Daily Current Affairs Quiz 4 December 2022

c) Japan

Japan has successfully used steam to propel its Equuleus spacecraft. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (Jaxa) claimed that this is the world’s first successful orbit control beyond low-Earth orbit using a water propulsion system. Meanwhile, after flying past the Moon, the spacecraft used an engine name Aquarius which uses water as fuel to get to the second Earth-Moon Lagrange point.

d) Conventional weapons

India will assume chairmanship of the plenary of the Wassenaar Arrangement for a year on January 1, 2023.
Five year ago, India joined the 42-member voluntary export control regime, which monitors transfers of conventional weapons and dual-use goods.

a) Rath yatra of Puri

The elements which have been on the representative list of intangible cultural heritage from India in the past decade include Kolkata’s Durga Puja (2021), Kumbh Mela (2017), Navroz (2016), Yoga (2016), traditional brass and copper craft of utensil-making among coppersmiths of Punjab (2014), Sankirtana, a ritual musical performance of Manipur (2013), and the Buddhist chanting of Ladakh (2012). Before 2011, the list included Chhau dance, Kalbelia folk songs and dance of Rajasthan, and Mudiyettu, a dance drama from Kerala (2010), Ramman, a religious festival and theatre performance of Garhwal in the Himalayas (2009), and Kutiyattam or Sanskrit theatre, and Vedic chanting (2008), Ramlila( 2008), a traditional performance of Ramayana. The Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) has started the process for the inclusion of the world-famous Puri Rath Yatra on the Representative List of ‘Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity’ under UNESCO.

Baguette — the staple French bread — was recently inscribed into the UN’s list of intangible cultural heritage (ICH).

c) WMO

World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) released a report titled ‘State of Global Water Resources 2021’.
As per the report, the volume of water available in the Ganga and the groundwater in the river-basin reduced significantly between 2002 and 2021. The report has also identified several other global hot spots that show the same trend.

c) Neither 1 nor 2

CARA is a statutory body of Ministry of Women & Child Development, Government of India. CARA is designated as the Central Authority to deal with inter-country adoptions in accordance with the provisions of the Hague Convention on Inter-country Adoption, 1993, ratified by Government of India in 2003. Hence, statement 1 is incorrect.

CARA is designated as the Central Authority to deal with inter-country adoptions in accordance with the provisions of the Hague Convention on Inter-country Adoption, 1993, ratified by Government of India in 2003. Hence, statement 2 is incorrect.

As part of the ‘Adoption Awareness Month’, Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) organised 10 State orientation programmes, ran 200 special social media campaigns, held interactive meets with more than 700 Prospective Adoptive Parents and Adoptive Parents.