10 PM Current Affairs Quiz #2 October 3, 2019

Explanation: On the occasion of 150th birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), NITI Aayog’s Atal Tinkering Labs (ATL) and UNICEF India, including Generation Unlimited, launched ‘The Gandhian Challenge’ for school children. This innovation challenge provides a platform for every child across India to ideate innovative solutions for a sustainable India of their dreams, using Gandhi’s principles.
The Gandhian Challenge’ Objective: To support children to thrive as young innovators and entrepreneurs.
Problem statement for Gandhian Challenge is– ‘Share your innovative solutions or ideas to create a futuristic and sustainable world of your dreams, following Gandhi’s principles.’
The contest celebrates 70 years of partnership between Government of India and UNICEF India to enable Every Right for Every Child. It is open for every child in India from 2-20 October 2019. Through this partnership, AIM and UNICEF would recognize every child’s ability and right to voice their dreams for a world of their choice, following Gandhi’s principles.

Explanation: Rapidly-moving Typhoon ‘Mitag’ is bearing down on northern Taiwan, where it is expected to bring high winds and heavy rain. With the worst of the weather expected to arrive in the island country, the warnings have been issued for parts of island’s east and north, including the capital, Taipei. The Taiwan’s weather bureau has categorized Typhoon Mitag been as at the second-strongest typhoon level.
Typhoon is the regional names for Tropical Cyclones that occurs in Western Pacific and South China Sea i.e. in Philippines islands, eastern China and Japan the tropical cyclones are called typhoons. A typhoon is a mature tropical cyclone that develops between 180° (or 180th meridian or antimeridian is meridian 180° both east and west of Prime Meridian) and 100°E in the Northern Hemisphere. This region is referred to as Northwestern Pacific Basin which is the most active tropical cyclone basin on Earth. This region accounts for almost one-third (33%) of the world’s annual tropical cyclones.

Explanation: The government launched a mobile app to help consumers register complaints easily and get redressal within 60 days. The complaints which are simple in nature will be resolved within 15 days, while complicated ones will be redressed in 60 days, it said.
The ‘Consumer App’ is available for free in two languages including English and Hindi. It can be downloaded on Android and iOS platforms. Consumers can register complaints and track the status. The effort would be made to resolve the complaints within a limited time frame. Consumers have to register on the mobile app for filing complaint on issues related to 42 sectors like airlines, banking and insurance.
Besides, consumers through the mobile app can offer suggestion to the government. They can also benefit from other features provided in the mobile app. The mobile app has important links related to consumers, details of each sectors like refund rules and others.

Explanation: In a first of its kind offer from any national carrier, the IRCTC will compensate passengers of new Lucknow-Delhi Tejas Express in case of delay in train schedule. The train is schedules to be flagged off on 4 October 2019.
An amount of Rs.100 will be paid in case the delay is for more than an hour and Rs.250 for delay of more than 2 hours. This compensation is in addition to the Rs.25-lakh free insurance that will be given to passengers of the train. Many countries over the globe compensate passengers for delays although some do so as monetary compensation and some in kind.
Tejas Express is first semi-high speed fully air-conditioned train of India, introduced by Indian Railways. Its inaugural run was in 2017 from Mumbai Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus to Karmali in Goa. In March 2019, second Tejas Express of India was flagged off between Chennai Egmore and Madurai Junction.

Explanation: The International Day of Older Persons (IDOP) is an occasion to highlight the important contributions that older people make to society and raise awareness of the issues and challenges of ageing in today’s world. On 14th December 1990, the United Nations General Assembly designated 1st October the International Day of Older Persons.
The Theme for 2019 was “The Journey to Age Equality”. The 2019 theme is aligned with Sustainable Development Goal 10 (SDG 10) and focuses on pathways of coping with existing and preventing future old age inequalities. Often, disparities in old age reflect an accumulated disadvantage characterized by factors such as: location, gender, socio‐economic status, health and income. Between 2015 and 2030, the number of people aged 60 and over is expected to increase from 901 million to 1.4 billion. In this regard, trends of ageing and economic inequality interact across generations and rapid population ageing, demographic and societal or structural changes alone, can exacerbate older age inequalities, thereby limiting economic growth and social cohesion.
The 2019 theme aims to:
•Draw attention to the existence of old age inequalities and how this often results from a cumulation of disadvantages throughout life, and highlight intergenerational risk of increased old age inequalities.
•Bring awareness to the urgency of coping with existing — and preventing future — old age inequalities.
•Explore societal and structural changes in view of life course policies: life-long learning, proactive and adaptive labour policies, social protection and universal health coverage.
•Reflect on best practices, lessons and progress on the journey to ending older age inequalities and changing negative narratives and stereotypes involving “old age.”