Diego Garcia, a strategic island base in the Indian Ocean, is located in _____.
Diego Garcia is part of the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean.
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Exporting goods at a price lower than the normal value is known as _____.
Selling exports below normal/home-market value is termed dumping.
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora entered into force in _____.
CITES, signed in 1973, entered into force in 1975.
The Ras Laffan Industrial City, one of the world’s largest LNG export hubs, is located in _____.
Ras Laffan is Qatar's major LNG production and export hub.
Leo Tolstoy’s ‘War and Peace’ tells the story of the French invasion of _____.
The novel centers on Napoleon's French invasion of Russia in 1812.
Elixir of Current Affairs (6th Edition) — original/base publication year referenced.
The book series traces its original publication year to 1966.
What was the central agenda of Emmanuel Macron’s 2025 visit to China?
Macron's 2025 China visit focused on rebalancing trade and boosting economic ties.
_____ is the author of “Essay on Population (1798)”.
Thomas Malthus wrote the influential 1798 essay on population growth.
During the Putin-Modi summit, Russia emphasised which key priority for bilateral ties?
Russia stressed continued, uninterrupted energy exports to India as a priority.
On Mar. 10, 2026, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio designated _____ as a “State Sponsor of Wrongful Detention”.
The US designated Afghanistan under the Wrongful Detention framework.
On Mar. 14, 2026, noted _____ philosopher Jurgen Habermas, died.
Jurgen Habermas, a leading German philosopher and sociologist, passed away.
The Cape of Good Hope is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of _____.
The Cape of Good Hope lies on South Africa's Atlantic coastline.
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) started operations in _____.
AIIB began operations in January 2016.
The International Energy Agency was established in _____.
The IEA was founded in 1974 in response to the 1973 oil crisis.
The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework was concluded in _____.
The framework was adopted at COP15 in December 2022.
Mont Blanc, often called the “Roof of Europe,” is located in _____.
Mont Blanc, Western Europe's highest peak, sits in the Alps.
The number of operational satellites in the United States’ Global Positioning System (GPS) constellation is _____.
The U.S. Space Force maintains 31 operational GPS satellites, above the 24-satellite baseline requirement.
The logarithmic unit used to describe sound intensity levels is _____.
The decibel is the standard logarithmic unit for sound intensity.
_____ is known as the father of geography.
Eratosthenes, who calculated Earth's circumference, is called the father of geography.
The Blue Sparrow missile has been developed by _____.
The Blue Sparrow missile is an Israeli-developed system.
The number of neck bones, or cervical vertebrae, in humans is _____.
Humans have seven cervical vertebrae.
In space, the height of a person slightly increases due to the expansion of _____.
Microgravity lets spinal cartilage discs expand, temporarily increasing height.