Daily Current Affairs Quiz 19 January 2023

d) CLAW Global

In an effort to test one’s high-altitude endurance, a new challenge called “Soul of Steel” will be launched in India. Spearheaded by venture CLAW Global, which is run by veterans and supported by the Indian Army, the challenge will take place in the state of Uttarakhand and is similar to the “Ironman triathlon” long-distance triathlon challenge in Europe. The expedition will officially launch on January 14th, and will include 12 Indian participants and six international teams, with the age group for applicants being between 18 and 30 years.

a) Delhi

The Delhi government has suggested that the Centre can grant “migrated minority” status to Hindus who moved to the national capital from places like Jammu &Kashmir or Ladakh where they are a religious minority.
This is a part of a compilation of views collected by the Centre from 24 States on whether religious and linguistic minority communities should be identified and notified by the Union or the respective States. The Centre submitted the affidavit in the Supreme Court.

a) Legal right available to any person

Originally, Article 19 (1) (f) and article 31 contained the right to property, i.e. to acquire, hold and dispose of property subject to the right of State to compulsory acquisition for public purposes by authority of law.

However, right to property ceased to be a fundamental right when the Constitution (44th Amendment) Act, 1978 omitted sub-clause(f) of Article 19 (1) and Article 31 from the Constitution.

The Right to Property is a legal right available to any person. Article 300-A provides that no person shall be deprived of his property save by authority of law.

b) Krishna Vavilala

As the United States commemorated the legacy of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., Indian-American Krishna Vavilala received the MLK Grande Parade Special Award for his contributions to connecting the Indian diaspora with mainstream America. Vavilala, 86, a longtime Houston resident and the founder and chairman of the Foundation of India Studies (FIS), has previously led several MLK Grande Parades dressed as Mahatma Gandhi with the sole purpose of bringing the Indian community closer to the Black community, based on nonviolent principles that both Gandhi and MLK Jr. had followed.

b) 2 only

GOC is the equatorward transport of cold, deep waters and the poleward transport of warm, near-surface waters. Hence, statement 1 is incorrect.

The Global Overturning Circulation (GOC) is responsible for the transport of carbon and heat among the ocean basins and between the ocean and the atmosphere. GOC also controls the exchange of ocean carbon and nutrients between the deep ocean and the euphotic zone where photosynthesis occurs. Hence, statement 2 is correct.

New studies have shown that the global overturning circulation controls ocean heat distribution and atmospheric carbon dioxide levels.