10 PM Current Affairs Quiz : September 22, 2018

Section 123 of the Representation of People Act, 1951. 8 types of acts considered as corrupt practice are Bribery, appeal on grounds of religion, race and caste, creating enmity between people on the basis of religion, race and caste etc. The punishment for being found guilty of engaging in corrupt practice range from imprisonment to having the election declared void.

Pakyong Airport is a Greenfield airport near Gangtok, the state capital of Sikkim, India.The airport, spread over 400 ha (990 acres), is located at Pakyong village about 35km (22 mi) south of Gangtok. At 4500 ft, Pakyong Airport is one of the five highest airports in India. It is also the first greenfield airport to be constructed in the Northeastern Region of India, the 100th operational airport in India, and the only airport in the state of Sikkim.

Invasive alien species (IAS) are species whose introduction and/or spread outside their natural past or present distribution threatens biological diversity. IAS occur in all taxonomic groups, including animals, plants, fungi and microorganisms, and can affect all types of ecosystems.

In India, data from National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources (NBAIR) list the entry of several invasive species since 2001: Australia’s eucalyptus gall wasp, Sri Lanka’s sapota seed borer, the South American tomato pinworm, the papaya mealybug and  Lantana camara. Also congress grass, is thought to have bought via wheat shipments from the U.S. under the 1950s PL-480 Food for Peace program. Recently ‘Fall Armyworm’ is new invasive species destroying maize crop in Maharashtra.

Radio line of sight is a type of propagation that can transmit and receive data only where transmit and receive stations are in view of each other without any sort of an obstacle between them.

FM radio, microwave and satellite transmission are examples of line-of-sight communication.

IRNSS is an independent regional navigation satellite system being developed by India. It is designed to provide accurate position information service to users in India as well as the region extending up to 1500 km from its boundary, which is its primary service area.

Some applications of IRNSS are:

• Terrestrial, Aerial and Marine Navigation
• Disaster Management
• Vehicle tracking and fleet management
• Integration with mobile phones
• Precise Timing
• Mapping and Geodetic data capture
• Terrestrial navigation aid for hikers and travellers
• Visual and voice navigation for drivers

It is a cancer treatment facility. It will be first and only cyclotron facility in country to produce Germanium 68 radioisotopes, which is used in diagnosis of breast cancer

India’s biggest cyclotron facility named Cyclone-30 became operational at Kolkata-based Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre (VECC), which comes under Department of Atomic Energy (DAE)