Daily Quiz Update- 20-27 April 2019

Sri Lanka launched its first satellite Raavana-1 from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia’s East Shore.

Learning Coin will be accessible only within the IMF and the World Bank to help both multinational agencies learn about the merits of blockchain.

On this day in 1947, first Home Minister of Independent India, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, addressed the probationers of Administrative Services Officers.

ACI Worldwide has recently announced that Canara Bank has successfully rolled out major new functionality to support EMV-Europay, MasterCard and Visa.

Dr. Gagandeep Kang, who is now with the Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, Faridabad, has become India's first female scientist to be elected Royal Society Fellow.

The UN English Language Day is observed every year on the 23rd of April to celebrate multilingualism and cultural diversity and to promote equal use of all six official languages throughout the Organization.

The National Panchayati Raj Day (NPRD) is celebrated every year on April 24. On this day, in 1993, the 73rd Constitution Amendment Act of 1992 came into force that has institutionalized Panchayati Raj through the village, Intermediate and District level Panchayats.

Iran and Pakistan have decided to set up a Joint Border Reaction Force (JBRF) following a number of deadly attacks by militant groups on their frontier.

The researchers have finally detected the most ancient type of molecule in our universe in space for the first time ever. They used NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) to detect helium hydride in a planetary nebula NGC 7027 about 3,000 light-years away from Earth.

The World Book and Copyright Day (WBCD) is celebrated worldwide on 23rd April to pay tribute to the veteran literary figures like William Shakespeare, Miguel Cervantes, and Inca Garcilaso De La Vega.