Daily Quiz 30 August 2024

Answer: C

Explanation:

• Statement 1 is incorrect:The Indira Gandhi Canal is the longest canal in India and the largest irrigation project in the world. Indira Gandhi Canal is 649 km long and consists of Rajasthan feeder canal and Rajasthan main canal and runs through 167 km in Punjab and Haryana and remaining 492 km in Rajasthan. The canal is one of the project of Green revolution in India and also runs through The Great Thar Desert. The Upper Ganges Canal is the main canal of Ganges canal system projects and is used to irrigates the Doab region of India. Ganga Yamuna doab is located in western and southwestern Uttar Pradesh, between the Ganges and Yamuna rivers.

• Statement 2 is correct:The Buckingham Canal is a fresh water canal runs from Vijayawada to Villupuram District in Tamil Nadu. Buckingham Canal is second longest canal in India with an length of 421.55 km runs, along with Coromandel Coast of India. It connect most of the water bodies like PulicatLake,Krishna River and the port of Chennai.

Statement 3 is correct:ChoudharyKumbha Ram Canal project was inaugurated on 15 July 2013. The project aims to deliver freshwater of the Himalayas to Rajasthan. It was built under Indira Gandhi Nahar Project. Two reservoirs in Malsisar village of Jhunjhunu are also built for the same.

Answer: C

Explanation: In a recent notification SEBI allowed Category I, and II AIFs to borrow.

• Statement 1 is correct: AIFs are funds that pool capital from investors to invest in asset classes such as real estate, venture capital and private and public equity. In India, alternative investment funds (AIFs) are defined in Regulation 2(1) (b) of Securities and Exchange Board of India
• Statement 2 is incorrect:An AIF under the SEBI (Alternative Investment Funds) Regulations, 2012 can be established or incorporated in the form of a trust a company or a limited liability partnership or a body corporate. Most of the AIFs registered with SEBI are in trust form.
• Statement 3 is correct: Under SEBI Guidelines, AIFs Operate in 3 Categories:

Category I: AIFs invest in start-up or early-stage ventures or other areas which the government considers as economically desirable. Examples: Startups, MSMEs, Infrastructure funds.

Category II: AIF includes real estate funds, private equity funds, and funds for distressed assets. Such funds are prohibited from raising debt except for meeting day-to-day requirements.

Category III: AIFs are those investing with a view to make short-term returns and include hedge funds.

Answer: A

Explanation:

• Statement 1 is correct: NMCG is a registered society under the Ministry of Jal Shakti, (GOI). It acted as the implementation arm of the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA), which was constituted under the Environment (Protection) Act (EPA), 1986. NGRBA was dissolved on 7th October 2016 and was replaced by the National Council for Rejuvenation, Protection, and Management of River Ganga.

Statement 2 is incorrect:The Act envisages five tier structure at national, state and district level to take measures for prevention, control and abatement of environmental pollution in river Ganga and to ensure continuous adequate flow of water so as to rejuvenate the river Ganga as below;

1. National Ganga Council under chairmanship of Hon’ble Prime Minister of India.
2. Empowered Task Force (ETF) on river Ganga under chairmanship of Hon’ble Union Minister of Jal Shakti (Department of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation).
3. National Mission for Clean Ganga(NMCG).
4. State Ganga Committees and
5. District Ganga Committees in every specified district abutting river Ganga and its tributaries in the states.

Answer: A

Explanation: Biomedical researcher Leonard Hayflick, who discovered that normal somatic cells can divide (and thus reproduce) only a certain number of times recently passed away.

• Option (a) is correct:In the early 1960s, Hayflick discovered that cell division in somatic (non-reproductive) cells stopped after roughly 40-60 times. This cessation in cell division is what Hayflick posited causes aging — as senescent cells (those that have stopped dividing) accumulate, one’s body begins to age and decline. This means that there is an in-built cellular clock in the human body (and that of other organisms) which determines how long one can live. This “ultimate Hayflick limit”, as scientists have termed it, is around 125 years for humans, beyond which no amount of diet, exercise, or even genetic tweaking against diseases can extend the human lifespan.

Answer: A

Explanation: A grassland, in geographical terms, is a type of ecosystem characterized by open spaces covered primarily with various types of grasses and other non-woody plants.

• Row 1 is incorrectly matched: In Kutch District, Gujarat State, India, the Banni Grasslands Reserve, also known as the Banni and Vidi grasslands, is a belt of dry grassland environment on the outer southern edge of the desert of the marshy salt flats of the Rann of Kutch.  It is a type of coastal grasslands in India.The Banni is also home to 22 ethnic groups, the majority of whom are pastoralists. It is home to great biological diversity, having 37 grass species, 275 bird species, and domesticated animals like Buffalo, Sheep, Goat, Horses and Camel, as well as wildlife.  The Kutch Desert Wildlife Sanctuary and ChhariDhand Conservation Reserve are part of the Banni Grasslands.

• Row 2 is correctly matched:Phumdi, also referred to as Phumthi, are a group of floating islands that are found only in the Loktak Lake in the northeastern Indian state of Manipur. They are heterogeneous masses of plants, soil, and organic debris in various states of decay that make up a sizable portion of the lake area. The KeibulLamjao National Park, the largest floating park in the world, is made up of this mass. The southeasterly portion of Loktak Lake, which makes up the KeibulLamjao NationalPark, is home to the largest of all the phumdis in the lake. It is a type of wet grasslands of India.

Row 3 is incorrectly matched: Himalayan grasslands, colloquially referred to as “Bahaks” or “Margs,” are a unique legacy in Jammu and Kashmir and are recognized for their ecological importance, visual beauty, and species-rich, taxonomically diverse flora. Pastorals and other indigenous tribes gather and use plants in a variety of ways all throughout these grasslands. The state’s grasslands were divided as tropical to sub-tropical, sub-temperate to alpine, sub-temperate to sub-temperate, and alpine meadows. It is a type of montane grassland.