10 PM Current Affairs Quiz: May 26, 2020

Statement 1 is correct. RBI facility of Long Term Repo Operations (LTRO) aims to inject liquidity in the banking system. Under this, the central bank injects money into the banking system through auctions with long term maturity periods (compared to one day repos) of 1 year and 3 year.

Statement 2 is incorrect. As under Repo operations, RBI will be accepting government securities with matching or higher tenure as the collateral.

Statement 1 is incorrect. The Legislative Assembly of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir can make laws related to any matters specified in the State List of the Constitution, except “Police” and “Public Order”.

Parliament has the power to make laws in relation to any matter for the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.

Statement 2 is correct. The Legislative Council of the state of Jammu and Kashmir has been abolished by the act.

Troglomyces twitteri is a new species that has just been discovered. It’s a type of parasitic fungus. It belongs to an order called Laboulbeniales, the tiny fungal parasites that attack insects and millipedes, it lives on the outside of host organisms.

Option 1 is correct. The US Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act (CLOUD Act) gives U.S. law enforcement authorities the power to request data stored by most major cloud providers, even if it is outside the United States.

Option 2 is incorrect. GAFA tax – an acronym for Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon – is a French legislation that imposes tax on the total annual revenues of the large technology firms providing services to French consumers.

Option 3 is correct. General Data Protection Regulation is a regulation in EU law on data protection and privacy in the European Union and the European Economic Area.

TrueNat test platform has been used to diagnose Tuberculosis in past and recently have been validated for COVID-19 testing as well.

The TrueNat test is a molecular test for Tuberculosis. The test is WHO pre-qualified and is included as a reliable and accurate method for quick screening of TB patients.

As per ICMR guidelines “the TrueNat system is now a comprehensive assay for screening and confirmation of COVID-19 cases.”

TrueNat test is offered by Goa-based Molbio, in collaboration with the Central TB Division (CTD) of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

Both statements are correct.

Purandara Dasa was a devotee of the Lord Krishna, a Vaishnava poet, a saint and a social reformer. He was a disciple of the Dvaita philosopher-saint Vyasatirtha.

He was a composer, singer and one of the chief founding-proponents of Carnatic Music. He is considered as Pitamaha of Carnatic music for his contribution to it.

COVID-19 spreads mainly by droplets produced as a result of coughing or sneezing of a COVID-19 infected person. This can happen in two ways:

Direct close contact: one can get the infection by being in close contact with COVID-19 patients, especially if they do not cover their face when coughing or sneezing.

Indirect contact: the droplets survive on surfaces and clothes for many days, therefore touching any such infected surface or cloth and then touching one’s mouth, nose or eyes can transmit the disease.

There has been no information or any evidence to suggest that the new coronavirus could be transmitted by mosquitoes, yet.

Both statements are correct.

Phishing is an attempt to trick someone into giving information over the internet or by email or by text messages that would allow someone else to acquire sensitive information.

Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has sent alerts to all the States, Union Territories and the central agencies on malicious software named Cerberus threat that is taking advantage of the Covid-19 pandemic. It is a banking Trojan which is primarily used to steal financial data such as credit card numbers.

Statement 1 is correct. Autosomal means pertaining to a chromosome that is not a sex chromosome. Down’s syndrome, also known as trisomy 21, is a genetic disorder caused by the presence of all or part of a third copy of chromosome 21. It is associated with intellectual disability, a characteristic facial appearance, and weak muscle tone (hypotonia) in infancy.

Statement 2 is incorrect. Most cases of Down syndrome are not inherited. This chromosomal trisomy occurs as a random event during the formation of reproductive cells in a parent. The parents of the affected individual are usually genetically normal.

Statement 1 is correct. Article 19(2) provides for reasonable restrictions on the exercise of the right freedom of speech and expression in the interests of the sovereignty and integrity of India, the security of the State, friendly relations with foreign States, public order, decency or morality or in relation to contempt of court, defamation or incitement to an offence.

Statement 2 is incorrect. Section 499 and 500 of the Indian Penal Code provides for criminal case of defamation against the accused. Section 500 of IPC states “whoever defames another shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.”