International Civil Aviation Day is observed on 7 December to raise awareness about the importance of the role played by the organisation of the International Civil Aviation in air transport. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The purpose of International Civil Aviation Day is to ...

The Ministry of Commerce and Industry and the Ministry of AYUSH have decided to work together to set up an Export Promotion Council to boost AYUSH exports. This decision was taken recently in a joint review of AYUSH trade and Industry by Piyush Goyal, Minister of Commerce and Industry and Shripad ...

A government notification listed out specific surgical procedures that a postgraduate medical student of Ayurveda must be “practically trained to acquaint with, as well as to independently perform”. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The notification has invited sharp criticism ...

The Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB) has notified a new tariff structure for 14 natural gas pipelines, which, it says, aims to reduce the cost of natural gas for users further away from sources of natural gas and LNG terminals on the west coast of the country. Daily Current ...

The Himachal Pradesh government is trying to obtain GIs (Geographical Indication) for five products from the state – Karsog Kulth, Thangi of Pangi, Chamba Metal Crafts, Chamba Chukh, and Rajmah of Bharmour. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Karsog Kulth: Kulthi or Kulth (horse ...

Villagers in Vadhavan in Maharashtra’s Dahanu taluka, about 131 km from Mumbai, came out in protest against a biodiversity survey commissioned by the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) for the construction of the Vadhavan Port that received in-principle approval from the Union Cabinet in February. ...

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced the introduction of risk-based internal audit norms for large urban cooperative banks (UCBs) and non-banking financial companies (NBFCs), as part of measures aimed at improving governance and assurance functions at supervised entities. Daily Current ...

Bangladesh has begun sending Rohingya refugees to Bhasan Char, the site where from the overcrowded camps at Cox’s Bazar, is an island formed by sedimentation (char is Bengali for sediment) close to the coast. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points  It is estimated that more than ...

Lakshwadweep’s Administrator and former Intelligence Bureau chief Dineshwar Sharma passed away at a Chennai hospital at the age of 66 years. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points  Sharma, a 1979-batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer, hailed from Bihar. He served as IB ...

Six years after Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission was launched, it is set to return back to Earth on December 6 carrying with it samples from the one-kilometre wide Ryugu asteroid that orbits the Sun. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points  The mission is similar to NASA’s OSIRIS-REX ...

The Singapore Food Agency (SFA) has recently approved the sale of a lab-grown meat product. This is the first time cultured meat has been cleared for sale anywhere in the world. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points  The product approved by the SFA is cultured chicken, produced ...

The Minister of Science and Technology and Vice President of Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Dr HarshVardhan virtually inaugurated the 2ndTCGA 2020 conferencein New Delhi. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points  TCGA is a landmark cancer genomics program ...