UPSC Quiz – 2023 : IASbaba’s Daily Current Affairs Quiz 24th July 2023

·       Programme’s objectives: Building solar workforces, standardizing products, setting up infrastructure, and raising awareness among policymakers in developing countries.

·       It aims to create a strong network of institutional capacities within ISA member states to enhance quality infrastructure for the uptake of solar energy products and services.

·       The 440 N thrust LAM engines provide the main propulsive force during the ascending phase, while the RCS thrusters ensure precise altitude correction.

·       With the successful completion of the hot test, the SMPS demonstrated its performance in the full configuration.

·       Dark matter is completely invisible. It emits no light or energy and thus cannot be detected by conventional sensors and detectors.

·       Dark Matter could be composed of both baryons and non-baryonic matter, meaning, they could consist different types of particles.

·       Generally dark matter is believed to be made up of particles that do not have a charge.

·       Visible matter, also called baryonic matter, consists of baryons, an overarching name for subatomic particles such as protons, neutrons and electrons.

·       The visible universe is the result of interactions of 4 fundamental forces namely, strong nuclear force, weak nuclear force, electromagnetic force and gravitation.

·       Dark energy is a negative repulsive force, that acts opposite to the direction of gravity.

·       An electronic cigarette is a battery-operated device that emits a vaporized solution to inhale.

·       These devices have various names, including e-cigarettes, e-hookahs, vaporizer cigarettes, vapes, and vape pens.

·       They come in a range of shapes. Some look like USB drives and others look like pens, for example.

PECA

·       The Act the production, manufacture, import, export, transport, sale, distribution and advertisement of e-cigarettes in India.

·       Any person who contravenes this provision will be punishable with imprisonment of up to one year, or a fine of up to one-lakh rupees, or both.

·       For any subsequent offence, the person will be punishable with an imprisonment of up to three years, along with a fine of up to five lakh rupees.

·       Under the Act, no person is allowed to use any place for the storage of any stock of e-cigarettes.

·       If any person stores any stock of e-cigarettes, he will be punishable with an imprisonment of up to six months, or a fine of up to Rs 50,000 or both.

·       Scientists believe that the crater is the result of a melting permafrost land, which was frozen during the Quaternary Ice Age 2.58 million years ago,

·       It began to form after the surrounding forest was cleared in the 1960s and the permafrost underground began to melt, causing the land to sink.

·       It is also called as “gateway to the underworld,” by some locals in Russia’s Sakha Republic It has a scientific name: a mega-slump.

·       This is produced by higher air temperatures, warming climate and anthropogenic impact.

·       It holds clues to prehistoric life on Earth. Researchers believe the exposed ice and soil along the crater’s edges could hold up to 200,000 years of geological and biological history.