10 PM Current Affairs Quiz : November 11

• The Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) is an intergovernmental organization located at The Hague in the Netherlands.
• The PCA is not a court “in the traditional sense”, but provides services of arbitral tribunal to resolve disputes between member states, international organizations, or private parties arising out of international agreements.
• The organization is not an agency, but PCA is an official United Nations Observer.

• Anasuya Sarabhai was a pioneer of the women’s labour movement in India.
• She founded the Ahmedabad Textile Labour Association, India’s oldest union of textile workers, in 1920
• Anasuya Sarabhai born in Ahmedabad on 11 November 1885 into the Sarabhai family

Statement 1, 3, and 4 are correct.

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• Gahirmatha was declared a turtle sanctuary in 1979 by Odisha government after considering its ecological importance and as part of efforts to save the sea turtles.the sanctuary extends from mouth of Dhamra river in the north to the mouth of Mahanadi river in the south.The sanctuary forms part of Bhitarkanika national park.
• The entire sanctuary area comes within the revenue district of Kendrapara.

• Olive Ridley sea turtles migrate in huge numbers from the beginning of November, every year, for mating  and nesting along the coast of Odisha.
• There is decline in the population of these turtles in the recent past due to mass mortality.Olive Ridley sea turtle has found place in Schedule-I of Indian Wildlife (Protection)Act, 1972(amended 1991).
• All the species of sea turtles in the coastal water of Odisha are listed as “endangered” as per   IUCN Red Data Book.
• The sea turtle are protected under the ‘Migratory Species Convention’ and CITES(Convention of International Trade on Wildlife Flora and Fauna).
• India is a signatory nation to all these conventions.

The Bonn Challenge commitment is tree based program which lays emphasis on landscape as a whole in order to benefit local livelihoods and conserve biodiversity.

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•         The Bonn challenge is a global effort to bring 150 million hectares of the world’s deforested and degraded land into restoration by 2020, and 350 million hectares by 2030.
•         In 2015, India made a Bonn challenge commitment to place into restoration 13 million hectares(Mha) of degraded land by 2020 and an additional 8 Mha by 2030.
•         The Bonn challenge is a practical means of realizing many existing international commitments, including the CBD Aichi Target 15, the UNFCCC REDD+goal, and the Rio+20 land degradation neutrality goal.
•         It is an implementation vehicle for national priorities such as water and food security and rural development while contributing to the achievement of international climate change, biodiversity and land degradation commitments.

The Assam government has recently signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoUs) and Terms of Reference (ToR) with Singapore for skilling over 78,000 rural youths in the state by 2019 and greening Guwahati.
The MoU was signed between Skill, Employment and Entrepreneurship Department of Assam government and ITE Education Service of Singapore. The NESC will train up to 400 students each year.