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International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia: May 17

The International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, IDAHOTB is observed on May 17 every year. The day is marked to increase awareness about LGBT rights violations. Also,...

May 18, 2021

Post Devolution Revenue Deficit Grant

Post Devolution Revenue Deficit Grants are provided to the States under Article 275 of the Constitution.  Near about a third of the total revenue collected by the Centre...

May 18, 2021

Al Badr

Al Badr is an Islamic terrorist group operating in the Kashmir region and has been proscribed by the Government of India on April 1, 2002, under the Prevention...

May 18, 2021

DDoS Attack

A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is a malicious attempt to make an online service unavailable to users by disrupting the normal traffic of a targeted server/website,...

May 18, 2021

India’s first Agriculture Export Facilitation Centre set up at Pune

The Maharashtra Chamber of Commerce Industries and Agriculture and NABARD (National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development) recently launched the first Agricultural Export Facilitation Centre. About the Centre...

May 18, 2021

Plasma Therapy for COVID-19 Treatment dropped

The Indian Council of Medical Research recently dropped the plasma therapy from COVID-19 treatment. The decision was taken as the procedure was found to be ineffective. Plasma Therapy...

May 18, 2021

UN Global Road Safety Week (UNGRSW) 2021

In 2021, the United Nations is celebrating its sixth United Nations Global Road Safety Week between 17th May, 2021 and 23rd May, 2021. This year, in 2021, the...

May 18, 2021

Draft Science, Technology and Innovation Policy, 2020

The draft of the National Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (STIP) has been uploaded by the Department of Science and Technology (DST). This policy will replace the Science...

May 18, 2021

Current Affairs 2021: Today’s News Headlines: May 18, 2021

Here are Today’s News Headlines by GK Today for May 18, 2021: India MyGov launches innovation challenge for creating Indian Language Learning App CoWIN portal reconfigured: Beneficiaries advised...

May 18, 2021

What is Breakthrough Infection?

The public health experts recently announced that the increase in “breakthrough infections” in the country may be due to the mutant varieties. What are Breakthrough infections? The Breakthrough...

May 18, 2021

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