INSIGHTS CURRENT AFFAIRS ( 23 May 2020) REVISION THROUGH MCQS

Ans: (b)

Explanation:

• UMANG is a Government of India all-in-one single, unified, secure, multi-channel, multi-platform, multi-lingual, multi-service mobile app, powered by a robust back-end platform providing access to high impact services of various organization (Central and State).
• Launched in 2017 to bring all government services on a single mobile app, with a larger goal to make the government services accessible on the mobile phone of our citizens.
• About 660 services from 127 department & 25 states, including utility payments are live and more are in pipeline.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2020/05/23/unified-mobile-application-for-new-age-governance-umang-app/

Ans: (b)

Explanation:

• Stat1: Hong Kong is a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China. It has observed a “one country, two systems” policy since Britain returned sovereignty to China on July 1, 1997, which has allowed it certain freedoms the rest of China does not have.
  • China has 5 autonomous regions: Guangxi, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Tibet (Xizang) and Xinjiang.
• Stat2: Macau was formerly a colony of the Portuguese Empire, after Ming China leased the territory as a trading post in 1557. Portugal paid an annual rent and administered the territory under Chinese sovereignty until 1887, when it gained perpetual colonial rights in the Sino-Portuguese Treaty of Peking. The colony remained under Portuguese rule until 1999, when it was transferred to China.
• Stat3: As per the One Country Two Systems approach policy, the Hong Kong and Macau Special Administrative Regions, both former colonies, can have different economic and political systems from that of mainland China, while being part of the People’s Republic of China. It was proposed by Deng Xiaoping with an aim to unify China and Taiwan.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2020/05/23/china-seeks-indias-support-for-its-new-law/

Ans: (b)

Explanation:

• Stat1: India became a party to the WHO Constitution on 12 January 1948.
• Stat2: Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan is set to take charge as chairman of the WHO Executive Board at its 147th session. Vardhan would succeed Dr Hiroki Nakatani of Japan, currently the Chairman of the 34-member WHO Executive Board.
• Stat3: The executive Board is composed of 34 members technically qualified in the field of health. The Board chairman’s post is held by rotation for one year by each of the WHO’s six regional groups: African Region, Region of the Americas, South-East Asia Region, European Region, Eastern Mediterranean Region, and Western Pacific Region.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2020/05/23/who-executive-board/

Ans: (c)

Explanation: Treaty on Open Skies:

• The treaty allows 34 countries to conduct unarmed surveillance flights over one another’s territories — including the US and Russia. It was signed in 1992 and went into effect in 2002.
• This treaty is not related to civil-aviation open skies agreements.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2020/05/23/insights-daily-current-affairs-pib-summary-23-may-2020/

Ans: (d)

Explanation:

• Stat1: Between 2017-18 and 2019-20, KVIC has distributed 129,469 bee boxes across the country and trained 13,066 beekeepers.
  • Under the Honey Mission, KVIC provides training and 10 bee boxes with live colonies to beneficiaries including farmers, beekeepers and unemployed youth. The mission aims to generate livelihood for the beneficiaries and increase honey production in the country.
  • KVIC also runs beekeeping training programmes and courses.
• Stat2: The National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC) is a statutory Corporation set up under an Act of Indian Parliament on 13 March 1963. The objectives of NCDC are planning and promoting programmes for production, processing, marketing, storage, export and import of agricultural produce, foodstuffs, industrial goods, livestock and certain other notified commodities and services on cooperative principles and for matters concerned therewith or incidental thereto.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2020/05/23/beekeeping-in-india/

Ans: (a)

Explanation:

• The Demo-2 mission is part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, and will fly two astronauts on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft.
• This mission is essentially a flight test to certify if SpaceX’s crew transportation system can be used to ferry crew to and from the space station regularly.
• This is the final flight test for the system and intends to validate its different components, including the spacecraft (Crew Dragon), the launch vehicle (Falcon 9), the launch pad (LC-39A) and the operations capabilities.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2020/05/23/what-is-the-spacex-demo-2-mission/

Ans: (b)

Explanation:

• Stat3: Most land-based tortoises are herbivores while turtles can be both herbivores and carnivores. This is a video of a turtle eating a pigeon.
• Stat2: Turtles live some or most of the time in the water, while tortoises live on land. Both turtles and tortoises lay eggs on the ground. The mother will dig a burrow and lay two to twelve eggs there. The future hatchlings will stay inside the egg for 90 to 120 days, incubating on their own. Once the incubation process is complete, they dig their way to the surface. Tortoise mothers provide protection to the hatchlings for about 80 days, after which they survive on their own, but turtle hatchlings are on their own from birth.
• Stat1: Tortoises and turtles are both reptiles from the order of Testudines, but in different classification families. The major difference between the two is that tortoises dwell on land, while turtles live in the water some or nearly all of the time.

Refer: Facts for Prelims: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2020/05/23/insights-daily-current-affairs-pib-summary-23-may-2020/

Ans: (c)

Explanation:

• Khudol is a crowdfunded initiative of Ya_All, an Imphal-based NGO that had created India’s first transgender football team. The initiative entails ensuring food, health and hygiene of the LGBTQI+ community, people living with HIV, daily-wage earners, children and adolescents.
• The United Nations Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth has listed Manipur’s Khudol (gift) among the top 10 global initiatives for an inclusive fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

Refer: Facts for Prelims: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2020/05/23/insights-daily-current-affairs-pib-summary-23-may-2020/

Ans: (a)

Explanation:

• Wildlife sanctuaries can be created for specific species while National Park is not focused onany particular specie.
• A National Park is an area which is strictly reserved for the betterment of the wildlife and where human activities like forestry, grazing or cultivation are not permitted.
• A Wildlife Sanctuary is a protected area that is reserved for the conservation only of wildlife – animals and plant species. Human activities like harvesting or timber, collection of minor forest products and private ownership rights are allowed.

Ans: (d)

Explanation:

• The Chenab of Jammu and Kashmir State is known as the Chandrabhaga in Himachal Pradesh because it is formed by two streams, the Chandra and the Bhaga which join at Tandi near Kylong .
• Chandrabhaga flows north-westwards and runs parallel to the Pir Panjal Range for some distance.
• Near Kishtwar, it cuts a deep gorge in the Pir Panjal Range and turns southwards and flows in this direction for a short distance. Further down, it turns to the west and enters the plain area near Akhnur. The river flows for 1180 km and drains 26,755 sq. km area in India.

Refer: https://www.britannica.com/place/Chenab-River