10 PM Current Affairs Quiz #11 October 15, 2019

Explanation: The E5 Shinkansen series Bullet Train Project (Mumbai-Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail (MAHSR) is an India-Japan joint venture. The agreement was signed with Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). The project was inaugurated in 2017 and is scheduled for its first run in 2022. The project is a first of its kind in India. Originating at the Bandra Kurla Complex, Mumbai and terminating at the Sabarmati, the high speed train corridor will pass through Gujarat, Maharashtra and Dadra& Nagar Haveli. The proposed corridor lies in Western Railway zone. National High Speed Rail Corporation (NHSRCL) is the implementing agency of the project.

Explanation: 90:90:90 Strategy: It is a HIV treatment narrative of UNAIDS programme which has set targets of
•90% of all people living with HIV will know their HIV status (90% diagnosed),
•90% of all people with diagnosed HIV infection will receive sustained antiretroviral therapy (90% on HIV treatment) and
•90% of all people receiving antiretroviral therapy will have viral suppression (90% suppressed)

Explanation: India’s industrial sector production (IIP) has contracted by 1.1% in August when compared to the production in the same month in 2018. The Index of Industrial Production (IIP) is a composite indicator that measures changes in the volume of production of a basket of industrial products. The index is compiled and published monthly by the Central Statistical Organization (CSO), Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation. It is implemented six weeks after the reference month ends, i.e a lag of six weeks. The Base Year of the Index of Eight Core Industries has been revised from the year 2004-05 to 2011-12 from April, 2017.

Explanation: The 10th edition of the joint military exercise ‘Vajra Prahar’ between India and the US will be held at Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM) in Seattle from October 13-28, 2019. Vajra Prahar is a Special Forces joint military training exercise conducted alternately in India and the US since 2010. The exercise enables sharing of best practices and experience in areas such as joint mission planning capabilities and operational tactics.

Explanation: Turkey’s military launched a cross-border operation against Kurdish-led forces in Syria in early October, after US troops who had been allied to the Kurds withdrew.
Turkey named the military incursion as “Operation Peace Spring” which aims to create a ‘safe zone’ that is 480 km wide and upto 35 km deep inside Syria.It wants to push back members of the YPG, which it views as an extension of a Kurdish rebel group that has been fighting in Turkey for decades and is designated a terrorist organisation – the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Turkey also hopes to resettle, in the zone, up to two million of the 3.6 million Syrian refugees it is hosting.