Daily Current Affairs Quiz 15 April 2023

b) Russia

Kamchatka Peninsula lies in far eastern Russia, between the Sea of Okhotsk on the west and the Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea on the east. It is one of the world’s most concentrated areas of geothermal activity, with about 30 active volcanoes. Immediately offshore along the Pacific coast of the peninsula runs the 10,500-metre-deep (34,449 ft) Kuril–Kamchatka Trench.

A volcano erupted recently on Russia’s far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula.

c) India

India has become the largest bilateral lender to Sri Lanka by disbursing a total of USD 968 million in loans in four months of 2022, surpassing China.
China has maintained its position as the largest bilateral lender to Sri Lanka in the past five years from 2017 to 2021. Asian Development Bank (ADB) has been the largest multilateral lender in the past five years by disbursing an amount of USD 610 million in 2021.

d) Guwahati

Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated the Guwahati AIIMS to the nation at a function held in Changsari, Assam. PM Modi also inaugurated three medical colleges at Nalbari, Nagaon and Kokrajhar. This is the first AIIMS in North-East India. Along with this, he also laid the foundation stone of the Assam Advanced Healthcare Innovation Institute at IIT Guwahati. The Prime Minister also formally distributed Ayushman Bharat cards to 1.1 crore beneficiaries of Assam.

a) Bajrang Punia

India’s Bajrang Punia recently won bronze in men’s 65 kg category at World Wrestling Championships in Belgrade.
With this medal, Bajrang Punia becomes first Indian to win four medals at world wrestling championships. He won bronze in 2013, silver in 2018 and bronze in 2019. Another Indian wrestler Vinesh Phogat captured a bronze medal in the women’s 53 kg category.

b) 2 only

IRRI is an independent, nonprofit, research and educational institute, founded in 1960 by the Ford and Rockefeller foundations with support from the Philippine government. It is the world’s premier research organization dedicated to reducing poverty, hunger, and malnutrition through rice science. Hence, statement 1 is incorrect.

IR8 is a high-yielding semi-dwarf rice variety developed by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in the early 1960s. IR8 dramatically increased the yields of Asian rice from 1 or 2 ton per hectare to 4 or 5 tons per hectare. It played a significant part in the Green Revolution. Hence, statement 2 is correct.

A two-member delegation from International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) recently visited Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) to deliberate on emerging research areas for rice cultivation.