10 PM Current Affairs Quiz : April 19, 2018

Basavanna was born into an orthodox Brahmin family at Basavana Bagewadi in today’s Bijapura district of Karnataka in 12th century. He was a highly respected minister at the court of King Bijjala of Kalyani Chalukyas who ruled most parts of north Karnataka. He revolted against the caste system in the Hinduism and founded a new religion called “Lingayats” to create a casteless society. His followers are known as Lingayats. Basava wrote profoundly meaningful poems called Vachanas in simple Kannada.

Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India comprises four printing presses.

1)Currency Note Press (CNP)

2)Bank Note Press (BNP)

3)India Security Press

4)Security Printing Press

The first printing press of India Currency Note Press (CNP) was established in 1928 for printing bank notes in India. This press is located in Nashik, Maharashtra.

Bank Note Press (BNP), established later, has two branches located in Mysore, Karnataka and Dewas, Madhya Pradesh.Both these printing presses print Indian currency.

BNP has an ink factory as well and it produces ink for security printing.

Currency is also printed by Reserve Bank of India. It has two printing presses which are owned by Bhartiya Reserve Bank Note Mudran Private Limited. These printing presses are located in Mysore, Karnataka and Salboni, West Bengal.

Indian security Press is located in Nashik and Security Printing Press is located in Hyderabad. Both of these printing presses produce travel documents, postage stamps and other government related documents.

Olive Ridley sea turtles are classified as vulnerable by IUCN.

The Olive Ridley sea turtle has a circumtropical distribution, with nesting occurring throughout tropical waters (except the Gulf of Mexico) and migratory circuits in tropical and some subtropical areas (Atlantic Ocean – eastern central, northeast, northwest, southeast, southwest, western central; Indian Ocean – eastern, western; Pacific Ocean – eastern central, northwest, southwest, western central).

Quick Response(QR) Codes are a type of matrix barcode. It is machine readable and made up of black and white squares. It stores information in binary digits.QR Codes can store upto a maximum of 7089 digits. QR Codes also have an error correcting capacity. It can be restored even if it is partially damaged or dirty.

Economic and Social Council(ECOSOC) was established by the UN Charter (1945), which was amended in 1965 and 1974 to increase the number of members from 18 to 54. ECOSOC membership is based on geographic representation: 14 seats are allocated to Africa, 11 to Asia, 6 to eastern Europe, 10 to Latin America and the Caribbean, and 13 to western Europe and other areas.The council was designed to be the UN’s main venue for the discussion of international economic and social issues. ECOSOC conducts studies; formulates resolutions, recommendations, and conventions for consideration by the General Assembly; and coordinates the activities of various UN organizations. Most of ECOSOC’s work is performed in functional commissions on topics such as human rights, narcotics, population, social development, statistics, the status of women, and science and technology; the council also oversees regional commissions for Europe, Asia and the Pacific, Western Asia, Latin America, and Africa. The UN charter allows ECOSOC to grant consultative status to nongovernmental organizations (NGOs).

Atmospheric aerosols can be either solid or liquid. Aerosols reflect and absorb radiation from the sun. Aerosols can affect the climate in two ways, through direct or indirect processes.  A direct process is the immediate effect on radiation absorption. If the aerosol is light in colour, it generally reflects solar radiation and causes cooling by reducing incoming energy. If the aerosol is dark it absorbs solar radiation and directly affects the climate through warming.  Some aerosols can also encourage the growth of cloud and fog droplets if they have water-attracting properties. Pure sulphates and nitrates reflect nearly all radiation they encounter, cooling the atmosphere. Black carbon, in contrast, absorbs radiation readily, warming the atmosphere but also shading the surface. Organic carbon, sometimes called brown carbon or organic matter, has a warming influence on the atmosphere depending on the brightness of the underlying ground. Dust impacts radiation to varying degrees, depending on the composition of the minerals that comprise the dust grains, and whether they are coated with black or brown carbon. Salt particles tend to reflect all the sunlight they encounter. Therefore, statement 3 is incorrect as black carbon absorbs most of the sunlight.