10 PM Daily Current Affairs Quiz | June 18 2021

• All statements are correct: The concept of LDN emerged from the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) in 2012. LDN responds to an immediate challenge: intensifying the production of food, fuel and fiber to meet future demand without further degrading our finite land resource base.  

• In other words, LDN envisions a world where human activity has a neutral, or even positive, impact on the land. 
• The UNCCD Secretariat launched a new initiative: Land Degradation Neutrality, which has been enshrined in the SDGs as target 15.3 on achieving a land degradation neutral world by 2030. 

 Source: Article 

Both statements are correct 

• The Information and Broadcasting Ministry on Thursday amended the rules regulating Cable TV networks, providing for a “statutory” mechanism for complaints raised by citizens regarding any content broadcast. 
• At present, there are over 900 TV channels that are required to comply with the Programme and Advertising Code laid down by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting under the Cable Television Network Rules. 
• The Cable Television Networks (Amendment) Rules, 2021 provides for a three-level grievance redressal mechanism — self-regulation by broadcasters, self-regulation by the self-regulating bodies of the broadcasters, and oversight by an Inter-Departmental Committee at the level of the Union government. 

Source: Article 

• Statement 1 is correct: Portal has been developed by Ministry of Tribal Affairs in collaboration with UNDP and Tribal Research Institutes (TRIs)-Odisha. 
• Statement 2 is incorrect: It will act as a central repository for information on all training programmes conducted by Tribal institutions across the country under Adi Prashikshan-Training for Tribals initiative. 

Source: Article 

The correct order is 

• Bismarck Archipelago 
• Solomon Sea 
• Coral Sea 

Recently, Union Home Ministry invited citizenship applications under the Citizenship Amendment Act. But it faces the Supreme Court challenge. A recent petition filed in the Supreme Court said the government order “utterly discriminates and deprives a class of persons namely, the Muslims”.

• The objective of the CAA is to grant Indian citizenship to persecuted minorities — Hindu, Sikh, Jain, Buddhist, Parsi and Christian — from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.
• Those from these communities who had come to India till December 31, 2014, facing religious persecution in their respective countries, will not be treated as illegal immigrants but given Indian citizenship.
• The Act provides that the central government may cancel the registration of OCIs on certain grounds.

Exceptions:

• The Act does not apply to tribal areas of Tripura, Mizoram, Assam and Meghalaya because of being included in the 6th Schedule of the Constitution.
• Also, areas that fall under the Inner Limit notified under the Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulation, 1873, will also be outside the Act’s purview.

Source: The Hindu

Recently the Supreme Court of India has refused to stop the demolition of over 10,000 settlements encroaching on forests in the Aravalli range in Haryana’s Faridabad district.

About Aravalli range:

• Aravalli Range is the oldest mountain range in India and one of the oldest mountain systems in the world.
• The Aravalli range is spread across the states of Gujarat, Rajasthan, Haryana and Delhi.
• History:

• The natural history of the Aravalli Range dates back to times when the Indian Plate was separated from the Eurasian Plate by an ocean.
• Mining of copper and other metals in the Aravalli range dates back to at least the 5th century BCE, based on carbon dating.

• Rivers: The three major rivers and their tributaries flow from the Aravalli. Namely Banas and Sahibi rivers which are tributaries of Yamuna, as well as Luni River which flows into the Rann of Kutch.
• Highest Peak: Guru Shikhar Peak on Mount Abu is the highest peak in the Aravalli Range (1,722 m).

Read more: SC refuses to stay the demolition of settlements in “Aravalli range” in Haryana

Recently, India exported Geographical Indications(GI) certified ‘Jalgaon Banana’ has been shipped to Dubai.

• India is the world’s leading producer of bananas, with a share of around 25% in total output.
• States: Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Kerala, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh contribute more than 70% of the country’s banana production.
• Export of Banana: Despite being a leading producer of banana, India’s share is just 0.1% in the export market.

Read more: Jalgaon Banana’

Recently Scientists have shown that the geometry of space-time can cause neutrinos to oscillate.

• Neutrinos are mysterious particles, produced copiously in nuclear reactions in the Sun, stars, and elsewhere.
• These are the second most abundant particles in the world, after photons, or the light particle.
• Neutrinos interact very weakly with everything else – trillions of them pass through every human being every second without anyone noticing.

Source: PIB

• It has been published by Space Application Centre, ISRO, Ahmedabad.
• The Atlas provides state-wise area of degraded lands for the time frame 2018-19.
• It was released on the occasion of the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, observed on 17 June.

Source: ISRO

• The headwaters of the Ganga called the ‘Bhagirathi’ are fed by the Gangotri Glacier and joined by the Alaknanda at Devprayag in Uttarakhand. 
• Ganga emerges from the mountains to the plains at Haridwar. 
• Namami Gange Programme: 

• Namami Gange Programme is an Integrated Conservation Mission to conserve the National River.  
• The program is being implemented by the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG), and its state counterpart organizations i.e State Program Management Groups (SPMGs). 

Source: PIB