10 PM Current Affairs Quiz : January 23, 2019

All the statements are correct

The beginning of meteorology can be traces back to the ancient times. Early philosophical writings of 3000 B.C. era, such as the Upanishads, contains serious discussion about the formation of cloud and rain and the seasonal cycle caused due to the movement of the earth round the sun.

IMD provides services to Agrometeorology, Astronomical Science, Aviation Meterorology, seismology, Cyclone, Environmental monitoring, Hydrometeorology, Meteorology, Satellite services etc.

Statement 1 is correct – The FRBM Review Committee (Chairperson: Mr. N.K. Singh) submitted its report in January 2017. The Report was made public in April 2017.

Statement 2 is incorrect – The Committee suggested using debt as the primary target for fiscal policy. A debt to GDP ratio of 60% should be targeted with a 40% limit for the centre and 20% limit for the states.

Statement 1 is correct  CRZ 2018 relaxes important restrictions and permits construction in urban CRZ zones and densely populated rural coastal areas. Rural areas have been bifurcated, with greater allowances, ironically, for more populated areas. The greatest number of relaxations has been accorded to hotels, resorts and the tourism sector.

Statement 2 is incorrect

A coastal hazard line is proposed by the 2011 regulations on CRZ taking into account the recent natural disaster along the coast e.g. 2004 Tsunami.

The WEF publishes  Global Competitiveness Report, the Global Risks Report and the Global Gender Gap Report.

However UNDP publishes the Global Inequality Index.

Vientiane is the capital of Laos, a south east asian country, in the Indo China region.

Shenzhen is a important economic center of China

Tokyo is the japanese capital located in the south of Beijing.

Beijing is the Northernmost city among all 4.

Statement 1 is incorrect

H1N1 influenza (or swine flu) is a highly contagious acute respiratory disease of pigs caused by type A influenza virus that regularly causes outbreaks of influenza in pigs.

Statement 2 and 3 are correct

Most commonly, these cases occur in people with direct exposure to pigs (e.g., children near pigs at a fair or workers in the swine industry).

It can spread from person-to-person transmission through coughing or sneezing of people infected with the influenza virus.

Statement 1 is correct-The naming of tropical cyclones is a recent phenomenon. The process of naming cyclones involves several countries in the region and is done under the aegis of the World Meteorological Organization.

The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) started the tropical cyclone naming system in 2000. Tropical cyclones are named to provide ease of communication between forecasters and the general public regarding forecasts, watches, and warnings.Eight north Indian Ocean countries — Bangladesh, India, the Maldives, Myanmar, Oman, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Thailand, gave eight names each which was combined into a list of 64 names. One name from each country is picked in an order to name the cyclones.

Statement 2 is correct- Cyclone Pabuk hits Thailand, moves towards Andaman Islands.

Cyclone Pabuk is expected to hit the Andaman Islands over the weekend. The weather office has forecast heavy to very heavy rainfall over the Andaman Islands over the next few days. Cyclone Pabuk will likely give mainland India a miss

Pabuk is a name given by Laos and means a ‘big freshwater fish’.

Statement 1 is correct

70% of Earth’s surface is water of which 97.5% is salt water and 2.5% is freshwater. Less than 1% of this 2.5% amount of freshwater is accessible

Statement 2 is incorrect

According to the U.S. Geological Survey, most of that three percent is inaccessible. Over 68 percent of the freshwater on Earth is found in icecaps and glaciers, and just over 30 percent is found in groundwater. Only about 0.3 percent of our freshwater is found in the surface water of lakes, rivers, and swamps.

Statement 1 is correct:- ILO was established as an agency of the League of Nations following World War I.

Statement 2 is correct:- In 1969, the organization received the Nobel Peace Prize for improving fraternity and peace among nations, pursuing decent work and justice for workers, and providing technical assistance to other developing nations.

Statement 1 is correct- The IPCC is an organization of governments that are members of the United Nations or WMO. The IPCC currently has 195 members. Thousands of people from all over the world contribute to the work of the IPCC. For the assessment reports, IPCC scientists volunteer their time to assess the thousands of scientific papers published each year to provide a comprehensive summary of what is known about the drivers of climate change, its impacts and future risks, and how adaptation and mitigation can reduce those risks.

Statement 2 is correct

At the recent international climate meeting at Katowice (COP24), when the U.S., Saudi Arabia and Russia refused to “accept” the special 1.5 degrees report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), India and other developing countries rightly protested that these countries were placing the world at risk. That report called for the world to prepare for severe impacts from climate change if average global temperature was to rise above 1.5º Celsius.