10 PM Current Affairs Quiz : October 7

Reference: oxford atlas pg33

Statement 1: incorrect

India has huge deposits of thorium in most of the coastal states but not in interior states

Statement 2: incorrect

In India Bituminous coal is found in abundance. We import anthracite coal from Indonesia and Australia.

Statement C: correct

Statement D: incorrect

China is the largest producer of iron ore in the world not India

Statement 1 is incorrect. It is a regional development bank established on 22 August 1966 and is headquartered in Philippines. It aims to facilitate economic development of countries in Asia. It also aims for an Asia and Pacific free from poverty.

Statement 2 is correct. Currently, it has 67 members – of which 48 are from within Asia and the Pacific and 19 outside.

Statement 3 is incorrect: ADB is an United Nations  official  Observer.

Statement 1 is correct. The purpose is to bring together a group of nations to endorse clean energy, sustainable environment, public transport and climate

Statement 2 is incorrect. The International Solar Alliance (ISA) is an alliance of more than 121 countries, most of them being sunshine countries, which come either completely or partly between the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn.

Other information:

• Aim: It aims at addressing obstacles to deployment at scale of solar energy through better harmonization and aggregation of demand from solar rich countries lying fully or partially between the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn
• India has offered a contribution of Rs 175 crore for creating ISA corpus fund and for meeting the cost of ISA secretariat for initial five years.

International Steering Committee was establishment under the mandate of the Paris Declaration of ISA to provide the guidance and direction to establish the ISA.

The Forum is best known for its annual meeting at the end of January in Davos, a mountain resort in Graubünden, in the eastern Alps region of Switzerland. Thus, Statement 1 is correct.

Often this location alone is used to identify meetings, participation, and participants with such phrases as, “a Davos panel” and “a Davos Man”

The meeting brings together some 2,500 top business leaders, international political leaders, economists, and journalists for up to four days to discuss the most pressing issues facing the world. Thus, statement 2 is incorrect.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee honoured ICAN for its decade-long campaign to get rid the world of atomic bomb and for its work to draw attention to catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and its ground-breaking efforts to achieve treaty-based prohibition of such weapons.

The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (abbreviated to ICAN), is a global civil society coalition working to promote adherence to and full implementation of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. The campaign helped bring about this treaty. The ICAN was launched in 2007 and counts 468 partner organizations in 101 countries as of 2017.