QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz,13 June 2018

Solution: b.

Researchers in Germany have started collecting data with a $71 million machine designed to help determine the mass of the universe’s lightest particle.

Physicists, engineers and technicians at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology hope the 200-metric tonne device will narrow down or even pinpoint the actual mass of neutrinos.

Those are sometimes called “ghost particles” because they’re so difficult to detect. Scientists with the Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino experiment, or KATRIN, said they’ll be taking measurements “well into the next decade” and hope to produce “high-impact results.”

Th;

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Solution: b.

Common Services Centre (CSC) programme is an initiative of the Ministry of Electronics & IT (MeitY), Government of India. CSCs are the access points for delivery of various electronic services to villages in India, thereby contributing to a digitally and financially inclusive society.

Some of the preconditions for participating in the CSC scheme:

• Applicant should be a village youth above 18 years of age
• Applicant must have passed the 10th level examination from a recognized board as minimum level of educational qualification.
• Applicant should be fluent in reading and writing the local dialect and should also have basic knowledge of English language
• Applicant should have a valid Aadhaar number.

Vikaspedia;

TH;

Solution: a.

Statements b, c and d are correct. Regarding Statement a: Banks may engage the following individuals/entities as BCs:

1. Individuals like retired bank employees, retired teachers, retired government employees and ex-servicemen, individual owners of kirana / medical /Fair Price shops, etc.
2. NGOs/MFIs
3. Cooperative Societies
4. Post Offices; and
5. Companies registered under the Indian Companies Act, 1956 with large and widespread retail outlets

RBI 1; RBI 2;

Improvisation: TH;

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Solution: a.

About NOTTO: National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organization (NOTTO) is a National level organization set up under Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. It has following two divisions – the National Human Organ and Tissue Removal and Storage Network and the National Biomaterial Centre. Both divisions have been set up as mandate by the Transplantation of Human Organs (Amendment) Act 2011.

TH;

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Solution: a.

The WHO prescribes a doctor-population ratio of one for every thousand.

From 2017: IE