The Milky Way is "warped and twisted" and not flat as previously thought, according to researchers who have developed a large-scale three-dimensional (3D) map of our galaxy. By measuring the distance from the Sun to thousands of individual pulsating stars scattered across the Milky Way, the ...

S. Jaishankar, foreign minister said that he had conveyed to the US in clear terms that any talks to resolve the Kashmir dispute can only be held between India and Pakistan, and that he will not invite third-party mediation. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 This came on a day US President ...

Rajya Sabha passed the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment Bill (UAPA Bill), 2019 to a select committee with 147 votes in favour and 42 against it. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 Home Minister Amit Shah, during a discussion on the Bill, said that terrorism had no religion and every ...

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman started the process of rolling out a slew of measures to boost industry’s access to credit, including opening a ₹10,000 crore liquidity window for home financiers. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 Sitharaman will meet chiefs of all state-run as well as ...

Gross GST collection grows 5.8% to Rs 1.02 lakh crore in July, marginally up from the previous month, official data showed. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 Revenue collection from the Goods and Services Tax (GST) had slipped below the Rs 1 lakh crore mark for the first time in the current ...

The Reserve Bank of India allowed Bank of China to offer regular banking services in the country. All commercial banks, like SBI, HDFC Bank, Punjab National Bank and ICICI Bank, are in the Second Schedule. Banks falling under this schedule have to adhere to the norms of the RBI. Daily Current ...

To sustain the reforms brought in by scheme on ‘End to End Computerization of Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) Operations’ the Department of Food & Public Distribution has launched a new scheme namely “Integrated Management of Public Distribution System (IM-PDS)” for implementation ...

For the first time after Partition, nagar kirtan (Sikh religious procession) being carried out as part of the 550th birth anniversary celebrations of Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism, reached India via the Attari-Wagah border from Nankana Sahib in Pakistan. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 ...

China shot back after President Donald Trump announced on Twitter that the U.S. would impose an additional 10 percent tariff on $300 billion in Chinese goods starting next month. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying called Trump's move a "serious ...

Netherlands — A new Dutch law took effect banning face-covering clothing — including the burqa and niqab worn by conservative Muslim women — on public transportation, in government buildings and at health and education institutions. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 The Netherlands, long seen ...

Flipkart Samarth is launched by Flipkart– an initiative aimed at bringing India’s artisans, weavers, and handicrafts producers onto e-commerce. This move will open up national market access for these underserved communities, giving them access to a constantly growing pan-India customer base of ...

Atish Dabholkar is appointed as the new director of Abdus Salam ICTP in Trieste Italy. He is currently the head of ICTP’s high energy, cosmology and astroparticle physics section. He joined the centre in 2014 on secondment from Sorbonne Université and the National Center for Scientific Research, ...