QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 29 March 2017

Solution: b.

• The bill adopts a ‘Rights-based’ approach as opposed to the latest National Health Policy’s ‘Assurance-based’ approach.
• Every person, who is not a minor, shall have a right to make an advance directive in writing, specifying any or all of the following, namely:- (a) the way the person wishes to be cared for and treated for a mental illness; (b) the way the person wishes not to be cared for and treated for a mental illness; (c) the individual or individuals, in order of precedence, he wants to appoint as his nominated representative.
• The Advance Directive will be valid only after it is certified by a Mental Health Board or a medical Practitioner.

TH: All you need to know about the Mental Health Care Bill;

IE: New law marks paradigm shift;

Solution: a.

Improvisation: IE;

Solution: c.

A neutrino is a subatomic particle that is very similar to an electron, but has no electrical charge and a very small mass, which might even be zero.

Read the following carefully in order to understand the very basics regarding the neutrino: The so-called Standard Model of Particle Physics suggests the material universe is assumed to be built by a small number of fundamental particles:

• quarks
• electron-like particles called leptons.

Quarks bind together through the strong interaction to make, for example, protons and neutrons. Leptons do not take part in the strong interaction, and only interact via the electromagnetic and weak forces. Quarks, at least in normal circumstances, exist only in bound states (Protons, Neutrons). Leptons, on the other hand, can be individually observed. We have experimental evidence for six different kinds of leptons – three negatively electrically charged leptons, and three electrically neutral. The best known electrically charged leptons are:

• the electron
• the muon
• the tauon

The three electrically neutral leptons are the neutrinos (ν). Associated to each charged lepton, there are three distinct kinds of neutrinos:

• the electron neutrino
• the muon neutrino
• the tauon neutrino

Additional Information: The Nobel Prize in Physics 2015 was awarded jointly to Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald “for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass”.

PHYS.ORG: What are leptons?;

Improvisation: IE: Search for ghost particle hits wildlife clearance wall;

Solution: c.

• Since the Finance Bill is a Money Bill, it only needs the approval of Lok Sabha, and Rajya Sabha may only make recommendations.
• Regarding Statement 2: This year, the Finance Bill has been passed by Lok Sabha with not only changes to applicable taxes, but also structural changes to institutions and sectors. For instance, the bill replaces certain existing Tribunals and transfer their functions to other Tribunals. It also allows the central government to specify the appointments, tenure, removal, and reappointment of chairpersons and members of Tribunals through Rules (and not laws, as is the current method).
• This, however, is not the first time that the Finance Bill has proposed legislative changes that are unrelated to taxation. In earlier years, the Finance Bill has envisaged substantive provisions relating to the creation of an independent agency to manage government debt, the Monetary Policy Committee to target inflation, and the merging of the Forward Markets Commission with the Securities regulator. MPs from both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha have objected to such structural provisions being included in the Finance Bill.

IE: How Finance Bill amendments affect tribunals;

Solution: b.

• All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) under the aegis of Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) and in collaboration with i4c, My Gov, Persistent Systems, NASSCOM and Rambhau Mhalgi Prabodini (a charitable organisation) is conducting a unique initiative ‘Smart India Hackathon 2017’.
• For the first time ever, 29 different government ministries and departments came together and posed 598 problem statements to 30 lakh technical students from India.
• During the 36-hour Grand Finale scheduled to be held on April 1&2, 2017 teams of thousands of technology students will build innovative digital solutions for problems posed by different central govt. ministries/ departments.

PIB;

Solution: a

“The British government on Tuesday published details of a long-awaited 16-week public consultation on whether caste should be introduced as an aspect of race in anti-discrimination legislation.”

TH: UK begins consultation on caste discrimination;