10 PM Daily Current Affairs Quiz | February 21 2021

Article 19(2) of the Constitution authorizes the government to impose, by law, reasonable restrictions upon the freedom of speech and expression.

It lists following grounds: The sovereignty and integrity of India, the security of the State, friendly relations with foreign States, public order, decency or morality or in relation to contempt of court, defamation or incitement to an offence.

Statement 1 is incorrect. The Asia Environmental Enforcement Awards by UNEP publicly recognize and celebrate excellence in enforcement by government officials and institutions or teams combating transboundary environmental crime.

Statement 2 is correct. The Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) has received the Asia Environmental Enforcement Award-2020 in innovation category.

The Wildlife Crime Control Bureau initiated Operation WILDNET-II to deter potential traders and bring offenders to justice. WCCB created awareness-raising programmes with stakeholders and other agencies and worked through social media and online trade portals such as Indiamart, Amazon, and OLX, to share information on illegal wildlife trade activity.

Healthy, young volunteers will be infected with coronavirus to test vaccines and treatments in the world’s first Covid-19 “human challenge” study, which will take place in the UK.

The study, which has received ethics approval, will start in the next few weeks and recruit 90 people aged 18-30. They will be exposed to the virus in a safe and controlled environment while medics monitor their health.

The trials will help scientists work out the smallest amount of coronavirus needed to cause infection, and how the body’s immune system reacts to it. This will give doctors a better understanding of Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus, which will feed into the development of vaccines and treatments.

Statement 1 is correct. UNCDF is an autonomous, voluntarily funded UN organization, affiliated with UNDP. UNCDF raises its funding separately from UNDP. Its funding comes from UN member states, foundations and the private sector.

Statement 2 is incorrect. The UN Capital Development Fund makes public and private finance work for the poor in the world’s 47 least developed countries (LDCs). With its capital mandate and instruments, UNCDF offers last mile finance models that unlock public and private resources, especially at the domestic level, in support of households, localities and small enterprises that are underserved, where development needs are greatest and where resources are scarcest.

The Mahatma Gandhi National Fellowship (MGNF) is a Certificate Program in Public Policy and Management offered by IIMs. It has been designed at the initiative of the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE), Government of India (GoI) and implemented in collaboration with State Skill Development Missions (SSDMs).

It is a two-year academic program. It aims to address the challenge of the non-availability of personnel for the implementation of various skill development programs at national, state, and district levels.

Statement 1 is incorrect. This scheme under SEED programmes is essentially to provide long term core support to Science based Voluntary Organizations/field institutions to promote and nurture them as “S&T Incubators” / “Active Field Laboratories” in rural and other disadvantaged areas to work and provide technological solutions and effective delivery of technologies for livelihood generation & societal benefits.

Statement 2 is correct. Science for Equity, Empowerment and Development (SEED) Division has been set up under the Department of Science and Technology, established with the broad objectives of providing opportunities to motivated scientists and field level workers to take up action oriented and location specific projects aiming towards socio-economic upliftment of poor and disadvantaged sections of the society through appropriate technological interventions especially in the rural areas.

The TARA scheme is under the Science for Equity, Empowerment, and Development (SEED) Division, Department of Science & Technology (DST).

Statement 1 is correct. Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY) is the flagship scheme of the Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (MSDE). The objective of this Skill Certification Scheme is to enable a large number of Indian youths to take up industry-relevant skill training that will help them in securing a better livelihood.

Statement 2 is incorrect. Individuals with prior learning experience or skills are also assessed and certified under Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL). RPL is a platform to assess and certify an individual, already skilled in a particular job role/trade. This skill may have been acquired by the individual via formal/informal or non-formal training and experience in the past.

# Other important schemes being implemented by MSDE which are not linked to placement are: Jan Shikshan Sansthan (JSS) Scheme, National Apprenticeship Promotion Scheme (NAPS); and Craftsmen Training Scheme (CTS).

The placebo effect refers to the impact of a placebo on an individual. A placebo is a substance or treatment which is designed to have no therapeutic value.

The idea that the brain can convince body a fake treatment is the real thing — the so-called placebo effect — and thus stimulate healing has been around for millennia.

A placebo is used in clinical trials to test the effectiveness of treatments and is most often used in drug studies. For instance, people in one group get the tested drug, while the others receive a fake drug, or placebo, that they think is the real thing. This way, the researchers can measure if the drug works by comparing how both groups react.

Option 1 is correctly matched. Jezero Crater is 28 miles (45 kilometers) wide, and is located on the western edge of a flat plain called Isidis Planitia, which lies just north of the Martian equator. It is the landing site of Perseverance Rover.

Option 2 is incorrectly matched. Gale Crater formed when a meteor hit Mars in its early history, about 3.5 to 3.8 billion years ago. In 2012, the Curiosity rover of NASA landed in the Gale crater.

Option 3 is correctly matched. Aitken crater is about 135 km in diameter. It is located on the northern rim of the South Pole-Aitken Basin, the largest preserved basin on the moon.

# The Perseverance Rover’s landing site is about 2,300 miles (3,700 kilometers) from Curiosity’s landing site in Gale Crater.

Chitaura lake is a Hindu pilgrimage site, centred around a pond in Bahraich district in Uttar Pradesh. According to local folklore, the area beside the lake is the site of an 11th-century battle between the Hindu king Suhaldev and the Ghazi Saiyyad Salar Masud.

It is also called Ashtwarka jheel, in the name of Ashtwarka Muni, the Guru of Maharaja Janak who used to live here in his ashram