The United States Coast Guard Day is celebrated each year on August 4th to recognize and honor the efforts of Coast Guard. This celebration is considered an “internal” event for active and reserve Coast Guard members, plus their civilian employees and retirees and members of the Coast Guard ...

General Secretary, Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust, Champat Rai reported that the teports circulating in the media about a time capsule being placed beneath the site of the Ram temple, Ayodhya are baseless. The Time Capsule, also known as Kaal Patra, was supposed to contain the history of ...

The 100th death anniversary of Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak is being observed on 1 August. An iconic leader and one of the strongest proponents of purna swaraj or total self-rule, Bal Gangadhar Tilak died on this day in 1920, in Mumbai. Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) conducted the ...

Rajiv Gandhi International Airport of Hyderabad has received a mass fever screening system to help the authorities screen passengers for Covid-19. The new thermal scanner at the airport is a ceiling-mounted mass fever screening system which is capable of scanning, detecting and tracking febrile ...

The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) has given approval to Serum Institute of India, Pune to conduct Phase II+III clinical trials of Oxford University-Astra Zeneca COVID-19 vaccine (COVISHIELD) in India. This will hasten the development of the COVID-19 vaccine. Daily Current Affairs ...

NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley have splashed down safely in the Gulf of Mexico Sunday for the first time in a commercially built and operated American crew spacecraft, returning from the International Space Station to complete a test flight that marks a new era in human spaceflight. ...

Ministry of Defence (MoD) has formulated a draft Defence Production and Export Promotion Policy 2020 (DPEPP 2020) in implementing self-reliance in defence manufacturing framework and to position India amongst the leading countries of the world in defence and aerospace sectors. Daily Current ...

John Hume, the visionary politician who won a Nobel Peace Prize for fashioning the agreement that ended violence in his native Northern Ireland, has died at 83. John Hume (1937 – 2020) was an Irish politician who served as the second Leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) from ...

The Government of India has clarified that any foreign direct investment (FDI) in commercial coal mining from an entity of a country that shares land border with India will be allowed only after government approval. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Recently, the government ...

The Electronic Vaccine Intelligence Network (eVIN) is an innovative technological solution aimed at strengthening immunization supply chain systems across the country. This is being implemented under National Health Mission (NHM) by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Daily Current Affairs ...

Recently, Asian Development Bank (ADB) has signed a $200 million financing package with Reliance Bangladesh LNG and Power Limited (RBLPL) to build and operate a 718MW gas-fired power plant in Bangladesh. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The plant is proposed to be located on ...

India’s infrastructure sector contracted at a slower pace in June compared to May aided by the relaxation in lockdown restrictions. However, barring fertilisers, other seven industries registered a decline in output, prompting independent economists to expect industrial production to again ...