10 PM Current Affairs Quiz #50 December 30, 2019

Explanation: Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) Mission was launched in 2015. It aims to provide housing for all in urban areas by the year 2022. The objective is to construct 1.2 crore houses. Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has informed that one crore houses have already been sanctioned under PM Awas Yojana (Urban).

Explanation: SnowEx is a five-year program initiated and funded by NASA’s Terrestrial Hydrology Program. It aims to address the most important gaps in our snow remote sensing knowledge. It seeks to lay the groundwork for a snow satellite mission to study global snow water equivalent (SWE). SnowEx seeks to study six broad snow climate categories in North America. It includes tundra (alpine or Arctic), taiga (Boreal forest), warm (temperate) forest, maritime, prairie, and ephemeral.

Explanation: The Epigraphy Branch of the Archaeological Survey of India has discovered the earliest epigraphic evidence for the Saptamatrika cult. It was discovered in Andhra Pradesh. The inscription is in Sanskrit and in Brahmi characters. It was issued by Satavahana king Vijaya in 207 A.D. It is also the earliest Sanskrit inscription to have been discovered in South India so far.

Explanation: Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana – National Urban Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NULM will be organizing a consultative meeting to set out the framework for Shehri Samriddhi Utsav (SSU) 2020. Launched in 2019, it is an initiative of the Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs (MoHUA). It aims to extend the outreach of Deendayal Antyodaya Mission – National Urban Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NULM), to the most vulnerable people. It also seeks to showcase its initiatives and facilitate access of Self-Help Group (SHG) members to the other government schemes.

Explanation: Union Territory of Ladakh is celebrating Losar Festival on 27 December 2019. Losar is Tibetan word for new year.Losar festival is celebrated to mark the Ladakhi or Tibetan New Year. The festival is regarded as the most important socio-religious event of Ladakh. The festival is held annually on the 1st Day of the Eleventh Month of Tibetan Calendar correlating to a date in the Gregorian calendar. During the festival,Ladakhi Buddhists make religious offering before their deities in the domestic shrines or in the Gompas.