QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 16 August 2017

Solution: c.
The Government of India has decided to launch a new sub-scheme named “Aajeevika Grameen Express Yojana (AGEY)” as part of the Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana – National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM).
• The Self Help Groups under DAY-NRLM will operate road transport services in backward areas.
• This will help to provide safe, affordable and community monitored rural transport services to connect remote villages with key services and amenities (such as access to markets, education and health) for the overall economic development of backward rural areas.
• This will also provide an additional avenue of livelihood for SHGs.
PIB: AGEY;

Solution: b.
Though the 42nd Amendment Act of 1976 made the provision for the creation of all-India judicial service, no such law has been made so far. Article 312 includes the following provisions in respect of all-India services:
• The Parliament can create new all-India services (including an all-India judicial service), if the Rajya Sabha passes a resolution declaring that it is necessary or expedient in the national interest to do so. Such a resolution in the Rajya Sabha should be supported by two-thirds of the members present and voting. This power of recommendation is given to the Rajya Sabha to protect the interests of states in the Indian federal system.
• A law providing for the creation of this service is not to be deemed as an amendment of the Constitution for the purposes of Article 368.
Improvisation: TH: No case for AIJS;
Indian Polity by M Laxmikanth;
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Solution: d.
• Crude and natural gas imports to India from the U.S is a new thrust area of bilateral cooperation, and the first shipment of American crude for India will leave from Texas this week.
• The leaders resolved to enhance peace and stability across the Indo-Pacific region by establishing a new 2-by-2 ministerial dialogue that will elevate their strategic consultations. The 2-by-2 ministerial dialogue, involving defence and foreign ministers was announced during Mr. Modi’s visits.
• India and US will co-host the Global Entrepreneurship Summit at Hyderabad from 28-30 November 2017.
TH: Trump, Modi review progress of June initiatives;
PIB;
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Solution: d.

• Scrub typhus, also known as bush typhus because the mites that cause it reside in vegetation predominantly comprising small shrubs, is an infectious disease with symptoms similar to any viral fever.
• However, it is not caused by a virus, but by a parasite called “Orientia tsutsugamushi”, which is transmitted by the bite of infected mite larvae in soil containing scrub vegetation.
• The disease is more common during the wet season when the mites lay eggs.
• Scrub typhus is endemic to a part of the world known as the “tsutsugamushi triangle”, which extends from northern Japan and far-eastern Russia in the north, to northern Australia in the south, and to Pakistan in the west.

About Scrub Typhus: FAQ, WHO (the map provided in this document is slightly wrong, because scrub typhus outbreaks occur in Jammu, Himachal Pradesh, Nagaland too);
Improvisation: TH1; TH2; TH3;

Solution: b.
“…the pipeline, that had its ground-breaking ceremony in December 2015, has seen flagging interest since then for a number of reasons. India’s effort is to tap Turkmenistan’s Galkynysh gasfields, which are the fourth largest in the world.”

TH: India moves to revive TAPI gas pipeline;

Solution: b.
• Statement 1: The Climate and Clean Air Coalition to Reduce Short-Lived Climate Pollutants (CCAC) was launched by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and six countries—Bangladesh, Canada, Ghana, Mexico, Sweden, and the United States—in 2012.
• Statement 2: The Coalition’s initial focus is on methane, black carbon, and HFCs.
About CCACoalition;
Q65, CS(P) 2017;
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