10 PM Current Affairs Quiz : June 6, 2018

The IISS Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore is the most important regular gathering of defence professionals in the Asia-Pacific region, a vital annual fixture in the diaries of ministers and their civilian and military chiefs of staff. Since its launch in 2002 the Dialogue has built confidence and fostered practical security cooperation, by facilitating easy communication and fruitful contact among the region’s most important defence and security policymakers.

US President Trump and Korean Leader Jim Jong-un will be meeting in the Santosa Islands of Singapore on June 12th. The meeting would be a landmark effort to denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula.

India is the global host nation for the 43rd edition which took place on June 5, 2018.

The theme for this year’s Environment Day, organized in partnership with the United Nations Environmental Programme, is “Beat plastic pollution”.

India is committed to reducing the use of plastic and would join the Clean Seas programme — a Sweden-led initiative to reduce littering of marine ecosystems.

India has among the lowest per capita consumption of plastic in the world, “much lower” than that of many developed countries, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the World Environment Day celebrations.

In early 1999, Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) had set up a committee under Shri Kumar Mangalam Birla, member SEBI Board, to promote and raise the standards of good corporate governance. The report submitted by the committee is the first formal and comprehensive attempt to evolve a ‘Code of Corporate Governance’, in the context of prevailing conditions of governance in Indian companies, as well as the state of capital markets.

The primary objective of the committee was to view corporate governance from the perspective of the investors and shareholders and to prepare a ‘Code’ to suit the Indian corporate environment.

The committee had identified the Shareholders, the Board of Directors and the Management as the three key constituents of corporate governance and attempted to identify in respect of each of these constituents, their roles and responsibilities as also their rights in the context of good corporate governance.

Statement 1 is correct: The Ministry of Agriculture and farmers’ welfare in line with the Hon’ble Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of doubling farmers’ income by 2022 has launched the Krishi kalyan Abhiyaan from 1st June, 2018 till 31st July, 2018 so as to aid, assist and advice farmers on how to improve their farming techniques and raise their incomes.

Statement 2 is correct: Various activities to promote best practices and enhance agriculture income are being undertaken under this plan such as:-

Distribution of Soil Health Cards to all  farmers

100% coverage of bovine vaccination for Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) in each village

100% coverage of Sheep and Goat for eradication of  Peste des Petits ruminants (PPR )

Distribution of Mini Kits of pulses and oilseeds to all

Distribution of Horticulture/Agro Forestry/Bamboo plant @ 5 per family(location appropriate)

Making 100 NADAP Pits in each village

Artificial insemination saturation

Demonstration programmes on Micro- irrigation

Demonstrations of integrated cropping practice

The World Bank Group (WBG) is a family of five international organizations that make leveraged loans to developing countries.  Its five organizations are the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development(IBRD), the International Development Association (IDA), the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) and the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is an international financial institution founded in 1991. As a multilateral developmental investment bank, the EBRD uses investment as a tool to build market economies.