Daily Current Affair Quiz: 7th November 2019
1. Which of the following statements are true?
1. The First Battle of Panipat, in 1526, laid the foundation of the Mughal Empire in India after its first ruler, Babur, ended the Delhi Sultanate, which at the time was led by the Lodi dynasty.
2. The Second Battle of Panipat marked the end of the Mughal rule.
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
Ans: a
Justification:
- The First Battle of Panipat, in 1526, laid the foundation of the Mughal Empire in India after its first ruler, Babur, ended the Delhi Sultanate, which at the time was led by the Lodi dynasty.
- The Second Battle of Panipat, in 1556, cemented Mughal rule when Akbar fought off a threat from the king Hemu ‘Vikramaditya’.
- Third Battle of Panipat was fought between Maratha forces and invading armies of Afghan general Ahmed Shah Abdali of Durrani Empire in 1761.
- Abdali was supported by two Indian allies—the Rohillas Najib-ud-daulah, Afghans of the Doab region and Shuja-ud-Daula-the Nawab of Awadh.
- The Marathas were defeated in the battle, with 40,000 of their troops killed, while Abdali’s army is estimated to have suffered around 20,000 casualties.
2. Which of the following pairs are rightly matched?
1. Chabahar : Pakisatan
2. Gwadar : Iran
3. Hambantota : Srilanka
(a) 1 only
(b) 1 and 2
(c) 3 only
(d) 1,2 and 3
Ans: c
Justification:
- Chabahar Port is a seaport in Chabahar located in southeastern Iran, on the Gulf of Oman. It serves as Iran’s only oceanic port. India is a stakeholder in development of the port.
- The Gwadar Port is a deep-sea port situated on the Arabian Sea at Gwadar in Balochistan province of Pakistan. The port features prominently in the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor plan, and is considered to be a link between the ambitious One Belt, One Road and Maritime Silk Road projects.
- The Hambantota Port is a maritime port in Hambantota, Sri Lanka.
3. Which of the following statements are true?
1. Ministry of rural development releases Wasteland Atlas.
2. The recent wastelands mapping exercise was carried out by National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) using the Indian Remote Sensing Satellite data.
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
Ans: c
Justification:
- Ministry of rural development releases fifth edition of Wasteland Atlas. The last edition was published in 2011.
- This is significant as it takes into account 08 MHa of unmapped area of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) for the first time.
- The new wastelands mapping exercise was carried out by NRSC using the Indian Remote Sensing Satellite data.
4. Which of the following statements are true?
(a) Ethanol is a secondary biofuel which is produced through processing of biomass.
(b) Separate environmental clearance is required to produce additional ethanol from B-heavy molasses
(c) “A” molasses is the product resulting from initial processing of sugarcane juice at the sugar factory.
(d) “B” molasses is intermediate by-product resulting from initial processing of sugarcane juice at the sugar factory.
Ans: a
Justification:
- The Central Government has declared that no separate environmental clearance is required to produce additional ethanol from B-heavy molasses as it does not contribute to the pollution load.
- Ethanol Production – Ethanol is a secondary biofuel which is produced through processing of biomass.
- In the National Policy on Biofuels 2018, Government has allowed B grade molasses, sugarcane juice and damaged food grains as feedstocks to increase availability of ethanol.
- “A” molasses is intermediate by-product resulting from initial processing of sugarcane juice at the sugar factory.
- “B” molasses/”second” molasses is an intermediate product, obtained from boiling together “seed-sugar” & A molasses to extract an additional 12% of raw sugar.
- “C” molasses/”final” is the end product of the sugar extraction process. It still contains considerable amounts of sucrose but there is no economically viable method to date to extract this.
5. NISHTHA scheme is associated with India?
(a) Skill training to SC/ST graduates
(b) Teacher Training Programme
(c) SHG development
(d) Accreditation of ITIs
Ans: b
Justification:
- The Union Human Resource Development Minister has launched ‘National Initiative for School Heads and Teachers Holistic Advancement (NISHTHA)’, a national mission to improve learning outcomes at the elementary level.
- NISHTHA Website, Training Modules, Primer Booklet and a Mobile App were also launched by the Minister.
