Current Affairs Questions

Centre For Development Of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)

Consider the following statements:

1. Commissioned in May 2020, National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) is jointly led by Department of Science and Technology (DST) and Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).
2. Recently, the NSM deployed “PARAM Ganga”, a supercomputer at IIT Roorkee, with a supercomputing capacity of 1.66 Petaflops.
3. The system is designed and commissioned by Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC).

Which of the above statement(s) is/are true?

Pal-Dadhvav Killings

Which of the following states recently marked 100 years of the Pal-Dadhvav killings, calling it a massacre “bigger than the Jallianwala Bagh”?

Sohrai

Women from which tribal community practice ‘Sohrai’ - an indigenous art form?

Chandra's Atmospheric Composition Explorer-2 (CHACE-2)

Consider the following statements:

1. Recently, the Chandra's Atmospheric Composition Explorer-2 (CHACE-2) onboard Chandrayaan-2 mission made the first-of-its-kind observations of the global distribution of Argon-40 in the tenuous lunar exosphere.
2. The observations reveal that the distribution in Ar-40 has significant spatial heterogeneity.
3. Ar-40 originates from the radioactive disintegration of Potassium-38 present below the lunar surface.

Which of the above statement(s) is/are true?

National Aeronautics And Space Administration (NASA)

Consider the following statements:

1. Recently, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced that the count of confirmed exoplanets crossed 5000.
2. The recently launched James Webb Space Telescope will capture light from the atmospheres of exoplanets.
3. NASA launched the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite in 2020.

Which of the above statement(s) is/are true?

Sujalam 2.0

Recently, the government launched the Sujalam 2.0 campaign, for the management of which of the following?

World Health Organization (WHO)

Recently, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Government of India signed an agreement to establish the WHO Global Centre for Traditional Medicine in which of the following states?

National Minorities Commission Act (NCM)

Consider the following statements with reference to the minorities in India:

1. The expression “minorities” appears in some Articles of the Constitution, but is not defined anywhere.
2. Currently, only those communities notified under section 2(c) of the National Minorities Commission Act (NCM), 1992, by the central government are regarded as minority.
3. In the exercise of its powers under the Section 2(c) of the NCM Act, the Centre on October 23, 1993, notified five groups — Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists and Parsis — as ‘minority’ communities.
4. Jains were added to the list in January 2013.

Which of the statement(s) given above is/are correct?

Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS)

Which of the following skilling projects has been launched by the government to upgrade the skill base of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) beneficiaries?

Minsk Agreement

Consider the following statements:

1. Amidst the ongoing conflict between the Russia and Ukraine, France suggested that the only way for peace talks to prevail between Russia and Ukraine was through the Minsk agreement.
2. Seeking an end to the war, the first Minsk Agreement was signed in Belarus in September 2018.
3. Its provisions included prisoner exchanges, deliveries of humanitarian aid and the withdrawal of heavy weapons.

Which of the above statement(s) is/are true?