Current Affairs Quiz 29 October 2022

Ans;- d) All of the above

Explanation;-

• Tuberculosis (TB) is caused by bacteria (Mycobacterium tuberculosis) that most often affect the lungs. Tuberculosis is curable and preventable. TB is spread from person to person through the air. When people with lung TB cough, sneeze or spit, they propel the TB germs into the air.
• Global tuberculosis report by WHO not UNICEF.
• Aligning with the global End TB Strategy, India has announced the target of ending TB by 2025, five years ahead of the rest of the world.

Answer: C

About SIMBEX:

• Initiated in 1994, SIMBEX is the Indian Navy’s longest uninterrupted bilateral maritime exercise with any foreign navy.
• Sustaining the continuity of this significant engagement despite the challenges of the ongoing pandemic further underscores the strength of bilateral defence ties between both countries.
• Despite these constraints during the planning stages, both navies could achieve seamless and safe execution of several challenging evolutions including live weapon firing and advanced naval warfare serials, including anti-submarine, anti-air and anti-surface warfare drills.
• The scale and complexity of the drills is ample testimony to the interoperability achieved between both Navies.
• This year’s edition of SIMBEX is also a special occasion as it takes place during the ongoing celebrations of the 75th year of India’s independence.
• The success of SIMBEX-2021 is yet another demonstration of the mutual resolve on both sides to strengthen the bilateral partnership further in the years ahead.
• India-Singapore Defence relations remain a very significant aspect of the overall bilateral relationship and cover a very wide spectrum of collaboration from conventional military-to-military exchanges to HADR and cyber security.
• Both navies have a representation in each other’s Maritime Information Fusion Centres and have also recently signed an agreement on mutual submarine rescue support and coordination

Ans;- c) Both 1 and 2
Explanation;-
• Both the statements are correct regarding NAAQS.
• National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) were notified in the year 1982, duly revised in 1994 based on health criteria and land uses.
• The NAAQS have been revisited and revised in November 2009 for 12 pollutants, which include
• sulphur dioxide (SO2),
• nitrogen dioxide (NO2),
• particulate matter having size less than 10 micron (PM10),
• particulate matter having size less than 2.5 micron (PM2.5),
• ozone,
• lead,
• carbon monoxide (CO),
• arsenic,
• nickel,
• benzene,
• ammonia, and
• Benzopyrene

Answer: B

About Financial Stability and Development Council (FSDC)
• Financial Stability and Development Council (FSDC) is an apex-level body constituted by the government of India in 2010, by the then Finance Minister of India (not a Statutory body).
• The idea to create such a super regulatory body was first mooted by the Raghuram Rajan Committee in 2008.
• The idea behind FSDC was to set up an autonomous body dealing with macro prudential and financial regularities in the entire financial sector of India.
• The recent global economic meltdown has put pressure on governments and institutions across the globe to regulate their economic assets. This council is seen as India’s initiative to be better conditioned to prevent such incidents in future.
• The body envisages to strengthen and institutionalise the mechanism of maintaining financial stability, financial sector development, inter-regulatory coordination along with monitoring macro-prudential regulation’ of economy.

Answer: D
All the statements are correct.