10 PM Current Affairs Quiz: December 2, 2020

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is a proposed agreement between the member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and its free trade agreement (FTA) partners: Australia, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, and Vietnam.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation currently comprises eight Member States China, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Pakistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

Statement 1 is correct. The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) is a legally binding international instrument now exists to guarantee that States that have ratified the treaty will promote and protect the rights of people with disability. These States will next work on passing their own national civil rights legislation to improve the lives of people with disability.
Statement 2 is correct. India is a signatory of the United Nations Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD). It ratified this Convention on 01-10-2007 in pursuance of Article 35 of the Convention. India submitted its First Country Report on Status of Disability in India in November 2015.

Statement 1 is correct. LeadIT is launched by India and Sweden along with the World Economic Forum with the support of Stockholm Environment Institute in 2019 during the United Nations Secretary General Climate Action Summit.
Currently, the Group has membership of 13 countries and 15 companies that are working together to drive the low-carbon transition of energy-intensive industries and achieve net-zero carbon emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050.
Statement 2 is incorrect. The Ministry of Electronics & IT is hosted a global virtual summit on Artificial Intelligence (AI) – Responsible AI for Social Empowerment (RAISE) 2020 in October.

Statement 1 is correct. Section 31 of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 provides that notwithstanding anything contained in the Rights of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009, every child with benchmark disability between the age of six to eighteen years shall have the right to free education in a neighborhood school, or in a special school, of his choice.
Statement 2 is correct. The statute recognizes Intellectual disability, a condition characterized by significant limitation both in intellectual functioning (reasoning, learning, problem solving) and in adaptive behavior which covers a range of every day, social and practical skills, including—
—“specific learning disabilities” means a heterogeneous group of conditions wherein there is a deficit in processing language, spoken or written, that may manifest itself as a difficulty to comprehend, speak, read, write, spell, or to do mathematical calculations and includes such conditions as perceptual disabilities, dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, dyspraxia and developmental aphasia;
—“autism spectrum disorder” means a neuro-developmental condition typically appearing in the first three years of life that significantly affects a person’s ability to communicate, understand relationships and relate to others, and is frequently associated with unusual or stereotypical rituals or behaviors.

Statement 1 is incorrect. To fast-track the carbon footprint reduction technology development, NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam (NVVN) in partnership with EESL organises technology challenge named as Green Charcoal Hackathon.
Statement 2 is correct. The purpose of the event is to leverage the innovative Indian mind to bridge the technology gap, with the prime objective to clean the air by eliminating farm fire, producing renewable energy out of the agro residue, to promote local entrepreneurship, and to increase the income of the farmers.

Statement 1 is correct. Coronaviruses are a large group of viruses that cause diseases in animals and humans. They often circulate among camels, cats, and bats, and can sometimes evolve and infect people.
In animals, coronaviruses can cause diarrhea in cows and pigs, and upper respiratory disease in chickens. In humans, the viruses can cause mild respiratory infections, like the common cold, but can lead to serious illnesses, like pneumonia.
Statement 2 is incorrect. Coronaviruses are named for the crown-like spikes on their surface. Human coronaviruses were first identified in the mid-1960s.
There are currently seven coronaviruses known to infect humans. Four of them cause mild to moderate disease. More specifically, HCoV-OC43, HCoV-HKU1 and HCoV-229E cause common colds, and severe lower respiratory tract infections in the youngest and oldest age groups, while HCoV-NL63 is an important cause of (pseudo) croup and bronchiolitis in children.
The other three cause more severe and even fatal disease and have emerged more recently: SARS-CoV responsible for the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in 2002, MERS-CoV the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in 2012 and SARS-CoV-2, identified with a cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan, China in late 2019.

Octane Number/Rating, measure of the ability of a fuel to resist knocking when ignited in a mixture with air in the cylinder of an internal-combustion engine. The octane number is determined by comparing, under standard conditions, the knock intensity of the fuel with that of blends of two reference fuels: iso-octane, which resists knocking, and heptane, which knocks readily.
The higher the number, the better the fuel burns within the engine of a vehicle. Higher performance vehicles require fuels with a higher-octane rating.
Indian Oil has launched world-class premium grade Petrol (Octane 100) branded as XP100 in the country recently.
# Knocking, in an internal-combustion engine, sharp sounds caused by premature combustion of part of the compressed air-fuel mixture in the cylinder.

All of the above diseases have zoonotic origin.
Zoonotic diseases (also known as zoonoses) are caused by germs that spread between animals and people.
Lyme disease is caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi and rarely, Borrelia mayonii. It is transmitted to humans through the bite of infected blacklegged ticks. Typical symptoms include fever, headache, fatigue, and a characteristic skin rash called erythema migrans.
All available evidence for COVID-19 suggests that SARS-CoV-2 has a zoonotic source. Since there is usually limited close contact between humans and bats, it is more likely that transmission of the virus to humans happened through another animal species, one that is more likely to be handled by humans [World Health Organisation].
Brucellosis is a disease caused by a group of bacteria from the genus Brucella. These bacteria can infect both humans and animals. Most commonly, people are infected by eating raw or unpasteurized dairy products.

Long Covid is not medically definitive, but a term that describes a portion of the population struggling with symptoms for weeks or months after being infected with Covid-19, and not just those who were seriously ill.
The most common feature is crippling fatigue. Others symptoms include: breathlessness, a cough that won’t go away, joint pain, muscle aches, hearing and eyesight problems, headaches, loss of smell and taste as well as damage to the heart, lungs, kidneys and gut.
Mental health problems have been reported including depression, anxiety and struggling to think clearly.

According to the Cyclone Warning Division of the India Meteorological Department (IMD): The Deep Depression over southwest Bay of Bengal moved west-northwestwards and intensified into Cyclonic Storm ‘Burevi’. IMD has issued Cyclone Alert (Yellow) for South Tamilnadu and South Kerala coasts.
Burevi will be the fifth cyclone over the North Indian Ocean this year, after Amphan, Nisarga, Gati and Nivar. The name ‘Burevi’ has been suggested by Maldives.