Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank told Lok Sabha in a written response to a question from three Congress MPs that more than half of the faculty positions reserved for OBCs in central institutions of higher education are vacant, while about 40% of those reserved for Scheduled Castes and ...

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) moved a bill in the Lok Sabha where it proposed that “government” in the national capital territory of Delhi means the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi. The Bill gives discretionary powers to the L-G of Delhi even in matters where the Legislative Assembly of Delhi is ...

The Supreme Court swooped-in to intervene on behalf of the critically endangered Great Indian Bustards over the birds falling dead after colliding with power lines running through their dwindling natural habitats in Gujarat and Rajasthan. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Scientific Name: ...

The Supreme Court recently asked the Centre and the Election Commission of India to respond to a plea that fresh elections should be conducted in constituencies where the maximum votes polled are NOTA. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The petition said candidates ‘rejected’ by voters should ...

India's arms imports decreased by 33% between 2011–15 and 2016–20 while the nation continues to remain the second largest arms importer after Saudi Arabia, according to a report from Swedish think tank Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 ...

Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) has launched a ‘bee-fences’ project to mitigate human-animal (elephant) conflict in the country. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 An initiative of the Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC), Project RE-HAB (Reducing Elephant-Human Attacks ...

Rajya Sabha recently has approved a bill to declare two food technology institutes at Kundli in Haryana and Thanjavur in Tamil Nadu as national institutes. The Rajya Sabha passed the National Institutes of Food Technology, Entrepreneurship and Management Bill, 2019 by voice vote. Daily Current ...

The Border Roads Organisation (BRO) has started work on reopening the crucial Baralacha Pass in Himachal Pradesh much before schedule to restore connectivity to Leh in Ladakh. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Bara-lacha la also known as Bara-lacha Pass is a high mountain pass in Zanskar ...

Guru Chemancheri Kunhiraman Nair was a seasoned Kathakali actor and he played a significant role in making classical dances such as Bharatanatyam popular in north Kerala. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Chemancheri Kunhiraman Nair, also known as Guru Chemancheri (1916 – 2021) was a noted ...

Current Affairs 16 March 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. Education Minister announced linking of OTPRMS certificates with DigiLocker Education Minister announces linking of ...

A mosquito protein, called AEG12, strongly inhibits the family of viruses that cause yellow fever, dengue, West Nile, and Zika, and also weakly inhibits coronaviruses, according to scientists at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and their collaborators. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 ...

Having left the European Union’s flagship Erasmus scholarship programme after Brexit, the UK launched its own replacement called the Turing scheme to enable UK students to study abroad. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Named after the celebrated English mathematician and codebreaker Alan ...