10 PM Daily Current Affairs Quiz | May 31 2021

• Kabasura Kudineer: It is a Siddha medicine for the treatment of fevers. It is now being used to treat asymptomatic, mild, and moderate COVID-19 infection cases.

• It increases immunity and acts as an immune-modulator as this virus adversely affects the immune response.
• Siddha is a traditional medicine originating in South India. It is one of the oldest systems of medicine in India.

Source: Article

The Local Sheet in astronomy is a nearby extragalactic region of space where the Milky Way, the members of the Local Group and other galaxies share a similar peculiar velocity. 

Source: The Hindu (30th May 2021)

Sanctuary is located in Odisha.  

Source: Article 

According to a census carried out by the Odisha State Forest Department, Odisha’s blackbuck population has doubled in the last six years.

• The blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra) is also known as the Indian antelope. It is an antelope native to India and Nepal.
• Habitat: It inhabits grassy plains and lightly forested areas with perennial water sources.

• State Animal: Blackbuck has been declared as the State Animal of Punjab, Haryana, and Andhra Pradesh.
• Protection Status:

• IUCN Status: Least Concern
• Wildlife Protection Act 1972: Schedule I
• CITES: Appendix III

• Religious Significance:

• The blackbuck is routinely depicted in miniature paintings of the Mughal era (16th to 19th centuries) depicting royal hunts often using cheetahs.

Read More: BlackBuck

Statements are interchanged

• Forest Generalists include species that can adapt to modified habitats such as orchards and degraded forests. Example,  Pigeon and Black Kite
• Forests Specialists include species that search for food and breed only in dense protected Forests. For example, Rufous-bellied woodpecker, greater yellow nape

Read more: Decline in forest bird species in the Western Himalayas Region

The Supreme Court in its recent judgement has widened the scope of Section 304-B of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). This section punishes persons accused of dowry deaths.

Sections 499 to 502 – It deals with defamation cases in India

Section 171 – Offences Relating to Elections

Section 304-B – Dowry related deaths

Section 489A – It deals with Husband or relative of husband of a woman subjecting her to cruelty

Read more: Section 304-B

In India, Edible oil prices have risen sharply in recent months. According to the data from the Department of Consumer Affairs, the prices of six edible oils — groundnut oil, mustard oil, vanaspati, soya oil, sunflower oil and palm oil — have risen between 20% and 56% at all-India levels in the last one year.

• India’s production of oilseeds is too little to fulfil the domestic demand. Therefore, India is dependent on imports.

• India is one of the largest importers of oilseed and edible oils in the world. About 56% of the domestic edible oil demand is met from imports.
• The major sources of these imports are

• Argentina and Brazil for soybean oil;
• Indonesia and Malaysia palm oil; and
• Ukraine and Argentina for sunflower oil.

• Palm oil accounted for the lion’s share of the total imports (62 per cent), followed by soya oil and sunflower oil (21 per cent and 16 per cent, respectively).

Read more: Edible oil prices

• In 2000, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) agreed to start assigning names for cyclones over the North Indian Ocean basin using a list of names suggested by the countries surrounding the ocean basin. Initially, India expressed reservations to naming cyclones and after four years of continuous deliberations, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) initiated the naming of the North Indian Ocean storm with Cyclone Onil in September 2004.

• There are six regional specialised meteorological centres (RSMCs) and five regional Tropical Cyclone Warning Centres (TCWCs) across the globe to monitor cyclogenesis, issue advisories and name cyclones.
• RSMC, New Delhi is, therefore, responsible for naming cyclones over the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea
• As per the WMO guidelines, a list of 64 names was drawn in 2004 using the suggested names from eight countries in the region. In May 2020, Cyclone Amphan became the last cyclone to get its name from the old list.
• In 2020, a new list of cyclone names (above) was issued by IMD, following WMO guidelines
• The names for India include Gati, Tej, Murasu, Aag, Vyom, Jhar, Probaho, Neer, Prabhanjan, Ghurni, Ambud, Jaladhi and Vega.

• Fani – Bangladesh
• Bulbul – Pakistan
• Amphan – Thailand

Source: Article

• Lithuania is bordered by following countries –

• Latvia
• Russia
• Poland
• Belarus

Source: Article

• During Genocide in Rwanda, France was accused of acting as a staunch ally of the Hutu-led government that ordered the killings.
• In 1994, France deployed a UN-backed military force in Rwanda called Operation Turquoise– which was able to save some people. However, it was accused of sheltering some of the genocide’s perpetrators.

Read more: Rwanda Genocide 1994