10 PM Current Affairs Quiz #17 August 21, 2019

Explanation: The Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) is a nationally representative household survey that was launched in February 2007 as a new component of the ongoing Global Tobacco Surveillance System (GTSS). The GATS enables countries to collect data on adult tobacco use and key tobacco control measures. Results from the GATS assist countries in the formulation, tracking and implementation of effective tobacco control interventions, and countries are able to compare results of their survey with results from other countries.
Topics covered in GATS: Tobacco use prevalence (smoking and smokeless tobacco products), second-hand tobacco smoke exposure and policies, cessation, knowledge, attitudes and perceptions, exposure to media and economics.
GATS have been implemented in more than 25 low- and middle-income countries with highest burden of tobacco use.

Explanation: In a move to strike the caste balance ahead of the Assembly elections in Maharashtra, the state cabinet on Tuesday approved foundation of an autonomous institute to ensure educational and financial growth of the economically-weaker sections (EWS) from the general category.
•The proposed Academy of Maharashtra Research, Upliftment and Training (AMRUT) will be an autonomous body like the BARTI, SARTHI and MAHAJYOTI that will work for the welfare of the EWS youth, a statement issued by the Chief Minister’s Office said.
•The Babasaheb Ambedkar Research and Training Institute’s (BARTI) aim among other is to provide opportunities to the state’s scheduled caste youths in various sectors, to work or to start their own micro enterprises.
•The Chhatrapati Shahu Maharaj Research Training and Human Development Institute (SARTHI) is a non-profit government company for policy advocacy and training for socio-economic and educational development of Maratha, Maratha-Kunbi, Kunbi-Maratha, and Kunbi communities and the families dependent on agriculture in Maharashtra.
•The Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Research and Training Institute (MAHAJYOTI) was set up last month to work for the social, educational and economic development for the special backward class, OBC and VJNT communities.

Explanation: Knight Frank’s Prime Global Cities Index tracks the performance of luxury residential prices across key global cities on a quarterly basis using data compiled by our global research network. National capital New Delhi has emerged as the 10th fastest growing city globally for luxury residential real estate with a rise of 4.4 per cent in capital value over the past one year, says the latest report by Knight Frank. Bengaluru with a rise of 2.8 per cent in capital value year-on-year and Mumbai (up 0.8 per cent) are ranked 15th and 30th, respectively in the 46 cities tracked by Knight Frank globally.

Explanation: Telecommunications in India is a Union subject i.e. the federal government has the exclusive authority to legislate on it. The key Acts of Parliament which govern the Indian telecommunications sector are:
•Indian Telegraph Act 1885
•Indian Telegraph (Amendment ) Rules 2004
•Indian Wireless Act 1933
•Information Technology Act 2000
•Communication Convergence Bill 2001
•Telecom Regulatory Authority of India Act 1997

Explanation:
•It is India’s second mission to the moon. It aims to explore the Moon’s south polar region. There are three components of the mission, an orbiter, a lander and a rover.
•The mission payloads include-Terrain Mapping Camera which will generate a Digital Elevation Model (DEM) of the entire moon, Chandrayaan 2 Large Area Soft X-ray Spectrometer which will test the elemental composition of the Moon’s surface Solar X-Ray Monitor which will provide solar X-ray spectrum inputs for CLASS.
•The orbiter will be deployed at an altitude of 100 kilometers above the surface of the Moon. The lander will then separate from the orbiter, and execute a soft landing on the surface of the Moon, unlike the previous mission which crash landed near the lunar south pole.
•The lander, rover and orbiter will perform mineralogical and elemental studies of the lunar surface.
•The rover is named Pragyan.
•The mission’s lander is named Vikram after Dr Vikram A Sarabhai, the Father of the Indian Space Programme.