Page-381 of GKToday Archives: 2020

Amazon Quiz Time Answers-30th April 2020

1. Which of these is a real time statistics website owned and operated by Dadax, which has come to prominence during the COVID-19 outbreak? Answer: Worldometer 2. ‘Innovate for a Green Future’ is the 2020 slogan for which day that ..

Current Affairs Quiz: April 30, 2020

Top GKToday’s News Headlines-30 April 2020

Top GKToday’s News Headlines-30 April 2020 UGC UGC releases guidelines for examinations and academic calendar for universities in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak New academic session for freshers may begin in universities from September and for already enrolled students ..

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USA nominates Manisha Singh as its Envoy to OECD

The US President has nominated Indian American diplomat, Manisha Singh, as USA’s next envoy to Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. OECD OECD or Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development is an intergovernmental economic organisation established in 1961. It is ..

Indians featured in the Medicine Maker Power List 2020

G V Prasad and Kiran Mazumdar Shaw made it into the Medicine Maker Power List 2020 which celebrates 60 great minds. About the List The Power List is published under the Medicine Maker of Texere Publishing Ltd, the life science ..

CRISIL pegged India’s Growth Rate for FY21 at 1.8%

CRISIL, the rating agency, recently pegged India’s growth rate at 1.8% for FY21- a downgrade from an earlier estimate of 3.5%. Recent Predictions CRISIL, the domestic rating agency, cut down its projections for economic growth in India for FY21 from ..

TCS launches Initiatives to tackle COVID-19

Tata Consultancy Services, a major IT firm, has launched several initiatives to help in the fight against the pandemic. Corona Warriors Course A free online self-certification course called Corona Warriors was launched by TCS iON- a unit of the IT ..

India Ratings expects FY21 GDP Growth to be the Lowest in 29 Years

India Ratings recently revised its economic growth estimate for the country to 1.9%- the lowest in nearly 3 decades. Recent Forecasts India Ratings has revised its prediction for the GDP growth of India from 3.6% in March to 1.9% for ..

UPSC Prelims Mini Mock Test: 419

12345 1. Consider the following matches:  Khudabaksh Oriental Library  Library of Tibetan Works and Archives Indira Gandhi Rastriya Manav sangrahalaya The states in which the above are located are as follows: Bihar, Sikkim, Uttar Pradesh Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh ..

GRID 2020 report: Over 5 million displaced in India in 2019

The Global Report on Internal Displacement, GRID 2020 released by Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, IDMC said that over 5 million people have displaced in India in 2019. According to the report, this is the highest in the world. Highlights: World ..

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