10 PM Current Affairs Quiz: November 27, 2020

Option 1 is correct. Article 25(1) states that subject to public order, morality and health and to the other provisions of this Part, all persons are equally entitled to freedom of conscience and the right freely to profess, practice and propagate religion.
Option 2 is incorrect. In the case of Stanislaus vs State of Madhya Pradesh (1977), the court made a clear distinction between the right to propagate one’s religion or faith and the right to convert. Court ruled that former is guaranteed by Article 25 of Constitution. Conversion enjoys no such protection.
Option 3 is correct. Article 26 states that subject to public order, morality and health, every religious denomination or any section thereof shall have the right—
–to establish and maintain institutions for religious and charitable purposes;
–to manage its own affairs in matters of religion;
–to own and acquire movable and immovable property; and
–to administer such property in accordance with law.

Statement 1 is incorrect. The Central Council of Indian Medicine is the statutory body constituted under the Indian Medicine Central Council Act, 1970.
Statement 2 is correct. Since its establishment in 1971, the Central Council has been framing on and implementing various regulations including the Curricula and Syllabii in Indian Systems of Medicine viz. Ayurved, Siddha and Unani at Under-graduate and Post-graduate level. The Sowa Rigpa System of Medicine is included in the Central Council of Indian Medicine from the year 2012.

The 3rd Global Renewable Energy Investment Meeting and Expo (RE-Invest 2020) is being organised by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy. The theme for RE-Invest 2020 is ‘Innovations for Sustainable Energy Transition’.
It aims to accelerate the worldwide effort to scale up development and deployment of renewable energy and connect the global investment community with Indian energy stakeholders. It will feature a 3-day conference on renewables and future energy choices, and an exhibition of manufacturers, developers, investors and innovators.

Statement 1 is incorrect. The Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) was established by the Government of India under the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority Act 1985.
It is under Ministry of Commerce and Industry; and facilitates export of its scheduled agricultural and processed products through several export promotional activities.
Statement 2 is correct. APEDA is mandated with the responsibility of export promotion and development of the following scheduled products:
Fruits, Vegetables and their Products; Meat and Meat Products; Poultry and Poultry Products; Dairy Products; Confectionery, Biscuits and Bakery Products; Honey, Jaggery and Sugar Products; Cocoa and its products, chocolates of all kinds; Alcoholic and Non-Alcoholic Beverages; Cereal and Cereal Products; Groundnuts, Peanuts and Walnuts; Pickles, Papads and Chutneys; Guar Gum; Floriculture and Floriculture Products; and Herbal and Medicinal Plants.
In addition to this, APEDA has been entrusted with the responsibility to monitor import of sugar.

The National Digital Health Mission (NDHM), is a Government of India initiative, aimed at developing the backbone for a unified digital health infrastructure.
The key systems of NDHM – HealthID, DigiDoctor, Health Facility Registry, eHospital, Patient Health Records and Consent Manager.
— Every patient who wishes to have their health records available digitally must start by creating a Health ID. Each Health ID will be linked to a health data consent manager (such as NDHM) which will be used to seek the patient’s consent and allow for seamless flow of health information from the Personal Health Records module.
— Digi-Doctor is a comprehensive repository of all doctors practicing or teaching modern/ traditional systems of medicine. Enrolling on Digi-Doctor is completely voluntary and enables doctors to get connected to India’s digital health ecosystem.
— The Health Facility Registry (HFR) is a comprehensive repository of health facilities of the country across different systems of medicine. It includes both public and private health facilities including hospitals, clinics, diagnostic laboratories and imaging centers, pharmacies, etc.

Both statements are correct.
PRAGATI (Pro-Active Governance And Timely Implementation) is a unique integrating and interactive platform. The platform is aimed at addressing common man’s grievances, and simultaneously monitoring and reviewing important programmes and projects of the Government of India as well as projects flagged by State Governments.
It is a three-tier system (PMO, Union Government Secretaries, and Chief Secretaries of the States). The PRAGATI platform uniquely bundles three latest technologies: Digital data management, video-conferencing and geo-spatial technology.
It also offers a unique combination in the direction of cooperative federalism since it brings on one stage the Secretaries of Government of India and the Chief Secretaries of the States.

It has been reported that the Indian Navy has inducted two MQ-9B Sea Guardian unarmed drones procured from the United States of America on lease for one year.
The recently released Defence Acquisition Procedure (DAP) 2020 has introduced an option for leasing military platforms.
The Guardian is the maritime variant of the Predator MQ-9 Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and has a maximum endurance of 40 hours and a maximum flying altitude of 40,000 feet. It has a 3600 maritime surveillance radar and an optional multimode maritime surface search radar.

Statement 1 is incorrect. COVAX is co-led by Gavi, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and World Health Organisation.
COVAX is the vaccines pillar of the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator. The ACT Accelerator is a ground-breaking global collaboration to accelerate the development, production, and equitable access to COVID-19 tests, treatments, and vaccines.
Statement 2 is correct. Its aim is to accelerate the development and manufacture of COVID-19 vaccines, and to guarantee fair and equitable access for every country in the world.

The Nordic Region consists of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland, as well as the Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Åland.
Norden means literally ‘the North’ in the Danish, Norwegian and Swedish languages. The terms Scandinavia and Scandinavian are often used as synonyms for Norden and Nordic in English.
# India and Finland recently signed a MOU for developing cooperation between two countries in the field of Environment protection and biodiversity conservation.

Bhavai is a genre of folk dance popular in Rajasthan state in western India. The male or female performers balance a number of earthen pots or brass/metal pitchers as they dance.
# Also, Bhavai (Vesha or Swang) is a popular folk theatre form of western India, especially in Gujarat.
Therukoothu is an ancient art, where artists play songs with dance and music in storytelling the epics, performed in Tamil; it is a folk art originated from the early Tamil region.
Pichwai are large devotional Hindu painted pictures, normally on cloth, which portray Krishna. It originated over 400 years ago, in the town of Nathdwara near Udaipur in Rajasthan, India. Intricate and visually stunning, pichwai paintings, made on cloth, depict tales from Lord Krishna’s life.