Daily Current Affairs Quiz 29 May 2022

b) Uttarakhand

The Uttarakhand government has announced a drafting committee to implement the Uniform Civil Code. The state committee is headed by retired SC judge Ranjana Desai and includes retired Delhi HC judge Pramod Kohli, former state chief secretary Shatrughan Singh, Manu Gaur and Surekha Dangwal as members.

c) Shadow based temple art form

Tholpavakkoothu, one of the oldest shadow-based temple art forms in the country, used to be a male domain until recently. In 2021 a woman member of a Tholpavakkoothu family has produced an all-woman Tholpavakkoothu show, the first ever.

a) Security operations

The Security Operation Centre (SoC) titled C3iVazra has protected the computers that monitor the highways across the country and has alerted about potential dangers. C3iVazra provides supervisory monitoring by gathering the real-time event, and log feeds from the endpoints, packet data from the network and the internet, and processes these feeds to generate threat intelligence and ensure network security of the organization. Major benefits of this solution are increased efficiency in incident response, reduced impact of security breaches, better reporting and notification, log analysis, and retention.

a) 1 only

The submarines have advanced stealth features and are equipped with both long range guided torpedoes as well as anti-ship missiles. These submarines have a state-of-the-art SONAR and sensor suite permitting outstanding operational capabilities. Hence, statement 1 is correct.
INS Khanderi (S22) is the second of the Indian Navy’s six Kalvari-class submarines being built in India. It is a diesel-electric attack submarine which was designed by French naval defence and energy company DCNS and manufactured at Mazagon Dock Limited in Mumbai. Hence, statement 2 is incorrect.

c) Both 1 and 2

The process of Coal Gasification chemically transforms the fossil fuel into Synthetic Natural Gas (SNG), instead of burning fossil fuel. Hence, statement 1 is not correct.
It produces Syngas which is a mixture consisting primarily of methane (CH4), carbon monoxide (CO), hydrogen (H2), carbon dioxide (CO2) and water vapour (H2O) (but not nitrogen oxide). Hence, statement 2 is not correct.
Syngas can be used to produce a wide range of fertilizers, fuels, solvent and synthetic materials.
Coal Gasification is primarily used for electricity generation, for the production of chemical feedstocks.
The hydrogen obtained from coal gasification can be used for various purposes such as making ammonia, powering a hydrogen economy.