10 PM Current Affairs Quiz: November 29, 2020

The Bonda tribe of Odisha is believed to be part of the first wave of migration out of Africa about 60,000 years ago. Anthropologists say that they are members of a group of Austroasiatic tribes, who at some time in the ancient past migrated and settled in an area of about 130 sq km in the wild Jeypore hills.
The Bondas continue to speak in their language, Remo, which comes under the Austroasiatic language belonging to the Mundari group. They are one of the 13 Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs) found in Odisha. A matriarchal society, the women prefer to marry men who are younger by at least 5-10 years, so that the men can earn for them when they grow old.

Option 1 is correctly matched. Baku, the capital and commercial hub of Azerbaijan, is a low-lying city with coastline along the Caspian Sea.
Option 2 is incorrectly matched. Neom is a planned cross-border city in the Tabuk Province of northwestern Saudi Arabia. It is planned to incorporate smart city technologies and also function as a tourist destination. The site is near the Red Sea, and Strait of Tiran and the borders of Egypt, Israel and Jordan.
Option 3 is correctly matched. Yerevan is the capital and largest city of Armenia, and one of the world’s oldest continuously inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerevan is the administrative, cultural, and industrial center of the country.

Both statements are incorrect.
Sentinel-6 has been developed jointly by the European Space Agency (ESA), NASA, European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (Eumetsat), the USA’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the EU, with contributions from France’s National Centre for Space Studies (CNES).
The Sentinel is a joint endeavour between Europe and the US, and will continue the measurements that have been made by a succession of spacecraft, called the Jason-Topex/Poseidon series, going back to 1992. It aims to collect the most accurate data yet on sea level and how it changes over time.
These earlier missions have shown unequivocally that sea levels globally are rising, at a rate in excess of 3mm per year over the 28-year period. And their most recent data even suggests there is acceleration under way, with levels recorded as going up at over 4mm per year.
# About one-third of the measured global sea-level rise on Earth is from the expansion of warming water, a key driver of which is climate change. The rest is largely from melting ice.

Particularly during a warm summery night, where the water is in motion, such as the surf, the sea can radiate light. The bluish light is caused by sea sparkle (Noctiluca Scintillans), a round one-celled organism. In turbulent water, a chemical reaction in sea sparkle causes it to emit light. It is meant to scare off enemies.
The bloom of Noctiluca Scintillans that the Karnataka coast has been witnessing since about a month has displaced microscopic algae called diatoms, which form the basis of the marine food chain. This has deprived food for the planktivorous fish as per scientists from the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI), Mangaluru.

The heads of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), and the World Health Organization (WHO) recently launched the new One Health Global Leaders Group on Antimicrobial Resistance.
Group members include heads of government, government ministers, leaders from private sector and civil society. The group is co-chaired by their Excellencies Mia Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados, and Sheikh Hasina Wazed, Prime Minister of Bangladesh.
The group was created in response to a recommendation from the Interagency Coordination Group on Antimicrobial Resistance and supported by the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

Statement 1 is incorrect. The members of the G20 are: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, and the European Union.
Statement 2 is incorrect. G20 leaders announced on recently that India will host the summit of grouping in 2023 — a year later than what was decided earlier. India was earlier slated to host the summit in 2022.
# “We thank Saudi Arabia for hosting a successful Riyadh Summit and its contribution to the G20 process. We look forward to our next meetings in Italy in 2021, Indonesia in 2022, India in 2023 and Brazil in 2024,” the G20 Riyadh Summit Leaders Declaration said.

A trilateral naval exercise involving India, Singapore and Thailand commenced in the Andaman Sea recently.
The two-day long exercise, SITMEX-2020, is scheduled in a “non-contact, at sea only format”, in wake of the COVID-19 restrictions.
The primary aim of the exercise is to further consolidate interoperability between the three navies and also enhance understanding, sharing best practices and procedures for multi-faceted maritime operations.
The Indian Navy is represented by two indigenous warships — an ASW corvette, INS Kamorta, and a guided Missile corvette, INS Karmuk.

The Houthi movement, named after the family it is associated with, emerged from Yemen’s northern province Saada, bordering Saudi Arabia, and has been locked in an increasingly complex war.
Their influence has grown since first challenging former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh in 2004, taking then-capital Sanaa and much of the north by 2014.

Both statements are correct.
The Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) was the first multilateral treaty categorically banning a class of weapon. The treaty prohibits the development, stockpile, production, or transfer of biological agents and toxins of “types and quantities” that have no justification for protective or peaceful use. Furthermore, the treaty bans the development of weapons, equipment, or delivery systems to disseminate such agents or toxins.
There is no formal verification regime to monitor compliance. Member States are encouraged to abide by numerous confidence-building measures (CBMs) prescribed by State Parties at various review conferences.
# India signed the BTWC with some reservations on January 15, 1973 and ratified the treaty a year and a half later on July 15, 1974.

Released ahead of World Children’s Day 2020, Averting a Lost COVID Generation is the first UNICEF report to comprehensively outline the dire and growing consequences for children as the pandemic drags on.
The report finds that, as of 3 November, in 87 countries with age-disaggregated data, children and adolescents under 20 years of age accounted for 1 in 9 of COVID-19 infections, or 11 per cent of the 25.7 million infections reported by these countries.
It shows that while symptoms among infected children remain mild, infections are rising and the longer-term impact on the education, nutrition and well-being of an entire generation of children and young people can be life-altering.