QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 08 July 2017

Solution: d.

• “Jigyasa”, a student- scientist connect programme was officially launched in the national capital recently.
• Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), has joined hands with Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS) to implement this programme.
• The focus: Connecting school students and scientists so as to extend student’s classroom learning with that of a very well planned research laboratory based learning.
• “JIGYASA” would inculcate the culture of inquisitiveness on one hand and scientific temper on the other, amongst the school students and their teachers.
• “JIGYASA” is one of the major initiative taken up by CSIR at national level, during its Platinum Jubilee Celebration Year.

PIB: “JIGYASA” student-scientist connect programme launched;

Indian Polity by M Laxmikanth;

Solution: b.

“..In the first session on July 7, 2017, two presentations will be made: one on the Paperless Himachal Legislative Assembly and another on Good Governance Index..”

Improvisation: PIB: Regional conference on good governance and replication of best practices in governance;

From 2014: IE: India gets its first paperless assembly;

Solution: a.

India has declared itself free from Bird Flu (highly pathogenic Avian Influenza – H5N1 and H5N8) and notified it to the World Organisation for Animal Health. The move will help it resume export of poultry products to the countries which had banned trade in such items early this year. About OIE:

• The need to fight animal diseases at global level led to the creation of the Office International des Epizooties through the international Agreement signed on January 25th 1924. In May 2003 the Office became the World Organisation for Animal Health but kept its historical acronym OIE.
• It is an intergovernmental organisation (181 member countries) responsible for improving animal health worldwide.
• It is recognised as a reference body by the World Trade Organization

Insights Daily Current Affairs;

PIB;

Solution: d.

“..in the (Election) Commission’s opinion, voting or not voting as per his/her own free will at the Presidential election will not come within the ambit of disqualification under the Tenth Schedule to the Constitution of India, and the electors are at liberty to vote or not to vote at the Presidential election as per their own free will and choice..”

PIB: Clarification regarding right to vote or not to vote;

Solution: a.

• The ‘human challenge’ and ‘controlled human infection models (CHIM)’ can help vaccine developers evaluate the protective efficacy of vaccines outside of large, costly clinical trials.
• Studies using these models are conducted in highly controlled conditions and involve intentionally infecting healthy adult volunteers with a pathogen to assess a vaccine’s ability to protect against it.
• However, not all strains are amenable to a human-first, or CHIM approach. The strain of parasite, for instance, must only induce as much infection as can be treated by available medicines and only healthy, human volunteers — completely aware of the risks and have given informed consent — ought to be recruited for trials.

PATH: Advancing Vaccine Science;

TH: Central labs moot ‘human first’ approach to test malaria vaccine;

Solution: c.

Both statements are correct.

About Tesla; Tesla Solar Roof;

Source and Improvisation: Th: Electric Horses