Daily Current Affairs Quiz: August 29, 2023

Ans. 1 Option C is correct Explanation Geographical Indication (GI) Tag
• It is an indication used to identify goods having special characteristics originating from a definite geographical territory.
• The Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act, 1999 seeks to provide for the registration and better protection of geographical indications relating to goods in India.
• It is governed and directed by the WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS).
• It is primarily an agricultural, natural, or manufactured product (handicrafts and industrial goods).
• Validity: 10 years following which it can be renewed.
• Magic rice has a Geographical Indication Tag status and has been a staple of the troops of the mighty Ahom dynasty.

Ans. 2 Option B is correct Explanation Article 35A
• Article 35A, which empowered the Jammu and Kashmir Legislature to define “Permanent residents” of the State, denied
fundamental rights to others.
• Article 35A gave special rights and privileges to permanent residents these rights included:
o right to equal opportunity of State Employment
o right to acquire property
o the right to settle in Jammu and Kashmir
o benefits in education and healthcare
• The others, called ‘non-permanent residents’, were not privy to these privileges.
• Permanent residents’ included people who were hereditary State subjects as of 1927, When J&K was a princely state prior to its accession to the Indian Dominion in 1947.
• Article 35A, which was introduced through the Constitution (Application to Jammu and Kashmir) Order, 1954 issued by the President under Article 370
• Hindus and Muslims, driven out of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in 1947 were not
recognized as permanent residents until 2019.

Ans. 3 Option B is correct Explanation South China Sea
• An arm of the western Pacific Ocean that borders the Southeast Asian mainland.
• Bordered by Brunei, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines,
Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.
• It is connected by the Taiwan Strait with the East China Sea and by the Luzon Strait with the Philippine Sea Nine Dash Line:
• Defines the area claimed by China in the South China Sea – by far the largest portion of the Sea.
• The contested area includes the Paracel Islands, the Spratly Islands, the Pratas Island and the Vereker Banks, the Macclesfield Bank, and the Scarborough Shoal.

Ans. 4 Option C is correct Explanation Census
• Census is a statutory process and is governed by the Census Act, of 1948 covered in
the Union List Entry 69 in the Seventh Schedule
• The Act empowers only the Central Government to conduct the Census
• In a census, caste census refers to the tabulation of people by caste.
• Caste, which was last included in the Indian Census in 1931.
• The British ended the practice in 1941, and the government did not resume it until 1947.
• India releases separate statistics on Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes
(ST), The census has not included data on other castes since the first exercise in
independent India in 1951.

Ans. 5 Option C is correct Explanation The Centre for Development of Telematics
(C-DOT):
• It was established in August 1984 as an autonomous Telecom R&D center of the
Dept of Telecommunication, Govt. of India.
• It is a registered society under the Societies Registration Act, of 1860.
• It is a registered ‘publicly funded research institution’ with the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India.
• C-DOT as a torchbearer of indigenous telecom R&D continues to develop the latest
technology products in areas like Optical, Switching, Wireless, Security and Network
Management while also working on futuristic technologies like M2M/IOT, 5G, AI,
etc.
• Chairman: Union Minister of Communication & IT
• Vice Chairman: Union Minister of State for Communication & IT
• Members: 10 other members from various ministries and telecom sectors

Ans. 6 Option B is correct Explanation
• Aditya-L1 Mission is launched by ISRO to the L1 orbit which is about 1.5 million km from the Earth.
• It is expected to take more than 120 days for the spacecraft to reach the L1.
• The orbit allows Aditya-L1 to look at the Sun continuously without any occultation /eclipses.
• Objective: To study the Sun’s corona, Sun’s photosphere, chromosphere, solar
emissions, solar winds and flares, and Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs).
• Aditya L1 will be launched using the PolarSatellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV)
• The mission will have 7 payloads (instruments) on board

Ans. 7 Option A is the correct Explanation
• The MSP is the rate at which the government purchases crops from farmers, and is based on a calculation of at least one-and-a-half times the cost of production incurred by the farmers.
• MSP is a “minimum price” for any crop that the government considers remunerative
for farmers and hence deserving of “support”.
• The Commission for Agricultural Costs & Prices (CACP) recommends MSPs for 22
mandated crops and fair and remunerative price (FRP) for sugarcane.
• CACP is an attached office of the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.
• The CACP considers various factors while recommending the MSP for a commodity,
including the cost of cultivation.
• The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) of the Union government takes a final decision on the level of MSPs and other recommendations made by the CACP.

Ans. 8 Option D is correct Explanation
• Phillips Curve is an economic theory which explains the inverse link between an
economy’s unemployment rate and inflation rate.
• A.W. Phillips made the initial suggestion in the 1950s.
• The fundamental tenet of the Phillips Curve is that when unemployment declines, labor becomes more in demand, forcing firms to compete for workers by raising wages.
• As wages rise, production costs rise as well, pushing up the cost of goods and services.
• As a result, an increase in inflation follows a drop in unemployment and vice versa.
• The Phillips Curve has been a tool used by decision-makers to establish monetary
policy

Ans. 9 Option B is correct Explanation
• The term AI refers to the simulation of human intelligence by machines.
• ML or Machine Learning is a subset of AI that involves the development of algorithms that allow computers to learn from data without being explicitly programmed.
• DL or Deep Learning is a subset of ML that uses artificial neural networks to learn from data in a way that is similar to how the human brain learns.
• The Turing test is a test to determine whether machines can impersonate human
beings
• The Turing test, named after British mathe- magician Alan Turing, was a concept
proposed to test if a machine could deceive a person into thinking it was human.
• Passing the Turing test would mean that computers were able to convince people
they were human.

Ans. 10 Option A is the correct Explanation
• Recently, the Prime Minister announced that the point where the Moon lander of
Chandrayaan-3 touched down will now be known as Shiv Shakti.
• The point where the Chandrayaan-2 left its footprints will now be called Tiranga.
• Following the 2008 mission Chandrayaan 1, a spot where the probe crashed was named “Jawahar Sthal”.
• In general, there has been a tradition across the world with such kinds of successful
missions, to give a name to that point.
• The Outer Space Treaty in its Article II states Outer space, including the moon and other celestial bodies, is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means.
• However, the Treaty does not talk about naming sites on the Moon.
• The International Astronomical Union (IAU) is the primary organization responsible for the official naming of celestial bodies and their surface features, including those on the Moon.