10 PM Current Affairs Quiz : April 24, 2019

Green crackers are so named because they do not contain harmful chemicals that would cause air pollution.In green crackers the commonly used polluting chemicals like aluminium, barium, potassium nitrate and carbon have either been removed or sharply reduced to slow down the emissions by 15 to 30%.

Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) scientists has developed less polluting green firecrackers named as (a) Safe Water Releaser (SWAS) (b) Safe Thermite Cracker (STAR) and (c) Safe Minimal Aluminium (SAFAL).

INS Kadmatt is an indigenous stealth anti-submarine warfare corvette.It was commissioned into the Indian Navy in January 2016.It is named after one of the large islands amongst the Lakshadweep group of Islands off the west coast of India.

INS Kadmatt is participating in Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace Exhibition (LIMA)-19 which was held in Langkawi, Malaysia.

The ranking is carried out on the basis the impact startups have been able to make in the country.Further,it has also considered how many startups and support organisations are there such as accelerators, coworking spaces,startup events along with technology infrastructure,red tape,bureaucracy among others.

India has moved up to the 17th position in 2018 from 37th spot in 2017 in the Startup Ecosystem Ranking.The ranking has been released by the StartupBlink.The report has taken the startup ecosystems of 1,000 cities and 100 countries into consideration.

In terms of global rankings,the top three spots remained unchanged with the United States,United Kingdom and Canada taking the first,second and third rank respectively.Further,countries such as Estonia(13),Ireland (14) and Germany(9) were ranked ahead of India for their startup ecosystems

The bullfrog is found widely in mainland India and protected under Schedule IV of the Indian Wildlife Act 1972.It is steadily occupying the islands’ ecosystem and threatening the local economy.

The increasing population of bullfrogs in Andaman has threatened biodiversity and livelihoods of locals by preying on their fish and chicken.Hence,this is leading to unusual man-frog conflict.

A species is considered invasive when it reproduces and spreads successfully in a non-native area,where it may have harmful effects on native plants and animals.

The National Registry of Sex Offenders is maintained by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). NCRB was set-up in 1986 to function as a repository of information on crime and criminals.

The records in the registry are sourced from the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS). CCTNS is a programme of Ministry of Home Affairs. It seeks to a) deliver various web based police related services to citizens, b) facilitate a pan-India search of crime and criminal records of individuals through a national database, c) generate crime and criminal reports at the state and central level to inform policy interventions d) computerise police processes and e) establish a basic platform for an Inter-operable Criminal Justice System (ICJS).

India is among few countries like the USA, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and Trinidad & Tobago, that maintains a sex offenders list. However, the United States is the only country where the sex offender registry is available to the public.

The Olive Ridley is classified as vulnerable according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) and is listed in Appendix I of CITES

The Olive Ridley sea turtle has been listed on Schedule – I of the Indian Wildlife (Protection) Act,1972.

The Olive Ridley turtles are the smallest and most abundant of all sea turtles found in the world, inhabiting warm waters of the Pacific,Atlantic and Indian oceans.