QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz,31 July 2018

Solution: c.

Chapter ‘Eminent National Leaders of India’, A New look at Modern Indian History by Grover and Mehta;

Improvisation: PM’s Mann Ki Baat;

Solution: d.

• In 2015-16, according to National Family Health Survey-4: 38.4 per cent of India’s children, below the age of five, are stunted, while 35.7 per cent are underweight.
• Article 47 of the Constitution states that, “the State shall regard raising the level of nutrition and standard of living of its people and improvement in public health among its primary duties”.

PIB;

NFHS-4: Key Indicators;

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Solution: c.

In the news, improvisation (BBC): Climate change resulting from human activities made the current Europe-wide heatwave more than twice as likely to occur, say scientists. Researchers compared the current high temperatures with historical records from seven weather stations, in different parts of Europe. Their preliminary report found that the “signal of climate change is unambiguous,” in this summer’s heat.

This new research is called an attribution study – the researchers work out how often these type of extreme heat events have happened at each of the weather stations they looked at. They compare those findings to modelled results of the climate without the influence of human emissions of carbon dioxide. This way they can work out how much climate change has tipped the odds of a rare event happening.

IPCC TAR Glossary;

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Solution: b.

In the news (TBI): Two Indians have joined the list of this year’s Ramon Magsaysay award winners – Sonam Wangchuk and Dr. Bharat Vatwani. Dr Vatwani’s organisation has rescued, treated, fed and reunited thousands of mentally-ill citizens living on the streets with their families. Sonam Wangchuk, meanwhile, was responsible for revolutionising education in Ladakh through his Students’ Education and Cultural Movement of Ladakh (SECMOL), which he founded in 1988.

Trivia: Sonam Wangchuk’s ice stupas are inspired by Chewang Norphel’s (the “Iceman of India”) artificial glaciers in Ladakh; Rajkumar Hirani’s movie ‘3 Idiots’ portrayed a character — Phunsukh Wangdu, played by Aamir Khan — said to be inspired by Sonam Wangchuk.

From 2017: BBC;

Solution: a.

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