QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 26 April 2019

Solution: a)

Bhuvan is a web mapping service which allows users to explore a 2D/3D representation of the surface of the Earth. Apart from visualization, Bhuvan provides timely disaster support services (domestic and international). Bhuvan is developed by ISRO.

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Solution: c)

The Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) is an annual publication by Germanwatch, New Climate Institute and Climate Action Network Europe.

The Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) is an instrument covering 58 countries and supposed to enhance transparency in international climate politics.

Its aim is to encourage political and social pressure on those countries which have, up to now, failed to take ambitious actions on climate protection as well as to highlight countries with best-practice climate policies.

India ranks 11th in this year’s CCPI, improving its standing by three places compared to the previous edition. Most notably India improved its performance in the Renewable Energy category, joining the group of medium performers.

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Solution: b)

NASA’s Voyager 2 probe now has exited the heliosphere – the protective bubble of particles and magnetic fields created by the Sun.

The heliosphere is a bubble around the sun created by the outward flow of the solar wind from the sun and the opposing inward flow of the interstellar wind.

o That heliosphere is the region influenced by the dynamic properties of the sun that are carried in the solar wind–such as magnetic fields, energetic particles and solar wind plasma.

o The heliopause marks the end of the heliosphere and the beginning of interstellar space.

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Solution: b)

The Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation, a statutory body, is one of the largest social security organizations in India in terms of volume of financial transactions undertaken and number of covered beneficiaries.

o It works under the overall aegis of the Ministry of Labour and Employment.

o The main functions of the EPFO: Administers a compulsory contributory Provident Fund Scheme, Pension Scheme and Insurance Scheme.

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Solution: d)

The government of Arunachal Pradesh declared the Pakke Paga Hornbill Festival (PPHF)–the state’s only conservation festival, as a “state festival”.

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