QUIZ – 2020: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 13 May 2020

Solution: a)

Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what Earth can regenerate in that year. We maintain this deficit by liquidating stocks of ecological resources and accumulating waste, primarily carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Earth Overshoot Day is hosted and calculated by Global Footprint Network, an international research organization that provides decision-makers with a menu of tools to help the human economy operate within Earth’s ecological limits.

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Solution: d)

The Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) is an international coalition of countries, United Nations (UN) agencies, multilateral development banks, the private sector, and academic institutions, that aims to promote disaster-resiliant infrastructure. Its objective is to promote research and knowledge sharing in the fields of infrastructure risk management, standards, financing, and recovery mechanisms. It was launched by the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the 2019 UN Climate Action Summit in September 2019.

CDRI’s initial focus is on developing disaster-resilience in ecological, social, and economic infrastructure. It aims to achieve substantial changes in member countries’ policy frameworks and future infrastructure investments, along with a major decrease in the economic losses suffered due to disasters.

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Solution: c)

A zoonosis (plural zoonoses, or zoonotic diseases) is an infectious disease caused by a pathogen (an infectious agent, such as a bacterium, virus, parasite or prion) that has jumped from an animal (usually a vertebrate) to a human.

Some of the major Zoonotic Diseases are:

Anthrax

Bird flu

Brucellosis

Ebola

Japanese encephalitis

Kyasanur Forest disease

Leptospirosis

Middle East respiratory syndrome

Nipah virus infection

Rabies

Severe acute respiratory syndrome

Zika fever

Humans are only extremely rarely infected by foot-and-mouth disease virus.

Solution: c)

PRIASoft aims to keep track of all the in-flow (Receipts) and out- flow (Expenditure) of the Panchayati Raj Institutions. The Application facilitate better financial management of Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) by bringing about transparency and accountability in the maintenance of accounts thereby leading to better credibility and ultimately strengthening of PRIs. It is a centralized Accounting Software intended for use by all the three levels of Panchayati Raj namely Zilla, Block and Village Panchayat. Apart from making the process of accounting simple and easy (necessarily due to lack of trained manpower at this level), it ensures a better financial management, transparency and accountability at the Panchayat level.

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Solution: d)

Bamboonomics:

It is a movement to combat desertification and climate change which will involve the tribal community of India since they have the expertise in this field.

The movement will ensure that tribals can earn a livelihood without causing environmental harm.

It was launched at the COP 14 of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD).

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