QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 05 June 2017

Solution: a.

For the children of freedom fighters (muktijoddhas) of Bangladesh, the Government of India offers “Muktijoddha Scholarship Scheme”.

HCI Dhaka;

Vikaspedia: May 2017 Current Affairs;

Solution: b.

In the news: Once again, it is a merger of black holes, and once again the energy scales involved are extraordinary. The analysis suggests the two black holes that coalesced had starting masses that were just over 31 times and 19 times that of our Sun. And when they finally came together, they produced a single object of a little under 49 solar masses. It means the unison radiated a simply colossal quantity of pure energy.

• At present, there are only two detectors, one each at Hanford, Washington and Livingston, Louisiana tuned to detect gravitational waves.
• The drawback is that they cannot accurately figure out where in the sky the signal is coming from. Just as in the case of a GPS, they need at least three non-collinear detectors to do this.
• The Italy-based VIRGO detector is almost in place and will join in to collect data later in 2017.
• The LIGO-India facility, which is making immense progress will join the club in 2024.

TH: LIGO makes third GW detection;

Solution: a.

Cartosat too is an Earth Observation Satellite.

Improvisation and In the News: “India’s ASTROSAT mission did a related sensitive search for short duration x-ray flashes associated with the event and did not detect any. These results will be published soon by the scientists from ASTROSAT.”

Additional Information:

• In its thirty ninth flight (PSLV-C37), ISRO’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle successfully launched the 714 kg Cartosat-2 Series Satellite.
• Of the 103 co-passenger satellites carried by PSLV-C37, two – ISRO Nano Satellite-1 (INS-1) – are technology demonstration satellites from India.
• The remaining 101 co-passenger satellites carried were international customer satellites from USA (96), The Netherlands (1), Switzerland (1), Israel (1), Kazakhstan (1) and UAE (1).

ISRO: Spacecrafts;

Solution: c.

In the news: Orang, the tiger reserve in Assam (the 49^th such reserve to be notified in India) with the smallest core among 50 nationally protected areas, has presented wildlife scientists doing a census with a surprise: a high density of 28 big cats. This is the highest density of tigers nationally. Kamlang Tiger Reserve in Arunachal is the 50th and latest to be notified.

Solution: a.

“Mr. Modi’s assurance in Berlin that the suspended India-EU free trade talks for the Broadbased Trade and Investment Agreement would resume soon has raised the hope that progress will be made before the EU-India summit in Delhi this year.”

TH: European Variation;

Solution: b.

At present, all three tasks belong to the Ministry of Commerce and Industry.

TH: Commerce ministry to redefine focus;