Daily Quiz Update- 14 May 2019

After the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland has officially become the 2nd country in the world to declare a climate and biodiversity emergency.

To inform the next of kin of battle casualties, ex-servicemen and serving soldiers about entitled financial benefits, welfare schemes and help resolve pension-related problems, Indian Army has declared 2019 as the year of next of kin.

Karnataka becomes the first state to gain from a Constitution (5-judge) Bench order of September 2018 that modified a 2006 order requiring the States to show quantifiable data to prove the “backwardness” of an SC/ST community in order to provide quota in promotion in public employment.

International Nurse Day is observed every year on the birth anniversary of foundation philosopher of modern nursing, Florence Nightingale. She was born on 12 May 1820 in Italy and she was an English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing.

State-owned telecom firm BSNL has become the first operator to start optical fibre-based high-speed broadband service in Pulwama with the launch of 'Bharat Fibre".