Lhotshampa people who were branded as immigrants
won’t be voting in the Bhutan’s polls

The Himalayan nation of Bhutan often described as a
‘Shangri-La where happiness is equated to wealth is holding elections this
week. But the Lhotshampa people brutally driven out of the small kingdom in the
1990s won’t be voting.

The Nepali-speaking Lhotshampa were branded as immigrants
and stripped of citizenship rights when the then-king introduced a ‘One Nation
One People policy in 1985.

https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-international/bhutans-not-so-happy-evicted-minority/article25232134.ece

ULTRAQ

India has launched its very own GPS module. Known as ‘UTRAQ’
the module was introduced at an event in New Delhi MobileTek and Rama Krishna
Electro Pvt Ltd.

UTRAQ is a VTS module based on IRNSS to track locations.
India so far had the GPS based applications in devices that were based on the
feed given by US satellites.

The ‘desi’ VTS module’s concept was first initiated for
services and devices soon after tge Kargil War in 1999.

The VTS module which is a part of IRNSS was pushed for when
Pakistan troops took positions in Kargil.

https://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-india-launches-utraq-first-desi-version-of-gps-module-based-on-isro-s-irnss-2666191

STatement 1 is not correct: MKSP is an initiative of
Ministry of Rural Development.

Notes:

Mahila Kisan Sashaktikaran Pariyojana (MKSP)

MKSP is an initiative of Ministry of Rural
Development.

It is a sub component of the Deendayal Antodaya
Yojana-NRLM (DAY-NRLM) seeks to improve the present status of women in
Agriculture and to enhance the opportunities available to empower her.

The primary objective of the MKSP is to empower women
in agriculture by making systematic investments to enhance their participation
and productivity as also create and sustain agriculture based livelihoods of
rural women.

https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/helping-the-invisible-hands-of-agriculture/article25221707.ece

Only statement 1 is correct.

Notes:

Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International
Aviation (CORSIA)

CORSIA aims to address any annual increase in total CO2
emissions from international civil aviation (i.e. civil aviation flights that
depart in one country and arrive in a different country) above the 2020 levels
taking into account special circumstances and respective capabilities. Hence
statement 1 is not correct.

The CORSIA is implemented in phases starting with
participation of States on a voluntary basis followed by participation of all
States except the States exempted from offsetting requirements.

India is not a signatory to the CORSIA. Hence statement 2 is
also not correct.

Recently the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA)
has issued draft guidelines for aero plane operators flying on international
routes to capture their fuel consumptions and carbon emissions data annually
starting from January 1 2019.

https://indianexpress.com/article/business/aviation/for-international-flights-dgca-wants-carriers-to-check-carbon-emissions-from-january-1-5383498/

Statement 2 is not correct: SYSV is an initiative of
Ministry of Panchayati Raj!

Notes:

Sabki Yojana-Sabka Vikas Campaign

1.To implement Gram Panchayat Development Plan
effectively the central government launched ‘Sabki Yojana Sabka Vikas campaign’
on 2nd October 2018.

2.Nodal Agency: Ministry of Panchayati Raj

3.Under the campaign more than 2.5 lakhs Gram
Panchayats of the country will be included. Participation of grass root people
will be ensured in preparing Gram Panchayat Development Plans under this
ambitious campaign.

4.The campaign will conclude in December 2018. It is
an initiative of Ministry of Panchayat Raj GoI.

Source: Kurukshetra Monthly: October 2018 Edition

http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=183865

INcorrect has been asked!

Statement 1 is not correct: RUN LLP is an initiative of Min.
of Corporate Affairs

RUN-LLP (Reserve Unique Name _ Limited Liability
Partnership)

1.The Ministry of Corporate Affairs has contributed
significantly towards ‘Ease of Doing Business’ in the country with a new
initiative.

2.A company can now be incorporated in less than two
days along with allotment of PAN TAN DIN and Unique Name through the online
process.

3.It has launched process re-engineering by making
incorporation of Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) through a complete online
system.

4.It is web service titled RUN-LLP (Reserve Unique
Name _ Limited Liability Partnership).

5.Name can be allotted to LLP through an e-form
titled ‘FiLiP (Form for incorporation of Limited Liability Partnership).

Inspired by: [pib] Incorporation of Limited Liability
Partnership (LLP) through a complete online system

https://www.civilsdaily.com/news/pib-pib-incorporation-of-limited-liability-partnership-llp-through-a-complete-online-system/

Statement 1 is not correct: HarvestPlus Programmeis
an initiative of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research
(CGIAR).

Notes:

HarvestPlus Initiative

The HarvestPlus programme is an initiative of the
Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR).

It aims to improve nutrition and public health by
developing and promoting biofortified food crops that are rich in vitamins and
minerals and providing global leadership on Biofortification evidence and
technology.

In India the CGIAR group has released the iron-rich
pearl millet.

Notwithstanding its food grain surpluses India
faces a complex challenge of nutritional security.

Latest innovations in biotechnology that fortify
major staples with micro nutrients like vitamin A zinc and iron can be game
changers.

https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/from-foodsecurity-to-nutrition-security-5401826/

Statement 1 is not correct: GEAR is an initiative of
VISA.

Statement 2 is not correct: It is a global ranking.

Notes:

Government E-Payments Adoption Ranking

1.Visa a global leader in payments technology has
announced that India ranked 28th among 73 countries in the 2018 Government
E-Payments Adoption Ranking (GEAR) study.

2.The 2018 GEAR an Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)
global Index and benchmarking study commissioned by Visa ranks governments by
quantifying their e-payment capabilities based on various indicators.

3.This is up from 36th rank in 2011 reinforcing the
country’s progress towards digital transformation.

Inspired by: India moves up 8 spots in e-payments adoption
ranking

https://www.civilsdaily.com/news/india-moves-up-8-spots-in-e-payments-adoption-ranking/

Statement 1 is not correct: Thanjavur paintings are
Religious in nature.

Notes:

Thanjavur paintings

1.Thanjavur paintings are essentially religious
broadly comprises two essential themes:

First being scenes from the epics and the puranas
as depicted on the walls and pillars of temples and

Secondly the images of deities consecrated inside
temples particularly of popular ones such as Srirangam and Tirumala.

2.Portraits of kings who were the patrons of these
artists as well as priests and ordinary individuals also find a place in these
paintings.

3.These paintings are locally called Palagai (wooden
plank) Padam (image) this refers to the practice of painting the image on
wooden planks a stylistic peculiarity of the region.

4.Tanjore painting have a brilliant and jewel-like
tone that its artists create by judiciously using real gold and silver foil
precious and semiprecious stones beads mirrors and powdered metals _ gold in
particular.

https://www.thehindu.com/books/books-reviews/thanjavurs-gilded-gods-south-indian-paintings-in-the-kuldip-singh-collection-review-a-rich-inheritance/article25335976.ece

Rashtriya Vayoshri Yojana (RVY)

Nodal Ministry : Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment

Objective: To provide physical aids and assisted-living
devices for senior citizens belonging to BPL category.

Details:

1.It will be fully funded by the Central Government.

2.The scheme will be distribute free of cost physical
aids and assisted-living devices for senior citizens belonging only to BPL
category.

3.It will be implemented through the sole implementing
agency ‘Artificial Limbs Manufacturing Corporation (ALIMCO) a PSU under Union
Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.

Inspired by:
https://www.civilsdaily.com/news/pib-assistive-aids-and-appliances-distributed-to-senior-citizens-under-58th-rashtriya-vayoshri-yojana-camp/

Statement 1 is not correct: GCTF is an independent body.

Notes:

Global Counterterrorism Forum

1.The Global Counter-terrorism Forum is an informal
apolitical multilateral counter-terrorism (CT) platform that was launched
officially in New York on 22 September 2011.

2.The GCTF’s mission is to diminish terrorist
recruitment and increase countries’ civilian capabilities for dealing with
terrorist threats within their borders and regions.

3.The Forum works with partners around the globe to
identify critical civilian needs to effectively counter terrorism mobilize the
necessary expertise and resources to address such needs and enhance global CT
cooperation.

4.One of the key goals of the GCTF is to support and
catalyze implementation of the United Nations (UN) Global Counter-Terrorism
Strategy.

5.In pursuance of this goal the GCTF works closely
with UN bodies and with other relevant international and regional organizations
to reinforce complement and support multilateral CT and Countering Violent
Extremism (CVE) efforts.

6.The GCTF’s Coordinating Committee which meets
twice per year and provides strategic guidance on how best to address the
evolving terrorist threat.

7.Both India and Pakistan are founding members of
this forum.

Inspired by: Initiative to stop terrorist travel launched on
UNGA sidelines

https://www.civilsdaily.com/news/initiative-to-stop-terrorist-travel-launched-on-unga-sidelines/

Statement 1 is not correct: NARSS is conducted by an
independent agency.

Notes:

NARSS

1.The National Annual Rural Sanitation Survey
(NARSS) 2017-18 conducted by an Independent Verification Agency (IVA) under the
World Bank support project to the Swachh Bharat Mission Gramin (SBM-G).

2.It has found that 93.4% of the households in rural
India who have access to a toilet use it.

3.The NARSS also re-confirmed the Open Defecation
Free (ODF) status of 95.6% of villages which were previously declared and
verified as ODF by various districts/states.

4.The survey was conducted between mid-November 2017
and mid-March 2018 and covered 92040 households in 6136 villages across States
and UTs of India.

Inspired by: [pib] Beyond Dispute: The SBM Facts

https://www.civilsdaily.com/news/pib-beyond-dispute-the-sbm-facts/

Maldhari Tribal Community

Maldharis are Nomadic cattle herders of Banni
grassland (the largest grassland of Asia) adjacent to the Great Rann of Kutch.
Agariyas are a community of salt workers.

Maldharis are now leaving the grasslands as
water gets scarce in the region.

While the area is known for its scarce rainfall
and semi-drought conditions it is for the first time in 13 years that the
Maldharis are leaving their villages in droves.

The maldharis are also known for their
co-existence with the Gir’s lions.

https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/bannis-bane/article25350440.ece

Statement 2 is not correct: The AHG was estd. in
SIngapore.

Statement 3 is not correct: AHG had been given a limited
form of governmental jurisdiction over the Andaman and Nicobar Islands by the
Japanese.

Notes:

Azad Hind Government

1.The Provisional Government of Free India or more
simply Free India (Azad Hind) was an Indian provisional government established
in occupied Singapore in 1943.

2.S.C. Bose was the leader of Azad Hind Government
(AHG) and also the Head of State of this Provisional Indian Government-in-exile.

3.It was established by Indian nationalists-in-exile
during the latter part of the Second World War in Singapore with monetary
military and political assistance from Imperial Japan.

4.The direct origins of Azad Hind can be linked to
two conferences of Indian expatriates from across Southeast Asia the first of
which was held in Tokyo in March 1942.

5.At this conference convened by Rash Behari Bose an
Indian expatriate living in Japan the Indian Independence League was established
as the first move towards an independent Indian state politically aligned with
the Empire of Japan.

6.AHG had been given a limited form of governmental
jurisdiction over the Andaman and Nicobar Islands which had been captured by
the Imperial Japanese Navy early on in the war.

Nuclear Fusion Reaction

In nuclear physics nuclear fusion is a reaction in which two or more atomic nuclei are combined to form one or more different atomic nuclei and subatomic particles (neutrons or protons).

Fusion of light elements toward these releases energy (an exothermic process) while a fusion producing nuclei heavier than these elements will result in energy retained by the resulting nucleons and the resulting reaction is endothermic.

Fusion reactions have an energy density many times greater than nuclear fission; the reactions produce far greater energy per unit of mass even though individual fission reactions are generally much more energetic than individual fusion ones which are themselves millions of times more energetic than chemical reactions.

Only direct conversion of mass into energy such as that caused by the annihilatory collision of matter is more energetic per unit of mass than nuclear fusion.

In simpler terms a reaction where mass bound by the binding energy of the atoms is directly converted into Heat.

2Deuterium1 + 3Tritium 1 => 42He + 10n + 17.6 MeV…………. …….Individual Fusion Reaction

92Uranium235+ neutron=> 56Baarium144+ 36Krypton89+ 3n + 177 MeV ………..Individual Fission Reaction

This Can also be proved by E= mc2 …. As Uranium (235)is very much heavier than Duterium(1).

However The Hydrogen Bomb which uses multiple fusion reaction is more energetic as a whole compared to than Atom/Nuclear Bomb.

Fusion of Deuterium and Tritium (isotopes of Hydrogen) occurs on Sun which results into formation of a single element Helium.

Inspired by:

https://www.civilsdaily.com/news/27th-fusion-energy-conference-begins-in-gandhinagar/

Statement 1 is incorrect: MaOI ia a Photographic
repository.

Mammals of India (MaOI) Repository

1.Scientists and researchers from the National
Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) in Bangalore have come up with a new
citizen-science repository on Indian mammals called Mammals of India (MaOI).

2.The website http://www.mammalsofindia.org aims to develop
individual species pages for all Indian mammals with information on
identification variation distribution breeding and non-breeding ecology and
species conservation.

3.It is an online peer- reviewed freely-accessible
portal that was launched late September 2018.

4.By October 25 as many as 768 images of 161 species
of mammals were uploaded.

5.It is a first such repository of Mammals in India.

Inspired by: Citizen-Science Repository of Indian mammals

https://www.civilsdaily.com/news/citizen-science-repository-of-indian-mammals/

Notes:

The report Reinvigorating Trade and Inclusive Growth brought
out collectively by the IMF the World Bank and the WTO comes at a time when the
Trump administration has taken a tough stand on the H-1B visa issue a move
which has badly hit not only the technology professionals and highly skilled
individuals from India but also pioneering Indian IT companies.

Inspired by: WTO IMF World Bank seek ‘urgent’ international
trade reforms

https://www.civilsdaily.com/news/wto-imf-world-bank-seek-urgent-international-trade-reforms/

Triumf Missile Systems

The S-400 nicknamed Triumf or TriumphNATO code named SA-21
Growler is a long range surface-to-air missile systems produced by Almaz-Antey.
The S-400 Trumph is designed to engage ECM radar-picket director area
reconnaissance strategic and tactical aircraft tactical and theatre ballistic
missiles medium-range ballistic missiles and other current and future air
attack assets at a maximum range of 400 km and a altitude of up to 30 km.

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/s-400-kamov-on-the-agenda-of-modi-putin/article25090371.ece

Tidkam:

Look at the options .

All of sudden we can be sure about the defense arsenal of
our country. As of now in October 2018 no other Submarine or Missile Systems
has been procured by India.

Focus on what we as a country have.. We have well equiped
Navy with French DCNS manufacturing Scorpene class submarines mostly named by
letter ‘K’ Kalvari Khanderi etc etc.. and the Indigeniously built INS Arihant
has geared up recently.

Same is the case with Missileseither short/medium/long
…… ranging from Prithvi Nag to Agni series we are well equiped on land air
and sea.

Option C is the only odd man out here.

Soil Biodiversity

1.Millions of microbial and animal species live and
make up soils from bacteria and fungi to mites beetles and earthworms.

2.Soil biodiversity is the total community from genes
to species and varies depending on the environment.

3.The immense diversity in soil allows for a great
variety of ecosystem services that benefit the species that inhabit it the
species (including us) that use it and its surrounding environment.

4.Soil provides a vital habitat primarily for
microbes (including bacteria and fungi) but also for microfauna (such as
protozoa and nematodes) mesofauna (such as microarthropods and enchytraeids)
and macrofauna (such as earthworms termites and millipedes)

Inspired by: India among nations that face grave danger to
soil biodiversity: WWF

https://www.civilsdaily.com/news/india-among-nations-that-face-grave-danger-to-soil-biodiversity-wwf/

Statement 2 is not correct: All the CSR activities are
necessarily to be carried out in India.

Notes:

CSR Framework in India

1. The provisions of section 135 of Companies Act 2013
pertaining to CSR w.e.f 2014 with a view to promoting responsible and
sustainable business through inclusive growth.

2. As per the said section the companies having Net worth of
INR 500 crore or more; or Turnover of INR 1000 crore or more; or Net Profit
ofINR5croreormoreduringanyfinancialyearshallberequired
toconstitutea Corporate Social Responsibility Committee of the Board.

3. The four years of implementation have enabled compilation
of data on the number of companies complying with CSR provisions funds
allocated and spent across various sectors geographical spread of CSR spending
etc.

4. The existing provisions of in Companies Act 2013 with
respect to CSR fully empower the Board of a Company to decide on their CSR
Policy approve projects and oversee implementation.

5. It is applicable to all Indian and foreign companies
registered in India only.

6. All the CSR activities are necessarily to be carried out
in India.

Inspired by: Govt forms committee on Corporate Social
Responsibility

https://www.civilsdaily.com/news/govt-forms-committee-on-corporate-social-responsibility/

Tikdam:

Closely observe statement 2.

CSR was made mandatory in 2013 companies act because If
citizens have fundamental rights they have fundamental duties to fulfill as
well (as per our Constitution) and so do the Organizations / Businesses.

Businesses are important institutions of the modern society.
People in powerful positions larger organizations and businesses have the duty
of protecting the Rights of deprived and underprivileged people around them and
have responsibility in promoting duty-based collective behavior.If a
organization is working in Indiahe has a duty to work for the welfare of
underpriviliged in India and not in some xyz country.Therefore statement 2
looks incorrect.Why would a company working in India would do CSR activities in
Nepal.

Therefore statement 2 cannot be correct.