Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will give a keynote address virtually at the valedictory session of the High-level Segment of the United Nations’ Economic and Social Council (UN ECOSOC) on July 17 in New York. The session will be on the 75th anniversary of the United Nations. Daily Current ...

A panel that is looking into the regulation of anonymized data has suggested that the government may have to pay a 'fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory' remuneration for certain non-personal data that it requests from companies. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The ...

US president Donald Trump administration has abandoned a plan that would have forced out tens of thousands of foreign students following widespread condemnation of the move and pressure from colleges and major businesses in a stunning reversal of policy. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 ...

US President Donald Trump ordered an end to Hong Kong’s special status with the U.S. and signed legislation that would sanction Chinese officials responsible for cracking down on political dissent in the city, the latest escalation in tensions between the world’s largest economies. Daily ...

The Karnataka government has exempted at least 38 categories of industries to function during the week-long lockdown to help find a balance between the looming health and economic crisis staring the state and its growth capital. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The state ...

Indian pharmaceutical company Zydus has started human studies for its potential COVID-19 vaccine, as coronavirus infections continue to surge in the world's third worst-hit nation. In the human trials, Zydus will enrol over 1,000 subjects across multiple clinical study sites in India. ZyCoV-D, its ...

According to a new study by researchers at the University of Cambridge found that our brains are never at rest, even when we are not learning anything about the world around us. The research was earlier conducted on mice. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The new research shows ...

Union Minister for Road Transport, Highways and MSMEs has inaugurated and laid the foundation stones of various Highway projects as part of a new economic corridor worth about Rs 20 thousand crore in Haryana through webcast. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points These projects will ...

Scientists at the International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials (ARCI) have developed a simple, low-cost, environmentally friendly, and sustainable super capacitor electrode derived from industrial waste cotton which can be used as an energy harvester storage ...

NITI Aayog’s flagship Atal Innovation Mission, (AIM) is on full swing to keep the entrepreneurial spirit high across the country by teaming up with other Ministeries and partners to support Startups with COVID-19 innovative Solutions and to further fight Covid- 19 pandemic as the Covid-19 pandemic ...

The Human Resource and Development Ministry has announced guidelines for online classes operationalised by schools amid the COVID pandemic. The ministry virtually released the PRAGYATA guidelines on digital education in New Delhi. The guidelines recommend a cap on the screen time for students. ...

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur has developed an Ultraviolet (UV) sanitising product named ‘Shudh’ that can disinfect a room in 15 minutes. The smartphone operated Handy Ultraviolet Disinfection Helper or Shudh has six UV lights of 15 watts each that can be individually monitored from a ...