Stiff resistance from at least 12 villages in Meghalaya has cast a cloud on a 210 MW hydroelectric project on Umngot, considered India’s clearest river. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The villages are near the border with Bangladesh in East Khasi Hills district but the dam is proposed ...

The Supreme Court has asked the Centre and four states, including Maharashtra and Gujarat, to file their response within three weeks on a plea seeking a direction to repeal the provisions criminalising begging. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 A bench of justices Ashok Bhushan and R Subhash ...

Iran recently announced to started up advanced uranium enrichment centrifuges in a breach of its undertakings under a troubled 2015 nuclear deal, days after the start of talks on rescuing the accord. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 President Hassan Rouhani inaugurated the three cascades of ...

In a recent detailed analysis of South Asian river dolphins has revealed that the Indus and Ganges River dolphins are not one, but two separate species. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Currently, Indus and Ganges River dolphins are classified as two subspecies under Platanista gangetica. ...

The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has divested Rakesh Kumar, Director, National Environment Engineering and Research Institute (NEERI) in Nagpur of his post and transferred him to its headquarters in Delhi. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 NEERI is a pioneer laboratory ...

The Supreme Court has said in a judgment that extortion money paid to a terrorist organisation to protect one’s business is not terror funding. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 With this, Supreme Court granted bail to a Jharkhand coal transporter who had paid huge amounts to the Tritiya ...

Current Affairs 12 April 2021 is the most important area from which a major share of questions come in SSC, Railway, state government recruitment exams, UPSC prelims and mains. Khelo India State Centre of Excellence for Rowing discipline Union Minister for Sports & Youth Affairs Shri ...

The price of Brent crude has fallen under $63 per barrel from a high of $70 per barrel in early March on the back of growing fears about a fall in demand due to new travel restrictions to combat a resurgence in Covid-19 infections and increasing crude oil supply. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 ...

Egypt recently sentenced Mahmud Ezzat, the 76-year-old top leader of the banned Muslim Brotherhood, to life imprisonment after he was found guilty of “terrorism,” the state-run Al-Ahram newspaper reported. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Muslim Brotherhood is a movement that was founded in ...

The fishermen unions in Kerala opposed the move by the Union government to withdraw the case against the two Italian marines accepting the compensation offered to the victims. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 On February 15, 2012, two Indian fishermen returning from a fishing expedition near ...

A two-day Scientific Convention on ‘Homoeopathy - Roadmap for Integrative Medicine’ was inaugurated at New Delhi. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The Convention was organized by the Central Council for Research in Homoeopathy (CCRH), an autonomous apex research organization under Ministry of ...

Farmers under the banner of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha recently opened a front against the FCI by staging protests outside the agency’s godowns and offices calling it ‘FCI Bachao Diwas’. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The SKM has also extended support to a separate 5-day Virodh Diwas ...