10 PM Current Affairs Quiz: October 6, 2020

Entry 33 in the concurrent list is: Trade and commerce in, and the production, supply and distribution of,— (a) the products of any industry where the control of such industry by the Union is declared by Parliament by law to be expedient in the public interest, and imported goods of the same kind as such products; (b) foodstuffs, including edible oilseeds and oils; (c) cattle fodder, including oilcakes and other concentrates; (d) raw cotton, whether ginned or unginned, and cotton seed; and (e) raw jute.
Entry 18 in the concurrent list is: Adulteration of foodstuffs and other goods.
Entry 22 in the concurrent list is: Trade unions; industrial and labour disputes.

Statement 1 is correct. Article 190(3) of the Constitution states that if a member of a House of the Legislature of a State resigns his seat by writing under his hand addressed to the speaker and his resignation is accepted by the Speaker his seat shall thereupon become vacant;
Provided that in the case of resignation, if from information received or otherwise and after making such inquiry as he thinks fit, the Speaker is satisfied that such resignation is not voluntary or genuine, he shall not accept such resignation.
Statement 2 is incorrect. It is not mandated in the Constitution, rather under the Representation of the People Act, 1951, the election commission is supposed to hold by-elections within six months of a seat getting vacated, either due to resignation or the death of a legislator.

Both statements are correct.
There are two measures used to assess the proportion of infected individuals with fatal outcomes. The first is infection fatality ratio (IFR), which estimates this proportion of deaths among all infected individuals. The second is case fatality ratio (CFR), which estimates this proportion of deaths among identified confirmed cases.
The true severity of a disease can be described by the Infection Fatality Ratio:

Serological testing of a representative random sample of the population to detect evidence of exposure to a pathogen is an important method to estimate the true number of infected individuals.
Case fatality ratio (CFR) is the proportion of individuals diagnosed with a disease who die from that disease and is therefore a measure of severity among detected cases:

: The Belfast Agreement is also known as the Good Friday Agreement, because it was reached on Good Friday, 10 April 1998. It was a peace agreement between the British and Irish governments, and most of the political parties in Northern Ireland, on how Northern Ireland should be governed.
This agreement helped to bring to an end a period of conflict in the region called the Troubles. In 1998 – after nearly two years of talks and 30 years of conflict – the Good Friday agreement was signed. This resulted in a new government being formed that would see power being shared between Unionists and Nationalists.

Statement 1 is correct. Hepatitis C is a liver disease caused by the hepatitis C virus (HCV): the virus can cause both acute and chronic hepatitis, ranging in severity from a mild illness lasting a few weeks to a serious, lifelong illness. Hepatitis C is a major cause of liver cancer.
Statement 2 is correct. The hepatitis C virus is a bloodborne virus: the most common modes of infection are through exposure to small quantities of blood. This may happen through injection drug use, unsafe injection practices, unsafe health care, transfusion of unscreened blood and blood products, and sexual practices that lead to exposure to blood.
# This year’s Nobel Prize winners in Medicine; Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice made seminal discoveries that led to the identification of a novel virus, Hepatitis C virus.

Statement 1 is correct. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and NITI Aayog are organizing the RAISE 2020- ‘Responsible AI for Social Empowerment 2020, a Mega Virtual Summit on Artificial Intelligence-AI from 5th to 9th of October.
Statement 2 is correct. RAISE 2020 is a global meeting of minds to exchange ideas and chart a course for using AI for social transformation, inclusion and empowerment in areas like Healthcare, Agriculture, Education and Smart Mobility, among other sectors.

The Supersonic Missile Assisted Release of Torpedo (SMART) has been successfully flight tested recently from Wheeler Island off the coast of Odisha.
Statement 1 is incorrect. SMART is a missile assisted release of lightweight Anti-Submarine Torpedo System for Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) operations far beyond Torpedo range. This launch and demonstration is significant in establishing Anti-Submarine warfare capabilities.
Statement 2 is correct. It has been developed by DRDO, a number of DRDO laboratories including DRDL, RCI Hyderabad, ADRDE Agra, NSTL Visakhapatnam have developed the technologies required for SMART.

The National Viral Hepatitis Control Program was launched by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on the World Hepatitis Day, 28th July 2018.
It is an integrated initiative for the prevention and control of viral hepatitis in India to achieve Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3.3 which aims to ending viral hepatitis by 2030.
Statement 1 is correct. Aim of the program:
– Combat hepatitis and achieve country wide elimination of Hepatitis C by 2030;
– Achieve significant reduction in the infected population, morbidity and mortality associated with Hepatitis B and C viz. Cirrhosis and Hepato-cellular carcinoma (liver cancer);
– Reduce the risk, morbidity and mortality due to Hepatitis A and E.
Statement 2 is correct. Components of NVHCP: Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment, Monitoring and Evaluation, Surveillance and Research; and Training and Capacity Building.

The New Caledonia is a French overseas territory in South Pacific Ocean. It is rich in resources and accounts for around 10% of the world’s nickel reserve.
New Caledonia enjoys a large degree of autonomy but depends heavily on France for matters like defence and education.

# Following bouts of violence in the 1980s over the issue of independence, several agreements were signed including the 1998 Noumea Accord, which set out a roadmap for greater autonomy for the territory.
# Under this agreement, New Caledonia is allowed up to three referendums on independence. The first took place in November 2018, where voters rejected independence from France by 56.4% to 43.6%, with a turnout of about 81%.
# It has again voted to remain French with 53.26% of votes in October 2020. Turnout was at 85.6%. A third referendum can take place by 2022, if requested by a third of the local assembly.

Explanation: The United Kingdom is a state made up of the historic countries of England, Wales and Scotland, as well as Northern Ireland.

# The Internal Market Bill of UK government seeks to create a single uniform market across the four nations of the U.K. It is being disputed by many in UK as well as EU for it breaking the international law by going back on the Withdrawal Agreement Bill signed by the Boris Johnson government in January 2020.