China has decided to join the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty (UN-ATT) to regulate its arms sales. It comes after U.S. President Donald Trump announced plans last year to pull the U.S. out of the agreement. The Treaty seeks to regulate the international trade in conventional arms (from small arms ...

National Institutes of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPERs) have introduced many   innovative products like safety devices, sanitizers and masks to fight COVID epidemic. At the same time it has also developed Immunity booster Herbal tea. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 ...

PM CARES Fund Trust has allocated Rs. 2000 crore for supply of 50000 ‘Made-in-India’ ventilators to government run COVID hospitals in all States/UTs. Further, a sum of Rs. 1000 crore has been allocated for the welfare of migrant labourers. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Out of ...

INS Airavat, deployed by the Indian Navy for “Operation Samudra Setu", entered Tuticorin harbour on 23 Jun 2020 with 198 Indian nationals embarked from Male, Maldives. Thus far Indian Navy has brought back 2386 Indian citizens from Maldives to India. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 ...

Japan has recently renamed an area, including islands disputed with China and Taiwan. The local assembly of Ishigaki city approved a plan to change the name of the area covering the Tokyo­ controlled Senkaku Islands known currently by Taiwan and China as the Diaoyus from “Tonoshiro” to “Tonoshiro ...

US President Donald Trump has temporarily suspended new work visas and barred hundreds of thousands of foreigners from seeking employment in the United States, part of a broad effort to limit the entry of immigrants into the country. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Trump ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has greeted the people on the special occasion of Ashadhi Bij, the Kutchi New Year. The Kutchi new year is celebrated on Ashadhi Bij, which also marks the onset of rains. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Ashadhi Beej Ashadhi Beej is an auspicious day for ...

Nikhil Rathi has been appointed as the new chief executive of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), which regulates UK financial markets and 59,000 financial services firms. He is currently the Chief Executive of London Stock Exchange plc. From September 2009 to April 2014, he was Director, ...

Urjit Patel, former governor of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) who resigned from his post in December 2018 after a tussle with the government over the central bank’s autonomy has been appointed as the chairman of the New Delhi Based economic think tank National Institute of Public Finance and Policy ...

India is set to impose a basic customs duty as soon as the safeguard duty, currently in place, expires on 29 July. To impose this 20% tariff barrier on imports of green energy equipment, the ministry of new and renewable energy will soon write to the ministry of commerce and industry. Daily ...

Defence Minister of India Rajnath Singh has left for a three-day visit to Russia during which he is expected to ask Moscow to urgently supply spares required by the Indian military against the backdrop of tensions with China. His visit is to attend the ceremonies associated with the 75th ...

The Karnataka government has decided to open the land market by allowing non-agriculturists to purchase agricultural land, remove income restrictions imposed on the buyers’ non-agricultural income, and increase the maximum permissible size of holdings by an individual or family and by larger ...