10 PM Current Affairs Quiz: December 27, 2020

Statement 1 is correct. Shigella bacteria cause an infection called shigellosis. Most people with Shigella infection have diarrhea (sometimes bloody), fever, and stomach cramps. Symptoms usually begin 1–2 days after infection and last 7 days.

Shigella is very contagious. People get infected with shigella when they come in contact with and swallow small amounts of bacteria from the stool of a person who is infected with shigella.

Statement 2 is correct. Children under age 10 are most likely to get shigella infection but it can occur at any age.

# Recently, several cases of the Shigella infection have been reported in North Kerala.

In 1623, the solar system’s two giant planets, Jupiter and Saturn, traveled together across the sky. Jupiter caught up to and passed Saturn, in an astronomical event known as a “Great Conjunction.”

It’s been nearly 400 years since the planets passed this close to each other in the sky, and nearly 800 years since the alignment of Saturn and Jupiter occurred at night, as it happening in 2020, allowing nearly everyone around the world to witness this “great conjunction.”

Statement 1 is correct. Jupiter takes roughly 12 years to complete one lap around the Sun and Saturn takes 30 years.

Statement 2 is correct. Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system at nearly 11 times the size of Earth and 317 times its mass.

Despite its size, Jupiter has the shortest day of any other planet; it only takes about 10 hours for a complete rotation.

Option 1 is correctly matched. Nha Rong port is in Vietnam. Indian Naval Ship Kiltan, carrying humanitarian assistance, arrived at Vietnam’s Nha Rong Port, Ho Chi Minh.

The assistance is as a part of Mission Sagar-III, India’s Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) assistance to Friendly Foreign Countries during the ongoing pandemic.

Option 2 is incorrectly matched. Gwadar port is a sea port situated on the Arabian Sea at Gwadar in Balochistan province of Pakistan.

Option 3 is incorrectly matched. Bandar Abbas is a port city southern coast of Iran, on the Persian Gulf. The city occupies a strategic position on the narrow Strait of Hormuz, and it is the location of the main base of the Iranian Navy.

Statement 1 is incorrect. The Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) is a non-profit, non-government, professional association of broadcasting organisations, formed in 1964 to facilitate the development of broadcasting in the Asia-Pacific region and to organise co-operative activities amongst its members.

Statement 2 is incorrect. All India Radio and Doordarshan under Prasar Bharati are members of the ABU. Prasar Bharati CEO Shashi Sekhar Vempati has been elected as Vice President of Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU).

Option 1 is correctly matched. Zambia’s Budima Dance which is practiced by the Wee People of Zambezi/Gwembe Valley in Southern Province has been approved unanimously for Inscription on UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

Option 2 is correctly matched. Pantun is an old Malay poem that usually consists of four lines in each stanza. The first two lines are hints and the other two carries the actual meaning. It has been listed under the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity category by UNESCO.

From January 1, 2021 onwards Reserve Bank of Inida has decided to introduce a mechanism of Positive Pay for all cheques of value ₹50,000 and above. Under this mechanism, cheques will be processed for payment by the drawee bank based on information passed on by its customer at the time of issuance of cheque.

Under this process, the issuer of the cheque submits electronically, through channels like SMS, mobile app, Internet banking and ATM, certain minimum details of that cheque (like date, name of the beneficiary, or payee and amount) to the drawee bank, details of which are cross-checked with the presented cheque by Cheque Truncation System (CTS).

Any discrepancy is flagged by CTS to the drawee bank and presenting bank, who then take redressal measures.

All of the above are recognized as Important Bird Areas (IBAs).

The IBA programme of Birdlife International aims to identify, monitor and protect a global network of IBAs for conservation of the world’s birds and associated biodiversity.

The IBAs serve as conservation areas for protection of birds at the global, regional or sub-regional level. According to Birdlife International, designation of IBAs is based on standardized criteria, namely (i) hold significant numbers of one or more globally threatened bird species, (ii) be one of a set of sites that together hold a suite of restricted-range species or biome-restricted species and (iii) have exceptionally large numbers of migratory or congregatory birds.

The Tso Kar Basin is a high-altitude wetland complex, consisting of two principal waterbodies, Startsapuk Tso, a freshwater lake of about 438 hectares to the south, and Tso Kar itself, a hypersaline lake of 1800 hectares to the north, situated in the Changthang region of Ladakh.

The Tso Kar Basin is an A1 Category Important Bird Area (IBA) as per Bird Life International and a key staging site in the Central Asian Flyway.

The site is also one of the most important breeding areas of the Black-necked Crane (Grus nigricollis) in India. This IBA is also the major breeding area for Great Crested Grebe (Podicepscristatus), Bar-headed Geese (Anserindicus), Ruddy Shelduck (Tadornaferruginea), Brown-headed Gull (Larusbrunnicephalus), Lesser Sand-Plover (Charadriusmongolus) and many other species.

Kilauea is the youngest and most active Hawaiian shield volcano, located on the southern part of the Island of Hawai’i, known as Big Island. Since 1952, Kīlauea has erupted 34 times. From 1983 to 2018 eruptive activity was nearly continuous along the volcano’s East Rift Zone.

Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano erupted 20^th December 2020. The eruption occurred within the Halema’uma’u crater. A magnitude 4.4 earthquake followed the eruption.

Both statements are correct.

To reduce vehicular traffic at the toll plazas, the Government of India (GOI) has mandated all toll plazas, pan India, to make toll payments electronic.

FASTag is a simple to use, reloadable tag which enables automatic deduction of toll charges and lets you pass through the toll plaza without stopping for the cash transaction. FASTag is linked to a prepaid account from which the applicable toll amount is deducted. The tag employs Radio-frequency Identification (RFID) technology and is affixed on the vehicle’s windscreen after the tag account is active.

# The government has enforced the use of FASTag mandatorily for all vehicles starting from January 1, 2021.