10 PM Current Affairs Quiz: May 31, 2020

It is a Global Collaboration led by WHO to speed up the development, production of COVID-19 diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines and ensure equal access to treatments for rich and poor. The initiative aims to mobilize the significant resources needed to advance work towards protecting the world from COVID-19.

The World Motorcycle Test Cycle (WMTC) is a system of driving cycles used to measure fuel consumption and emissions in motorcycles.

The methods are stipulated as part of the Global Technical Regulation established under the United Nations’ World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations.

The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has recently issued notification regarding the emission norms for L7 (Quadricycle) category for BS VI. This notification completes the process of BS VI for all L, M and N category vehicles in India. The emission norms are in line with EU with WMTC cycle.

Baumol’s cost disease is the rise of salaries in jobs/sectors that have experienced no or low increase of labor productivity, in response to rising salaries in other jobs/sectors that have experienced higher labor productivity growth therefore ‘cost disease’ is a sector where costs rise, outpacing the value of services rendered by it and is less rewarding than the other engines of economic growth..

Tax buoyancy is an indicator to assess the efficiency of the government’s taxation system. It measures the relationship between the government’s revenue and GDP growth of the economy, i.e. the responsiveness of tax revenue growth to changes in GDP. When a tax is buoyant, its revenue increases without increasing the tax rate.

Statement 1 is incorrect. This is a NASA experiment involving an array of radio antennas attached to a helium balloon which flies over the Antarctic ice sheet at 37,000 meters.

Statement 2 is correct. It is designed to study ultra-high-energy (UHE) cosmic neutrinos by detecting the radio pulses emitted by their interactions with the Antarctic ice sheet.

Statement 1 is incorrect. The CoAST India is a GIS-enabled dashboard that maps the movement of migrants in real time. It draws information from various organizations on the ground and aims to make such data available so that it would enable governments and small local civil society groups to be of assistance.

Statement 2 is incorrect. It has been launched by India Observatory in collaboration with Anand based Forest Ecological Security (FES) as its main nodal point.

Statement 1 is incorrect. Katkari tribal people mostly live in Maharashtra. They are bilingual, speaking the Katkari language, a dialect of the Marathi-Konkani languages.

Statement 2 is correct. Katkari is one of the 75 Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups, as per the classification by Ministry of Home Affairs.

There are certain tribal communities who use a pre-agricultural level of technology, face stagnant or declining population growth, and are equipped with only an extremely low level of literacy and a subsistence level of economy. 75 such groups of tribals in 18 States and one Union Territory have been identified and categorized as Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs).

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope or Roman Space Telescope will be a NASA observatory designed to settle essential questions in the areas of dark energy, exoplanets and infrared astrophysics.

NASA has named its next-generation space telescope currently under development, the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), in honor of Nancy Grace Roman, NASA’s first chief astronomer.

Statement 1 is correct. Wet-bulb temperature is the temperature indicated by a moistened thermometer bulb exposed to the air flow.

The Dry Bulb Temperature refers basically to the ambient air temperature. It is called “Dry Bulb” because the air temperature is indicated by a thermometer not affected by the moisture of the air.

Statement 2 is incorrect. The wet bulb temperature is lower than the dry bulb temperature but will be identical with 100% relative humidity (the air is at the saturation line).

Statement 1 is correct. Surface Web is anything that a search engine can find and index while the Deep Web is anything that a search engine does not index. The Dark Web is a smaller portion of the Deep Web that has been intentionally hidden and is inaccessible through standard web browsers.

Statement 2 is incorrect. The content of Dark Web is stored online and can be accessed using specific software. Many dark web sites simply provide standard web services with more secrecy, but it has been misused as online marketplaces for drugs, exchanges for stolen data, and other illegal activities.