Daily Current Affairs Quiz: October 27, 2023

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ANSWER: A

ANSWER: C

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ANSWER: D

• The Indian Air Force (IAF) is set to make a strategic decision to bolster its acquisition of the Meteor Missile.

ABOUT METEOR MISSILE

• It is a European active radar-guided beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile (BVRAAM).
• It is manufactured by MBDA Systems for six European nations- UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, and Sweden.
• It offers a multi-shot capability (multiple launches against multiple targets).
• It has the ability to engage highly maneuverable targets such as jet aircraft, and small targets such as UAVs and cruise missiles in a heavy electronic countermeasures.
• It has a combat range of 200 km.
• A solid-fueled ramjet motor allows the missile to cruise at a speed of over Mach 4.
• The missile is equipped with a blast-fragmentation warhead.
• The missile system is installed with an active radar target seeker, offering high reliability in the detection, tracking, and classification of targets.

ANSWER: B

• Vajra mushti kalaga is on the decline and takes place only during Dasara.
• The ‘’vajra mushti kalaga’’ is a form of wrestling different from the conventional grappling and entails two jettys taking a swipe at each other’s head with a knuckleduster.
• Whosoever draws the blood from the opponent’s head first is declared the winner.
• The fight is real and the jetty’s make all efforts to draw blood from the opponent’s head and a referee intervenes on noticing the first drop.
• Sometimes the fight is over in matter of seconds but is nevertheless conducted.

BACKGROUND

• Though this form of wrestling was popular during the period of the Vijayanagar rulers who reigned between the 14^th and the 17^th centuries, it has gone extinct.
• It was held at the palace premises on Tuesday to mark the Vijayadashmi of the Wadiyars and was witnessed by a large crowd.
• Medieval travellers from Portuguese noticed this form of wrestling during the Navaratri celebrations in Vijayanagar empire and have left detailed accounts of it.

ANSWER: C

• SIM’ stands for ‘subscriber identification module’.
• Specifically, it is an integrated circuit, or a microchip, that identifies the subscriber on a given network.
• In order for a mobile phone to connect to any cellular network that follows the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) standard, a SIM card is mandatory.
• This relationship is established using a unique authentication key – a piece of data that a user needs to ‘unlock’ access to the network.
• Every SIM card stores this data and it is designed such that the user can’t access it through their phone.
• Instead, signals sent by the phone into the network are ‘signed’ by the key, and the network uses the signature to understand whether the phone’s connection is legitimate.
  • It is possible to duplicate a SIM card by accessing its key and storing it in multiple cards.
• SIM cards also store information about its own ID number (the integrated circuit card identifier), the IMSI, the subscriber’s location area identity (i.e. their current location), a list of preferred networks (to whom the subscriber can connect when roaming), emergency numbers, and – depending on the space available – the subscriber’s contacts and SMS messages.
• SIM cards are designed according to the ISO/IEC 7816 international standard maintained by – as its name indicates – the International Organisation for Standardisation and the International Electrotechnical Commission.
  • It applies to electronic identification cards, including smart cards.
  • In this standard, the card itself consists of the integrated circuit, which is glued to a silicon substrate on the top side.
  • On the other side of the substrate are metal contacts, which form the gold-coloured side of the SIM card.
  • Wires connect the integrated circuit from its bottom side to the metal contacts on the top side, and the contacts interface with the phone’s data connectors.

ANSWER: A

• The Summit of the Three Basins will congregate in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo to strengthen South-South governance for three ecosystems — Amazon, Congo, Borneo-Mekong and Southeast Asia.
  • These 3 global ecosystems account for 80% of the world’s tropical forests and 2/3 of the earth’s biodiversity.
• These basins are seeing extensive forest loss and are moving towards a systemic ecosystem breakdown that affects global climate stability, biodiversity and the livelihoods of millions of indigenous peoples and local communities.
• The first Summit of the Three Tropical Forest Basins was held in Brazzaville in 2011 and resulted in the Declaration of the Summit of the Three Tropical Forest Basins, which recognised the need to establish a platform to promote cooperation among the countries of the three basins.

ANSWER: C

• Slovakia’s newly appointed Prime Minister, Robert Fico, has assumed office for the fourth time.
• Fico’s Smer party won last month’s elections, forming a coalition government with Hlas and the ultra-nationalist Slovak National Party (SNS).

ANSWER: D

• The World Day for Audiovisual Heritage is observed on October 27^th.
• The celebration is a key initiative for UNESCO and the Coordinating Council of Audiovisual Archives Associations (CCAAA) to honour audiovisual preservation professionals and institutions that safeguard our heritage for future generations.
• The theme for this year is “Your Window to the World.”
• It has its roots in the adoption of the Recommendation for the Safeguarding and Preservation of Moving Images during the 21^st General Conference of UNESCO in 1980.