Olympiad Test Level 1: Current Affairs- 1 - Class 6 MCQ

Chapchar Kut began in all parts of Mizoram on 5 March 2020. The festival is celebrated at the Assam Rifles Ground at Aizawl. Chapchar Kut is the biggest and most joyous festival of the Mizos.

The board of Canara Bank has given inprincipal approval to the merger with Syndicate Bank. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had announced consolidation of 10 state-run banks into four large-scale banks.

Silver Bears for best actor went to Italy’s Elio Germano for Giorgio Diritti’s “Hidden Away,” a portrait of artist Antonio Ligabue.

Israeli runner Lonah Chemtai Salpeter was the first woman to cross the finish line at the Tokyo Marathon, a race that was scaled back as part of Japan’s efforts to combat the spread of the coronavirus. Salpeter finished the race in 2 hours 17 minutes and 45 seconds, setting a new women’s record for the course. She beat second-place finisher Birhane Dibaba of Ethiopia by 50 seconds.

Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal was conferred the Dr. Syama Prasad Mukherjee award 2020 for Politics on 28 February. The award was conferred by the External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Speaker of People’s Majlis of Maldives Mohamed Nasheed at the 6th India Ideas Conclave in Gujarat.

Columbia researchers have discovered 17 new planets by combing through data gathered by NASA’s Kepler space telescope. The planets include a potentially habitable Earth-sized world. The researchers looked for planets, especially those lying in the potentially habitable “Goldilocks Zone” of their stars, where liquid water could exist on a rocky planet’s surface.

World No.l Novak Djokovic of Serbia claimed the men’s singles title at the Dubai Tennis Championships 2020 as the 32-year-old defeated Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece to win his 5th title at the Dubai event.

The book titled as “Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from a Quarantined City” written by Chinese literary writer Fang Fang is a compilation of online diary entries and social media posts that document 60 days of lockdown during COVID-19, showing the challenges of daily life.

Chhattisgarh State government launched Rajiv Gandhi Kisan Nyay Yojana on 21 May on the commemoration of the death anniversary of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. The scheme is aimed to stimulate the rural economy in the state, amid the slowdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Former Commonwealth Games goldwinning Indian boxer Akhil Kumar, 39 years old, was re-inducted into the National Anti-Doping Agency’s (NADA) Disciplinary Panel. He was formerly in the panel from 2017 to 2019.