10 PM Current Affairs Quiz : February 1, 2018

Statement 2 is correct. The Mission has set the ambitious target of deploying 20,000 MW of grid connected solar power by 2022 is aimed at reducing the cost of solar power generation in the country.

Statement 1 is correct. India has achieved 20 gw (giga watt) cumulative solar capacity, achieving the milestone four years ahead of the target for 2022 originally set in the National Solar Mission.

Statement 1 is correct. On Jan. 31, 1958, the United States launched its first successful satellite: Explorer 1. It was the American answer to the Soviet Union’s Sputnik 1, which kicked off the Space Age when it launched in 1957.

Statement 2 is incorrect. Explorer-1 was the first space mission to carry a scientific instrument into space.

Statement 1 is correct. Karanj is the third of the six Scorpene-class submarines being built by Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDL) under the Project 75 programme of Indian navy.

Statement 2 is correct. It has superior stealth features such as advanced acoustic silencing techniques, low radiated noise levels and hydrodynamically optimized shape. These stealth features give it invulnerability, unmatched by most submarine.

Kigali Agreement was signed at 28th Meeting of Parties of the Montreal Protocol held at Kigali (Rwanda), held from October 8 to 15, 2016. Kigali agreement is an amendment to Montreal Protocol. Thus, statement 1 is correct.

In Sept-2016, 197 countries have struck a new landmark deal at Kigali in Rwanda to reduce the emissions of category of greenhouse gases (GHGs) which leads to hydro fluorocarbons (HFCs). Thus, statement 2 is correct.
All signatory countries have been divided into three groups with different timelines to go aboutreductions of HFCs. This agreement shows a new form of grouping: First group: It includes richest countries like US and those in European Union (EU). They will freeze production and consumption of HFCs by 2018. They will reduce them to about 15% of 2012 levels by 2036. Second group: It includes countries like China, Brazil and all of Africa etc. They will freeze HFC use by 2024 and cut it to 20% of 2021 levels by 2045. Third group: It includes countries India, Pakistan, Pakistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia etc. They will be freezing HFC use by 2028 and reducing it to about 15% of 2025 levels by 2047.

The Indus script is a corpus of symbols produced by the Indus Valley Civilization during the Kot Diji and Mature Harappan periods between 3500 and 1900 BCE. The characters are largely pictorial but include many abstract signs.  Thus, statement 1 is correct.

Professor Iravatham Mahadevan was one of the experts who had figured out that the Indus script ran from right to left by observing how the writing got a little cramped as it ran towards the left — suggesting that the writer started writing at the right end and ended up running out of space as he or she reached the left end. Thus, statement  is correct.

Government eMarketplace (GeM) facilitates online procurement of common use Goods & Services required by various Government Departments / Organizations / PSUs. Thus, statement 1 is correct.

The purchases through GeM by Government users have been authorized and made mandatory by Ministry of Finance by adding a new Rule No. 149 in the General Financial Rules, 2017. Thus, statement 2 is correct.