Australia will be one of the two guest nations at the 2020 Copa America. Qatar will also return to 2020 tournament, which will be co-hosted by Argentina and Colombia. Qatar…

The Indian men’s football team remained static at the 101st position in the latest FIFA rankings. India recently participated in King's Cup in Thailand, in which it lost one match…

CONTEXT: MP Government is set to sign a MoU with a company that has promised to build 300 Smart Gaushalas over the next 5 years. The company will not charge…

CONTEXT: The University Grants Commission (UGC) has launched a Consortium of Academic and Research Ethics (CARE). It will identify, continuously monitor and maintain UGC-CARE Reference List of Quality Journals across…

CONTEXT: Commodore Stuart Henderson, Safety Director of the British Royal Navy Safety Centre is on a 2-day official visit to Southern Naval Command. The delegation interacted on the matters pertaining…

CONTEXT: The Very Severe Cyclonic Storm ‘VAYU’ over East-central Arabian Sea moved nearly northwards with a speed of about 13 kmph on 12th June 2019. It is very likely to…

CONTEXT Prime Minister Narendra Modi led the International Day of Yoga 2019 celebrations to be held in Ranchi on June 21. Ministry of AYUSH planned every year observation of the…

CONTEXT India will build a cricket stadium, which is likely to come up at Hulhumale, an island south of North Male atoll. India will also train young Maldivian men and…

CONTEXT The Delhi Metro has become the first ever project in the country to receive power generated from a waste-to-energy plant. Delhi Metro has started receiving 2 MW power from…

CONTEXT: As per the data released by the Central Statistics Office (CSO), the rate of gross domestic product (GDP) growth in the January-March quarter of 2018-19 decreased to 5.8% as…

MAINS: What are the directives issued by Judiciary to prevent cruelty against animals in India? Evaluate. CONTEXT: The Punjab and Haryana High Court has accorded the status of legal person…

CONTEXT : Tripura Gramin Bank received India’s top three Rural Banks (RRBs) in terms of profit, business, and growth. Currently, India has 46 Regional Rural Bank out of which Tripura…

CONTEXT : Bank credit to infrastructure sector grew by 18.5% to ₹55 lakh crore as of 2018-19, the highest since 2012-13 fiscal, as per the RBI data. Outstanding bank credit…

CONTEXT : Noida is all set to outdo Nagpur by recycling 100 percent of the sewage water generated in the city. Nagpur, till now, is leading the efforts with recycling…

Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) recently announced for its upcoming mission over next 10 years. Apart from much awaited and ambitious Chadrayaan-2 some other mega missions will be conducted. Among…

CONTEXT : The United States of America on May 13, 2019 placed 12 foreign companies, including several entities from China and Pakistan in its entity list to ensure that sensitive…

CONTEXT : For the first time, presence of a tiger has been reported in Goa’s Bhagwan Mahaveer National Park. The movement of the tiger was recorded through camera trapping method…

CONTEXT : Maharashtra Cabinet approved to circulate an ordinance to amend the Socially and Educationally Backward Classes (SEBC) Reservation Act, 2018. It also approved to recompense the fees to the…

CONTEXT : 26 reservoirs in Maharashtra have reached “zero storage” as on May 18, according to statistics put out by the Water Conservation department of the state government. The department’s…

India had more deaths among children under five than any other country in 2015, a Lancet study has found. The researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health…

In a first, NASA will launch a spacecraft that will collide with an asteroid in 2022 to demonstrate a planetary defense technique. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) will get…

Bajrang Punia won the gold medal in the Ali Aliyev wrestling tournament held in Kaspiisk, Russia. In his final bout, he defeated Russian Viktor Rassadin by 13-8 in men's 65kg…