A turtle of a vulnerable species was rescued from a fish market in Assam’s Silchar, courtesy quick thinking and action on the part of a university professor. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The Indian peacock softshell turtle (Nilssonia hurum) is a species of turtle found in ...

Lucknow Municipal Corporation’s (LMC) bonds made their debut on the BSE. The civic body of Uttar Pradesh’s capital city is the ninth in the country to have raised money through municipal bonds. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points  UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said ...

An Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Technologies Park (ARTPARK), set up in Bengaluru, will promote technology innovations in AI and robotics. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points ARTPARK, is a unique not-for-profit foundation established by Indian Institute of Science (IISc), ...

The Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has expressed deep grief over the demise of Shri FC Kohli. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Faqir Chand Kohli (1924 – 2020) was an Indian industrialist. He was the founder and the first CEO of Tata Consultancy Services, India's largest ...

Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), in a first-of-its-kind study, has projected that numbers of the Malayan Giant Squirrel could decline by 90% in India by 2050, and it could be extinct by then if urgent steps are not taken. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The Malayan Giant ...

In reviewing a series of World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations on marijuana and its derivatives, the CND zeroed-in on the decision to remove cannabis from Schedule IV of the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs — where it was listed alongside deadly, addictive opioids, including ...

Scientists from the world's three leading research institutions took part in this extensive research and suggested that oxidative potential of air particles should also be taken into account in future air-quality regulation measures to reduce the adverse health impact of inhaling poor quality air ...

MDH Spices owner Dharampal Gulati, fondly known as “Mahashayji”, died at the age of 98 years. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Dharampal Gulati (1923 – 2020), also known as Mahashay Dharampal Gulati, was an Indian businessman, and founder and CEO of MDH (Mahashian Di Hatti), an ...

India’s first homes for transgender children in need of care and protection will soon be established in Bengaluru. Two government-run homes for transgender children will be established in Bengaluru Urban. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The Ministry of Women and Child ...

Puerto Rico’s massive Arecibo telescope, famous for its stellar contributions to astronomy, collapsed, leaving many among the scientific community in shock and anguish. The collapse was devastating also for many Puerto Ricans, for whom the observatory was culturally significant. Daily Current ...

The government has finally approved the creation of a crucial new Army post, the acute operational need for which was felt during the 73-day troop face-off at Doklam with China in 2017, amidst the ongoing military confrontation in eastern Ladakh. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points ...

British Indian journalist and author Anita Anand’s book that tells the story of a young man caught up in the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar has won a prestigious history-literary prize in the UK. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points 'The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of ...