following the Myanmar coup. Daily Current ...

Having left the European Union’s flagship Erasmus scholarship programme after Brexit, the UK launched its own replacement called the Turing scheme to enable UK students to study abroad. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Named after the celebrated English mathematician and codebreaker Alan ...