INSIGHTS CURRENT AFFAIRS ( 9 August 2021) REVISION THROUGH MCQS

Ans: (c)

Explanation:

• S2: Sustainable Development Goal 5 concerns gender equality and is fifth of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals established by the United Nations in 2015. The official wording of SDG 5 is “Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls”.
• S1: In 2016, UNICEF, together with UNFPA, launched the Global Programme to End Child Marriage.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2021/08/09/un-slams-child-marriages/

Ans: (a)

Explanation:

• Ocean water is constantly moving, and not only in the form of waves and tides. Ocean currents flow like vast rivers, sweeping along predictable paths. Some ocean currents flow at the surface; others flow deep within water.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2021/08/09/what-is-the-atlantic-meridional-overturning-circulation-amoc/

Ans: (c)

Explanation:

• S2: Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) is a statutory body of Ministry of Women & Child Development, Government of India.
  • It functions as the nodal body for adoption of Indian children and is mandated to monitor and regulate in-country and inter-country adoptions.
  • CARA is designated as the Central Authority to deal with inter-country adoptionsin accordance with the provisions of the Hague Convention on Inter-country Adoption, 1993, ratified by Government of India in 2003.
  • CARA primarily deals with adoption of orphan, abandoned and surrendered children through its associated /recognised adoption agencies.
• S1: CARA is also mandated to frame regulations on adoption-related matters from time to time as per Section 68 of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2021/08/09/delhi-hc-says-adoption-not-limited-by-religion/

Ans: (b)

Explanation:

• The Vishwa Hindu Parishad has demanded a Central law against forced religious conversion.
• What critics say?
  • Such laws have come under sharp criticism from several legal scholars who had contended that the concept of ‘love jihad’ did not have any constitutional or legal basis.
  • They have pointed to Article 21 of the constitution which guarantees individuals the right to marry a person of one’s choice.
  • Also, under Article 25, freedom of conscience, the practice and conversion of religion of one’s choice including not following any religion, are also guaranteed.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2021/08/09/do-we-need-a-central-law-against-forced-conversion/

Ans: (a)

Explanation:

• The scheme is being implemented by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment from the year 2020-21.
• Under the scheme, eligible target groups are being provided skill development training programmes on up-skilling/reskilling, short term training programme, long term training programme and entrepreneurship development program (EDP).
• Eligibility: Marginalized persons of SC, OBC, Economically Backward Classes, De-notified tribes, Sanitation workers including waste pickers, manual scavengers, transgenders and other similar categories.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2021/08/09/pradhan-mantri-dakshta-aur-kushalta-sampann-hitgrahi-pm-daksh-yojana/

Ans: (b)

Explanation:

• Hydrogen is the lightest of all gases and the most abundant element in the universe.
• Helium is the second most abundant element in the universe, after hydrogen.
• Since the weight of hydrogen is less than air, it rises in the atmosphere and is therefore rarely found in its pure form, H2.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2021/08/09/what-is-hydrogen-fuel/

Ans: (d)

Explanation: Island of Evia:

• Also called Euboea, it is the second-largest Greek island in area.
• It is separated from Boeotia in mainland Greece by the narrow Euripus Strait.
• It was recently in news because of raging wildfires.

Refer: facts for prelims: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2021/08/09/insights-daily-current-affairs-pib-summary-9-august-2021/

Ans: (a)

Explanation:

• The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) is India’s primary border patrol organization for its border with China’s Tibet Autonomous Region. It is one of the five Central Armed Police Forces of India, raised on 24 October 1962, under the CRPF Act, in the wake of the Sino-Indian War of 1962.
• Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) force:
  • ITBP has commissioned its first two women officers (Prakriti and Deeksha) in combat recently.

Refer: facts for prelims: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2021/08/09/insights-daily-current-affairs-pib-summary-9-august-2021/

Ans: (d)

Explanation:

• The National Investigation Agency (NIA) was constituted under the National Investigation Agency (NIA) Act, 2008.
• S1: It is also the Central Counter Terrorism Law Enforcement Agency.
• S2: It is empowered to deal with terror related crimes across states without special permission from the states.
• Established under the National Investigation Agency Act 2008.
• S3: Works under the Ministry of Hime Affairs.
• The 2019 amendments empowers the NIA to probe terror attacks targeting Indians and Indian interests abroad.

Refer: facts for prelims: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2021/08/09/insights-daily-current-affairs-pib-summary-9-august-2021/

Ans: (a)

Explanation:

• The Pensilungpa Glacier is located in Zanskar, Ladakh.
• It is retreating due to an increase in the temperature and decrease in precipitation during winters.
• The Zanskar Range is a mountain range in the union territory of Ladakh that separates Zanskar from Ladakh.
• Geologically, the Zanskar Range is part of the Tethys Himalaya.
• Marbal Pass and many other passes which connect Ladakh with Kashmir are in this area.
• 13000 feet high Zojila Pass is in the extreme northwest of Zanskar range.

Refer: facts for prelims: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2021/08/09/insights-daily-current-affairs-pib-summary-9-august-2021/