2nd June 2021 Current Affairs Quiz

Ans;- c) Only 1 and 3

As question asked to choose about incorrect statements i.e. 1st and 3rd are incorrect that’s y asnwer is C, the 1st statement is incorrect because it is Indo-Aryan and 3rd statement is incorrect because the Myanmar does not recognize.

About Rohingya’s

• The Rohingya people are stateless, Indo-Aryan ethnic group who reside in Rakhine State, Myanmar.
• There were an estimated 1 million Rohingya living in Myanmar before the 2016–17 crisis. An estimated 625,000 refugees from Rakhine, Myanmar, had crossed the border into Bangladesh since August 2017. The majority are Muslim while a minority are Hindu.
• They are described by the United Nations (UN) as one of the most persecuted minorities in the world.
• The Rohingya population is denied citizenship under the 1982 Myanmar nationality law. They have denied the Rohingya the possibility of acquiring a nationality.
• Although Rohingya history in the region can be traced back to the 8th century, Myanmar law does not recognize the ethnic minority as one of the eight national indigenous races.
• The flow of Rohingya from Myanmar intensified in 2017 and the coast near the Bangladeshi city of Cox’s Bazar was taken over by refugee settlements.
In June 2015, the Bangladesh government suggested resettling Rohingya refugees on the Bhasan Char island under its Ashrayan Project.

Solution: c)

Name of the Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group(s) in Andaman & Nicobar Islands – Great Andamanese, Jarawa, Onge, Sentinelese and Shompen.

Ans;- c) Both 1 and 2

Explanation;-

• The India Meteorological Department (IMD) is an agency of the Ministry of Earth Science of the Government of India.

• It is the principal agency responsible for meteorological observations, weather forecasting and seismology.

• IMD formed in 1875.

• IMD is headquartered in Delhi and operates hundreds of observation stations across India and Antarctica. Regional offices are at Mumbai, Kolkata, Nagpur and Pune.

• IMD is also one of the six Regional Specialized Meteorological Centres of the World Meteorological Organization(WMO). It has the responsibility for forecasting, naming and distribution of warnings for tropical cyclones in the Northern Indian Ocean region, including the Malacca Straits, the Bay of Bengal, the Arabian Sea and the Persian gulf.

Answer: A

Solution: d)