QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 15 April 2017

Solution: b.

It is a comprehensive scheme for powerloom sector development, simultaneously at over 45 locations in the country. the scheme will especially benefit small powerloom weavers. The scheme has several components, some of which are:

• In-situ Upgradation of Plain Powerlooms
• Yarn Bank Scheme
• Pradhan Mantri Credit Scheme for Powerloom Weavers
• Solar Energy Scheme for Powerlooms
• Tex Venture Capital Fund

PIB: PowerTex India;

PIB;

Solution: d.

Data compiled so far indicates that the number of borrowers this year were over 4 crore, of which over 70% were women borrowers. About 20% of the borrowers were from the Scheduled Caste Category, 5% from the Scheduled Tribe Category, while Other Backward Classes accounted for almost 35% of the borrowers.

PIB;

Solution: a.

• To make India an innovation-driven economy, NITI Aayog, DIPP & CII together launched a mega initiative “India Innovation Index” that will rank states on Innovations through country’s first online innovation index portal that will capture data on innovation from all Indian states on innovation and regularly update it in real time.
• The India Innovation Index Framework will be structured based on the best practices followed in Global Innovation Index (GII) indicators and additionally by adding India-centric parameters those truly reflect the Indian innovation ecosystem.
• This initiative will be the point of reference for all international agencies to collect India’s up to date data points for global indices and analytics.

February, 2017: PIB: India Innovation Index;

Vikaspedia: February Current Affairs;

Solution: a.

• Cassini flew through and sampled the waters from a subsurface ocean on Enceladus that is being jetted into space. Cassini has already established that this voluminous liquid is in contact with the rock bed from the types of salts and silica that have also been detected in the jets.
• Scientists wanted to know if a particular interactive process seen at Earth was taking place in the subsurface ocean of Enceladus – something called serpentinisation.
• Serpentinisation: At the mid-ocean ridges on our planet, seawater is drawn through, and reacts with, hot upwelling rocks that are rich in iron and magnesium. As the minerals in these rocks incorporate H2O molecules into their crystal structure, they release hydrogen – a byproduct that can be used by some microbes as an energy source to drive their metabolism.
• It is the definitive signal for molecular hydrogen in the plumes of Enceladus that Cassini has now confirmed.

BBC: Saturn moon ‘able to support life’;

Th: A Saturn moon may host life;

Solution: a.

13^th April, PIB: The Union Minister of Finance will release the Gender Parity Index specific to India in the formal sector during the 33rd Annual Session of FICCI Ladies Organisation (FLO) to be held in New Delhi tomorrow.  The main aim of developing Gender Parity Index commissioned jointly by FLO and FICCI is to evaluate gender diversity and empowerment of women in the formal sector and the progress made over the years. The Index will serve as framework for measuring gender parity and produce an overall score of an organisation and reflect it on the index.

Solution: b

North Korea occupies the northern portion of the Korean peninsula, which juts out from the Asian mainland between the East Sea (Sea of Japan) and the Yellow Sea.

TH: Tensions in Korean peninsula;