10 PM Current Affairs Quiz: October 15th,2020

Statement 1 is correct. Constitution under article 155 and 156 provides that the Governor of a State shall be appointed by the President by warrant under his hand and seal.
Term of office of Governor: The Governor shall hold office during the pleasure of the President. The Governor may, by writing under his hand addressed to the President, resign his office and a Governor shall hold office for a term of five years from the date on which he enters upon his office:
Provided that a Governor shall, notwithstanding the expiration of his term, continue to hold office until his successor enters upon his office.
Statement 2 is incorrect. Article 153 states that there shall be a Governor for each State:
Provided that nothing in this article shall prevent the appointment of the same person as Governor for two or more States.
Statement 3 is incorrect. Article 157 states that no person shall be eligible for appointment as Governor unless he is a citizen of India and has completed the age of thirty-five years.
Further limitations are provided under article 158: The Governor shall not be a member of either House of Parliament or of a House of the Legislature and he shall not hold any other office of profit.

Statement 1 is correct. Article 215 states that every High Court shall be a court of record and shall have all the powers of such a court including the power to punish for contempt of itself.
# A court of record means a court whose proceedings are recorded and available as evidence of fact.
Statement 2 is incorrect. The pensions payable to or in respect of Judges of any High Court are charged upon Consolidated fund of India. [Article 112]
The expenditure in respect of the salaries and allowances of Judges of any High Court is charged upon Consolidated Fund of each State. [Article 202]

: Option 1 is correct. Production Linked Incentive Scheme (PLI) for Large Scale Electronics Manufacturing offers a production linked incentive to boost domestic manufacturing and attract large investments in mobile phone manufacturing and specified electronic components, including Assembly, Testing, Marking and Packaging (ATMP) units.
Option 2 is correct. The The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology had notified ‘Phased Manufacturing Programme for cellular mobile handsets and sub-assemblies/ parts thereof’ with the objective of substantially increasing the domestic value addition for establishment of a robust Cellular mobile handsets manufacturing eco-system in India. It promotes domestic production of mobile phones by providing tax relief and other incentives on components and accessories used for the devices.

Statement 1 is correct. ‘Opposition’ is the event when the Sun, Earth and an outer planet are lined up, with the Earth in the middle. Mars opposition event is when Mars is directly on the opposite side of Earth from the Sun. During this opposition, Mars and Earth are closest to each other in their orbits.
Statement 2 is incorrect. Mars Close Approach was Oct. 6, 2020; that is the point in Mars’ orbit when it comes closest to Earth, this time at about 38.6 million miles (62.07 million kilometers) from our planet, the opposition will happen on October 13.
Close Approach is when Mars and Earth come nearest to each other in their orbits around the sun. Close is a relative term. The minimum distance from Earth to Mars is about 33.9 million miles (54.6 million kilometers). However, that doesn’t happen very often.
In 2003, Mars made its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years! It won’t be that close again until the year 2287.

The report ‘World Economic Outlook, October 2020: A Long and Difficult Ascent’ has been published by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
As per the report, the Indian economy is expected to contract by 10.3 percent in 2020 and Global output is projected to contract by 4.4 for this year.

Statement 1 is correct. Fortification is the practice of deliberately increasing the content of an essential micronutrient, i.e. vitamins and minerals (including trace elements) in a food.
Biofortification is the process by which the nutritional quality of food crops is improved through agronomic practices, conventional plant breeding, or modern biotechnology. Biofortification differs from conventional fortification in that biofortification aims to increase nutrient levels in crops during plant growth rather than through manual means during processing of the crops.
Statement 2 is incorrect. Bt cotton is a genetically modified pest resistant plant cotton variety, which produces an insecticide to combat bollworm.
Examples of biofortification projects include:
–iron-biofortification of rice, beans, sweet potato, cassava and legumes;
–zinc-biofortification of wheat, rice, beans, sweet potato and maize;
–provitamin A carotenoid-biofortification of sweet potato, maize and cassava; and
–amino acid and protein-biofortification of sourghum and cassava.

The Five Eyes (FVEY) is an intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States. These countries are parties to the multilateral UKUSA Agreement, a treaty for joint cooperation in signals intelligence.
India and Japan along with the FVEY countries are opposing the end-to-end encryption of messages by social media giants such as Facebook, which they say hinder law enforcement by blocking all access to them.

Statement 1 is correct. Cabinet has recently approved the implementation of the Strengthening Teaching-Learning and Results for States (STARS) project with a total project cost of Rs 5718 crore with the financial support of World Bank amounting to US $ 500 million.
STARS project would be implemented as a new Centrally Sponsored Scheme under Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of Education (MOE).
Statement 2 is correct. STARS project has separate National and State level implementation components.
It further includes a Contingency Emergency Response Component (CERC) under the National Component which would enable it to be more responsive to any natural, man-made and health disasters. It will help the government respond to situations leading to loss of learning such as school closures/infrastructure damage, inadequate facilities and use technology for facilitating remote learning etc.
# Refer to Factly for more details.

Aquaponics is cooperation between plants and fish and the term originates from the two words aquaculture (the growing of fish in a closed environment) and hydroponics (the growing of plants usually in a soil-less environment).
It is the cultivation of plants and aquatic animals in a recirculating environment. In this system, fishes eat the food and excrete waste, which is converted by beneficial bacteria to nutrients that the plants can use. In consuming these nutrients plants help to purify the water.

: Annual Survey of Industries (ASI) is conducted by National Statistical Office (NSO), Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation. ASI is principal source of industrial statistics in India.
The Annual Survey of Industries (ASI) is the principal source of industrial statistics in India. It provides statistical information to assess and evaluate, objectively and realistically, the changes in the growth, composition and structure of organized manufacturing sector comprising activities related to manufacturing processes, repair services, gas and water supply and cold storage.
From ASI 2010-11 onwards, the survey is being conducted annually under the statutory provisions of the Collection of Statistics (COS) Act, 2008.