Daily Current affairs Quiz 10 February 2023

c) Rajasthan

Bharatpur – Keoladeo National Park, a World Heritage Site is popularly known as Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary.
· Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary is recognised as one of the world’s most important bird breeding and feeding grounds.

· It is spread across 29 Sq. Km area.

· The park is home to over 370 species of birds and animals.

· In 1982, Keoladeo was declared a national park and then later listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1985.

Recently, The Rajasthan state Forest Department has proposed to construct a zoo in Bharatpur, Rajasthan.

a) Ministry of Information and Broadcasting

Of the Rs 1,100 crore estimated for the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Rs 600 crore has been set aside for the recently announced Broadcasting Infrastructure and Network Development (BIND) Scheme.
The scheme has a total outlay of over Rs 2,500 crore. The scheme aims to boost public sector broadcasting in the country and focuses on infrastructure development of Prasar Bharati, including All India Radio (AIR) and Doordarshan (DD).

c) ATL is to foster curiosity, creativity, and imagination amongst college students across the length and breadth of India

With a vision to ‘Cultivate one Million children in India as Neoteric Innovators’, Atal Innovation Mission is establishing Atal Tinkering Laboratories (ATLs) in schools across India. The objective of this scheme is to foster curiosity, creativity, and imagination in young minds; and inculcate skills such as design mindset, computational thinking, adaptive learning, physical computing etc.

ATL is a workspace where young minds can give shape to their ideas through hands on do-it-yourself mode; and learn innovation skills. Young children will get a chance to work with tools and equipment to understand the concepts of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math).

ATL Objectives

To create workspaces where young minds can learn innovation skills, sculpt ideas through hands-on activities, work and learn in a flexible environment.
To empower our youth with the 21st century skills of creativity, innovation, critical thinking, design thinking, social and cross-cultural collaboration, ethical leadership and so on.
To help build innovative solutions for India’s unique problems and thereby support India’s efforts to grow as a knowledge economy.

a) 1 only

· Moment Magnitude Scale is a logarithmic scale that measures the total amount of energy released by an earthquake. It is the only scale capable of reliably measuring the magnitudes of the largest, most destructive earthquakes (that is, greater than magnitude 8). Hence, statement 1 is correct.

· Moment magnitude estimates are about the same as Richter magnitudes for small to large earthquakes. But only the moment magnitude scale is capable of measuring M8 (read “magnitude 8”) and greater events accurately. The Richter scale is a base-10 logarithmic scale, meaning each order of magnitude is 10 times more intensive than the last one. Hence, statement 2 is incorrect.

It was in news due to Turkey-Syria earthquakes.

d) France and UAE

India, France, UAE agreed to establish a formal trilateral cooperation, in fields including energy, defence, economy
The three countries said that they will explore the possibility of working with the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) to pursue actionable projects on clean energy, environment and biodiversity.