Daily Current Affairs Quiz: October 09, 2023

ANSWER: B

ANSWER: C

ANSWER: A

ANSWER: A

• The government had raised the subsidy amount for Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana beneficiaries from ₹200 to ₹300 per LPG cylinder.
  • Ujjwala beneficiaries currently pay ₹703 per 14.2-kg cylinder as against the market price of ₹903. After the decision of the Union Cabinet, they will now pay ₹603.
• The Union Cabinet had in September approved the extension of PMUY for release of 75 lakh LPG connections over three years from financial year 2023-24 to 2025-26.
  • The 75 lakh additional Ujjwala connections will take total number of PMUY beneficiaries to 10.35 crore.

ABOUT PRADHAN MANTRI UJJWALA YOJANA (PMUY)

• The Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) was launched in May 2016 as a flagship scheme with an objective to make clean cooking fuel such as LPG available to the rural and deprived households which were otherwise using traditional cooking fuels such as firewood, coal, cow-dung cakes, etc.
• Nodal ministry- Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas
• The scheme provides a financial support of Rs 1600 for each LPG connection to the BPL households.
• Along with a deposit-free LPG connection, Ujjwala 2.0 will provide the first refill and a hotplate free of cost to the beneficiaries.
• Objectives-
  • Empowering women and protecting their health.
  • Reducing the number of deaths in India due to unclean cooking fuel.
  • Preventing young children from a significant number of acute respiratory illnesses caused due to indoor air pollution by burning fossil fuel.

ANSWER: B

• The Nobel Prize for Literature 2023 has been awarded to Norwegian author Jon Olav Fosse, for his “innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable” .

ABOUT JON FOSSE

• Fosse writes in Norwegian Nynorsk, the least common of the two official versions of Norwegian.
• Born in 1959, Fosse first started writing novels, switching to plays in his 30s.
• He went on to become one of Norway’s most-performed dramatists, and is in fact counted among the most performed of living European dramatists.
• His work has been translated into more than 40 languages.
• Fosse has written around 40 plays, apart from novels, short stories, children’s books, poetry and essays.
• Famous works – A New Name: Septology VI-VII, I Am the Wind, Melancholy, Boathouse, and The Dead Dogs.

ANSWER: D

• The Hakki Pikki tribal community is unhappy with the land allotted to them around Bannerghatta National Park near Bengaluru.
• The settlement on the edge of the Bannerghatta National Park has both Hakki Pikki and Iruliga tribals staying here.

ABOUT HAKKI PIKKIS

• The Hakki Pikkis are traditionally a semi-nomadic tribe of bird catchers and hunters, who settled down in several parts of Karnataka.
• In Kannada, the word ‘Hakki’ stands for ‘bird’ and ‘Pikki’ stands for the verb ‘to catch’.
• The Hakki-Pikki community migrated from the northern India population, and is found in Karnataka.
• The population is predominantly found in Shivamogga, Davanagere and Mysuru districts of Karnataka.
• According to the 2011 census, the population of Hakki-Pikki is 11,892.
• The Hakki-Pikkis are said to be a matriarchal group.

LANGUAGE

• Despite being surrounded by Dravidian languages and living in southern India, the community speaks an Indo-Aryan language. Their mother tongue was designated ‘Vaagri’ by scholars.
• They communicate in ‘Vaagri’ at home but speak in Kannada when conducting daily business.

UNESCO has listed ‘Vaagri’ as one of the endangered languages.

ANSWER: A

• The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI)—the country’s food safety regulator—has said that there is no need to add ingredients such as protein binders and emulsifiers in milk and milk products.
• The communication from the food safety watchdog comes days before the onset of the festive season in the country.

ABOUT PROTEIN BINDERS

• Protein binders are biological research reagents which bind to a specific target protein to manufacture a wide range of new food products.
• They can enhance or detract performance.
• It is known to affect the digestibility of the protein-bond and thus can affect the biological and nutritive value of milk protein.

ANSWER: C

• Narges Mohammadi, an Iranian women’s rights advocate, has been awarded the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize.
• She was honoured for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and to promote human rights and freedom for all.
• The Nobel Peace Prize is the only Nobel prize that is presented by the chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee; the other Nobel prizes are administered by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden.
• She is the second Iranian woman to be awarded in the prize’s history after Shirin Ebadi.

ANSWER: B

• Every year, World Cotton Day is celebrated on October 7^th.
• The day’s celebrations promote fair trade and help developing nations engage in all aspects of the cotton industry to improve their economies.
• The first World Cotton Day was suggested by the World Trade Organization (WTO) on October 7, 2019, with support from Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, and Mali, known as the Cotton Four or C4 countries.
• The theme for World Cotton Day 2023 is ‘Making cotton fair and sustainable for all, from farm to fashion’.