10 PM Daily Current Affairs Quiz | June 19 2021

• The Great Barrington Declaration is a statement advocating an alternative approach to the COVID-19 pandemic which involves “Focused Protection” of those most at risk and seeks to avoid or minimize the societal harm of the COVID-19 lockdowns.

Source: Article

• Galapagos Islands – Ecuador
• Bougainville Islands – Papua New Guinea
• Dodecanese Islands – Greece

• Statement 1 is correct: Suyamariyathai marriage or self-respect marriage is a wedding which does not consist of Brahmin priests, holy fire, saptapadi (seven steps) and mangalsutra.

• One of the consequences of the Dravidian movement in Tamil Nadu was the passage of the Hindu Marriage (Tamil Nadu) (Amendment) Act, 1967, which was one of the first legislations passed by C.N. Annadurai upon becoming chief minister in 1967.

• The amendment removed the requirement that Hindu marriages have to have been conducted in the presence of a Brahmin priest and involve the ceremonies of saptapadi.
• Under the Amendment, suyamariyathai or “self-respect” marriages could be deemed valid if the couple exchanged rings, garlands, declarations of intent to marry, or by the tying of the thali (necklace), in the presence of friends or relatives.
• This amendment was widely invoked in inter-caste marriages, free from ceremonies steeped in caste, and has even withstood constitutional challenges.

• Statement 2 is incorrect: Tamil Nadu is the only state to legalise suyamariyathai marriages. In 1967, Former Chief Minister Annadurai legalised self-respect marriages in Tamil Nadu and it became an Act in 1968

• The Fragile Five is a term coined by a Morgan Stanley financial analyst in 2013 to represent emerging market economies that are too dependent on unreliable foreign investment to finance their growth ambitions.

Source: Article

• Ghodazari Wildlife Sanctuary is a wildlife reserve established in 2018 in the Chandrapur district in Maharashtra.
• The sanctuary is considered a key region on the connecting corridor for the tiger migration between the Tadoba Andhari Tiger reserve and Umred Karhandla Wildlife Sanctuary.

• Lake: Ghodazari lake is an important destination for native and migratory birds due to its undisturbed water body and abundance of food.
• Fauna: Tigers are the main attraction and reason behind the creation of the sanctuary. Other wildlife mammals and reptiles are also found in the sanctuary.
• Flora: The Sanctuary consists mainly of deciduous forest. It has an extensive distribution of teak, ain, Bamboo and other trees.

Source: Article

Statement 1 is correct. Bt cotton is an insect-resistant transgenic crop designed to combat the bollworm. Bt cotton was created by genetically altering the cotton genome to express a microbial protein from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis.

Statement 2 is correct. Genetically modified (GM) crops are those crops whose DNA has been modified by introducing alien genes in the seeds to get desired effects.

Bt cotton is the only Genetically modified (GM) crop approved in India by the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee of Ministry of Environment.

Islands in the South China Sea includes Spratly Islands, Pratas Islands, Paracel Islands and Macclesfield Bank; islands on the China coast, on the Vietnam coast, on the Borneo coast, and the peripheral islands of Taiwan, the Philippines, etc.

The Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands is a territorial dispute over a group of uninhabited islands among Japan, People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Republic of China (ROC or Taiwan).

Statement 1 is incorrect. Mercury is the planet closest to the Sun. Shukrayaan is a proposed mission to Venus (second closest planet).

Statement 2 is incorrect. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has short-listed 20 space-based experiment proposals, including from France, for its proposed Venus orbiter mission ‘Shukrayaan’ to study the planet for more than four years.

ISRO was earlier eyeing June, 2023 that has now been delayed due to pandemic, future launch opportunity is either in 2024 or 2026. The optimal launch window, when Venus is closest to the Earth comes about every 19 months.

Statement 1 is correct. The Code on Social Security provides definition of Platform Work as a work arrangement outside of a traditional employer-employee relationship in which organizations or individuals use an online platform to access other organizations or individuals to solve specific problems or to provide specific services.

Statement 2 is correct. The Code on Social Security, 2020 states that the central government will set up social security funds for unorganized workers, gig workers and platform workers.

Further, state governments will also set up and administer separate social security funds for unorganized workers. It also makes provisions for registration of all three categories of workers – unorganized workers, gig workers and platform workers.

India is a founder member of the International Labour Organization, which

came into existence in 1919. At present the ILO has 186 Members.

The eight Core Conventions of the ILO (also called fundamental/human rights

conventions) are:

-Forced Labour Convention (No. 29)

-Abolition of Forced Labour Convention (No.105)

-Equal Remuneration Convention (No.100)

-Discrimination (Employment Occupation) Convention (No.111)

-Minimum Age Convention (No.138)

-Worst forms of Child Labour Convention (No.182)

(The above Six have been ratified by India)

-Freedom of Association and Protection of Right to Organised Convention (No.87)

-Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention (No.98)

(These two have not been ratified by India)