Daily Current Affairs Quiz – 18th Dec. 2020

ANS: (A) Bangladesh

ANS: (D) Neither 1 nor 2

ANS: (B)

Explanation:

• Human Freedom Index is a global ranking of personal, civil and economic freedom.
• The index is published by American think tank Cato Institute and Fraser Institute in Canada.
• It takes into account 76 indicators of personal, civil, and economic freedoms to rank 162 countries.
• The scoring is done on a scale of 0 to 10, where 10 represents more freedom.

ANS: (A) 1 only

Explanation

• The summoning of Parliament is specified in Article 85 of the Constitution.
• The power to convene a session of Parliament rests with the Government. Hence, statement 1 is correct.
  • The decision is taken by the Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs which is formalised by the President, in whose name MPs are summoned to meet for a session.
• India does not have a fixed parliamentary calendar. By convention (i.e. not provided by the Constitution), Parliament meets for three sessions in a year. Hence, statement 2 is not correct.
  • The longest, Budget Session (1^st session), starts towards the end of January, and concludes by the end of April or first week of May. The session has a recess so that Parliamentary Committees can discuss the budgetary proposals.
  • The second session is the three-week Monsoon Session, which usually begins in July and finishes in August.
  • Winter Session (3^rd session), is held from November to December.

ANS: (B) World Bank

Forest Investment Programme (FIP) was established by the World Bank in 2009 for supporting sustainable forest management and reforestation activities, in line with REDD objectives.

Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) is a World Bank programme and consists of a Readiness Fund and a Carbon Fund. The FCPF was created to assist developing countries to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, enhance and conserve forest carbon stocks, and sustainably manage forests (REDD ).