10 PM Daily Current Affairs Quiz | April 15 2021

Statement 1 is incorrect. Article 21A added by the e Constitution (Eighty-sixth Amendment) Act, 2002 provides that the State shall provide free and compulsory education to all children of the age of six to fourteen years in such manner as the State may, by law, determine.

Statement 2 is correct. Article 45 provides for provision for early childhood care and education to children below the age of six years; the State shall endeavour to provide early childhood care and education for all children until they complete the age of six years.

As per Territorial Waters, Continental Shelf, Exclusive Economic Zone and Other Maritime Zones Act, 1976, the Exclusive Economic Zone of India is an area beyond and adjacent to the territorial waters, and the limit of such zone is two hundred nautical miles from the baseline.

India’s limit of the territorial waters is the line every point of which is at a distance of twelve nautical miles from the nearest point of the appropriate baseline.

As per the Act, all foreign ships (other than warships including sub-marines and other underwater vehicles) shall enjoy the right of innocent passage through the territorial waters, innocent passage being one that is not prejudicial to the peace, good order or security of India.

The Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991 was enacted to freeze the status of places of worship as they were on August 15, 1947. It says no person shall convert any place of worship of any religious denomination into one of a different denomination or section.

Anyone who defies the bar on conversion of the status of a place of worship is liable to be prosecuted. The Act provides for imprisonment up to three years and a fine for anyone contravening the prohibition.

The law kept the disputed structure at Ayodhya out of its purview, mainly because it was the subject of prolonged litigation. It was also aimed at providing scope for a possible negotiated settlement.

The ‘double mutant’ virus that scientists had flagged last month as having a bearing on the spread of the pandemic in India, has a formal scientific classification: B.1.617.

Sixty-one per cent of the COVID-19 samples, collected by the Pune-based National Institute of Virology from the state by the premier virology institute between January and March had the double mutation, now classified as the B.1.617 lineage.

India shares 3488 Km of border with China that runs along the States of Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh and UT of Ladakh.

Statement 1 is correct. The river Chenab (or Chandra Bhaga) is formed after the two streams the Chandra and the Bhaga merge with each other. The Chandra and the Bhaga originate from the south-west and north-west faces of Barelacha pass respectively in the Himalayan canton of Lahul and Spiti valley in Himachal Pradesh.

Statement 2 is incorrect. Chenab does not meet Sutlej in India. It meets with Jhelum and Ravi in Pakistan.

The Bogibeel rail / road bridge is built across the River Brahmaputra in the Dibrugarh district, in the state of Assam in north-east India. The 4.94km bridge is one of the longest river bridges in the country. It will connect Dibrugarh in the south to Lakhimpur in the north. The River Brahmaputra runs to the north of Dibrugarh and spans 10km.

The rail-road bridge was undertaken by the Northeast Frontier Railway, which is a part of Indian Railways. It was inaugurated in 2018.

Inflation is an economic term describing the sustained increase in prices of goods and services within a period.

— Inflation is a decrease in the purchasing power of currency due to a rise in prices across the economy. The effect of inflation on savers and investors is that they lose purchasing power.

— The effect of inflation on debtors is positive because debtors can pay their debts with money that is less valuable.

The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority was set up as an attached office of the Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals (now Department of Pharmaceuticals since July, 2008) on 1997. It has been entrusted inter-alia, with the following functions:

–To implement and enforce the provisions of the Drugs Price Control Order (DPCO), 1995/2013 in accordance with the powers delegated to it.

–To undertake and/or sponsor relevant studies in respect of pricing of drugs/formulations.

–To monitor the availability of drugs, identify shortages, if any, and to take remedial steps.

–To collect/maintain data on production, exports and imports, market share of individual companies, profitability of companies etc. for bulk drugs and formulations.

The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) has recently released the report Global Wind Report, 2021.

— The world’s capacity to generate electricity from wind jumped 53% in 2020.

— China and the United States accounted for 75% of the new installations and over half the world’s wind power capacity.

— The world currently has a total wind energy capacity of 743 GW. This has helped avoid an annual CO2 emission of over 1.1 billion tonnes which is equivalent to the volume of carbon South America emits in a year.

— India’s total installed wind power capacity was 38GW, the fourth largest installed wind power capacity in the world.