QUIZ – 2020: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 13 February 2021

Solution: c)

World Sustainable Development Summit:

• It is the annual flagship event of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI).
• It is the sole Summit on global issues taking place in the developing world.
• It provides a platform for global leaders and practitioners to discuss and deliberate over climatic issues of universal importance.
• It strives to provide long-term solutions for the benefit of the global community by assembling the world’s most enlightened leaders and thinkers on a single platform.

Solution: d)

A Rs 4,000 crore was allocated for over a five year period in the FY22 Budget for India’s Deep Ocean Mission.

Deep Ocean Mission framework entails the inclusion of following broad components.

• The first outlines the development of technologies for underwater vehicles and robotics to assist deep-sea mining.
• The second involves ocean climate advisories that envisage to determine the extent ocean-atmosphere coupling influence the climate of the sub-continent.
• The third component includes research on deep-sea biodiversity, an area of work that has made little headway till now.

Solution: b)

Some of the major resources ocean floors offer are polymetallic nodules, cobalt-rich manganese crust, hydrothermal deposits and gas hydrates. Of these, only gas hydrates are found in India’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in mineable quantities in the order of ~950 trillion cubic m.

At present, oceanic data is managed by the Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) through its Digital Ocean and allied frameworks.

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Solution: d)

The Information Technology Act, 2000 is an Act of the Indian Parliament notified on 17 October 2000. It is the primary law in India dealing with cybercrime and electronic commerce.

Information Technology Act deals with hate content on the Internet.

The Union home ministry, in its report submitted to the Parliamentary panel on Home Affairs, has said that even as there is no “legislative definition for cybercrime”, any offence committed “against a computer resource or with the aid of a computer resource is called a cybercrime”. “Such offences are dealt as per the legal provisions of the Information Technology Act, Indian Penal Code, POSCO etc,”

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Solution: c)

Blue skies research (also called blue sky science) is scientific research in domains where “real-world” applications are not immediately apparent. It has been defined as “research without a clear goal” and “curiosity-driven science”.

Proponents of this mode of science argue that unanticipated scientific breakthroughs are sometimes more valuable than the outcomes of agenda-driven research, heralding advances in genetics and stem cell biology as examples of unforeseen benefits of research that was originally seen as purely theoretical in scope.