QUIZ – 2016: Insights Current Affairs Quiz – August 30, 2016

Solution: c.

“To coordinate next year’s Golden Jubilee celebrations of the induction of the first submarine in the Navy, more than 100 retired officers of the submarine branch started a WhatsApp group last month. This group, which includes three-star officers who have spent decades with submarines, went abuzz at midnight last Tuesday after The Australian newspaper reported that 22,400 pages of documents pertaining to India’s Scorpene submarine programme, called Project-75, had been leaked.”

http://indianexpress.com/article/explained/scorpene-leal-submarines-documents-data-leak-manohar-parrikar-indian-navy-3001106/

Solution: a.

“Under Project-75, French company DCNS provides design and technology to public sector Mazagon Docks to make six Scorpene submarines, the first of which, INS Kalvari was put out for sea trials earlier this year. The hulls of the other five submarines have been cast, and they are scheduled to be commissioned by 2020.”

“The Kalvari class is a class of submarines based on the Scorpène-class submarine being built for the Indian Navy. It is a class of diesel-electric attack submarine which is designed by French naval defence and energy company DCNS and being manufactured by Mazagon Dock Limited in Mumbai.”

http://indianexpress.com/article/explained/scorpene-leal-submarines-documents-data-leak-manohar-parrikar-indian-navy-3001106/

Solution: b.

“India is suffering from endemic hydro-schizophrenia, where the left hand of surface water does not know what the right hand of groundwater is doing. The one issue that really highlights the need to unify CWC and CGWB is the drying up of peninsular rivers, the single most important cause of which is over-extraction of groundwater. If river rejuvenation is the key national mandate, then this cannot happen without hydrologists and hydrogeologists working together, along with social scientists, agronomists and other stakeholders.”

http://indianexpress.com/article/explained/mihir-shah-panel-water-management-cwc-3001152/

Solution: c.

“A separate Railway Budget too was based on convention — following recommendations of a committee headed by Sir William Acworth, then chairman of Eastern Railway. The committee argued that the Railways, a commercial undertaking that fixed its own fares, needed to have a separate Budget. The convention, which came into force in 1924 and has survived for over 90 years, is now set to change, with a proposal to merge the Railway Budget with the Union Budget.”

http://indianexpress.com/article/explained/in-fact-how-budgetmaking-has-changed-and-how-it-may-change-again-3001172/

Solution: b.

“It might take a decade before this this technology can be used in a rocket. The US, China and Russia have this technology, Sivan said, but have not used it in rockets as it is complicated and has to be mastered completely.”

http://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/isro-tests-scramjet-rocket-engine-successfully-116082800105_1.html

Solution: d.

“..According to the United States Geological Survey, it occurred about six miles below the surface. “Shallow earthquakes cause more destruction than deep earthquakes because the shallowness of the source makes the ground-shaking at the surface worse,” Professor Rothery said..”

Also, according to the USGS, “The most obvious indication on a seismogram that a large earthquake has a deep focus is the small amplitude, or height, of the recorded surface waves and the uncomplicated character of the P and S waves.”

Explained Page, The Indian Express, 30^th August 2016. The same article originally appeared in the NYTimes.