10 PM Current Affairs Quiz: August 11, 2020

Statement 1 is correct. Ayushman Bharat comprises of two inter-related components:

–Health and Wellness Centres: Government has announced the creation of 1,50,000 Health and Wellness Centres (HWCs) by transforming the existing Sub Centres and Primary Health Centres.

–Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY): It aims at providing a health cover of Rs. 5 lakhs per family per year for secondary and tertiary care hospitalization to over 10.74 crores poor and vulnerable families.

Statement 2 is correct. Government has notified the COVID- 19 testing and treatment coverage under the Ayushman Bharat- Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana- PMJAY.

Both statements are correct.

Network Attached Storage (NAS) is a dedicated file storage system which can be connected to many different devices at the same time and allows access to the same disk. Users on a local area network (LAN) access the shared storage via a standard Ethernet connection.

NAS device has its own file server capabilities to store and managed access to files but does not have any keyboard or display interface and are managed from the connected machine/computers.

Option 1 is correctly matched. Pinaka is a multiple rocket launcher produced in India and developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation for the Indian Army.

Option 2 is correctly matched. Maareech Advanced Torpedo Defence System is a torpedo detection and countermeasure system used by the Indian Navy.

BEL has launched fully indigenized Maareech Integration facility for manufacturing, integration and testing of Anti Torpedo Defence System Maareech which has been designed by DRDO.

Option 3 is incorrectly matched. Astra is India’s first beyond-visual-range (BVR) air-to-air missile indigenously designed and developed by Defence Research and Development Organisation. The maximum range of Astra is 110 km in head-on chase and 20 km in tail chase.

Mount Sinabung volcano is in northern Sumatra, Indonesia. It had been inactive for centuries until it erupted suddenly in 2010 and twice in recent week. It is a Pleistocene-to-Holocene stratovolcano with many lava flows on its flanks.

Indonesia has around 147 volcanoes and 76 of them are active volcanoes and spread along the islands of Java, Lesser Sunda, Sumatra, and Celebes.

Most active volcanos of Indonesia are: Merapi, Kaba, Kerinci, Anak Krakatau, Papandayan, Slamet, Bromo, Semeru, Batur, Rinjani, Sangeang Api, Rokatenda, Egon, Soputan, Lokon, Gamalama, Dukono, Karangetang, Ibu, and Talang.

Statement 1 is correct. An optical fiber cable is a type of cable that has a number of optical fibers bundled together. All optical fibers use a core of hair-like transparent silicon covered with less refractive indexed cladding to avoid light leakage to the surroundings.

Statement 2 is incorrect. An optical fiber typically consists of a transparent core surrounded by a transparent cladding material with a lower index of refraction. Light is kept in the core by total internal reflection.

There are two major categories:

–Step index fiber optic cabling: core surrounded by the cladding, which has a single uniform index of refraction.

–Graded index fiber optic cabling: refractive index of the optical fiber decreases as the radial distance from the fiber axis increases.

Total internal reflection: the complete reflection of a light ray reaching an interface with a less dense medium when the angle of incidence exceeds the critical angle.

Statement 1 is correct. In Asian elephants, only males have tusks, both male and female African elephants are tusked.

The elephant is Earth’s largest land animal, although the Asian elephant is slightly smaller than its African cousin. Asian elephants can be identified by their smaller, rounded ears.

They live in forested regions of India and throughout Southeast Asia, including Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos. About a third of Asian elephants live in captivity.

Statement 2 is correct. The Asian elephant is classified as Endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List.

The beta version of National Portal on human elephant conflict called “Surakhsya” for collection of real time information has been launched recently.

Statement 1 is correct. The National Infrastructure Pipeline is an effort to augment India’s infrastructure through an identified investment of INR 111 Lakh crores between FY 2020-25. It is a first-of-its-kind, whole-of-government exercise to provide world-class infrastructure across the country, and improve the quality of life for all citizens.

Statement 2 is incorrect. It aims to improve project preparation, attract investments (both domestic and foreign) into infrastructure, and will be crucial for target of becoming a $5 trillion economy by FY 2025.

The NIP project database is hosted on India Investment Grid (IIG) and the online dashboard as a one-stop solution for all stakeholders looking for information on infrastructure projects in India has been recently unveiled by the Finance Minister.

Statement 1 is incorrect. GST in India is not a single slab tax. It has four major tax slabs: 5%, 12%, 18% and 28%.

Statement 2 is correct. GST is a destination based tax; therefore the goods and services will be taxed at the place where they are consumed and not at the origin.

Statement 3 is correct. Alcohol for human consumption is currently out of GST system and the power to tax it remains with the states.

Petroleum products and Electricity are also out of the purview of GST in India.

All of the above islands/reef are in the South China Sea.

Mischief Reef is a reef/atoll surrounding a large lagoon in the SE of Dangerous Ground in the east of the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea. It has been occupied and controlled by the PRC since 1995, and is also claimed by the Republic of China (Taiwan), the Philippines and Vietnam.

The Natuna Islands are a 272-island archipelago of Indonesia, located in southern part of South China Sea. Indonesia’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) off the coast of Natuna is slightly overlapped by China’s disputed South China Sea claim.

The Paracel Islands, also known as Xisha Islands are a disputed archipelago in the South China Sea. It is claimed by China, Taiwan and Vietnam.

Both statements are correct.

The World Health Assembly is the decision-making body of WHO. It is attended by delegations from all WHO Member States and focuses on a specific health agenda prepared by the Executive Board.

The main functions of the World Health Assembly are to determine the policies of the Organization, appoint the Director-General, supervise financial policies, and review and approve the proposed programme budget.

The Executive Board is composed of 34 technically qualified members elected for three-year terms. India (Harsh Vardhan, Minister of Health and Family Welfare) has been elected as chair of World Health Organization’s Executive Board in May 2020.