10 PM Daily Current Affairs Quiz | May 5 2021

• Statement 1 is correct: Under international human rights law, the principle of non-refoulement guarantees that no one should be re-turned to a country where they would face torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment and other irreparable harm. This principle applies to all migrants at all times, irrespective of migration status.
• Statement 2 is incorrect: The principle of non-refoulement forms an essential protection under international human rights, refugee, humanitarian and customary law
• Statement 3 is correct: Refoul means to refuse entry to a country and repatriate. Under international human rights law the prohibition of refoulement is explicitly included in the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT) and the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from En-forced Disappearance (ICPPED). In regional instruments the principle is explicitly found in the Inter-American Convention on the Prevention of Torture, the American Convention on Human Rights, and the Charter of Funamental Rights of the European Union.

• Statement 1 is correct: All countries who are members of G7 are also a part of G20
• Statement 2 is incorrect: Russia is not a part of G7. Russia joined G7 in 1998. After this G7 was renamed as G8. But it was kicked out in 2014 after its annexation of Crimea. So now it’s back to G7

‘Susceptible, Undetected, Tested (positive), and Removed Approach’ (SUTRA) is a mathematical model devised by IIT scientists to predict active COVID cases in country. model uses three main parameters to predict the course of the pandemic.

• The first is called beta, or contact rate, which measures how many people an infected person infects per day.
• It is related to the R0 value, which is the number of people an infected person spreads the virus to over the course of their infection
• The other two parameters are ‘reach’, which is a measure of the exposure level of the population to the pandemic, and ‘epsilon’ which is the ratio of detected and undetected cases

Recently, the white-bellied heron was spotted at Walong in the Anjaw district of Arunachal Pradesh. This is the first time the white-bellied heron was sighted at a height of 1,200 meters above sea level in India.

• It is one of the rarest birds in the world. At present, it is found only in Bhutan, Myanmar and the Namdapha Tiger Reserve in Arunachal Pradesh, India.
• But the bird has also recorded in the Kamlang Tiger Reserve in Lohit district in Arunachal Pradesh through camera trap images.

Phase 2b clinical trials of R21/Matrix M (a new malaria vaccine) have shown the efficacy of 77%. It is a new version of RTS, S — another candidate against malaria. Experts believe that this new version could be a game-changer in curtailing the spread of malaria across the globe, especially during pandemic times.

Read more: R21/Matrix M

The Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act was enacted by Central government on two entries of concurrent list. Such as Contracts and the transfer of property.

Being the concurrent list, the state government laws enacted prior to the enactment of the RERA becomes unconstitutional.

But the recent Supreme Court judgement on West Bengal Housing Industry Regulation Act (WB HIRA) mentions that if any areas have been left out in the central legislation, the state legislatures can provide cognate(related) legislation.

Read more: Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act

• Statement 1 is incorrect: It is a centrally sponsored scheme
• Statement 2 is correct: It aims to provide financial assistance to the elderly, widows and persons with disabilities in the form of social pensions. It currently covers more than three crore people who are below the poverty line (BPL), including about 80 lakh widows, 10 lakh disabled and 2.2 crore elderly.
• Statement 3 is correct: NSAP has 5 components: Presently NSAP comprises of five schemes, namely:
• Indira Gandhi National Old Age Pension Scheme (IGNOAPS)
• Indira Gandhi National Widow Pension Scheme (IGNWPS)
• Indira Gandhi National Disability Pension Scheme (IGNDPS)
• National Family Benefit Scheme NFBS)
• Annapurna

• It is a new snake species discovered recently in Tamil Nadu.
• It is a tiny wood snake of just 20 cm length with iridescent scales.
• The species is named in honour of Indian herpetologist Deepak Veerappan. As he contributed in erecting a new subfamily Xylophiinae to accommodate wood snakes.
• About wood snakes: These are harmless and often found while digging soil in farms and under the logs in the Western Ghat forests

• 5G services will provide up to 1 Gbps (Gigabit per second) of download speed. It is 100 times higher than the existing network speed. The upload time will also increase drastically.
• The energy efficiency of devices and stability of network connections will improve further with the 5G technology.
• 5G services work across the low, medium and high–frequency spectrums. This will avoid any network congestions.
• 5G services will have ultra-low latency (time taken by a network to respond). Latency for is predicted to be below 10 milliseconds, and in best cases around 1 millisecond. Latency for 4G is around 20-30 milliseconds.

5Gi Technology

• 5Gi stands for 5G Radio Interface Technology. It has been developed by the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras, Centre of Excellence in Wireless Technology and the IIT-Hyderabad.
• Purpose: 5Gi technology is primarily meant to enhance rural coverage. It facilitates much larger reach of the 5G towers and radio networks. Hence, it is a major breakthrough for bridging the rural-urban digital divide in 5G deployment.
• Approved by: 5Gi standard has also been approved by the International Telecommunications Union.

Read more: 5G Technology

India and UK held the following bilateral exercises

• Exercise Indradhanush –Joint Air Force
• Exercise Ajeya Warrior – Joint military exercise
• Exercise Konkan – Joint Navy exercise