10 PM Current Affairs Quiz #3 October 4, 2019

Explanation: The Hindi Advisory Committee decided to look beyond Delhi and met outside the national capital for the first time on Thursday. Speaking at the meeting in Hyderabad, Rajya Sabha Chairman MVenkaih Naidu hoped that such events outside Delhi would help promote Hindi, even as he made it clear that no language should be thrust on people and there should be constant dialogue between various Indian languages for linguistic, cultural and emotional unity. He cited Mahatma Gandhi as an example he recalled Gandhi setting up Dakshin Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha in Madras in 1918 and inspired by it, Hindi Prachar Sabha was established in Hyderabad in 1935.

Explanation: The ancient port town of Mamallapuram is in the final stages of a makeover ahead of the scheduled visit of Prime Minister Narendra Maodi and Chinese President Xi Jinping during a two-day India-China Informal summit from October 11. Mamallapuram near Chennai, which was a crucial town connecting India with Southeast Asia including China from the Pallava period, is under a security blanket, with armed security personnel present at all three monuments that the two world leaders will visit.

Explanation:Since crimes against SCs and STs are fundamentally hate crimes, the Rajiv Gandhi government enacted the Act in 1989 in furtherance of the provisions for abolition of untouchability (Article 17) and equality (Articles 14, 15) in the Constitution.

Explanation:Madhya Pradesh, the erstwhile tiger state of the country with maximum numbers of striped felines, has reclaimed its coveted title that it had lost to Karnataka about a decade ago. According to a fresh tiger census report, the central Indian state has reported the presence of 526 tigers.The 2018 report has put the total number of striped cats in the country at 2,967 with MP’s tally going up to 526 from 308 recorded in 2014. Karnataka that has been topping the list since 2010 slipped to the second place though by a very close margin with 524 tigers.

Explanation: The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) is a detailed, 159-page agreement with five annexes reached by Iran and the P5+1 (China France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States) on July 14, 2015. The nuclear deal was endorsed by UN Security Council Resolution 2231, adopted on July 20, 2015. Iran’s compliance with the nuclear-related provisions of the JCPOA will be verified by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) according to certain requirements set forth in the agreement. On May 8, 2018, President Trump announced that the United States would withdraw from the JCPOA and reinstate U.S. nuclear sanctions on the Iranian regime.