QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz,27 June 2018

Solution: a.

BBC: The European Space Agency (Esa) is working on a mission it calls “e.Deorbit” that has the objective of removing a large European satellite from space.

BBC: A UK-led RemoveDebris mission recently left the International Space Station (ISS).

The small satellite has a big job ahead – to trial the technologies that could one day be used to clean up orbiting junk. It carries a net to trap an object, and a harpoon that it will fire at a target to prove such projectiles can be used effectively in weightless conditions.

BBC: In 2016, Japan launched a cargo ship which was to use a half mile- (700m)-long tether to remove some of the vast amount of debris from Earth’s orbit. The automated cargo ship – called Stork or Kounotori in Japanese – carried the junk collector. Researchers say the lubricated, electro-dynamic tether will generate enough energy to change an object’s orbit, pushing it towards the atmosphere where it will burn up. A 106-year-old Japanese fishing net maker, Nitto Seimo Co, collaborated with Japan’s space agency to develop the mesh material.

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Solution: d.

Assumption Island is a small island in the Outer Islands of Seychelles north of Madagascar.

Wiki;

Improvisation: TH;

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Solution: d.

A comparison of nutrition indicators for children under five years, using the third and fourth rounds of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) 2015–2016 and 2005-06, shows this: though stunting has declined from 46.3% to 34.4%, wasting rates have increased from 16.5% to 25.6%. Further, the underweight rate (36%) has remained static in the last 10 years. This is worse than in some of the world’s poorest countries — Bangladesh (33%), Afghanistan (25%) or Mozambique (15%). This level of poor nutrition security disproportionately affects the poorest segment of the population.

TH;

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Solution: b.

India hosted this year’s World Environment Day and Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a high-profile pledge, to international acclaim, that it would do away with all single-use plastics by 2022. This goal is not yet backed by an action plan so that State governments and local bodies can be in sync. Worldwide, the problem has got out of hand, with only 9% of about nine billion tonnes of plastic produced getting recycled. India has an uninspiring record when it comes to handling waste. It has patchy data on volumes, and even less on what it recycles. This lackadaisical approach is at odds with its ambitious goals.

TH;

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Solution: c.

UN Environment recently launched an unprecedented global campaign #CleanSeas to eliminate major sources of marine litter: microplastics in cosmetics and the excessive, wasteful usage of single-use plastic by the year 2022.

Launched at the Economist World Ocean Summit in Bali, the #CleanSeas campaign is urging governments to pass plastic reduction policies; targeting industry to minimize plastic packaging and redesign products; and calling on consumers to change their throwaway habits – before irreversible damage is done to our seas.

UNEP;

Improvisation: TH;

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Solution: a.

Some salient features of UDAY:

• States shall take over 75% of DISCOM debt as on 30 September 2015 over two years – 50% of DISCOM debt shall be taken over in 2015-16 and 25% in 2016-17.
• Government of India will not include the debt taken over by the States as per the above scheme in the calculation of fiscal deficit of respective States in the financial years 2015-16 and 2016-17.

PIB: Salient features;

TH; UDAY;

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