10 PM Current Affairs Quiz: June 11, 2020

Statement 1 is correct. The Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), the first multilateral disarmament treaty banning the development, production and stockpiling of an entire category of weapons of mass destruction, was opened for signature on 10 April 1972. The BWC entered into force on 26 March 1975.

Statement 2 is correct. India is signed the convention in 1973 and ratified it in 1974.

Statement 1 is incorrect. China and Russia are permanent members of UNSC but not members of G7.

Statement 2 is correct. SCO comprises eight Member States (China, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Pakistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan) and none of them is a member to G7.

Statement 3 is correct. G7 member countries are Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States. None of them is land locked.

Statement 1 is correct. Drugs are an essential commodity listed in schedule of the Essential Commodities Act and therefore Central Government is empowered to control production, supply, and distribution of the drugs including the Pricing. Government does it via the Drug Price Control Order.

Statement 2 is incorrect. National List of Essential Medicines (NLEM) is issued by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MOHFW).

Statement 3 is correct. Evergreening refers to the practice of pharmaceutical firms to extend the patent period of a drug by minor reformulations or other iterations of the drug, without necessarily increasing its therapeutic efficacy.

Section 3(d) of the Patents Act in Chapter II which provide non-patentable inventions prohibits patents by “the mere discovery of a new form of a known substance which does not result in the enhancement of the known efficacy of that substance or the mere discovery of any new property or new use for a known substance or of the mere use of a known process, machine or apparatus unless such known process results in a new product or employs at least one new reactant.”

Statement 1 is correct. Police and Public Order are part of the state list under the seventh schedule.

Statement 2 is incorrect. Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D), under the Ministry of Home Affairs is not a statutory body; it was established by a resolution of the Government of India with the primary objective of modernization of police force.

Its functions include: to promote a speedy and systematic study of the police problems and to apply science and technology in the methods and techniques used by police.

Statement 3 is incorrect. In dual system of policing, the control and direction over the police vests with the SP and the District Magistrate. In Commissionerate system, there is a unified command structure with the Commissioner of Police as the sole head of the force within the city that allows for a quicker responses to law and order situations.

Statement 1 is correct. Asiatic lions were once distributed upto the state of West Bengal in east and Rewa in Madhya Pradesh, in central India. At present Gir National Park and Wildlife Sanctuary is the last remaining natural habitat of Asiatic Lions.

Asiatic Lions are proposed to be reintroduced in the Kuno Wildlife Sanctuary of Madhya Pradesh.

Statement 2 is correct. Asiatic Lion (Panthera leo persica) is listed in Schedule I of Wildlife (Protection) Act 1972, in Appendix I of CITES and as Endangered on IUCN Red List (Statement 3 is incorrect).

Statement 1 is correct. National Anti-Doping Agency is mandated for Dope free sports in India. The primary objectives are to implement anti-doping rules as per WADA code, regulate dope control programme, to promote education and research and creating awareness about doping and its ill effects.

Statement 2 is incorrect. National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) is set up as registered society under the Societies Registration Act of 1860 under the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports.

HeiQ Viroblock NPJ03 is a Swiss textile technology that is added to the fabric during the final stage of the textile manufacturing process. It is designed to inhibit the growth and persistence of bacteria and enveloped viruses on textile surfaces. It is suitable for all fiber types, from medical nonwovens (e.g. face masks) to fabrics for clothing and home textiles.

It has been claimed that HeiQ Viroblock NPJ03 has proven effective against SARS-CoV-2, the COVID-19 causing virus.

Sikkim is bordered by the Tibet Autonomous Region of China to the north and northeast, by Bhutan to the southeast, by the Indian state of West Bengal to the south, and by Nepal to the west. The capital is Gangtok, in the southeastern part of the state.

All are provisions under the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972.

Section 38A of the act empowers the Central Government to constitute a body to be known as the Central Zoo Authority.

Section 49B provides prohibition of dealings in trophies, animal articles, etc., derived from scheduled animals: no person shall (a) commence or carry on the business as a manufacturer of, or dealer in, scheduled animal articles; or a dealer in ivory imported into India or articles made therefrom or a manufacturer of such articles.

Section 17A provides the prohibition of picking, uprooting, etc., of specified plant; no person shall-

(a) willfully pick, uproot, damage, destroy, acquire or collect any specified plant from any forest land and any area specified, by notification, by the Central Government.

(b) possess, sell, offer for sale, or transfer by way of gift or otherwise, or transport any specified plant, whether alive or dead, or part or derivative thereof.

Cyclonic Storm Bulbul was a tropical cyclone that developed over Bay of Bengal in November 2019 and made landfall over the state of West Bengal and Bangladesh.

Cyclonic Storm Amphan was another powerful tropical cyclone that developed over Bay of Bengal in May 2020 and made landfall over Odisha, West Bengal and Bangladesh region.

Cyclone storm Nisarga developed over eastern Arabian Sea region and made landfall over Mumbai, Maharashtra region in June 2020.