QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 22 March 2018

Solution: b.

• National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB, Ministry of Home Affairs) recently celebrated its 33rd Inception Day and released ‘Citizen Services’ mobile app. This single App is a bouquet of various essential police related services to the citizen. The App can be used by citizen for various services such as Complaint Registration & Status Check, View FIR Detail, SOS – Stay Safe, Locate Police Stations, Emergency Contact List, Police Stations Telephone Directory etc.
• Hortinet is an integrated traceability system developed by Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA, Ministry of Commerce & Industry) for providing Internet based electronic services to the stakeholders for facilitating farm registration, testing and certification of Grape, Pomegranate and Vegetables for export from India to the European Union in compliance with standards. To harness the potential of mobile technology, APEDA has developed a mobile app ‘Farmer Connect’ to allow farmers to apply on-line to facilitate their farm registration, tracking the status of application & approvals by State Government and Lab sampling by authorised Laboratories. The app will also assist State Horticulture/ Agriculture Department to capture real time details of farmers, farm location, products and details of inspections like date of inspection, name of inspecting directly from field.
• The Ministry of Power launched a fly ash mobile application ‘Ash Track’ It will enable better management of the ash produced by thermal power plants by providing an interface between fly ash producers (Thermal Power Plants) and potential ash users such as – road contractors, cement plants etc.

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Solution: d.

The institutional awards are named after the following illustrious women of India:

• Rani Gaidinliu Zeliang (option ‘a’)
• Kannagi Devi (option ‘b’)
• Rani Rudramma Devi (option ‘c’)
• Mata Jijabai (Shivaji’s mother)
• Devi Ahilyabai Holkar (An 18^th century queen of Maratha Malwa kingdom)
• Rani Lakshmibai (Jhansi Ki Rani, 19^th century)

Option ‘d’ refers to Sister Nivedita. No institutional award (under Nari Shakti Puraskars) is named after her.

http://www.wcd.nic.in/sites/default/files/Paraforwebsite_0.pdf;

http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=177194

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Solution: a.

The  tribal  areas in the four states of  Assam,  Meghalaya,  Tripura  and  Mizoram  have  been

constituted as autonomous districts. If there are different tribes in an autonomous district, the governor can divide the district into several autonomous regions. Each  autonomous  district  has  a  district council. Each autonomous region also has a separate regional council.

The district and regional councils administer the areas under their jurisdiction. They can make

laws  on  certain  specified  matters  like  land,  forests,  canal  water,  shifting  cultivation,  village administration,  inheritance  of  property,  marriage  and  divorce,  social  customs  and  so  on.  But all such laws require the assent of the governor.

The  acts  of  Parliament  or  the  state  legislature  do  not  apply  to  autonomous  districts  and

autonomous regions or apply with specified modifications and exceptions. The power of direction, in this regard, lies either with the president or governor. Thus, in the case  of  Assam,  it  lies  with  the  Governor,  both  in  respect  of  acts  of  Parliament  or  state legislature.  In  the  case  of  Meghalaya,  Tripura  and  Mizoram,  it  lies  with  the  president  in respect of acts of Parliament and governor in respect of acts of state legislature.

Improvisation: http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/meghalaya-rti-activist-murdered/article23303487.ece;

Solution: d.

• ‘Partner Countries’ or Countries that have signed cooperation arrangements with the Copernicus Programme are Brazil, Chile, Colombia, India, USA and Australia (no other country from Asia is presently a part of this programme).
• ‘Copernicus Participating Countries’ include 28 members of EU and Norway and Iceland.
• Data from a band of Indian remote sensing satellites (used for earth observation and not for space science/astronomical purposes) will be available to the European Copernicus programme while designated Indian institutional users will in return get to access free data from Europe’s six Sentinel satellites and those of other space agencies that are part of the programme.
• The space-based information will be used for forecasting disasters, providing emergency response and rescue of people during disasters; to glean land, ocean data; and for issues of security, agriculture, climate change and atmosphere.
• Earth Observation open data under the programme is also regarded as a tool of economic development which can benefit EU and partner countries businesses and entrepreneurs through increased collaboration and partnerships.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/india-joins-europes-satellite-data-sharing-pool/article23305594.ece;

http://www.copernicus.eu/news/editorial-16-billion-users-copernicus;

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Solution: d.

Sudan, who was 45, lived in Kenya. He was put to sleep on Monday after age-related complications worsened significantly. His death leaves only two females – his daughter and granddaughter – of the subspecies alive in the world.

Rhinoceroses – of which there are five species – are the second-largest land mammal after elephants. The white rhinoceros consists of two sub-species: the southern white rhino and the much rarer and critically endangered northern white rhino.

The subspecies’ population in Uganda, Central African Republic, Sudan and Chad was largely wiped out during the poaching crisis of the 1970s and 1980s. Poaching was fuelled by demand for rhino horn for use in traditional Chinese medicine, and for dagger handles in Yemen.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-43468066;

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