10 PM Daily Current Affairs Quiz | May 27 2021

• Statement 1 is correct: The Mission will establish National Cultural Work Place (NCWP). The NCWP shall be a fully equipped cultural portal which will serve as common interaction work place for all stake holders including artistes, institutions, NGOs and Ministry of Culture.
• Statement 2 is correct: Mission aims at setting up e-commerce facility to provide various opportunities to artists for direct marketing, cutting out the middleman – empowering traditional occupational communities.

Source: Article

• Statement 1 is correct: Under NFSA, Centre is responsible for allocation of required foodgrains to States/UTs, transportation of foodgrains up to designated depots in each State/UT and providing central assistance to States/UTs for delivery of foodgrains from designated Food Corporation of India (FCI) godowns to the doorstep of the Fair Price Shops (FPSs)
• Statement 2 is correct: Under NFSA, social audit is mandatory to ensure transparency and accountability under TPDS.
• Statement 3 is incorrect: The Act legally entitles up to 75% of the rural population and 50% of the urban population to receive subsidized foodgrains under Targeted Public Distribution System. About two thirds of the population therefore is covered under the Act to receive highly subsidised foodgrains.

Source: Article

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• Cauvery River rises at Talakaveri on the Brahmagiri range in the Western Ghats in Karnataka and flows for about 800 km before its outfall into the Bay of Bengal.
• The important tributaries joining the Cauvery are Harangi, Hemavati, Kabini, Suvarnavathi and Bhavani.

Source: Article

India’s largest statue of the Reclining Buddha was to have been installed at Bodh Gaya. But, due to Covid-19 India called off the ceremony.

• A reclining Buddha statue or image represents the Buddha during his last illness, about to enter Parinirvana.

• Parinirvana is the stage of great salvation after death that can only be attained by enlightened souls.
• The Buddha’s death came when he was 80 years old, in a state of meditation, in Kushinagar in eastern Uttar Pradesh
• The Reclining Buddha was first depicted in Gandhara art. It peaked during the Kushana period from the first to the fifth centuries AD.
• The largest Reclining Buddha in the world is the 600-foot Winsein Tawya Buddha built in 1992 in Mawlamyine, Myanmar

Source: The Indian Express

• PIMS-TS is also known as a multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C). It is a rare condition associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection that was first defined in April 2020.
• Caused by: It is not known what triggers the condition. But it is thought to be a rare immune overreaction that occurs in children approximately four to six weeks after mild or asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection.
• Symptoms: It includes fever, rash, eye infection, and gastrointestinal symptoms (e.g. diarrhoea, stomach ache, nausea). In some rare cases, the condition can lead to multi-organ failure.
• Diagnosis: Currently, MIS-C is diagnosed based on symptoms together with laboratory tests that look for signs of inflammation in the body.

• Treatment: Treatments currently include anti-coagulation to curb blood clotting, IV immunoglobulin and anti-inflammatory drugs.

Read more: paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome(PIMS-TS)

• Under the IT rules 2021, Social media platforms are classified into two categories

• Social media intermediaries – Platforms that have a limited user base.
• Significant social media intermediaries – These are the platforms with a large user base.

• The significant social media intermediaries have to follow few additional measures like:

• These platforms should have a physical contact address in India.
• Appointing a Chief Compliance Officer, Nodal Contact Person, and a Resident Grievance Officer in India. All of them should be Indian Residents.

Read more: Information Technology Rules, 2021

• Statement 1 is correct: Biogas is produced when bio-degradable organic materials/wastes such as cattle-dung, biomass from farms, gardens, kitchens, industry, poultry droppings, night soil and municipals wastes are subjected to a scientific process, called Anaerobic Digestion (A.D.) in a Biogas Plant

• Statement 2 is correct: Co-firing is a low-cost option for efficiently and cleanly converting biomass to electricity. It adds biomass as a partial substitute fuel in high-efficiency coal boilers.
• Statement 3 is correct: Burning either fossil fuels or biomass releases carbon dioxide (CO2), a greenhouse gas. However, the plants that are the source of biomass for energy capture almost the same amount of CO2 through photosynthesis while growing as is released when biomass is burned, which can make biomass a carbon-neutral energy source.

Source: Biomass

Antifungal drug Amphotericin-B is being considered as a primary treatment of yellow fungus. The same injection is being used currently to treat black or white fungus cases in the country.

Source: Times of India

Recently, the Uttarakhand High Court has reprimanded the State government for stopping some Van Gujjar families on their way to Govind Pashu Vihar National Park. The court held that their right to life is being violated by the authorities.

• The Van Gujjars, the nomadic pastoral community of the Uttarakhand Himalayas

• They pursue seasonal migration from the Terai-Bhabar and Siwalik region of Uttarakhand to the higher bugyals in the Western Himalayas in summer and vice versa in winter.

About Govind Pashu Vihar National Park:

• It is located in the Uttarkashi district of the state of Uttarakhand. The park lies in the higher reaches of the Garhwal Himalayas.
• It was declared as a National Park in the year of 1990.

• The Har-ki-dun valley within the park is a known spot for trekking. Similarly, the Ruinsara high altitude lake is also popular as a tourist destination.
• The park creates an upper water catchment of River Tons. This river is a significant tributary of Yamuna River

Source: Down to Earth