QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 28 DECEMBER 2017

Solution: c.

International cooperation is a part of India’s space programme since its inception. In the past, ISRO has developed Meghatropiques and SARAL satellites in cooperation with French space agency CNES. Currently ISRO and NASA are working jointly on NISAR (NASA ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) project.

Source/Improvisation: http://pibregional.nic.in/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1514399;

https://www.isro.gov.in/sites/default/files/PSLV-C30Brochure.compressed.pdf;

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Solution: a.

Atomic Minerals Directorate for Exploration and Research (AMD) has a mandate to identify, evaluate and augment mineral resources such as uranium, thorium and rare metals.

Andhra Pradesh has the largest reserves of uranium resources.

See table: http://pibregional.nic.in/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1514396;

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Solution: b.

Objective of the FAME India Scheme [Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of (Hybrid &) Electric Vehicles in India] is to support hybrid/electric vehicles market development and Manufacturing eco-system. The scheme has 4 focus areas i.e. Technology development, Demand Creation, Pilot Projects and Charging Infrastructure.

The scheme is aimed at incentivising all vehicle segments i.e. 2 Wheeler, 3 Wheeler Auto, Passenger 4 Wheeler Vehicle, Light Commercial Vehicles and Buses… “The Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises Shri Anant Geete has announced today that the Government is providing Rs 437 crore subsidy to 11 cities under FAME India, for launching electric buses, taxis and three-wheelers.”

http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=174902;

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Solution: a.

• Majuli Island is the nerve centre of Vaishnavite culture developed during the unique Vaishnava Satra system founded by the great saint Srimanta Sankardeva in the 15th century. It is the cultural heritage centre of Vaishnavite culture of Assam. There are at present 22 Satras in Majuli.
• The Sattriya dance form was introduced in the 15th century A.D by the great Vaishnava saint and reformer of Assam, Mahapurusha Sankaradeva as a powerful medium for propagation of the Vaishnava faith. The dance form evolved and expanded as a distinctive style of dance later on. This neo-Vaishnava treasure of Assamese dance and drama has been, for centuries, nurtured and preserved with great commitment by the Sattras i.e. Vaishnava maths or monasteries.
• Sankaradeva introduced this dance form by incorporating different elements from various treatises, local folk dances with his own rare outlook.

Source/Improvisation: http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=174833;

http://ccrtindia.gov.in/sattriya.php;

Solution: a.

“A paper in the Indian journal Current Science suggests an unexpected cause for the inflammatory brain disease — encephalitis — found in Malkangiri district of Odisha. For many years, this recurring outbreak, which killed over 100 children last year, was thought to be due to the Japanese encephalitis (JE) virus. Now researchers say it was likely due to the consumption of a wild bean, called Bada Chakunda, which grows freely in the region. Like several natural toxins, the anthraquinones in the bean don’t harm healthy people, but cause fatal dysfunction of the liver, heart and brain in underfed children. This finding draws on the researchers’ previous work in Uttar Pradesh’s Saharanpur district, where too a recurrent encephalitis outbreak was traced to this bean.”

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/the-diagnostic-lens-encephalitis/article22288594.ece;

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