10 PM Daily Current Affairs Quiz | June 1 2021

• Statement 1 is correct: In 1925, a Mid-Day Meal Programme was introduced for disadvantaged children in Madras Municipal Corporation. By the mid 1980s three States viz. Gujarat, Kerala and Tamil Nadu and the UT of Pondicherry had universalized a cooked Mid-Day Meal Programme with their own resources for children studying at the primary stage
• Statement 2 is correct: As per guidelines issued by Government of India, schools are to procure AGMARK quality and branded items for preparation of mid-day meals.

• AGMARK is a certification mark for agricultural produce, assuring that they conform to a grade standard notified by Directorate of Marketing & Inspection (DMI), Department of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers Welfare, Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare under Agricultural Produce (Grading Marking) Act, 1937

Source: Mid-Day Meal Scheme

• The GDI measures differences in male and female achievements in three basic dimensions of human development: health, education and command over economic resources.

• The health dimension is captured by female and male life expectancy at birth.
• Education is measured using two indicators—female and male expected years of schooling for children and female and male mean years of schooling for adults ages 25 and older.
• Command over economic resources is measured by female and male estimated earned income.

Source: Article

• The Six-Day war was the third in the long line of Arab-Israeli wars that started in 1948, around the time of the creation of the Israeli state. Beginning on June 5, 1967, the war spanned only six days during which Israel almost decimated Egypt’s air force and captured new territory

• Israel fought against a combined force of Egypt, Jordan, Syria. The war ended on June 10, 1967.
• Read more in this article

Source: Article

• Both statements are correct: Metadata is simply data about data. It means it is a description and context of the data. It helps to organize, find and understand data.
• For example: Every time you take a photo with your smartphone camera following metadata is gathered and saved with it:

• date and time

• filename
• camera settings
• geolocation

• Read more about Metadata here

Source: Article

• The Defence Ministry recently notified the second negative import list — now renamed as the ‘positive indigenisation list’ — of 108 items that can now be only purchased from indigenous sources. The new list takes the total number on the list to 209.
• Introduced in August 2020, the negative list essentially means that the Armed Forces—Army, Navy and Air Force—will only procure such items from domestic manufacturers.

• The manufacturers could be private sector players or Defence Public Sector Undertakings (DPSUs).

Source: Article

Kerala’s ‘Bell of Faith’ scheme will be expanded to the villages to reach senior citizens staying alone. Earlier, the scheme was successfully implemented in a number of urban households in Kerala.

About Bell of Faith Scheme:

• Bell of Faith Scheme was launched by the Kerala Police in 2018. It aims to provide security to senior citizens staying alone as part of Kerala’s Community Policing Scheme.
• Under the Scheme, police have installed a bell in the senior citizens’ houses.
• The neighbour will get an alert with an alarm when the senior citizen rings the bell during an emergency.
• The neighbour can immediately rush to the house or contact the police or hospital.

Read more: Bell of Faith Scheme

• Neglected Tropical Diseases(NTD) are a group of infections. These diseases are most common in the tropical regions of Africa, Asia, and the Americas among marginalized communities. The basic reason behind them is no access to clean water or safe ways to dispose of human waste.
• These diseases generally receive less funding for research and treatment than diseases like tuberculosis, HIV-AIDS, and malaria.
• Some examples of NTDs include snakebite envenomation, scabies, yaws, trachoma, Leishmaniasis, and Chagas disease.
• Cases: NTDs affect more than a billion people globally. However, the diseases are preventable and treatable.
• London Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases was a collaborative disease eradication program. It launched on 30 January 2012 in London.

Read more: Neglected Tropical Diseases

• India adopted the tobacco control provisions under WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC).
• Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act (COTPA), 2003:

• It replaced the Cigarettes Act of 1975 (largely limited to statutory warnings- ‘Cigarette Smoking is Injurious to Health’ to be displayed on cigarette packs and advertisements. It did not include non-cigarettes).

• The 2003 Act also included cigars, bidis, cheroots, pipe tobacco, hookah, chewing tobacco, pan masala, and gutka.

• Promulgation of the Prohibition of Electronic Cigarettes Ordinance, 2019: It prohibits Production, Manufacture, Import, Export, Transport, Sale, Distribution, Storage and Advertisement of e-Cigarettes.

Source: PIB

• In India, Sedition falls under section 124A of the IPC (Indian Penal Code). It is defined as any action that brings or attempts to bring contempt or hatred towards the government of India. Sedition cases are punishable with a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.

• It is classified as “cognisable”(No need Court warrant to arrest the person) and a “non-bailable” and “non-compoundable” offence.
• A person charged under this law has to live without their passport and must produce themselves in court whenever required.
• The section was introduced initially to deal with increasing Wahabi activities between 1863 and 1870. These activities posed a challenge to the colonial government.
• Some of the most famous sedition trials of the late 19th and early 20th century involved Indian nationalist leaders.

• The first among them was the trial of Jogendra Chandra Bose in 1891. He was the editor of the newspaper, Bangobasi. He wrote an article criticizing the Age of Consent Bill for posing a threat to the religion and for its coercive relationship with Indians.

• It was also used to prosecute Bal Gangadhar Tilak (for his writings in Kesari) in 1897.
• The other well-known case was the sedition trial of Mahatma Gandhi in 1922. Gandhi had called Sedition “the prince among the political sections of the IPC designed to suppress the liberty of the citizen”.

Read more: Sedition law need relook said SC

Recently the 43rd meeting of GST council failed to provide an immediate tax break for critical pandemic relief supplies despite States and industry pressing for waivers.

• India levies 5% GST on vaccines, and on relief supplies from abroad.
• Similarly, India also levies 12% GST on Oxygen Concentrators. On the other hand, the ediblie oil attracts only 5% GST.

Source