QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 29 August 2019

Solution: b)

Rotavirus is a leading cause of diarrhoea in children less than five years of age.

Rotavirus diarrhoea, unlike other forms of diarrhoea, can only be prevented through the vaccination. Other forms can be prevented by maintaining basic hygiene — frequent hand washing, safe water and food consumption, exclusive breastfeeding and vitamin A supplementation.

“Rotavirus vaccine along with proper sanitation, hand washing practices, ORS and zinc supplementation will go a long way in reducing the mortality and morbidity due to diarrhoea in children”.

India is committed to ending morbidity and mortality in children due to diarrhoea by 2022.

The Centre plans to expand the coverage of Rotavirus vaccine which protects children from rotavirus infections, the leading cause of severe diarrhoea, to all states. The vaccine is currently available only in 28 states and union territories in India.

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Solution: c)

On April 11, the Israeli spacecraft Beresheet attempted to land on the Moon, but crashed on the surface. It was carrying a number of items — including thousands of specimens of a living organism called tardigrade.

Tardigrades – often called water bears – are creatures under a millimetre long that can survive being heated to 150C and frozen to almost absolute zero.

1.  The tardigrade, is among the toughest and most resilient creatures on Earth.
2. The tardigrade can only be seen under a microscope.
3. Half a millimetre long, it is essentially a water-dweller but also inhabits land and, a 2008 study found, can survive in the cold vacuum of outer space.
4. The tardigrade can endure extreme hot and cold temperature levels.
5. They themselves expel water from their bodies and set off a mechanism to protect their cells, and can still revive if placed in water later. The organism is known to “come back to life” on rehydration.

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Solution: b)

India’s first Lightest and indigenous Bullet Proof Jacket ‘Bhabha Kavach’ gets nod of MHA.

The bullet-proof jacket, developed jointly by the Ordnance Factories Board and the public sector metals and metal alloys manufacturer MIDHANI

The jacket “is powered with nano technology from Bhabha Atomic Research Centre”.

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Solution: b)

The Juvenile Justice Act of 2000 was amended in 2015 with a provision allowing for Children in Conflict with Law (CCL) to be tried as adults under certain circumstances.

The Act defines a child as someone who is under age 18. For a CCL, age on the date of the offence is the basis for determining whether he or she was a child or an adult.

The amended Act distinguishes children in the age group 16-18 as a category which can be tried as adults if they are alleged to have committed a heinous offence — one that attracts a minimum punishment of seven years. The Act does not, however, make it mandatory for all children in this age group to be tried as adults.

To streamline adoption procedures for orphan, abandoned and surrendered children, the existing Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) is given the status of a statutory body to enable it to perform its function more effectively.

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Solution: d)

NASA’s ICESat-2 — has mapped melting ice sheets in Antarctica and the resulting sea level rise across the globe, which could help improve climate forecasts.

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