The Chinese American Civil Rights Coalition wants $23m from the former president of US Donald Trump, who repeatedly referred to Covid-19 as the Chinese virus, Wuhan virus, and Kung Flu while in office. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 A study of major US cities in March showed there had been a nearly 150 per cent […]
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China’s ‘father of hybrid rice’, named Yuan Longping, who revolutionised agriculture, passed away at the age of 91. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Yuan Longping, a Chinese agricultural scientist whose breakthroughs in hybrid rice brought food security to China and transformed agriculture worldwide. In 1970s, he developed “the first hybrid rice combination called Nan-you No.
Recently, the administration of US President Joe Biden declared its intention to shut down the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The Guantanamo Bay detention camp is a United States military prison. It is located within Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, also referred to as Guantánamo, GTMO, and “Gitmo”, on the coast of
Bangladesh recently announced dropping of the words “except Israel” in the new passport which was hailed by Israel as a “lift of decades-old travel ban”. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 But, Dhaka was quick to clarify that the decision to remove those words does not amount to change in Bangladesh’s position towards Israel, as it
Bangladesh Planning Minister M.A. Mannan informed the country’s cabinet this week that the per capita income of Bangladesh has now increased from $2,064 to $2,227. Bangladesh’s per capita income is now $280 higher than India’s $1,947. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 In 2007, the per capita income of Bangladesh was half of that of India
A diplomatic rift has deepened between Spain and Morocco after thousands of undocumented migrants attempted to enter Spanish territory in the northern African country. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The EU has expressed its support for Spain although the latest incident, one of thousands of attempts by migrants to enter European territory in recent years
As reported by the European Space Agency, a giant slab of ice has calved from the frozen edge of Antarctica into the Weddell Sea, becoming the largest iceberg afloat in the world. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The newly calved berg, designated A-76 by scientists, was spotted in recent satellite images captured by the Copernicus
Over a thousand people queued up outside an abandoned gas station in San Francisco’s Bay Area this week to catch a glimpse of the extremely rare and aptly named ‘corpse flower’, known for its putrid smell, which is often compared to that of rotting flesh. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 A similar scene played out
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Accoding to China, a US warship had illegally entered its territorial waters in the South China Sea, an assertion the United States denied. A United States Navy warship USS Curtis Wilbur sailed near disputed Beijing-controlled islands in the South China Sea. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The Paracel Islands archipelago is a collection of 130
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A Chinese-funded tax-free enclave billed as Sri Lanka’s answer to Dubai and Singapore cleared the final legal hurdle as the Supreme Court in Colombo ruled it could go ahead with only minor tweaks. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The largest single foreign investment in Sri Lanka is one of several massive Asian infrastructure projects funded
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