10 PM Current Affairs Quiz #19 November 22, 2019

Explanation: According to leaked Chinese government documents, there was a clampdown on Uighurs and other Muslims in the country’s western Xinjiang region. The Uighurs are mostly Muslims and number about 11 million in western China’s Xinjiang region. They see themselves as culturally and ethnically close to Central Asian nations, and their language is similar to Turkish.

Explanation: The National Investigation Agency is hosting the first counter-terrorism exercise for the Quad countries named ‘CT-TTX’ (counter-terrorism table-top exercise) in New Delhi. The exercise is aimed at enabling the Quad countries to understand much better the response systems to terror incidents that exist in other member countries. The exercise is also aimed to improve the inter-agency cooperation between different counter-terrorism mechanisms and other agencies of Quad countries.

Explanation: National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) is a not-for-profit public limited company incorporated in 2008 under section 25 of the Companies Act, 1956. The Government of India through Ministry of Skills Development & Entrepreneurship (MSDE) holds 49% of the share capital of NSDC while the private sector has the balance 51% of the share capital. The overall objective of NSDC is to create training capacity in the country, fund vocational training initiatives and create a market ecosystem for skill development.

Explanation: Government had announced the Sabka Vishwas legacy Dispute Resolution Scheme, 2019 during Budget, 2019. The objective of the scheme is to free the large number of small taxpayers of their pending disputes with the tax administration. The two main components of the Scheme are dispute resolution and amnesty. The dispute resolution component is aimed at liquidating the legacy cases of Central Excise and Service Tax that are subsumed in GST and are pending in litigation at various forums. The amnesty component of the Scheme offers an opportunity to the taxpayers to pay the outstanding tax and be free of any other consequences under the law.

Explanation: Scientists have discovered a new species of signal fish named Pteropsaron indicum off Kerala coast. The Pteropsaron indicum species was collected by trawlers at a depth of 70 metres during a marine biodiversity survey. This is the first species of the genus signal fish to be discovered in the Indian waters. Pteropsaron indicum is one of the distinctly larger species of signal fish. The species has a unique colour pattern and an interesting behaviour that allows it to communicate with others of the same species by flipping its highly specialised dorsal fins.