Daily Current Affairs Quiz: October 14, 2023

Ans:1 Option D is Correct Expanaiton
• The Act calls for mandatory reporting of sexual offenses. A false complaint with intent to defame a person is also punishable under the Act.
• “Children” according to the Act are individuals aged below 18 years. The Act is gender-neutral.
• Different forms of sexual abuse including but not limited to sexual harassment, pornography, penetrative & non- penetrative assault are defined in the Act.
• The power to make rules lies with the central government. To monitor the implementation of the Act, the National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) and State Commissions for the Protection of Child Rights (SCPCRs) have been made the designated authority. Both are statutory bodies.
• Section 42 A of the Act gives POCSO Act overriding powers over other acts.

Ans:2 Option B is correct Explanation
• The National Green Tribunal (NGT) was set up in 2010 under the NGT Act, 2010,
• for the purpose of effective and expeditious disposal of cases relating to environmental protection and conservation of forests and other natural resources
• enforcement of any legal right relating to the environment and giving relief and compensation for damages to persons and property and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
• It is a specialized body equipped with the necessary expertise to handle environmental disputes involving multi-disciplinary issues.
• The Tribunal shall not be bound by the procedure laid down under the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, but shall be guided by principles of natural justice.
• The Tribunal is mandated to make an endeavor for disposal of applications or appeals finally within 6 months of filing.
• NGT has five places for sitting, the Principal Bench in Delhi and Zonal Benches in Pune, Kolkata, Bhopal, and Chennai. Apart from this, the Tribunal holds three circuit Benches at Shimla, Shillong, and Jodhpur.

Ans:3 Option D is Correct Explanation
• In Afghan politics Taliban is a Sunni fundamentalist organization
• The word Taliban means students in the Pashto language.

Ans:4 Option B is Correct Explanation
• Electoral bonds will allow donors to pay political parties using banks as an intermediary.
• Although called a bond, the banking instrument resembling promissory notes will not carry any interest.
• The electoral bond, which will be a bearer instrument, will not carry the name of the payee and can be bought for any value, in multiples of Rs 1,000, Rs 10,000, Rs 1 lakh, Rs 10 lakh, or Rs 1 crore
• Eligibility: electoral bonds, can be given to a registered political party that has secured at least 1 percent vote in the last Lok Sabha or state assembly elections. That party will have to give one bank account to the Election Commission and it will have to be encashed within 15 days.
• Need: The electoral bonds are aimed at rooting out the current system of largely anonymous cash donations made to political parties which lead to the generation of black money in the economy.

Ans:5 Option C is Correct Explanation The Index of Industrial Production (IIP):
• It is a composite indicator that measures changes in the volume of production of a basket of industrial products.
• The index is compiled and published monthly by the Central Statistical Organisation (CSO), Ministry of Statistics and Programme. It is implemented six weeks after the reference month ends, a lag of six weeks.
• The Base Year of the Index of Eight Core Industries has been revised from the year 2004-05 to 2011-12 from April 2017.

Ans:6 Option B is Correct Explanation
• These states allow betting and gambling on games of chance.
• E-sports are the video games that, in the 1990s, were played privately or on consoles in video game shops but are now played online in an organized way between professional players, individually or as teams

Ans:7 Option B is Correct Explanation
• Entomologists from the Travancore Nature History Society (TNHS) have recently identified the species, Anamalai Reed-tail (Protosticta anamalaica) from the Western Ghats in the Peechi Wildlife Sanctuary in
Thrissur.
• With this, the number of odonates in Kerala has grown to 182.
• The insect was first spotted at Ponmudi Hills in the Peechi Wildlife Sanctuary of the Munnar landscape.
• The genus Protosticta Sels consists of slender-built damselflies commonly known as Reed-tails or Shadow-damsels.

Ans:8 Option B is Correct Explanation
• India has been operating sub-3-ton category French-origin legacy helicopters, Chetak and Cheetah, made in India by the HAL. These single-engine machines are primarily used for utility helicopters.
• The LCH is the only attack helicopter in the world that can land and take off at an altitude of 5,000 meters with a considerable load of weapons and fuel, meeting the specific requirements laid out by the Indian Armed Forces.

Ans:9 Option A is the Correct Explanation Global Gender Gap Index:
• It is released by World Economic Forum which is an annual report. Hence option 1 is correct. • The first publication of this index was released in 2006.
• This index is ranked among 153 countries by using 4 dimensions namely as follows,
o Educational attainment,
o Health and survival, o Economic participation & opportunity
o Political empowerment.
• According to the 14th edition of the GlobalGender Gap Index, India has ranked in the 112th position whereas Ireland is topped among the countries.

Ans:10 Option C is the Correct Power to review its own judgment
• Article 137 of the Constitution of India, 1950, provides that subject to provisions of any law and rules made under Article 145, the Supreme Court has the power to review any judgment pronounced or order made by it.
• According to Article 128 of the Indian Constitution, the chief justice of India may at any time request a retired judge of the Supreme Court or a retired judge of a high court (who is duly qualified for appointment as a judge of the Supreme Court) to act as a judge of the Supreme Court for a temporary period. He can do so only with the previous consent of the president and also of the person to be so appointed.
• As a Court of Record, High Court can review its judgments under Article 226 Of the Constitution. As per Article 215, every High Court shall be a court of record and shall have all the powers of such a court including the power to punish for contempt of itself.
• Being a Court of Record, the High Court can review its own judgments under Article 226 of the Constitution of India. Similarly, under Article 137, the Supreme Court shall have the power to review any judgment pronounced or order made by it.
• The Kerala High Court has iterated the legal the proposition that High Courts as Courts of Record could review their orders.
• A Division Bench of Chief Justice S Manikumar and Shaji P Chaly were confronted with an appeal against a review petition.