Daily Current Affairs Quiz 27 October 2022

d) Gujarat

Prime Minister Narendra Modi lauded Gujarat as the state was declared as 100 per cent ‘Har Ghar Jal’. To ensure the health and well-being of children by providing clean tap water in schools and Anganwadi centers in India, Prime Minister announced a 100 days campaign. The motto of Jal Jeevan Mission is ‘no one is left out’, thus ensuring every household irrespective of its socio-economic status.

a) Kerala

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan launched the ‘Kunjapp’ mobile application to prevent cyber-crimes against children in the state.
Child exploitation can be reported through the ‘Kunjapp’ application. The Chief Minister also inaugurated the training for the newly appointed Child Welfare Committee (CWC) and Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) members.

c) Mahanadi

Sukapaika is one of the several distributaries of the mighty Mahanadi river in Odisha. It branches away from the Mahanadi at Ayatpur village in Cuttack district and flows for about 40 kilometres (km) before rejoining its parent river at Tarapur in the same district.

Recently, Odisha Government has started working on Sukapaika River revival plan following a recent direction from the National Green Tribunal (NGT).

c) 1, 3

India currently has three operational launch vehicles — the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle or PSLV, of which there are multiple versions; the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle or GSLV Mk-II; and the Launch Vehicle Mark-3 or LVM3.

The PSLV has been the most commonly used, having carried as many as 53 successful missions since 1993. Only two flights of PSLV have failed. Hence, statement 1 is correct.

The GSLV-MkII rocket has been used in 14 missions, of which four have ended in failures, most recently in August 2021. The LVM3 has flown five times, including the Chandrayaan 2 mission, and has never disappointed.

The Ariane 5 rockets (of Europe), frequently used by ISRO earlier for its heavy payloads, has a lift-off mass of 780 tonnes, and can carry 20-tonne payloads to lower earth orbits and 10 tonnes to GTO. Hence, statement 2 is incorrect.

Not surprisingly, most of a rocket’s energy is burnt in travelling to the lower earth orbit. This is because the force of gravity is the strongest here. The journey farther into space is much more smooth, and requires far less energy. In fact, it takes half as much energy for a rocket to travel to the Moon from the LEO (a journey of nearly 4 lakh km) compared to what it takes to travel to LEO from Earth (about 200 km). Hence, statement 3 is correct.

a) Egypt

The 27th annual UN meeting on climate, COP27 (Conference of Parties) will take place in Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt from 6th to 18th November.
This will be the fifth time a Climate Conference is being hosted in Africa. COP27 will focus on three main areas, reducing emissions, helping countries to prepare and deal with climate change and securing technical support and funding for developing countries for climate activities.