10 PM Current Affairs Quiz: November 13, 2020

Kabartal Wetland, also known as Kanwar Jheel, covers 2,620 hectares of the Indo-Gangetic plains in the Bihar State. It has been designated as a wetland of International importance.
It is an important wetland of the Central Asian Flyway for the population of migratory birds and biodiversity. With the new addition, now India has 39 Ramsar sites.

Currently, there is no law or autonomous body governing digital content. The Government of India (Allocation of Business) Rules, 1961 have been amended recently to add following items under Ministry of Information and Broadcasting;
Digital/Online media:
–Films and Audio-Visual programmes made available by online content providers.
–News and current affairs content on online platforms
# At present, the Press Council of India regulates the print media, the News Broadcasters Association (NBA) represents the news channels, the Advertising Standards Council of India regulates advertising, while the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) monitors films.
# This will give the government control over OTT platforms, which were unregulated till now.

Both options are correct.
Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs launched a scheme PM Street Vendor’s AtmaNirbhar Nidhi (PM SVANidhi) to empower Street Vendors by not only extending loans to them, but also for their holistic development and economic upliftment.
The scheme intends to facilitate collateral free working capital loans of up to INR10,000/- of one-year tenure to street vendors, to help resume their businesses in the urban areas, including surrounding peri-urban/rural areas.
The PM SVANidhi scheme offers incentives in the form of:
–interest subsidy at seven percent per annum on regular repayment of loan
–cashback on undertaking prescribed digital transactions
–eligibility for enhanced next tranche of loans

National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) currently manage three funds registered as Alternative Investment Fund (AIF) with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) and are currently raising capital from domestic and international institutional investors.
–The Master Fund is an infrastructure fund primarily investing in operating assets in core infrastructure sectors such as roads, ports, airports, power etc.
It invests in mature businesses with long-term track record, often operating in regulated environments or under concession or long-term agreements.
–The Fund of Funds (FoF) invests through India-focused equity fund managers who have a strong track record of managing investments successfully.
It has a focus on social infrastructure sectors services such as healthcare, education, digital as well as financial services, logistics and consumer services.
–The Strategic Opportunities Fund (SOF) is aimed at investing in growth and development stage investments in companies and sectors that are strategically important to the Indian economy.
The sectors of initial focus are financial services, food & agriculture, healthcare, education among others.
# NIIF Strategic Opportunities Fund has set up a Debt Platform comprising an NBFC Infra Debt Fund and an NBFC Infra Finance Company.
# Government has announced an investment of Rs 6000 cr as equity in NIIF Debt Platform.

The Reserve Bank of India had formed a five-member committee under the chairmanship of former ICICI Bank Chief Executive KV Kamath to make recommendations on the financial parameters to be considered in the restructuring of loans impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The committee has selected 26 sectors which will require restructuring based on its analyses of financial parameters hit due to the economic crash caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
# The government has recently extended Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme to Entities in 26 stressed sectors identified by Kamath Committee plus health care sector with credit outstanding of above Rs. 50 crore and up to 500 Crore as on 29.2.2020.

Both statements are correct.
Prasar Bharati is the Public Service Broadcaster of the country. It is a statutory autonomous body established under the Prasar Bharati Act and came into existence in 1997.
The Prasar Bharati comprises of All India Radio and Doordarshan Television Network, which were previously media units of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.
# All India Radio is India’s Public Service Radio Broadcaster and the Radio vertical of Prasar Bharati.
# Doordarshan is India’s Public Service Television Network and the television vertical of Prasar Bharati. It is one of the largest broadcasting organisations in the world in terms of studios and transmitters.

The Interstate Migrant Policy Index (IMPEX) is a regional adaptation of the international Migrant Integration Policy Index, conceptualized by the Migration Policy Group and the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs, both nonprofit policy think-tanks based in Europe.
The IMPEX has been developed by Mumbai-based research non-profit India Migration Now (IMN), and it assesses states’ performance on eight policy areas spanning more than 60 policy indicators.
The states of Kerala, Goa, Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh have been most successful in integrating migrant workers, while crucial migrant receiving states, including Delhi, have done poorly.

The Belfast Agreement is also known as the Good Friday Agreement, because it was reached on Good Friday, 10 April 1998. It was an agreement between the British and Irish governments, and most of the political parties in Northern Ireland, on how Northern Ireland should be governed.
The talks leading to the Agreement addressed issues which had caused conflict during previous decades. The aim was to establish a new, devolved government for Northern Ireland in which unionists and nationalists would share power.

Both statements are correct.
Cytokine storm is a severe immune reaction in which the body releases too many cytokines into the blood too quickly. Cytokines play an important role in normal immune responses, but having a large amount of them released in the body all at once can be harmful.
A cytokine storm can occur as a result of an infection, autoimmune condition, or other disease. It may also occur after treatment with some types of immunotherapy. Signs and symptoms include high fever, inflammation (redness and swelling), and severe fatigue and nausea. Sometimes, a cytokine storm may be severe or life threatening and lead to multiple organ failure.

An over-the-top media service is a streaming media service offered directly to viewers via the Internet. OTT bypasses cable, broadcast, and satellite television platforms, the companies that traditionally act as a controller or distributor of such content.
A notification from the Cabinet Secretariat on November 9, said that films and audio-visual programs made available by online content providers and news and current affairs content on online platform will be under the purview of the Information and Broadcasting Ministry.