Egypt has closed its main border crossing point with the Gaza Strip amid tensions with the territory’s Hamas rulers. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 It was the first time the Rafah crossing was shuttered during a workday since early this year. Egyptian authorities had kept it open during the ...

Greece has completed building a 40-km long wall and installed a hi-tech surveillance system on its border with Turkey to avoid the influx of Afghan migrants following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The development comes amid apprehensions about heavy ...

The Kanal Istanbul, an under-construction shipping route running parallel to the strategically critical Bosphorus Strait, is fast gaining prominence as a major divisive issue in Turkey. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 President Recep Tayyib Erdogan wants to dig up a new route through ...

The Taliban’s takeover of Kabul on August 15 prompted hundreds of Afghans to rush to the Hamid Karzai International Airport in a bid to flee the Islamic militant organisation’s impending rule. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 A refugee is defined as a person who has been forced “to flee his ...

Former Deputy Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob was appointed as the new Prime Minister of Malaysia. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 He served as the 13th Deputy Prime Minister from July 2021 to August 2021 as well as the Minister of Defence in the Perikatan Nasional (PN) administration ...

Zambian opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema scored a landslide victory in bitterly-contested presidential elections. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 It was the 59-year-old's sixth bid for the top job and his third against his bitter rival Mr. Lungu (64). After having contested five ...

The Panjshir Valley is Afghanistan's last remaining holdout where anti-Taliban forces seem to be working on forming a guerrilla movement to take on the Islamic fundamentalist group. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Panjshir (also spelled as Panjsher and Panjsheer) is one of the thirty-four ...

China passed a major data protection law setting out tougher rules on how companies collect and handle their users’ information. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) lays out for the first time a comprehensive set of rules around data collection, ...

The Taliban have pledged that women in Afghanistan will have rights “within the bounds of Islamic law,” or Shariah, under their newly established rule. But it is not clear what that will mean. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Shariah is based on the Quran, stories of the Prophet Muhammad’s ...

China relaxed its previous two-child norm and endorsed a three-child policy mooted by the ruling Communist Party in a major policy shift aimed at increasing the country’s declining birth rate. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The resolution was passed along with several others during a ...