10 PM Current Affairs Quiz: October 22nd,2020

Option 1 is correctly matched. Oktoberfest is an annual festival in Munich, Germany, held over a two-week period and ending on the first Sunday in October. The 2020 edition has been cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic.
Option 2 is correctly matched. The Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is a festival held every year before Lent and considered among the biggest carnival in the world. The first Carnival festival in Rio occurred in 1723.
Option 3 is correctly matched. Japan is known around the world for its cherry blossom festivals known as hanami in Japanese. In modern-day Japan, hanami mostly consists of having an outdoor party beneath the sakura (cherry) during daytime or at night.

Option 1 is correct. Lake Titicaca is located on the border between northern Bolivia and southern Peru.
Option 2 is correct. The Andes Mountains extend over seven countries: Argentina (Mount Aconcagua), Bolivia (Huayna Potosi), Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela, known as Andean States.
Option 3 is incorrect. Mount Aconcagua is in western Mendoza province, west-central Argentina, on the Chilean border.

Statement 1 is correct. National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), an umbrella organisation for operating retail payments and settlement systems in India, is an initiative of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and Indian Banks’ Association (IBA) under the provisions of the Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007, for creating a robust Payment & Settlement Infrastructure in India.
The ten core promoter banks are State Bank of India, Punjab National Bank, Canara Bank, Bank of Baroda, Union Bank of India, Bank of India, ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, Citibank N. A. and HSBC. In 2016 the shareholding was broad-based to 56 member banks to include more banks representing all sectors.
Statement 2 is correct. RuPay, a new card payment scheme was launched by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI). It offers a domestic, open-loop, multilateral system which will allow all Indian banks and financial institutions in India to participate in electronic payments.

Statement 1 is correct. As inflation increases, the prices of goods increase too. Due to this, the purchasing power of money falls. Cost Inflation Index (CII) is a tool used in the calculation of an estimated yearly increase in an asset’s price as a result of inflation.
Statement 2 is correct. The Central Government fixes this index and publishes it in its official gazette for measuring inflation. This index, notified each year by the CBDT is mandated under Section 48 of the Income Tax Act, 1961.
CII has a base year concept, currently the base year is 2001 having CII of 100. CII for 2020-21 has been notified at 301.

: Statement 1 is correct. RCS-UDAN, “Ude Desh ka Aam Nagrik” is a Government of India’s flagship program which aims to provide affordable, economically viable and profitable air travel on regional routes. This Regional Connectivity Scheme offers unique opportunity to a common man to fly at an affordable price.
The Airports Authority of India (AAI) has been designated as the Implementing Agency under this Scheme.
Statement 2 is incorrect. Under this Scheme, support is provided to Selected Airline Operator(s) in the form of Viability Gap Funding and other concessions / support offered by the Central Government, State Governments and airport operators but the VGF support is not provided for cargo operations.
# UDAN has played a major role in adding new airports and routes to the aviation landscape of the country. 50 unserved and underserved airports (including 5 heliports) with 285 routes have been added under UDAN across the length and breadth of India. AAI has an ambitious plan to develop at least 100 airports/waterdromes/heliports by 2024 under the Scheme.

On 21 October 1943, Bose announced the formation of the Provisional Government of Azad Hind (Free India) in Singapore, with himself as the Head of State, Prime Minister and Minister of War.
The Provisional Government not only enabled Bose to negotiate with the Japanese on an equal footing but also facilitated the mobilization of Indians in East Asia to join and support the INA. The government of Azad Hind had its own currency, court and civil code.

The Tribal Militia invasion of Kashmir backed by Pakistan army on 22 Oct 1947 unleashed a brutal series of plunder, rape, arson, looting and killing.
The invasion marks the beginning of First Indo-Pak war and set in motion a chain of events that are still affecting the country.
On 26 Oct 1947 the State of Jammu and Kashmir formally acceded to India and on 27 Oct 1947 Indian troops were airlifted to Kashmir.
# A National Symposium & Exhibition on “MEMORIES OF 22 OCTOBER 1947” is being organised by the National Museum Institute of History of Art, Conservation & Museology (NMI), at SKICC, Srinagar, Kashmir.

Option 1 is correctly matched. The Strait of Hormuz is a strait between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. It provides the only sea passage from the Persian Gulf to the open ocean.
Option 2 is correctly matched. Since the 1967 Six-Day War, the western two-thirds of the Golan Heights has been occupied and administered by Israel, whereas the eastern third remains under control of the Syrian Arab Republic.
Option 3 is correctly matched. Nagorno-Karabakh lies within Azerbaijan but has been under the control of ethnic Armenian forces backed by Armenia.

Both statements are correct.
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has successfully validated ‘COVIRAP’ the diagnostic machine evolved by the IIT Kharagpur researchers, for its efficacy in COVID-19 detection.
It has an automated pre-programmable temperature control unit, a special detection unit on genomic analysis, and a customised smartphone app for results. Three master mixes work as markers of different genes to confirm the presence of SARS-CoV-2.
# Other than COVID-19 testing, many other tests, falling under the category of ‘isothermal nucleic acid-based tests’ (INAT), can be performed in the same machine. In other words, Influenza, Malaria, Dengue, Japanese encephalitis, Tuberculosis and many other infectious, as well as vector-borne diseases, can be tested using the same machine.

Acharya Pingala was the ancient Indian author of Chandah-Sutra.
It is said to have first known description of a binary numeral system in connection with the systematic enumeration of meters with fixed patterns of short and long syllables.
Halayudha’s commentary includes a presentation of Pascal’s triangle (called meruprastāra). Pingala’s work also includes material related to the Fibonacci numbers, called matrameru