10 PM Current Affairs Quiz: November 11,2020

Both statements are correct.
Parliament may by law determine the qualifications which shall be requisite for appointment as members of the Commission and the manner in which they shall be selected. [Article 280(2)]
The President shall cause every recommendation made by the Finance Commission under the provisions of the Constitution together with an explanatory memorandum as to the action taken thereon to be laid before each House of Parliament. [Article 281]

: The Disaster Management Act was passed with the primary objective of preparedness, prevention and early planning towards disaster.
It puts into place a systematic structure of institutions at the national, state and district levels. Four important entities have been placed at the national level:
–The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) tasked with laying down disaster management policies and ensuring timely and effective response mechanism.
–The National Executive Committee (NEC) comprised of secretary level officers of the Government of India assigned to assist the NDMA
–The National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM) is an institute for planning and promoting training and research in the area of disaster management, documentation and development of national level information base relating to disaster management policies.
–National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) for the purpose of specialist response to a threatening disaster situation or disaster.

Statement 1 is incorrect. State Election Commission has been vested with the power of the superintendence, direction and control of the entire process for conduct of elections to Three- tier Panchayat Raj Institutions.
The elections to the legislative assembly fall under the jurisdiction of Election Commission of India.
Statement 2 is incorrect. The Constitution lays down certain Directive Principles of State Policy, which though not justiciable, are ‘fundamental in governance of the country’, and it is the duty of the State to apply these principles in making laws.
There is no proposal under the DPSPs to end the terms of state legislative assemblies with the Lok Sabha.

Both options are correct.
The National Health Mission (NHM) encompasses its two Sub-Missions, The National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) and The National Urban Health Mission (NUHM).
The main programmatic components include Health System Strengthening, Reproductive-Maternal- Neonatal-Child and Adolescent Health (RMNCH+A), and Communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases.
The NHM envisages achievement of universal access to equitable, affordable & quality health care services that are accountable and responsive to people’s needs.

DP Singh, Chairman UGC led committee was declared in July 2020 to prepare guidelines and measures to ensure that more and more students stay here for study in India and come out with mechanism for increasing intake in well performing universities.
The mechanisms will be explored for starting Multi-disciplinary and innovative programs, twinning and joint degree programs, Cross Country designing of centers, facilitating online lectures by eminent faculty abroad, linkage between academia and industry, facilitate Joint degree ventures and lateral entry to Indian Higher Education Institutions

Both statements are correct.
USTTAD (Upgrading the Skills and Training in Traditional Arts/ Crafts for Development) under the Ministry of Minority Affairs aims at capacity building and upgrading of the traditional skills of master craftsmen and artisans; documentation of identified traditional arts/crafts of minorities; set standards of traditional skills; training of minority youths in various identified traditional arts/ crafts through master craftsmen; develop national and international market linkages; and preservation of languishing Arts/Crafts.
The Ministry has engaged the institutions of national repute namely, National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT), National Institute of Design (NID) and Indian Institute of Packaging (IIP) to work in various craft clusters for design intervention; product range development; packaging; exhibitions, tying up with e-marketing portals to enhance sales; and brand building.
Further, Hunar Haat is implemented as a component of USTTAD scheme of Ministry of Minority Affairs.

Statement 1 is incorrect. For a classical vaccine, the antigen is introduced in the body to produce an immune response. However, in the case of DNA- or RNA-based vaccines, no antigen is introduced, only the RNA or DNA containing the genetic information to produce the antigen. That is, for this specific class of vaccines, introduction of DNA and RNA provides the instructions to the body to produce the antigen itself.
After this step, the mechanism is similar to classical vaccines: the antigen is presented at the surface of a subset of cells and triggers the activation of specific cells of the immune system.
Statement 2 is correct. RNA vaccines are faster and cheaper to produce than traditional vaccines, and an RNA based vaccine is also safer for the patient, as they are not produced using infectious elements
Production of RNA vaccines is laboratory based, and the process could be standardized and scaled, allowing quick responses to large outbreaks and epidemics

Both statements are correct.
The Thirty Meter Telescope is a new class of extremely large telescopes that will allow us to see deeper into space and observe cosmic objects with unprecedented sensitivity. With its 30 m prime mirror diameter, TMT will be three times as wide, with nine times more area, than the largest currently existing visible-light telescope in the world.
The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) project being installed at Maunakea in Hawaii is an international partnership between CalTech, Universities of California, Canada, Japan, China, and India; through the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and Department of Atomic Energy (DAE).

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is a eight-member multilateral organization, established on 15 June 2001 in Shanghai, China by the leaders of China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
These countries, except for Uzbekistan, had been members of the Shanghai Five group, formed on 26 April 1996 with the signing of the Treaty on Deepening Military Trust in Border Regions. In 2001, during the annual summit in Shanghai, the five member nations first admitted Uzbekistan in the Shanghai Five mechanism (thus transforming it into the Shanghai Six).
In July 2015 in Ufa, Russia, the SCO decided to admit India and Pakistan as full members.
The four Observers of the SCO are Afghanistan, Belarus, Iran and Mongolia.

Statement 1 is correct. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was twice elected President of the Indian National Congress, the first time in 1923 when he was only thirty – five years old, and the second time in 1940. He continued as the President of the Congress till 1946, for no election was held during this period as almost every Congress leader was in prison on account of the Quit India Movement in 1942.
Statement 2 is correct. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad served the country from 1947 to 1958 as the first Minister of Education in Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru’s cabinet.
# National Education Day is celebrated every year on November 11 to mark the birth anniversary of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad.