Daily Current Affairs quiz 18 May 2022

b) 2 and 3 only

Thomas Cup
Related Field: Thomas Cup, trophy signifies the world supremacy in the sport of badminton. Hence, statement 1 is not correct.
It is a 16-nation team event.
Background & Managed By: The cup was donated in 1939 by Sir George Thomas for a series of men’s international team competitions to be managed by the International Badminton Federation (IBF), of which Thomas was then president.
First Tournament: The first tournament was held in 1948–49 and won by Malaya. Hence, statement 2 is correct.
Thomas and Uber Cup is the biennial international badminton championship contested by the men’s and women’s national teams.
India’s Win: In the tournament’s seven-decade-long history, the championship title has changed hands only among five nations – China, Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, and Denmark.
With its win, India became only the sixth country ever to break into this elite club. Hence, statement 3 is correct.

a) INS Surat

INS Surat is the fourth and the last ship of the 7,400-tonne Project 15B Indian Navy Destroyers. These are called the Visakhapatnam class after the lead vessel INS Visakhapatnam. The Destroyer has been named after Gujarat’s commercial capital- Surat, which has a rich maritime and shipbuilding history.

a) 1 only

The Sinai Peninsula is a peninsula in Egypt, and the only part of the country located in Asia. It is between the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Red Sea to the south, and is a land bridge between Asia and Africa. Hence, statement 1 is correct.
The West Bank is a landlocked territory near the coast of the Mediterranean in Western Asia. It is bordered by Jordan and the Dead Sea to the east and by Israel to the south, west, and north. Hence, statement 2 is incorrect.

a) INS Udaygiri

INS Udaygiri is the third ship of Project 17A programme. It is named after a mountain range in Andhra Pradesh, India. Project 17 has yielded three frigates so far, INS Shivalik in 2010, INS Satpura in 2011 and INS Sahyadri in 2012. A total of seven ships will be launched under the P17A programe, out of which O3 and o4 are under construction.

b) 1, 2

The expression “minorities” appears in some Articles of the Constitution, but is not defined anywhere.

Central Government notifies minority communities at the national level in consultation with various stakeholders under Section 2 (c) of National Commission for Minorities (NCM), Act, 1992. The six communities notified as minority communities under Section 2(c) of the NCM Act, 1992 are Christians, Sikhs, Muslims, Buddhists, Parsis and Jains. Notification of any community specific to a State as minority community with in a State comes under the purview of the State concerned.