10 PM Current Affairs Quiz : November 30, 2018

The necessary conditions for formation of tropical cyclones are:

• Continuous supply of abundant warm and moist air
• Warm Sea temperature in lower latitudes should be around 27°C
• They develop in inter-tropical convergence zone
• pre-existing weak- low-pressure area or low-level-cyclonic circulation
• Upper divergence above the sea level system
• A distance from the Equator is necessary, so that it allows the Coriolis effect to deflect winds blowing toward the low pressure centre

The National Cyclone Risk Mitigation Project seeks to minimize vulnerability in the cyclone hazard prone states and Union Territories of India and make people and infrastructure disaster resilient, in harmony with conservation of coastal ecosystems. National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) under the aegis of Ministry of Home Affairs(MHA) will implement the Project in coordination with participating State Governments and the National Institute for Disaster Management (NIDM).

Workers in India got the highest average real wage growth (adjusted for inflation) in the last decade in southern Asia, according to the Global Wage Report 2018/19 published by International Labour Organisation (ILO). During 2008-17, real wage growth in India stood at 5.5 per cent, highest among all the countries in southern Asia, the report said.

Meanwhile, according to the report, India and Pakistan had the highest gap of 34.5 per cent and 34 per cent respectively between what men and women earn. This wage gap was the worst among all the 73 countries for which data was compiled.

The Bilateral KONKAN exercise is a naval exercise conducted between India and the United Kingdom. The KONKAN series of exercises was started in 2004. Since then, the exercise is hosted in rotation by both the Navies and has grown in complexity, scale, and intensity

Tawang Monastery is located in Tawang district of Arunachal Pradesh. Known in Tibetan as Gaden Namgyal Lhatse, it was built according to the wishes of the 5th Dalai Lama, Ngawang Lobsang Gyatso.

An eight-metre high gilded statue of Lord Buddha dominates the sanctum of the monastery. It is the largest monastery in India and second largest in the world after the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet

Birsa Munda was a young freedom fighter and a tribal leader, whose spirit of activism in the late nineteenth century, is remembered to be a strong mark of protest against British rule in India. He spearheaded an Indian tribal religious Millenarian movement that arose in the tribal belt of modern-day Bihar and Jharkhand in the late 19th century, during the British Raj, thereby making him an important figure in the history of the Indian independence movement. Hence statement 1 is correct.

Birsa’s claim to be a messenger of God and the founder of a new religion sounded preposterous to the mission. There were also within his sect converts from Christianity, mostly Sardars. His simple system of offering was directed against the church which levied a tax. And the concept of one God appealed to his people who found his religion and economical relig healer, a miracleworker, and a preacher spread, out of all proportion to the facts. Hence statement 2 is correct. His achievements are even more remarkable for having been accomplished before the age of 25. In recognition of his impact on the nationals movement, the state of Jharkhand was created on his birth anniversary in 2000.