10 PM Current Affairs Quiz : November 28, 2018

The narrow Kerch Strait, between Crimea and mainland Russia, leads from the Azov to the Black Sea, which in turn connects to Western Europe and to Asia via the Mediterranean and the Suez Canal.

RCEP is proposed between the ten member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) (Brunei, Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam) and the six states with which ASEAN has existing FTAs (Australia, China, India, Japan, South Korea and New Zealand).

RCEP aims to boost goods trade by eliminating most tariff and non-tariff barriers and also seeks to liberalise investment norms and do away with services trade restrictions.

Central Emergency Response Fund is a humanitarian fund established by the United Nations General Assembly in 2005 and launched in 2006.

The fund is replenished annually through contributions from governments, the private sector, foundations and individuals.

CERF seeks to enable more timely and reliable humanitarian assistance to those affected by natural disasters and armed conflicts.

The United Nations has recently  announced $9.2 million in health and nutritional aid for crisis-stricken Venezuela which has been in an economic depression for at least half a decade now, adding to hyperinflation and mass food shortages.

The Ministry of Women and Child Development has launched the National Festival for Children of Child Care Institutions (CCIs) – Hausla 2018.

The inter-Child Care Institution festival draws children from 18 States to provide a national platform for the children to make them realize their hidden talent and help take it forward in their life.

InSight Mission is the first mission to peer deep beneath the Martian surface, studying the planet’s interior by measuring its heat output and listening for marsquakes, which are seismic events similar to earthquakes on Earth.

It will use the seismic waves generated by marsquakes to develop a map of the planet’s deep interior.

It is the first outer space robotic explorer to study in-depth the “inner space” of Mars: its crust, mantle, and core, since the planet formed 4.5 billion years ago. InSight has three Science Instruments, namely a seismometer, a heat flow probe and a radio science experiment to analyse MARS interior.

HysIS, the country’s first hyperspectral imaging satellite for advanced Earth observation will be launched from Sriharikota. It is the primary satellite of the PSLV-C43 mission.

The satellite will be placed in 636 km polar sun synchronous orbit (SSO) with mission life of five years.

The primary goal of HysIS is to study the Earth’s surface in visible, near-infrared and shortwave infrared regions of the electromagnetic spectrum.  Hysis in space can provide well-defined images that can help to identify objects on Earth far more clearly than regular optical or remote sensing cameras.