10 PM Current Affairs Quiz : November 12, 2018

India and Singapore will hold the 25th joint naval exercise from November 10 to 21 in India to mark the silver jubilee of SIMBEX, an acronym for “Singapore-India Maritime Bilateral Exercise” .  

SIMBEX 2018 will be the largest edition since 1994 in terms of scale and complexity.

UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation was established in 2000. It recognizes efforts of private individuals and organizations that have successfully conserved structures and buildings of heritage value in the region.

It aims to encourage other property owners to undertake conservation projects within their communities, either independently or by seeking PPP (public-private partnerships).

The restoration of an aristocratic house project from partial ruin state in Ladakh undertaken by LAMO (Ladakh Arts and Media Organisation) Center has won 2018 UNESCO Asia-Pacific award for Cultural Heritage conservation in Award of Distinction category. LAMO is public charitable trust established to articulate an alternative vision for the arts and media in Ladakh.

The restored structure is strategically located at the foot of Leh palace, contributes to continuity of historic townscape of 17th century.

NASA is planning to send small devices containing human cells in a 3D matrix — known as tissue chips or organs-on-chips  to the International Space Station (ISS) to test how they respond to stress, drugs and genetic changes.

The “Tissue Chips in Space” initiative seeks to better understand the role of microgravity on human health. Made of flexible plastic, tissue chips have ports and channels to provide nutrients and oxygen to the cells inside them.

The second edition of was International Symposium to Promote Innovation & Research in Energy Efficiency (INSPIRE 2018) launched in New Delhi by the Union Ministry of Power. It was jointly organised by Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) and World Bank. The three-day symposium focused on enhancing grid management, e-Mobility, financial instruments and technologies for energy efficiency in India. Moreover awards to four path breaking innovations in clean energy and energy efficiency were also given as part of #InnovateToINSPIRE, a first-of-its-kind energy innovation challenge.

Two-day Global Cooling Innovation Summit was inaugurated recently by Union Science & Technology Minister in New Delhi.

• The event is jointly organized by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, along with Rocky Mountain Institute, Alliance for An Energy Efficient Economy (AEEE), Conservation X Labs and CEPT University.
• The summit will also see the launching of Global Cooling Prize— Mission Innovation challenge that aims to spur development of a residential cooling solution that has at least five times (5x) less climate impact than today’s standard.

• It is a competition with global reach and participation to achieve dramatic breakthroughs in cooling technologies.
• The objective of this competition would be to develop a cooling technology that requires radically less energy to operate, utilizes refrigerants with no ozone depletion potential and with low global warming potential, and has the potential to be cost-effective at scale.
• This awards programme will call world-wide attention to the most promising ideas across the globe.
• This award will celebrate successes and facilitate endeavours of innovators through providing recognition, encouragement and support.
• This recognition will not only recognise the eminent contributions to clean energy research development and demonstration, but would also motivate younger researchers to focus on innovations needed in clean energy domain to make world a better place to live.

The Global ICT Challenge for Youth with Disabilities, a programme of Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment is a capacity building project that helps youth with disabilities to overcome their limitations and challenge themselves.

It also aims to set ICT agendas for participant countries related to disabilities and boosting international cooperation and exchange.

The objective of the event is to leverage IT skills among youth with disabilities and also to spread awareness about the application of Information and Computer Technology (ICT) in enhancing the quality of life of persons with disabilities especially in Asia-Pacific region.

Participants: This year around 100 youth with disabilities (visual disability, hearing disability, locomotor disability and intellectual disability/developmental disorder) from 18 countries are participating in the event.

It is being held with a total of four events including e-Tool Challenge to evaluate the skills of using the MS Office programme and e-Life Map Challenge to evaluate the online information search ability in specific situations.