Daily Current Affairs Quiz: November 28, 2023

ANSWER: B

ANSWER: C

ANSWER: A

ANSWER: B

• The Ministry of Rural Development and the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare jointly launched a training programme for ‘Krishi Sakhis’ to promote natural farming.
• The programme was launched under the Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana – National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM).
• The initiative is aimed at training 50,000 ‘Krishi Sakhis’ to give them certification in a phased manner by the National Centre for Organic and Natural Farming (NCONF), a subordinate office of the MoA&FW as the Nodal institution.
• Training modules have been prepared by the NCONF and sent to the National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management (MANAGE) for the final review.

ABOUT KRISHI SAKHIS

• Krishi Sakhis are Community Agriculture Care Service Providers (CASPs).
• They are trained para extension professionals and practicing farmers at the grass root level.
• They encourage the adoption of environmentally friendly and economically viable agricultural methods by raising awareness.

ANSWER: D

• The National Cadet Corps (NCC) celebrated its 75^th anniversary
• The NCC in India was formed in 1948 with the objective to make up for a shortage of personnel in the Army.
• The first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru presided over the function of raising the first NCC Unit at Delhi on the last Sunday of November 1948.
• Serving as the youth wing of the Indian Armed Forces, it operates from its headquarters in New Delhi. Open to school and college students voluntarily, the NCC functions as a Tri-Services Organisation, encompassing the Army, Navy and Air Force.
• Cadets undergo fundamental military training, including small arms handling and drill exercises.
• The motto of the NCC, Unity and Discipline, encapsulates the values of duty, loyalty, dedication, and self-sacrifice.
• It stands as the largest youth organisation in the country, with a mission to build character, and leadership qualities and foster national integration.

ANSWER: A

• A quiet town, Chebrolu, in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh, located near Vijayawada, is referred to by many as a land of temples.
• A general belief runs in the town that there are more than 100 small and big temples.
• Not all of the temples here have a ‘sikharam’ (tower).
• Most of them are one-roomed temples found in every corner of the town.
• Eastern Chalukya, Velanati Choda, Kakatiya, Pota Rajulu, and Paristchedi dynasties have all ruled this place.
• Of all, a cluster of four ancient temples is the highlight. All of them were built between the 9th and 12th century A.D.
• They are-
  • Chaturmukha Brahmeswara temple has a Sivaling and the four faces of Lord Brahma attached to it. The temple sits in the middle of a pond.
  • The Bhimeswara temple, built by the Eastern Chalukyan King Chalukya Bhima during the 9th century A.D., has two floors, a staircase and a huge Sivaling.
  • Nageswara Swamy, again a Siva temple, belonging to the 11th century A.D.
  • The fourth temple is Adikesava temple, built in the Cholan style of architecture. The temple, dedicated to Lord Vishnu, has pillars outside that have standing lion

ANSWER: C

• 26^th November 2023, marks the first United Nations World Sustainable Transport Day, a day created in response to the impact that transport has on climate change, as well as the disparity between transport options around the world.
• World Sustainable Transport Day 2023 focuses on the theme “Sustainable transport, sustainable development”.
• The transport sector is responsible for approximately one quarter of all greenhouse gas emissions. Ninety-one percent of the energy used in motorized transport on land, sea and air is derived from fossil fuels.

ANSWER: B

• Paul Lynch, an Irish author won the 2023 Booker prize for his fifth novel ‘Prophet Song.’
  • The story is set in an imagined Ireland that is descending into tyranny.
  • It was described as a “soul-shattering and true” novel that “captures the social and political anxieties of our current moment”.
• Lynch is the fifth Irish author to win the prize while the last Irish writer Anna Burns won the award in 2018.
• Booker Prize is awarded to the best novel of fiction written in English and published in UK and Ireland.

ANSWER: D

• Asper a new study, Earthquake processes, even relatively smaller ones, have their reflection in the ionosphere, as they influence the amplitudes and periods of coseismic ionospheric perturbations (CIP) along with factors such as geomagnetism and line-of-sights geometry.
• The finding can help observing earthquake source processes from the space which may pave the way for deciphering earthquake precursors using space-based observations.
• Phenomenon-
  • In general, the Earth crust uplift (vertical crustal movements) during any earthquake produces compressional (i.e. pressure) waves in the overlying atmosphere.
  • The waves propagate upward, reach the ionosphere, causing disturbances in numbers of electrons along the line-of-sights connecting ground Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receivers and satellites.
  • These disturbances are called as coseismic ionospheric perturbations (CIP).