10 PM Current Affairs Quiz : November 17

Statement 1 is incorrect. It is Joint Indo-Bangladesh Training Exercise. The 2017 edition was recently held in Mizoram. It is the seventh such exercise in the SAMPRITI series.

Statement 2 is incorrect. The exercise has been aimed to strengthen and broaden the aspects of interoperability and cooperation between the Indian and Bangladesh Armies.

China has launched the world’s first all-electric ship, which can travel up to 80km with 2000-tonnes cargo after a two-hour charge.

Key facts:

• The ship is 70.5-metre-long and weighs about 600 tonnes.
• The vessel is powered by a 26-tonne lithium battery. It can cruise at the top speed of 12.8 km per hour.

As the ship do not use fossil fuels, it has zero emission, including carbon, sulphur and PM2.5 and it could be used as a passenger liner or a working ship.

Statement 1 is correct as IAEA is an international organization established as the world’s central intergovernmental forum for scientific and technical co-operation in the nuclear field. It works for the safe, secure and peaceful uses of nuclear science and technology, contributing to international peace and security and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.

Statement 2 is incorrect as IAEA is established independently of the United Nations through its own international treaty, the IAEA Statute, however, the IAEA reports to both the United Nations General Assembly and Security Council.

• India’s longest expressway from Agra to Lucknow will soon provide free Wi-Fi services on the entire 302-kilometre stretch. As per officials, the UP government has offered to provide space to lay an optical fibre cable (OFC) along the expressway.
• The plan is to earn revenue to maintain the expressway and gain from the agreement with the private firm by leasing rights to lay the OFCs to offer free WiFi along the entire stretch.
• This will also help the state to have a world-class advanced traffic management system (ATMS) for convenience and safety. Safety will be assured by the usage of traffic monitoring and event detection along with speed enforcement through a network of CCTV cameras and phone helplines at every two kilometres.

Statement 1 is correct as GI is a name or sign used on products which corresponds to a specific geographical location or origin (e.g. a town, region, or country). In order to function as a GI, a sign must identify a product as originating in a given place.

Statement 2 is incorrect as a protected GI does not enable the holder to prevent someone from making a product using the same techniques as those set out in the standards for that indication.

The Press Council of India is a statutory body in India that governs the conduct of the print media. The Press Council of India was first set up in the year 1966 by the Parliament on the recommendations of the First Press Commission with the object of preserving the freedom of the press and of maintaining and improving the standards of press in India. Thus statement 1 is incorrect.

It is one of the most important bodies that sustain democracy, as it has supreme power in regard to the media to ensure that freedom of speech is maintained. Thus, statement 2 is correct.

The National Power Portal has been designed and developed to disseminate analyzed information about the sector through GIS enabled navigation and visualization chart windows on capacity, generation, transmission, distribution at national, state, DISCOM, town, feeder level and scheme based funding to states. Thus statement 1 is correct.

It is integrated with associated systems of Central Electricity Authority (CEA), Power Finance Corporation (PFC), Rural Electrification Corporation (REC) and other major utilities and would serve as single authentic source of power sector information to apex bodies, utilities for the purpose of analysis, planning, monitoring as well as for public users. Thus, statement 2 is incorrect.