Current Affairs Quiz 30 September 2022

Answer: C
About the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA)
• The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) was established in December 2005 following a recommendation of the Tiger Task Force, constituted by the Prime Minister of India for reorganised management of Project Tiger and the many Tiger Reserves in India.
• The Wildlife Protection Act of 1972 was amended in 2006 to provide for constituting the National Tiger Conservation Authority responsible for implementation of the Project Tiger plan to protect endangered tigers.
• The National Tiger Conservation Authority is set up under the Chairmanship of the Minister for Environment and Forests.
• The Authority will have eight experts or professionals having qualifications and experience in wildlife conservation and welfare of people including tribals, apart from three Members of Parliament of whom two will be elected by the House of the People and one by the Council of States.
• The Authority, interalia, would lay down normative standards, guidelines for tiger conservation in the Tiger Reserves, apart from National Parks and Sanctuaries.
• It would provide information on protection measures including future conservation plan, tiger estimation, disease surveillance, mortality survey, patrolling, report on untoward happenings and such other management aspects as it may deem fit, including future plan for conservation.
• The Authority would also facilitate and support tiger reserve management in the States through eco-development and people’s participation as per approved management plans, and support similar initiatives in adjoining areas consistent with the Central and state laws.
• The Tiger Conservation Authority would be required to prepare an Annual Report, which would be laid in the Parliament along with the Audit Report.
• Every 4 years the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) conducts a tiger census across India.

Answer: B
In June 2017, Costa Rica announced its intention to completely eradicate single-use plastic by 2021 , the first country in the world to do so.

Answer 😀
• In the beginning every religion is inspired by the spirit of reform, but eventually it succumb s to rituals
and ceremonies it originally denounced.
• Gradually the Buddhist monks were cut off from the mainstream of people’s life; they gave up Pali, the
language of the people, and took to sanskrit, the language of the intellectuals. Hence statement 1 is not
correct.

Answer: c
Both the statements are correct.

• NFRA was constituted in 2018 under section 132 (1) of the Companies Act, 2013.
• It is an independent regulator for enforcement of auditing standards and ensuring the quality of audits so as to enhance investor and public confidence in financial disclosures of companies.
• It can probe listed companies and those unlisted public companies having paid-up capital of no less than Rs 500 crore or annual turnover of no less than Rs 1,000 crore. (while ICAI retains jurisdiction of small listed companies)
• It can even investigate professional misconduct committed by members of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) for prescribed class of body corporate or persons.

Composition:
The Companies Act requires the NFRA to have a chairperson who will be appointed by the Central Government and a maximum of 15 members.

Answer: A
Highlights of the Global Innovation Index 2022
• India has leapfrogged to 40th position on the Global Innovation Index (GII) 2022 from the 81st spot in 2015. The country was ranked 46th on the index last year.
• Switzerland is the most innovative economy in the world in 2022 – for the 12 th year in a row – followed by the United States, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
• China is nearing the top 10 while Türkiye and India enter the top 40 for the first time, according to the GII 2022.
• According to the report, India continues to lead the world in ICT services exports, ranking first, while also ranking first in other indicators such as Venture capital recipients’ value (6th), Domestic industry diversification (14th).
• Graduates in science and engineering (11th), Labor productivity growth (12th), and Finance for startups and scaleups (8th)
The GII report also said research and development (R&D) and other investments that drive worldwide innovative activity continued to boom in 2021 despite the Covid-19 pandemic, but challenges are emerging in translating innovation investments into impact.