Daily Current Affairs Quiz 6 December 2022

d) Chhattisgarh

Kanger Ghati National Park (also called Kanger Valley National Park) was declared a national park in 1982 by the Government of India. Near Jagdalpur in the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh, it is one of India’s densest national parks, and is known for its biodiversity, landscape, waterfalls, and subterranean geomorphologic limestone caves, and as the home of the Bastar hill myna, the state bird of Chhattisgarh.

Bird watchers and forest department officials counted 200 types of birds in Chhattisgarh’s first-ever inter-state bird survey conducted in the Kanger Valley National Park.

b) Declining

As per recent data, National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) announced that the country’s annual rate of HIV infection has declined by 46 per cent between 2010 and 2021.
The decline is against the global average of 32 per cent. According to NACO, AIDS-related mortalities have also declined by 76 per cent against the global average of 52 per cent during the period.

c) Rajasthan

Parakram Diwas will be celebrated in Rajasthan at Jaisalmer Military Station and Longewala War memorial on December 5, 2022. The day is celebrated to mark the 51st anniversary of India’s victory in the Longewala battle during the 1971 war.

c) 2 only

The term Urban Co-operative Banks (UCBs), though not formally defined, refers to primary cooperative banks located in urban and semi-urban areas. These banks, till 1996, were allowed to lend money only for non-agricultural purposes. This distinction does not hold today. Hence, statement 1 is incorrect.

Reserve Bank of India has classified UCB’s into a four-tiered regulatory framework based on size of deposits of the UCBs. The RBI has categorised all unit UCBs and salary earners’ UCBs (irrespective of deposit size), and all other UCBs having deposits up to ₹100 crore in Tier 1. In Tier 2, it has placed UCBs with deposits more than ₹100 crore and up to ₹1,000 crore. Tier 3 will cover banks with deposits more than ₹1,000 crore and up to ₹10,000 crore. UCBs with deposits more than ₹10,000 crore have been categorised in Tier 4. Hence, statement 2 is correct.

RBI also has come out with norms pertaining to the net worth and capital adequacy of these banks. Tier 1 UCBs operating in a single district should have minimum net worth of ₹2 crore. For all other UCBs (in Tier 1, 2 and 3) tiers), the minimum net worth should be ₹5 crore. Tier 1 UCBs have to maintain a minimum capital to risk weighted assets ratio of 9 per cent of Risk Weighted Assets (RWAs) on an ongoing basis. Tier 2 to 4 UCBs have to maintain a minimum capital to risk weighted assets of 12 per cent of RWAs on an ongoing basis. Hence, statement 3 is incorrect.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) recently announced a four-tiered regulatory framework for categorisation of Urban Co-operative Banks (UCBs).

a) Indian Institute of Science

Researchers at the Centre for Nano Science and Engineering (CeNSE), IISc, have developed a highly energy-efficient computing platform that offers promise in building next-generation electronic devices.
Instead of using complementary metal-oxide semiconductors (CMOS), the team used components called ‘Memristors’ that can both store data and perform computation.