CURRENT AFFAIRS

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 19, Oct 2021

The military government of Myanmar on Monday started to release more than 5600 people arrested during the anti-government protests in the country after the February 1 take over by the military. The released prisoners include 1300 people jailed for protests against the government while

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 16, Oct 2021

Bangladesh improved its hunger score from 20.4 last year to 19.1 in 2021 on the Global Hunger Index (GHI). The GHI classifies countries of the world into low, moderate, serious, alarming and extremely alarming categories. It ranks countries on a scale of 100 based on parameters of und

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 16, Oct 2021

United Nations Security Council has strongly condemned the horrendous terrorist attack against the Shia Mosque in Kandahar province of Afghanistan. At least 47 people were killed and 70 others injured in an explosion inside the Shia mosque during Friday prayers yesterday.Terror grou

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 13, Oct 2021

Chinese President Xi Jinping announced the launch of a 1.5 billion yuan ($232.47 million) fund ( Kunming Biodiversity Fund ) to support biodiversity protection in developing countries.Its pledge came as delegates from about 195 countries gathered in the southern Chinese city of Ku

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 12, Oct 2021

Economists David Card, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens won the 2021 Nobel economics prize for pioneering "natural experiments" to show real-world economic impacts in areas from minimum wage increases in the U.S. fast-food sector to migration from Castro-era Cuba.With one

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 12, Oct 2021

International Energy Agency (IEA) has invited India to become its full time memberIndia is the world's third largest energy consumer.In March 2017, India became an associate member of the agency.About IEAThe International Energy Agency is a Paris-based autonomous inte

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 08, Oct 2021

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2021 was awarded to Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah "for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents."Based in Britain, Mr. Gurna

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 07, Oct 2021

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021 was awarded jointly to Benjamin List and David W.C. MacMillan "for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis."Dr. MacMillan is a professor at Princeton University in the U.S., while Dr. List is a director at the Max Planck Institute

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 07, Oct 2021

The WHO recommends the use of the RTS,S/AS01 (RTS,S) malaria vaccine among children in subSaharan Africa and in other regions with moderate to high P. falciparum malaria transmission.The WHO’s recommendation was based on the results from an ongoing pilot programme in Ghana,

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 05, Oct 2021

U.S. scientists David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian on Monday won the Nobel Medicine Prize for discoveries on receptors for temperature and touch.This has allowed us to understand how heat, cold and mechanical force can initiate the nerve impulses that allow us to perceive and adap