Gotabaya Rajapaksa won presidential election in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka's Election Commission released the final result where Rajapaksa secured victory with 52.25% of the vote. Rajapaksa is to take oath as President of Sri Lanka on 18 November in a ceremony in the central town of Anuradhapura. ...

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh attend the ADMM-Plus meeting where Defence Ministers of ASEAN countries and eight other nations would gather and discuss the way forward for security cooperation. Defence Ministers from 17 countries of the ADMM-Plus group are participating in the meeting. India was ...

Uttarakhand Government launches virtual classroom project connecting 500 secondary schools in the state facing a shortage of teachers will benefit from the new technology. The project was launched under the Information and Communication Technology scheme of Samagra Sikshar Abhiyan in Uttarakhand. ...

The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) is to rebrand as World Athletics. It was initially founded in 1912 as the International Amateur Athletic Federation. The name change had been suggested in a bid to make the sport more accessible. The body is currently presided over by ...

India on November 16 conducted successfully the first night trial of Agni-II. The missile has a strike range of 2000 km. It blasted off from a mobile launcher at the Launch Complex-4 of the Integrated Test Range (ITR). Agni-II, an intermediate range ballistic missile (IRBM), has already been ...

China plans to launch a lander and rover to Mars on 2020 to explore parts of the planet, one of four scheduled missions. The U.S. and Europe are also sending rovers to Mars next year, and the United Arab Emirates plans to launch an orbiter. China has already tested its lander for the March ...

Indian Space Research Organization is planning its third moon mission and second attempt at a soft landing on the lunar surface, Chandrayaan-3, which is scheduled to launch in November 2020. The Chandrayaan-3 will feature a newly designed lander and rover, and as the Chandrayaan 2 orbiter was ...

The Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati developed a paper-based sensor that can make assessment of the freshness of milk by a simple method and instantaneous. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 Bacteria and other microbes that can grow in milk can not only affect the taste and ...

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science, Technology, and Environment said that India has “highly inadequate” cancer care infrastructure which forces a majority of patients to travel “thousands of kilometres” for treatment. The committee was constituted to examine an expanded role of the ...

President Ram Nath Kovind approved a proclamation imposing President’s Rule in Maharashtra. The Assembly has been kept in suspended animation. The Union Cabinet recommended the President's rule in the state after Governor of the state submitted a report regarding the same. The Governor said a ...

Union Minister has assured Kerala that river interlinking projects would be undertaken only with the approval of the States involved. The project was envisaged in 1995 for producing 500 MW of power for Kerala and irrigating the lands in Tamil Nadu. The river link proposal envisages the diversion ...

World's five biggest emerging economies summit, the 11th BRICS Summit took place from 13th-14th November 2019 in Brasilia, Brazil. The theme of the 2019 BRICS summit is "Economic Growth for an Innovative Future.” The theme this year was strengthening economic growth. Daily Current Affairs Quiz ...