02: Daily Geography Current Affairs - 23rd April 2021

 02: Daily Geography Current Affairs - 23rd April 2021

1. Currently which State is conducting 'Wildlife Census'?

a. Haryana

b. Madhyapradesh

c. Chattisgarh

d. Jharkhand.

Ans: a - Haryana

Recently Haryana is conducting the 'Wildlife Census' - the process of counting wildlife animals. The ongoing census focused on the counting of the monkey population in urban areas, with the help of the Haryana forest department, local people, and a special collaboration with Wildlife Institute of India (WII), Dehradun Chapter. For more details click here. 

2. What is the full form of KAAC?

a. Kalyan Accredational and Accounting Council

b. Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council

c. Kolkata Arts and Aesthetics Committee. 

d. Kerala Advance Academy of Culture

Ans. b - Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council

It is located at the district of Karbi Anglong, in the state of Assam, where major tribes are Karbis, Bodos, Kukis, Dimasas, Hmars, Garos, Rengma Nagas, Tiwas, and Man. These groups of people are most demanding for an autonomous status of the district, hence, a long history of political unrest has been prevailing there. By taking the advantages of that unrest, wildlife smuggling and trading - mainly the horn of rhinoceros has mushroomed across the region. 40% area of the region is under forest cover, so the rich bio-diversity is very common.

The smuggling route is - Kaziranga in Assam - Karbi Anglong - Nagaland - Moreh in Manipur - border in Myanmar.

For more details click here

3. What is the nearest neighbor star of the Sun?

a. Alpha Centauri A & B

b. Proxima Centauri.

c. Barnard's Star

d. Wolf 359

Ans: b - Proxima Centauri

Proxima Centauri is the nearest star of our solar system, with a distance of  4.243 light-years or more than 20 trillion miles away from the Earth. It is a red dwarf star that indicates the dimming (i.e., ending of the life) effects of the star itself. Proxima Centauri host two revolving planets, one of them look like the planet Earth. For more details click here.

4. Deep fake Geography?

a. falsify the documents

b. modified the maps and documents

c. falsify the satellite imagery using AI

d. none of the above

Ans: d - Falsify the satellite imagery using AI

The recent development of deep fake technology is based on Artificial Technology, however, it's prime tendency is to falsify the truth. In present-day geographical research, the geo-spatial technique is very much prone to effected by deepfake geography. The bad side machine learning and artificial techniques could cause significant decline of the research quality. For more details click here .

5. When 'Looking East Policy'  launched and by Whom?

a. Manmohan Singh - 2011

b. Atal Bihari Bajpayee - 1999

c. Narashima Rao - 1991

d. Narendra Modi - 2015

Ans: c - Narashima Rao 1991

India's Look East Policy was formulated during Narasimha Rao's government in 1991 for better economic engagement with its eastern neighbours, but the following government successfully turned it into a tool for forging strategic partnership and security cooperation with countries in that region in general and Vietnam and Japan in particular. However PM Modi, administration more focused on the 'Acting East Policy'. For more details click here. 

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