Daily Current affairs Quiz 15 February 2023

d) Labour Bureau

The Labour Bureau, an attached office of the Ministry of Labour & Employment, has undertaken an All India Domestic Workers Survey by collecting information from the selected household across States and UTs including Maharashtra. All India Survey on Domestic and Migrant Workers has been conducted by selecting the sample households based on multi stage sampling design. The field works of All India survey on Domestic Workers is at final stages and the identity of the respondent households is never revealed and the results are released based on aggregation of numbers only.

The Minister of State for Labour and Employment in a written reply to a question in informed Lok Sabha that the AIDWS is almost complete.

a) Diseases in an organism

A biomarker may be used to see how well the body responds to a treatment for a disease or condition. Also called molecular marker and signature molecule.

It can also be a substance whose detection indicates a particular disease state, for example, the presence of an antibody may indicate an infection. More specifically, a biomarker indicates a change in expression or state of a protein that correlates with the risk or progression of a disease, or with the susceptibility of the disease to a given treatment.

b) India

According to production data of Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database (FAOSTAT), India ranks first in the world contributing twenty-four percent of global milk production in the year 2021-22.
The milk production of India has registered fifty-one percent increase between 2014-15 and 2021-22 and increased to twenty-two crore tonne in the year 2021-22.

a) Maharashtra

In the fifth Khelo India Youth Games recently concluded in Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra ranks first in the medal table with 161 medals including 56 gold medals. Maharashtra had already won the titles in 2019 and 2020.
Haryana claimed the first runners-up trophy with 128 medals, followed by the hosts Madhya Pradesh in the third place.

c) 1 only

Lithium has the lowest density of all metals. It is the lightest of the solid elements. It reacts vigorously with water. Hence, statement 1 is correct.

It never occurs freely in nature but is found combined in small amounts in nearly all igneous rocks and in the waters of many mineral springs. Spodumene, petalite, lepidolite, and amblygonite are the more important minerals containing lithium. Hence, statement 2 is incorrect.

Lithium reserves are concentrated in the lithium triangle in South America – Argentina, Bolivia & Chile, with 50% of the deposits concentrated in these regions. Hence, statement 3 is incorrect.

The discovery of 5.9 tonnes of lithium deposits in Jammu and Kashmir was discovered recently.