Daily Current Affairs Quiz 12 October 2022

a) Tripura

Bru or Reang is a community indigenous to Northeast India, living mostly in Tripura, Mizoram and Assam. In Tripura, they are recognised as a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group.

b) Shanghai Cooperation Organization

It is being held under the framework of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure (RATS). It is stage 2 of the exercise and the Stage-1 of the Exercise was conducted from July 27 to August 1 by the National Counter Terrorist Forces of SCO Member Countries in their respective territories. The exercise is aimed at exchanging expertise, best practices and build synergy between the Counter Terrorism Forces of the SCO RATS Member Countries to enhance capabilities for conducting Anti-Terrorist operations and countering other security threats collectively.

a) Myanmar

The United Nations children’s agency (UNICEF) has announced in its recent report that more than one million people have been displaced in Myanmar since the military coup last year.
The Southeast Asian nation has been in turmoil since the military ousted Aung San Suu Kyi’s government last year. The report added that more than half of those forced to flee are in the country’s northwest Sagaing region.

d) China

China, after successfully integrating its under-construction space station and approving the next phase of its lunar missions, has launched a new satellite that will look into the sun and unravel its secrets. The Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory (ASO-S) was launched onboard a Long March-2D rocket. With the satellite Kafau-I now placed into orbit, a six-month-long commissioning phase will begin.

b) 2 only

The Sustainable Mountain Development Summit (SMDS) is a flagship annual event of IMI, a civil society-led forum working across the Indian Himalayan Region (IHR) that comprises 10 mountain states, two union territories and four hill districts. In addition to the central event, two integral components of the SMDS include the Mountain Legislators’ Meet (MLM) and the Indian Himalayan Youth Summit. Hence, statement 1 is incorrect.

The theme for SMDS-XI is ‘Harnessing tourism for sustainable mountain development’. The main focus of the summit is to reduce the negative impacts of tourism while harnessing its positive contributions to building climate and socio-ecological resilience and sustainability. Hence, statement 2 is correct.