10 PM Current Affairs Quiz : November 27, 2018

Aditya -L1 is India’s first solar mission. It will study the sun’s outer most layers, the corona and the chromospheres and collect data about coronal mass ejection, which will also yield information for space weather prediction.

Aditya- L1 satellite will be placed in the halo orbit around the Lagrangian point 1 (L1) of the sun-earth system.

Sophia was confirmed as the world’s first robot citizen in Saudi Arabia.

The virtual politician, called SAM, was created by Nick Gerritsen, a 49-year-old entrepreneur in New Zealand.

SAM is the world’s first artificial intelligence politician. Sam isn’t limited by time or space, is accessible everywhere all the time, and has an infinite memory. The AI politician is constantly learning to respond to people through Facebook Messenger as well as a survey on its homepage.

Most importantly, its decisions are backed by facts and opinions, and it cannot knowingly lie or misrepresent information. Just like regular politicians, Sam can answer local queries such as housing policies, education and immigration.  Sam plans to run as a candidate in the country’s general election in 2020.

An Integrated Health Information Platform (IHIP) is being setup by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW). The primary objective of IHIP is to enable the creation of standards compliant Electronic Health Records (EHRs) of the citizens on a pan-India basis along with the integration and interoperability of the EHRs through a comprehensive Health Information Exchange (HIE) as part of this centralized accessible platform.

IHIP is envisaged to enable better continuity of care, secure and confidential health data/records management, better diagnosis of diseases, reduction in patient re-visits and even prevention of medical errors, better affordability, optimal information exchange to support better health outcome, better decision support system, and thus eventually facilitating improvement in the reforms of treatment and care of public health at National-Level.

PAiSA Portal (Portal for Affordable Credit and Interest Subvention Access”), for Affordable Credit and Interest Subvention Access”, is a centralized electronic platform for processing interest subvention on bank loans to beneficiaries under Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana – National Urban Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NULM).

The web platform has been designed and developed by Allahabad Bank which is the Nodal bank.

The NPT was forward by USA, UK and USSR, the treaty was signed in 1968 and came into force in 1970. The treaty covers three mutually reinforcing pillars—disarmament, non-proliferation, and peaceful uses of nuclear energy—and is the basis for international cooperation on stopping the spread of nuclear weapons.

NPT prohibits NWS to transfer nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices to any NNWS. It also prohibits the NWS to assist or encourage the NNWS in developing nuclear weapons.

It acknowledges the right to develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes and to benefit from international cooperation in this area

The mission is being implemented from 2015-2022 and provides central assistance to Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) and other implementing agencies through States/UTs for:

1. In-situ Rehabilitation of existing slum dwellers using land as a resource through private participation
2. Credit Linked Subsidy
3. Affordable Housing in Partnership
4. Subsidy for Beneficiary-led individual house construction/enhancement.