10 PM Daily Current Affairs Quiz | June 9 2021

• The International Energy Agency (IEA) has releases the World Energy Investment Report 2021

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• Statement 1 is correct: It is the world’s largest voluntary corporate sustainability initiative
• Statement 2 is correct: On 12 September 2017, the UN Global Compact instituted a new exclusion for tobacco companies. This decision recognizes that tobacco products are in direct conflict with UN goals, particularly with the right to public health, and undermines the achievement of SDG 3. This product-based exclusion is strictly limited to companies that produce and/or manufacture tobacco or are part of a joint venture, have a subsidiary or affiliate stake in a company that produces and/or manufactures tobacco
• Statement 3 is incorrect: Global Compact Initiative was announced by the then UN Secretary-General in 1999. It was officially launched at UN Headquarters in New York City in 2000.
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• Strait of Bosporus connects Marmara Sea to Black Sea.
• Dardanelles Strait connects Marmara Sea to Aegean Sea

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• Statement 1 is correct: It is a statutory body established under BIS Act 2016
• Statement 2 is incorrect: The Bureau is a Body Corporate consisting of 25 members representing both Central and State governments, Members of Parliament, industry, scientific and research institutions, consumer organizations and professional bodies; with Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution as its President and with Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution as its Vice-President.

• Statement 1 is correct: The State Government by notification in the Official Gazette  can constitute for every district, one or more Child Welfare Committees under the Juvenile Justice Act.
• Statement 2 is incorrect: The District Magistrate shall be the grievances redressal authority for the Child Welfare Committee and anyone connected with the child, may file a petition before the District Magistrate

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Statement 1 is correct. Department for promotion of Industry & Internal Trade has developed Industrial Information System (IIS) portal, a GIS-enabled database of industrial areas/clusters across the country to adopt a committed approach towards resource optimization, industrial upgradation and sustainability.

Statement 2 is incorrect. Industrial Information System (IIS) aims to provide:

-Information on available land for prospective investors looking at setting up units in the Country

-GIS Mapping of Industrial Clusters

-The system also holds the information about the existing External and Internal Infrastructure such as rail, road, air and port connectivity and other common facilities in and around the manufacturing clusters

-Links to State GIS Portals and State Land Banks

At present, the database covers more than 3,350 parks/clusters covering about 475,000 hectares land across 31 States/UTs.

Both statements are correct.

There are two measures used to assess the proportion of infected individuals with fatal outcomes. The first is infection fatality ratio (IFR), which estimates this proportion of deaths among all infected individuals. The second is case fatality ratio (CFR), which estimates this proportion of deaths among identified confirmed cases.

The true severity of a disease can be described by the Infection Fatality Ratio:

Serological testing of a representative random sample of the population to detect evidence of exposure to a pathogen is an important method to estimate the true number of infected individuals.

Case fatality ratio (CFR) is the proportion of individuals diagnosed with a disease who die from that disease and is therefore a measure of severity among detected cases:

Section 8 of the Right to Information Act, 2005 provides for exemption from disclosure of information:

(a) information, disclosure of which would prejudicially affect the sovereignty and integrity of India, the security, strategic, scientific or economic interests of the State, relation with foreign State or lead to incitement of an offence;

(b) Information which has been expressly forbidden to be published by any court of law or tribunal or the disclosure of which may constitute contempt of court;

(c) Information, the disclosure of which would cause a breach of privilege of Parliament or the State Legislature;

(d) information including commercial confidence, trade secrets or intellectual property, the disclosure of which would harm the competitive position of a third party, unless the competent authority is satisfied that larger public interest warrants the disclosure of such information;

(e) Information available to a person in his fiduciary relationship, unless the competent authority is satisfied that the larger public interest warrants the disclosure of such information;

(f) Information received in confidence from foreign Government;

(g) Information, the disclosure of which would endanger the life or physical safety of any person or identify the source of information or assistance given in confidence for law enforcement or security purposes;

(h) Information which would impede the process of investigation or apprehension or prosecution of offenders;

(i) Cabinet papers including records of deliberations of the Council of Ministers, Secretaries and other officers; (shall be made public after the decision has been taken)

(j) Information which relates to personal information the disclosure of which has no relationship to any public activity or interest

Option 1 is correctly matched. Sariska Tiger Reserve is in the Alwar district, Rajasthan. It mainly comprises scrub-thorn arid forests, dry deciduous forests, grasslands, and rocky hills. This area was a hunting preserve of the Alwar state and was declared a wildlife reserve in 1955.

In 2004, it was reported that no tigers were sighted in the reserve. In July 2008, two tigers from Ranthambhore National Park were relocated to Sariska Tiger Reserve. Another female tiger was relocated in February 2009. By 2020, the tiger population in the reserve has risen to 20.

Option 2 is incorrectly matched. Pakke Tiger Reserve, also known as Pakhui Tiger Reserve, in the Pakke Kessang district of Arunachal Pradesh. The habitat types are lowland semi-evergreen, evergreen forest and Eastern Himalayan broadleaf forests.

Option 3 is incorrectly matched. Nameri National Park is in the eastern Himalayas in the Sonitpur District of Assam, Nameri shares its northern boundary with the Pakhui Wildlife Sanctuary of Arunachal Pradesh.

The vegetation type of Nameri is of semi-evergreen, moist deciduous forests with cane and bamboo brakes and narrow strips of open grassland along rivers Jia- Bhoroli and Bor Dikorai.

The RISE by 2022 is an attempt to translate the objectives into action plan

by making available resources from the market. The objectives of RISE by 2022 are:

• Qualitatively upgrade the researchand academic infrastructure in India to global

best standards by 2022.

• Make India into an education hubby making available high quality research

infrastructure in Indian higher educational institutions.

• To allow access of HEFA funding to institutionslike Central Universities, AIIMS,

IISERs and newly created Institutes of National Importance, without creating any

additional burden to the students.

• Tobring greater accountability and speed in execution of infrastructure projects

and avoid all cost/time over-runs, moving from the block-grant mode to projectmode

for all infrastructure projects.

• Tocater to the requirements of the Kendriya Vidyalayas and Navodaya

Vidyalayas, and medical institutions like AIIMSs in a faster time frame.