10 PM Current Affairs Quiz: August 15, 2020

Statement 1 is incorrect. Superior courts (Supreme Court and High Courts) derive their contempt powers from the Constitution.  The Contempt of Court Act outlines the procedure in relation to investigation and punishment for contempt. The Act additionally allows the High Court to punish for contempt of subordinate courts.

Statement 2 is correct. Fair criticism of judicial act and accurate report of judicial proceeding does not amount to its contempt. A person shall not be guilty of contempt of court for publishing any fair comment on the merits of any case which has been heard and finally decided.

Defence Minister recently launched a portal SRIJAN which is a one stop shop online portal that provides access to the vendors to take up items for indigenization.

The main objective of the portal is to partner the private sector in indigenization efforts of Defence Public Sector Undertakings (DPSUs), OFB and the Armed Forces. The portal will be a non-transactional online market place platform.

DPSUs/OFB/SHQs will display their items on this portal, which they have imported or going to import, each item having sizeable import value. They will also display those items which have been planned in the coming years, for indigenization.

The Indian industry will be able to show their interest in those items for which they can design, develop and manufacture as per their capability or through joint venture with OEMs.

The Sixth Schedule currently includes 10 autonomous district councils in four northeastern States — Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Tripura.

Sixth Schedule provides to safeguard the rights of tribal population through the formation of Autonomous District Councils (ADC). ADCs are bodies representing a district to which the Constitution has given varying degrees of autonomy within the state legislature.

Both statements are correct.

Sickle Cell Disease is a group of inherited red blood cell disorders.

Healthy red blood cells are round, and they move through small blood vessels to carry oxygen to all parts of the body. In someone who has SCD, the red blood cells become hard and sticky and look like a C-shaped farm tool called a “sickle”.

The sickle cells die early, which causes a constant shortage of red blood cells. Also, when they travel through small blood vessels, they get stuck and clog the blood flow. This can cause pain and other serious problems such infection, acute chest syndrome and stroke.

Statement 1 is incorrect. Article 56 provides for the term of office of President.

The President shall hold office for a term of five years from the date on which he enters upon his office:

Provided that—

-the President may, by writing under his hand addressed to the Vice-President, resign his office;

-the President may, for violation of the Constitution, be removed from office by impeachment in the manner provided in article 61;

-the President shall, notwithstanding the expiration of his term, continue to hold office until his successor enters upon his office.

Any resignation addressed to the Vice-President shall forthwith be communicated by him to the Speaker of the House of the People.

Statement 2 is incorrect. The separate provision on impeachment of the President is provided under article 61 of the Constitution. S/he can only be removed an investigation and resolution is passed by a majority of not less than two-thirds of the total membership of the Houses.

Proposed by NITI Aayog, National Health Stack (NHS) is to be the digital infrastructure built with the aim of making the health insurance system more transparent and robust, while factoring in the uniqueness of India’s health sector, and the political realities of federalism.

The National Digital Health Blueprint was prepared by a Health Ministry panel headed by J. Satyanarayana with an objective to create a framework for the national health stack proposed in 2018 by the NITI Aayog.

The five key components of the National Health Stack are—

–National Health Electronic Registries: to create a single source of truth for and manage master health data of the nation;

–A Coverage and Claims platform: building blocks to support large health protection schemes, enable horizontal and vertical expansion of Rashtriya Swasthya Suraksha Mission by states and robust fraud detection;

–A Federated Personal Health Records (PHR) Framework: to solve twin challenges of access to their own health data by patients and availability of health data for medical research, critical for advancing our understanding of human health;

–A National Health Analytics Platform: to bring a holistic view combining information on multiple health initiatives and feed into smart policy making, for instance, through improved predictive analytics;

–Other horizontal Components: including, and not restricted to, unique Digital Health ID, Health Data Dictionaries and Supply Chain Management for Drugs, payment gateways etc. shared across all health programs.

Both statements are correct

After a successful launch of a unique initiative to take Artificial Intelligence (AI) to schools through ‘ATL AI Modules’, Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog in collaboration with NASSCOM launched the ‘ATL AI Step Up Module’ for students in order to drive AI education and innovation to the next level in schools across the country.

The AI Step-up Module provides a comprehensive set of learn it yourself Advanced modules to those who wish to expand their knowledge base after becoming familiar with the basics of the AI discipline through the AI base module.

The Base module was specifically devised considering students as young as 12 years of age. Step up module has been exquisitely designed and presented to involve young students across the country to induce inclusive learning and to empower youngsters of our country to create AI integrated innovations.

Both statements are correct.

Ice Stupa is a form of glacier grafting technique that creates artificial glaciers.

It is used for storing excess winter water in the form of conical shaped ice heaps. When water is scarce in the summer, the Ice Stupa melts.

These stupas store large reserves of water as ice through the winter and carry the potential to provide for irrigation and drinking water in summers.

Ice Stupa was invented by engineer, innovator and education reformist Sonam Wangchuk, who is the founder-director of the NGO Students’ Educational and Cultural Movement of Ladakh (SECMOL).

On August 13, 2020, the Israel-United Arab Emirates Peace Agreement or the Abraham Accord was agreed and announced in a joint statement from the White House (USA).

Israel will now have diplomatic and economic relations with UAE, a country that had not recognized it. In return for recognition and relations, Israel has pledged to suspend its ambitions to annex parts of the West Bank.

The pact makes the Emirates only the third Arab country to have normal diplomatic relations with Israel along with Egypt, which signed a peace agreement in 1979, and Jordan, which signed a treaty in 1994.

The Constituent Assembly met for the first time in New Delhi on 9 December, 1946 in the Constitution Hall which is now known as the Central Hall of Parliament House.

Mountbatten Plan was a declaration of the government of Great Britain on June 3, 1947, that provided for the partition of India into two states that were granted the rights of dominions.

The 1947 Indian Independence Act is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that partitioned British India; it received the Royal Assent on 18 July 1947.