Daily Quiz Update- 1 February 2019

Newly renamed Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade will work under the Ministry of Commerce.

After the death of Mahatma Gandhi at 5.17 am of 30 January 1948, a two-minute silence in memory of Indian martyrs is observed throughout the country at 11 am since then. The anniversary of the deaths of Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru on 23 March 1931, in Lahore (Pakistan), is declared to be Martyr's Day

To mark the 150th birthday of the Periodic Table, the year 2019 has been declared as the International Year of the Period Table of Chemical Elements. Periodic table was published by Russian scientist Dmitry Mendeleev in the year 1869.

Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) India, available at www.barcindia.co.in is a joint industry company founded by stakeholder bodies that represent Broadcasters, Advertisers and Advertising & Media Agencies. The trends of the TV channels can be viewed on their official website www.barcindia.co.in.

Using Blockchains and Distributed Ledgers technologies, Aber digital currency will be used for financial settlements between UAE and Saudi Arabia.

In the Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index 2018 of 180, Denmark topped the list and India rose by three points to the 78th position.