10 PM Current Affairs Quiz #21 October 29, 2019

Explanation: The Mission will focus on the following Thrust Areas:
•Water Supply
•Sewerage and septage management
•Storm Water Drainage to reduce flooding
•Non-motorized Urban Transport
•Green space/parks

Explanation: The serious efforts being put in by the government to protect forests in erstwhile undivided Adilabad district of Telangana State has made life a little difficult for the Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTG) — Kolam and Naikpod — which depend upon bamboo extracted from forests for a livelihood. There are about 6,000 Kolam and 2,500 Naikpod families, mostly living in forest habitations or on forest fringes in old Adilabad district, who depend upon bamboo for a livelihood but cannot afford to purchase it from the Forest Department which harvests and sells it in Kagaznagar, Asifabad, Bellampalli and Mancherial divisions. They make baskets and mats and their traditional market is the larger Raj Gond tribe and since the last 100 years or so, the non-tribals living in the Agency tracts.

Explanation: The average Indian brain is smaller in height, width, and volume as compared to the western and eastern population like the Chinese and Korean according to the first-ever ‘Indian Brain Atlas’ created by researchers of the International Institute of Information Technology-Hyderabad (IIITH). These differences are found even at the structure level like the volume of hippocampus and so on. But overall, the ‘IBA 100 is more’ comparable to the Chinese and Korean atlases than the distant Caucasian one, according to the research team led by professor from the Centre for Visual Information Technology Jayanthi Sivaswamy.

Explanation: Two years after the 126-member Assam Assembly adopted a population policy, the State Cabinet on Monday evening decided to make government jobs out of bounds for people with more than two children. The policy will come into effect from January 1, 2021. The State Assembly had in September 2017 passed the ‘Population and Women Empowerment Policy of Assam’ seeking to encourage small family. Apart from specifying that candidates with two children only would be eligible for government jobs, the policy warranted that existing government employees should strictly follow the two-child norm. “Implementing the population policy was necessary, given the pressure on land and resources in Assam.

Explanation: Supercyclone ‘Kyarr’ in the Arabian Sea has moved westwards and away from India’s coast, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD). ‘Kyarr’ lay 830 km west-southwest of Mumbai and 1160 km east-northeast of Salalah (Oman). It is “very likely” to move west-northwestwards till October 30 to recurve west-south-westwards thereafter and move towards the Gulf of Aden off south Oman-Yemen coasts in the next three days. “It is very likely to maintain the intensity of a Super Cyclonic Storm till 28th October evening and weaken gradually thereafter,” the IMD said in a press statement. Gales reaching 230-240 kmph and gusting to 265 kmph, were prevailing around the cyclone’s centre over the central Arabian Sea and it was very likely to reduce gradually to 130 kmph by November 1. ‘Kyarr’ is the first supercyclone in the Arabian Sea after cyclone Gonu in 2007. Its formation had brought rains over the weekend to Goa and coastal Karnataka but adverse weather was unlikely over India. However, seas were expected to be rough and fishermen have been advised not to venture into the east-central Arabian Sea till Wednesday and into west-central Arabian Sea till November 2, it said.