Long-Lost Babbler Bird Documented in Borneo for the First Time in Over 170 Years. The Bird was last recorded between 1843 and 1848, when a scientist collected the first and only museum specimen. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The black-browed babbler (Malacocincla perspicillata) is a ...

The Simlipal forest reserve area frequently witnesses forest fires during dry weather conditions. A fire which started in the biosphere reserve area in February and has been raging for nearly a week now, was finally brought under control. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Similipal, which ...

A Himalayan mammal, somewhere between a goat and an antelope, has been confirmed as the newest creature to be spotted in Assam. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The Himalayan serow is a subspecies of the mainland serow native to the Himalayas. The Himalayan serow is mostly blackish, with ...

Nag River Pollution Abatement Project has been approved in order to treat the sewage and industrial waste flowing into the river in Nagpur. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 This was announced by Union Minister Nitin Gadkari after chairing a meeting of World Bank officials, DG NMCG and Nagpur ...

The National Board for Wildlife and Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change last month included the caracal, a medium-sized wildcat found in parts of Rajasthan and Gujarat, in the list of critically endangered species. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Though not under grave ...

The Biotechnology sector has emerged as an integral part of the Indian economy over the past few decades, and the Government of India is playing a transformative and catalytic role in building a USD 150 billion bio-economy by 2025. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The theme for this year is ...

According to the Greenpeace Southeast Asia Analysis of IQAir data, at least 12,000 people have died in Bengaluru as a result of air pollution and related problems and caused economic damages to the tune of Rs.12,365 crore in 2020. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Six Indian cities — Delhi, ...

It has been reported that an old project to facilitate the movement of hilsa upstream along the Ganga to its spawning grounds of yore may come to fruition this year. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 In scientific parlance, the hilsa (Tenualosa ilisha) is an anadromous fish. That is, it ...

Flash flood incident in Uttarakhand is another warning of the dangers that a Himalayan state like Uttarakhand faces from natural processes like landslides, snow avalanches cloudbursts or lake bursts. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 As we saw in 2013 in the same state, such processes can ...

The Ministry of Earth Science has informed Rajya Sabha about National Monsoon Mission. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Under the Monsoon Mission, Ministry has developed the state-of-the-art weather and climate prediction models, which are now in operational use. These models include ...