10 PM Daily Current Affairs Quiz | May 10 2021

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• Fall in crude oil prices will bring down the oil import bill, saving the precious foreign exchange. India has to shell out money in dollars whenever it imports crude oil. So, whenever there is a fall in prices of crude oil, government has to pay less thereby resulting in reduced oil import bill. This will lead to increase in forex reserves.
• Increased foreign travels: Foreign travel shall result in dollar outflows as people will spend dollars during their international travels.
• Depreciation of rupee: This will lead to increased exports resulting in increased dollar inflows.

• PARIVESH = Pro-Active and Responsive facilitation by Interactive, Virtuous and Environmental Single-window Hub

• PARIVESH is a Single-Window Integrated Environmental Management System for Environment, Forest, Wildlife and CRZ clearances
• It has been developed in line with Digital India
• It automates the entire process of submitting the application and tracking the status of such proposals at each stage of processing.
• The system has been designed, developed and hosted by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, with technical support from National Informatics Centre, (NIC).

• Statement 1 is incorrect: The largest of the seven species of sea turtles on the planet and also the most long-ranging, Leatherbacks are found in all oceans except the Arctic and the Antarctic. Within the Indian Ocean, they nest only in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and the A&N Islands.
• Statement 2 is incorrect: Their conservation status is Vulnerable (VU) in the IUCN red list

• Kabasura Kudineer is a traditional formulation used by Siddha practitioners for managing common respiratory health.
• It is a herbal mixture of various ingredients or elements. It comprises of dry ingredients of ginger, pippali, clove, kadukkai, ajwain and many other herbs.
• Kabasura Kudineer has been found to be useful in the treatment of asymptomatic, mild, and moderate COVID-19 infection cases.
• Recently, AYUSH Ministry launched a massive nationwide campaign to distribute Kabasura Kudineer

• Pangolins are the world’s most trafficked mammal

• Out of the eight species of pangolin, the Indian Pangolin and the Chinese Pangolin are found in India
• Indian Pangolin:

• Indian Pangolin is widely distributed in India, except in the arid region, high Himalayas and the North-East. The species also occurs in Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka.
• IUCN Status: Endangered
• Wildlife Protection Act,1972: under Schedule I.

• Chinese Pangolin:

• It is widely distributed in Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia and the northeastern part of India.
• IUCN Status: Critically Endangered
• Wildlife Protection Act,1972: Under Schedule I

Read more: Pangolin

Source of Methane Emissions:

Natural Sources: emissions from wetlands and oceans, and from the digestive processes of termites.

Anthropogenic Sources:

• More than half of global methane emissions stem from human activities in three sectors: fossil fuels (35%), waste (20%) and agriculture (40%).
• Fossil fuel sector: Oil and gas extraction, processing and distribution account for 23%. Coal mining alone accounts for 12% of emissions.

• Waste sector: Landfills and wastewater make up about 20% of global anthropogenic emissions.
• Agricultural sector: Livestock emissions from manure and fermentation represent roughly 32%. Further, rice cultivation accounts for 8% of global anthropogenic emissions.

• Christchurch Call to Action was launched during the Online Extremism Summit in Paris, France in 2019. The summit was co-chaired by New Zealand and France.
• Objective: The Christchurch Call is a global pledge by member governments and technology partners. Under this, they work together to address terrorist and violent extremist contents online.
• Named after: The call is named after the New Zealand city. In Christchurch, 51 members of the Muslim community were murdered in a live-streamed terrorist attack in 2019.
• Member Countries: Seventeen countries originally signed the agreement. Another 31 countries signed the agreement later.
• India: India is one of the member countries.

Read more: Christchurch Call to Action

• The Arctic Council was formally established in 1996 by the Ottawa Declaration.
• Purpose: It is an intergovernmental forum for promoting cooperation, coordination and interaction among the Arctic States.
• Members: The members of the Arctic Council include Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden and the United States.
• Observer Status: Since 2013, India enjoys ‘Observer’ status in the Arctic Council. Twelve other observer countries are Japan, China, France, Germany, UK, Italy, Switzerland, Poland, Spain, Netherlands, Singapore, and South Korea.