10 PM Current Affairs Quiz: June 24, 2020

Statement 1 is incorrect. Act provides that that the Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan, who entered India on or before December 31, 2014, are not illegal migrants and are eligible for citizenship.

Statement 2 is correct. The act states that the citizenship provisions for illegal migrants shall not apply to tribal area of Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram or Tripura as included in the Sixth Schedule to the Constitution and the area covered under “the Inner Line” notified under the Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulation, 1873.

Statement 3 is correct. The amendment act added a round for cancellation of OCI registration, i.e. the Overseas Citizen of India Cardholder has violated any of the provisions of the Citizenship Act or provisions of any other law for time being in force as may be specified by the Central Government in the notification published in the Official Gazette.

Other grounds for cancellation of OCI registration include registration through fraud, showing disaffection to the Constitution, engaging with the enemy during war, necessity in the interest of sovereignty of India, security of state or public interest, or if within five years of registration the OCI has been sentenced to imprisonment for two years or more

Option 1 is correctly matched. The Bomdi-La pass in Arunachal Pradesh connects it with Lhasa, the capital city of Tibet.

Option 2 is incorrectly matched. The Sela Pass is a high-altitude mountain pass located on the border between the Tawang and West Kameng Districts of Arunachal Pradesh state in India.

Option 3 is incorrectly matched. Zoji La pass in the Himalayas in the Union territory of Ladakh connects the Kashmir Valley to its west with the Drass and Suru valleys to its northeast and the Indus valley further east.

The National Highway 1 between Srinagar and Leh in the western section of the Himalayan mountain range traverses the pass. Since vehicle flow stops during winter every year due to heavy snowfall, the all-weather Zoji-la Tunnel (14.2 km long road tunnel) under Zoji La pass between Sonmarg and Drass town of Kargil district.

Green GDP is a term used generally for expressing GDP after adjusting for environmental damage. It monetizes the loss of biodiversity, and accounts for costs caused by climate change.

It requires environmental accounting, which converts the natural capital consumption, including resource depletion, environmental degradation into monetary valuation and the net change in natural resources in monetary terms is integrated into the Gross Domestic Product in order to reach the value of Green GDP.

The report of the Expert group convened by National Statistical Organization on Green National Accounts in India: A Framework, opines that the word green GDP is a misnomer as it is about the wealth of the nation that one is referring to (not income) while talking about accretion or depletion of natural resources.

Statement 1 is incorrect. Government e- Marketplace, a Special Purpose Vehicle under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, is a 100% Government owned company registered under the Companies Act, 2013.

Statement 2 is correct. Government e- Marketplace (GeM) is an online platform for government users for procurement of common use goods and services. It provides the tools of e-bidding, reverse e-auction and demand aggregation to facilitate the government users, achieve the best value of their money. It is paperless, cashless and contactless platform giving end to end solution.

Statement 3 is correct. Government e-Marketplace (GeM) has made it mandatory for sellers to enter the Country of Origin while registering all new products on GeM. Sellers, who had already uploaded their products before the introduction of this new feature on GeM, are being reminded regularly to update the Country of Origin. GeM has also enabled a provision for indication of the percentage of local content in products. [23-06-2020]

Statement 1 is correct. The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations 1961 states that the size of the sending State’s mission should be reasonable, taking into account the needs of the mission, unless specific agreements are in place. The receiving State may refuse to accept officials of a particular category.

Statement 2 is correct. As per the convention a diplomatic agent shall enjoy immunity from the criminal jurisdiction of the receiving State. He shall also enjoy immunity from its civil and administrative jurisdiction, except in the case of:

-A real action relating to private immovable property situated in the territory of the receiving State, unless he holds it on behalf of the sending State for the purposes of the mission.

-An action relating to succession in which the diplomatic agent is involved as executor, administrator, heir or legatee as a private person and not on behalf of the sending State.

-An action relating to any professional or commercial activity exercised by the diplomatic agent in the receiving State outside his official functions.

Statement 3 is correct. India ratified the convention in Oct 1965. Diplomatic Relations (Vienna Convention) Act, 1972 gives effect to the Vienna Convention on diplomatic Relations, 1961.

Statement 1 is correct. The Drugs and Magic Remedies (Objectionable Advertisements) Act, 1954 provides for prohibition of misleading advertisements relating to drugs which directly or indirectly gives a false impression regarding the true character of the drug; or makes a false claim for the drug.

Statement 2 is correct. The act puts prohibition on advertisement of magic remedies for treatment of certain diseases and disorders. The ‘magic remedy’ includes a talisman, mantra, kavacha, and any other charm of any kind which is alleged to possess miraculous powers for or in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment or prevention of any disease. An offence punishable under this Act is cognizable.

The Gaia hypothesis, also known as Gaia theory or Gaia principle, proposes that all organisms and their inorganic surroundings on Earth are closely integrated to form a single and self-regulating complex system, maintaining the conditions for life on the planet.

It was originally proposed by James Lovelock as the earth feedback hypothesis. It was named the Gaia Hypothesis after the Greek supreme goddess of Earth.

As per the theory Earth is a self-regulating complex system involving the biosphere, the atmosphere, the hydrosphere and the pedosphere, tightly coupled as an evolving system. The theory sustains that this system as a whole, called Gaia, seeks a physical and chemical environment optimal for contemporary life.

The Reserve Bank of India publishes weekly and fortnightly the monetary statistics through monetary aggregates.

Reserve Money= Currency in Circulation + Bankers’ Deposits with RBI + ‘Other’ Deposits with RBI

Currency in circulation’ includes notes in circulation, rupee coins and small coins.

‘Bankers’ deposits with the Reserve Bank’ represent balances maintained by banks in the current account with the Reserve Bank mainly for maintaining Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) and as working funds for clearing adjustments.

‘Other’ deposits with RBI comprise mainly: (i) deposits of quasi-government and other financial institutions including primary dealers, (ii) balances in the accounts of foreign Central banks and Governments, (iii) accounts of international agencies such as the International Monetary Fund, etc.

Both statements are correct.

Molpah/Malabar rebellion was an armed uprising in 1921 against British authority and Hindu landlords in the Malabar region. The Mapillas were Muslim peasants of Malabar region where most of landlords were Hindus. Mapillah revolt merged with the ongoing Khilafat movement and after the arrest of National leaders, the leadership passed onto local leaders.

British government declared Martial law to suppress the revolt. The movement soon turned into a communal conflict. By December 1921, the movement was completely suppressed.

Statement 1 is correct. Seabed 2030 project aims to bring together all available bathymetric data to produce the definitive map of the world ocean floor by 2030 and make it available to all.

Seabed 2030 will work to: incorporate all currently available data into its global grid, identify existing data that are not currently in publicly available databases and seek to make these data available, identify areas for which no data exists and encourage data in collection in these areas so we can ‘map the gaps’.

Statement 2 is incorrect. Seabed 2030 is a collaborative project between the Nippon Foundation of Japan and the General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO).

On the occasion of World Hydrography Day (June 21), The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project has announced the inclusion of 14.5 million square kilometres of new bathymetric data in the latest GEBCO Grid.