Sri Lanka will soon ban the burqa or face veil, a Cabinet Minister said, as he announced the Rajapaksa administration’s latest policy decision impacting the minority Muslim community. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The authorities would henceforth use the Prevention of Terrorism (PTA) law — ...

China's National People's Congress (NPC) ended its annual parliamentary session at Beijing's Great Hall of the People. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 This paves the way for sweeping changes in how Hong Kong, the Special Administrative Region (SAR) that has been ruled under the “one country, ...

People living in same-sex couples will be barred from adopting children in Poland even as single parents, under a new law from a nationalist ruling party which has made anti-gay policies a major part of its governing platform. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The resolution reads, ‘‘LGBTIQ ...

Twenty years after being blasted out of Afghanistan's rugged central highlands, one of the country's famed Buddha statues made a brief virtual return as a three-dimensional projection. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 In March 2001, the Taliban began blowing up two monumental Buddha statues ...

A draft of China’s new Five-Year Plan (2021-2025), which is set to be formally approved on March 11, has given the green light for the first dams to be built on the lower reaches of Yarlung Zangbo river, as the Brahmaputra is known in Tibet, before it flows into India. Daily Current Affairs ...

A Saudi-led military coalition mounted air strikes on Yemen’s Houthi-controlled capital Sanaa after it intercepted 10 drones launched by the Iran-backed rebels, state media reported. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Sanaa also spelled Sanaʽa or Sana, is the largest city in Yemen. Under the ...

In a move aimed at improving its relations with former colony Algeria, France has admitted that its soldiers tortured and killed the Algerian lawyer and freedom fighter Ali Boumendjel, whose death in 1957 had until now been covered up as a suicide. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 37 years ...

Leading scientists and medical experts are calling for the pardon of convicted child killer Kathleen Folbigg after a recent study showed that her victims four of her children may have died of natural causes. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Folbigg was convicted in 2003 for smothering her ...

Pope Francis has met with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, one of the most senior leaders in Shia Islam, in Iraq’s holy city of Najaf to deliver a message of peaceful coexistence, urging Muslims to embrace Iraq’s long-beleaguered Christian minority. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The ...

Sri Lanka will develop the West Container Terminal (WCT) at the Colombo Port along with India and Japan. The decision comes a month after the Rajapaksa government ejected the two partners from a 2019 tripartite agreement to jointly develop the East Container Terminal (ECT), citing resistance to ...