QUIZ – 2020: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 29 August 2020

Solution: a)

Not a single country — developed or developing — is on track to achieve sustainability in the transportation sector and attain the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) mandated by the United Nations, according to a report by Sustainable Mobility for All (SuM4All) initiative.

The SuM4All initiative, launched in 2017, is an umbrella platform that brings together 55 public and private organisations and companies to act collectively to implement the SDGs and transform the transport sector. 

The report, charted a Global Roadmap for Action (GRA), which provides a catalogue of policy measures that have been used and tested around the world to achieve four policy goals — universal access, efficiency, green mobility and safety.

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Solution: d)

CAFF is the biodiversity working group of the Arctic Council and consists of National Representatives assigned by each of the eight Arctic Council Member States.

These are Canada, Greenland/Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Russian Federation and United States. Moreover, Representatives of Indigenous Peoples’ organizations are also Permanent Participants to the Council.

The Arctic Council and other such organizations play a crucial role in the meetings of the organization.

CAFF’s mandate is to address the conservation of Arctic biodiversity, and to communicate its findings to the governments and residents of the Arctic, helping to promote practices which ensure the sustainability of the Arctic’s living resources.

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Solution: a)

Ministry of rural development releases fifth edition of Wasteland Atlas. The last edition was published in 2011.

Key findings:

• Spatial extent of wastelands in India is 55.76 Mha (16.96 per cent of geographical area of the country i.e. 328.72 Mha) for the year 2015-16 as compared to 56.60 Mha (17.21 per cent) in the year 2008-09.
• As per the Atlas, during this period 1.45 Mha of wastelands are converted into non-wastelands categories.
• India with 2.4 per cent of total land area of the world is supporting 18 per cent of the world’s population. The per capita availability of agriculture land in India is 0.12 ha whereas world per capita agriculture land is 0.29 ha.
• The new wastelands mapping exercise was carried out by NRSC using the Indian Remote Sensing Satellite data.

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Solution: c)

SFIO, under the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA), is a multi-disciplinary organisation that investigates and guides prosecution in white-collar fraud requiring expertise in forensic auditing, corporate law, information technology, capital markets, taxation, and other allied fields.

It was established in 2003, based on recommendations by the Naresh Chandra Committee on Corporate Audit and Governance. It received statutory powers under the Companies Act, 2013.

Cases are assigned to the SFIO based on the scale of financial misappropriation or extent of public interest that is at stake.

The SFIO will normally take up for investigation only such cases, which are characterized by –

1. i) complexity and having inter-departmental and multi- disciplinary ramifications;
2. ii) substantial involvement of public interest to be judged by size, either in terms of monetary iii) the possibility of investigation leading to or contributing towards a clear improvement in systems, laws or procedures.

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Solution: c)

The Sinai Peninsula is a peninsula in Egypt, and the only part of the country located in Asia. It is situated between the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Red Sea to the south, and is a land bridge between Asia and Africa.