Daily Current Affairs MCQs : 7 April 2024 - Humanities/Arts MCQ

The Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) is operating the Krishna Godavari Basin Deep Sea Project in the Bay of Bengal. The project is located in the KG-DWN-98/2 block, which has been delayed and extended multiple times over the past few years. The Krishna Godavari Basin is a petroliferous basin on the east coast of India. The onshore part is 15,000 square kilometers, and the offshore part is 25,000 square kilometers. ONGC has hired the floating platform Armada Sterling V for the project. The platform is owned 70% by Shapoorji Palonji Oil and Gas and 30% by Malaysia’s Bumi Armada.

Gharana Wetland Conservation Reserve near the International Border in Jammu witnesses a significant annual event: the arrival of thousands of migratory birds. This wetland, located approximately 35 kilometres from Jammu, becomes a hub for bird enthusiasts as over 6,000 bar-headed geese and various other species from the northern hemisphere migrate to the region during winter each year. The wetland serves as a winter habitat for these birds, attracting a large number of visitors, including students and photography enthusiasts.

The NAMASTE (National Ayush Morbidity and Standardised Terminologies Electronic) Portal, which was recently in the news, is associated with the field of Traditional Medicine. This portal plays a significant role in the documentation and standardization of terminologies in the traditional medicine systems such as Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, and Homeopathy. Its development and launch were integral to the inclusion of traditional medicine terminologies in the World Health Organization’s International Classification of Diseases (ICD) list. The NAMASTE Portal reflects the growing recognition and systematization of traditional medicine in global healthcare frameworks, aiming to facilitate research, integration, and understanding of these ancient health practices.

Punjab has become the first state in India to map all 784 accident black spots on the Mappls App, a navigation system developed by MapMyIndia. This initiative, announced by Punjab Director General of Police (DGP) Gaurav Yadav, is part of the preparations for the launch of Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann’s ‘Sadak Suraksha Force’. The Mappls App provides real-time traffic updates and voice alerts in Punjabi about black and blind spots, aiming to enhance road safety by alerting motorists about potential hazards. This pioneering effort marks a significant step in using technology for improving road safety in the state.

The foundation for capacity development at NEIAFMR, including a new centre for traditional Tibetan medicine (Sowa Rigpa), is laid in Arunachal Pradesh.

India’s Aditya L1 satellite has begun unravelling solar wind enigmas as two cutting-edge particle spectrometers commenced data gathering in recent months. The SWIS and STEPS instruments on the Aditya Solar Wind Particle Experiment payload have detected protons, Helium ions and energy histograms exhibiting solar wind behavior fluctuations near Sun-Earth Lagrange Point L1.
SWIS’ 360-degree coverage and directional monitoring capacities will significantly further comprehension of solar wind properties, variability and links to space weather influencing Earth. Researchers eagerly anticipate more revelations to address enduring questions about the complex solar wind and corona heating as Aditya L1 nears L1 orbital point for uninterrupted solar observation.

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft recently discovered that an asteroid named Dinkinesh, which it flew past last month, has a tiny “contact binary” moon – two space rocks gently rested against each other. The International Astronomical Union approved the name “Selam” for this moon, meaning “peace” in Ethiopia’s language.
The names Dinkinesh and Selam refer to two famous hominid fossils discovered in Ethiopia. Dinkinesh is the Ethiopian name for the 3.18 million-year-old Lucy fossil that the Lucy mission is named after. Selam was a 3-year-old girl’s fossil found in 2000 in Dikika, belonging to the same species as Lucy and dating over 100,000 years earlier than her.

Vedanta, under Anil Agarwal's leadership, successfully acquired full ownership of Meenakshi Energy, as approved by the National Company Law Tribunal for Rs 1,440 crore.

French ambassador to India honoured Lalithambika, former director, Directorate of the Human Spaceflight Programme of ISRO with Legion d’Honneur.
Lalithambika has worked extensively on various ISRO rockets, especially PSLV. Lalithambika is the second ISRO scientist after former ISRO chairman A S Kiran Kumar to be awarded the Legion d’Honneur of France for promoting Indo-French space cooperation.

Angadvir Singh Bajwa and Ganemat Sekhon won the mixed skeet gold for Punjab in the 66th National shooting championship.
In the women’s 50-metre rifle 3-position event, Asian Games champion Sift Kaur Samra beat Olympian Anjum Moudgil by 1.9 point for the gold.