The Indian Navy has launched the 'Operation Vanilla' to assist the population of Madagascar affected by Cyclone Diane. Indian Navy diverted a large amphibious ship viz. INS Airavat carrying clothing, medicines, and other relief material to provide assistance and support in the relief operations. ...

India is observing the 72nd death anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. This Day is observes as Martyrs' Day or Shaheed Divas every year on January 30. It also observed to pay homage to the freedom fighters who laid their lives for the country's independence. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 ...

Bengaluru takes the top spot this year with drivers in the southern Indian city expecting to spend an average of 71 per cent extra travel time stuck in traffic. Of the top five most choked cities in the world, three are from India, Bengaluru, Mumbai and Pune. In Europe, Moscow is the most ...

The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) has signed a licensing agreement with Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) Futures Europe, an operator of global exchanges and clearing houses. India is one of the largest consumers and importers of crude oil in the world, and Brent crude is highly co-related with the ...

National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) launched Police related Citizen centric services on CCTNS platform. These online services will help Citizens in Searching their Missing Persons and Generating Vehicle NOC. The services are being provided through the state citizen portals and it is the first time ...

A recent cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan, China, was caused by a novel betacoronavirus, the 2019 novel coronavirus. The study highlighted the high mortality due to the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV infection) which caused clusters of severe respiratory illness similar to severe acute ...

The Supreme Court has allowed the Centre to introduce the African cheetah to a suitable habitat in India. The rare Indian cheetah is almost extinct in the country the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) had filed an application seeking permission for the introduction of the African ...

The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has told the National Green Tribunal (NGT) that e-commerce giants Amazon and Flipkart need to fulfil their extended producer responsibility under the Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016. According to the Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016 Primary ...

The central government, the Assam government and the Bodo groups, including all factions of the militant National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB), signed an agreement to redraw and rename the Bodoland Territorial Area District (BTAD) as the Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR), in Assam. Around ...

Indian environmental economist and UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Goodwill Ambassador Pavan Sukhdev has won the 2020 Tyler Prize, regarded as the "Nobel Prize for the Environment" for his groundbreaking "green economy" work. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 The Tyler Prize for Environmental ...

The Banks will not charge a part of the fees on Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and RuPay card transactions as long as the merchant discount rate (MDR) remains zero following the government announcement. NPCI to removes multiple charges like interchange fees, payments service provider (PSP) fee, ...

Tech Mahindra has set up a dedicated Google Cloud Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Hyderabad to drive digital transformation of enterprises globally. The CoE will provide enterprises with access to the technology and services they need to expedite their cloud migration and deliver tailored solutions ...