10 PM Current Affairs Quiz : March 14, 2019

To achieve the vision of NPSP-2019, the Policy has the following five Missions:

1. To promote the creation of a sustainable Indian software product industry, driven by intellectual property (IP), leading to a ten-fold increase in India share of the Global Software product market by 2025.
2. To nurture 10,000 technology startups in software product industry, including 1000 such technology startups in Tier-II and Tier-III towns & cities and generating direct and in-direct employment for 3.5 million people by 2025.
3. To create a talent pool for software product industry through (i) up-skilling of 1,000,000 IT professionals, (ii) motivating 100,000 school and college students and (iii) generating 10,000 specialized professionals that can provide leadership.
4. To build a cluster-based innovation driven ecosystem by developing 20 sectoral and strategically located software product development clusters having integrated ICT infrastructure, marketing, incubation, R&D/testbeds and mentoring support.
5. In order to evolve and monitor scheme & programmes for the implementation of this policy, National Software Products Mission will be set up with participation from Government, Academia and Industry.

Named after the pristine Pench River, Pench Tiger Reserve is located in Chhindwara and Seoni districts of Madhya Pradesh which border on the state of Maharashtra.

The river flows right through the middle of the reserve. It descends from north to south, thereby dividing the reserve into equal eastern and western parts.

Pench Tiger Reserve is the joint pride of both Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra. Though this national park is considered a major part of Madhya Pradesh since it lies in Seoni and Chhindwara district but the park also shares a part of Maharashtra. An additional area of 257 sq km lies in Maharashtra and is accessible from Madhya Pradesh also.

Statement 1 is incorrect. Pay commissions recommends both minimum pay and maximum pay for government employees.

Statement 2 is incorrect. Pay commission also provide recommendations regarding pay of armed forces.

The offense of sedition is provided under section 124A of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (hereinafter IPC).

The law was originally drafted by Thomas Macaulay. It was introduced in the IPC in the year 1870. This law provides for Maximum punishment of life imprisonment to the person who brings or attempts to bring into hatred or contempt or excites or attempts to excite disaffection towards the Government established by law in India by:

• Words (Spoken or written)
• Signs
• Visible representation
• Or by any other method

A Key Focus of the Project will be to promote women-owned and women-led farm and non-farm enterprises across value chains; enable them to build businesses that help them access finance, markets and networks; and generate employment.

First statement is not the primary goal. primary goal of all Swachh Survekshans is to encourage large scale citizen participation and create awareness amongst all sections of society about the importance of working together towards making towns and cities a better place to live in. Additionally, these surveys also intend to foster a spirit of healthy competition among towns and cities to improve their service delivery to citizens, and thus steadily moving towards creating cleaner cities.

First survekshan was conducted in 2016.

The current Swachh Survekshan, which spanned from 4th of January to 31st of January 2019, has covered a total of 4237 ULBs and Cantonment Boards from all states and UTs, barring the state of West Bengal who had opted not to participate.

All of the mentioned options are correct.

Fire helps revive dormant seeds of many species. A study by Dr. Sukumar and Dr. Nandita Mondal showed that, in Mudumalai, even young woody trees survive ground fires.

Forest fires clears forests of invasive species.

Controlled fire won’t let the dry biomass accumulate, if there is no low scale of controlled fire in forest, it could catch fire once in four years or so because of the high accumulation of grass, wood and twigs.

Kyasanur Forest disease (KFD) is caused by Kyasanur Forest disease virus (KFDV), a member of the virus family Flaviviridae. KFDV was identified in 1957 when it was isolated from a sick monkey from the Kyasanur Forest in Karnataka (formerly Mysore) State, India.

Hard ticks (Hemaphysalis spinigera) are the reservoir of KFD virus and once infected, remain so for life. Rodents, shrews, and monkeys are common hosts for KFDV after being bitten by an infected tick.