Daily Current Affairs Quiz: July 26, 2023

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ANSWER: C

ANSWER: D

• CSIR-IIIM Jammu is set to lead India’s first Cannabis Medicine Project, exploring a diverse array of medicinal uses for cannabis.
• It has been initiated under the leadership of Ministry of Science & Technology in Private Public Partnership with a Canadian firm.
• Cannabis has a great potential to put substance of abuse for the good of mankind especially for patients suffering from neuropathies, cancer and epilepsy, malignancies.
• This project of CSIR-IIIM is also important from the perspective of Atma- Nirbhar Bharat as it will be able to produce export quality drugs meant for different kinds of neuropathies, diabetic pains etc.

ANSWER: A

• The IT day is celebrated every year on 24^th July to spread awareness around the importance of taxes and encourage more and more people to pay taxes for the development of the nation.
• In 1860, on July 24^th, Sir James Wilson introduced the concept of income tax for the first time ever in India. This initiative was taken to compensate the loss during the first war of Independence (1857) in the British rule.
• In 2010, Aaykar Diwas was celebrated for the first time on July 2010 to acknowledge 150 years of income tax in India.

ANSWER: C

• India is taking its first step towards introducing Controlled Human Infection Studies (CHIS), a research model used in other countries for vaccine and treatment development.
• Indian Council of Medical Research’s (ICMR) Bioethics Unit has introduced a consensus policy statement on ethical conduct of CHIS in India.
• It aims to address ethical issues of CHIS so that research can be conducted without compromising on ethical principles while ensuring protection of human participants.
• CHIS refers to the research methodology that involves intentionally exposing healthy human volunteers to a specific pathogen or infectious agent under controlled conditions.
• This is done for developing models of infection, understanding host-pathogen interactions and/or testing vaccines and therapeutics.
• ICMR has cautioned that CHIS is a highly complex area and may require collaborations at different levels between researchers, institutions, organisations and/or between different countries.

ANSWER: B

• The Union government has launched the Meri Maati, Mera Desh campaign.
• It is envisaged as a culminating event of the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav celebration.
• Under the campaign, soil collected from different parts of the country will be used to develop a garden along the Kartavya Path in Delhi.
• Events have been planned at the panchayat, village, block, urban local body, and State and national levels, respectively.
• The five-point agenda includes the installation of a shilaphalakam (memorial plaque), bearing the names of those who have made the supreme sacrifice.
• For this purpose, veers (bravehearts) include freedom fighters, defence personnel, CAPF personnel, and State Police.

ANSWER: D

• It is celebrated on July 26^th every year.
• The day commemorates the victory of the Indian armed forces in the Kargil War fought against Pakistan.
• The day is observed to pay tribute and honour the bravery and sacrifice of the soldiers in the war of 1999.
• The year 2023 marks the 24^th anniversary of Kargil Vijay Diwas.

ANSWER: A

• It is celebrated annually on July 26^th.
• This International Day was adopted by the General Conference of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 2015.
• The day commemorates the Greenpeace activist Hayhow Daniel Nonoto.
• On July 26, 1998, the activist died of a heart attack while protesting for re-establishment of mangrove wetlands in Muisne, Ecuador.
• It aims to raise awareness of the importance of mangrove ecosystems as “a unique, special and vulnerable ecosystem” and to promote solutions for their sustainable management, conservation and uses.

ANSWER: A

• India and Argentina have agreed for bilateral exchange of young researchers and Start-ups, particularly in Biotechnology and Agriculture field.
• The two countries also decided to hold comprehensive talks between delegations comprising academia, R&D Institutes and Industry in the field of Science & Technology and Biotechnology.
• India and Argentina have an Inter-governmental Agreement to promote technical and scientific cooperation signed in 1985.

ANSWER: D

• The state government today appointed Amitabh Awasthi, Secretary, Jal Shakti Department, as Chairman of the State Commission for Water Cess on Hydropower Generation.
• The three members, who had been appointed, are HM Dhareula, an engineer with the HP State Electricity Board, Arun Sharma and Joginder Singh.
• Awasthi and the three members shall hold office for three years or up to the age of 65 years, whichever is earlier.