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Given:

Robert has four vehicles.in which two are of red colour and one vehicle is minivan.

Calculation:

Here, 

Option 1: Robert has a red minivan.

Yes it satisfied the fact.

This option is correct.

Option 2:

Robert has three cars.

This statement is not correct.

Because we know Robert has four vehicles but we cannot say that the three vehicles are car.

∴ This statement is wrong.

Option 3:  Robert’s favorite colour is red.

We cannot say that on behalf of vehicles colour, his favorite colour is red.

∴ This statement is wrong.

∴ Only fact 1 is correct.

∴ Option 1 is correct.

Key Points

• The Space Situational Awareness (SSA) launched by ISRO would monitor low Earth orbit- LEO satellites which have remote sensing aircraft.
• It is set up in ISTRAC campus in Peenya, Bengaluru.
• The ISRO has planned to put up many observational facilities like connected radars, telescopes, data processing units and control centers.
• The control center would be functioning as a hub of all SSA activities within India
• Concurrent processing of data from the upcoming observational facilities for space objects’, orbit determination, correlation and catalogue generation would be taking place here.

Hence, ISRO has set up a dedicated space situational awareness control center named Space Situational Awareness.

Recently Telangana declared 2020 as the year of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and has signed MoUs with tech firms for AI research.

Key Points

• Telangana Government organised an event on January 02, 2020, to declare the year 2020 as the year of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
• The Telangana government declared 2020 as the year of artificial intelligence (AI) and inked nine memoranda of understanding (MoUs) with IT players and educational institutions to develop various use cases as well as to conduct research on the application of AI and creation of talent pool in this area.
• Telangana is the first state in India to launch an actionable policy framework for Artificial Intelligence in June 2020 with a special focus on sectors such as agriculture, healthcare, education, law enforcement and mobility.
• The founding pillars of the framework have been identified across 6 areas:
• Data exchange platform and HPAIC,
• Government ethics and privacy,
• Skilling and education,
• Research & Innovation,
• Adoption and community collaboration
• AI Innovestment Fund.
• As per the partnerships, a Centre for Research in Applied Artificial Intelligence (CRiAA) and a Research & Development (R&D) park will be soon set up in Telengana.

Additional Information 

• There are 1500 IT/ITeS companies that employ over 5.8 lakh professionals, besides providing indirect employment to over 7 lakh people.
• Telangana's IT/ITeS Exports grew at 17.93% compared to the National Average of 8.09% and the rest of the Nation's Average of 6.92%.

The Vienna Convention is often called a framework convention because it served as a framework for efforts to protect the globe’s ozone layer.

Key Points 

• The objective of the Vienna Convention is to preserve human health and to protect the environment from any harmful effects of the depletion of the ozone layer.
• The Vienna Convention was the first convention of any kind to be signed by every country involved, in the Protection of the Ozone Layer. It is a multilateral environmental agreement signed in 1985 taking effect in 1988 and reaching universal ratification in 2009.
• This speaks to the enormity of ozone depletion at the time and the willingness of countries around the world to work together to solve it.
• The Vienna Convention did not require countries to take concrete actions to control ozone depleting substances.
• Instead, in accordance with the provisions of the Convention, the countries of the world agreed with the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer the Convention, to advance that goal.

Additional Information

• The Basel Convention regulates the transboundary movements of hazardous wastes and other wastes and obliges its Parties to ensure that such wastes are managed and disposed of in an environmentally sound manner. The Convention covers toxic, poisonous, explosive, corrosive, flammable, ecotoxic, and infectious wastes.
• The Bonn Convention is the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (also known as CMS ) aims to conserve terrestrial, marine, and avian migratory species throughout their range.
• The Stockholm Convention is a global treaty to protect human health and the environment from persistent organic pollutants (POPs). POPs are chemicals that remain intact in the environment for long periods, become widely distributed geographically, accumulate in the fatty tissue of living organisms, and are toxic to humans and wildlife. POPs circulate globally and can cause damage wherever they travel. In implementing the Convention, Governments will take measures to eliminate or reduce the release of POPs into the environment. Over 152 countries ratified the Convention and it entered into force, on 17 May 2004.

Hence the Vienna convention is adopted for the protection of ozone layer.

The Panna national park was declared as a UNESCO biosphere reserve in 2020.

Key Points

• Panna National Park in Madhya Pradesh has been declared a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in 2020.
• Panna National Park is a national park located in the Panna and Chhatarpur districts of Madhya Pradesh in India.
• The Panna tiger reserve is situated in the Vindhya mountain range in the northern part of Madhya Pradesh.

Important Points

• UNESCO, an acronym for United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) that was outlined in a constitution signed November 16, 1945.
• Every year UNESCO appoints new biosphere reserves and removes others to promote the conservation of biodiversity, resolve the man-animal conflict at that site and allow sustainable use of natural resources.
• The idea of the biosphere reserve was initiated by UNESCO in 1974 under the Man and the Biosphere Programme with the objective of obtaining international cooperation for the conservation of the biospheres.
• The first of India’s reserves to make it to UNESCO’s list was Tamil Nadu’s Niligiri Biosphere Reserve in 2000.

Additional Information

• Kaziranga National Park a world heritage site is famous for the Great Indian one-horned rhinoceros. The Kaziranga National Park was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1985.
• In 2016, Khangchendzonga National Park, Sikkim was inscribed as India’s first “Mixed World Heritage Site” on UNESCO World Heritage List, by fulfilling the nomination criteria under both natural and cultural heritage.
• Bandipur is a renowned National Park located in Karnataka in the district of Charajnagar, in southern India.

The digital stethoscope called AyuSynk to check patients who were infected with COVID- 19 was developed by  IIT Bombay.

Key Points

• IIT-Bombay has developed a digital stethoscope called “AyuSynk” to check patients who are infected with COVID-19.
• AyuSynk can be attached to any conventional stethoscope, to amplify chest sounds and send them wirelessly from patients to doctors without physical tubing.
• The AyuSynk digital device was developed by Ayu Devices, a startup of IIT Bombay, in association with Biomedical Engineering and Technology incubation Centre (BETiC).
• The device is being deployed for remote auscultation (listening to chest sounds). The basic version of the digital stethoscope can also be connected to a mobile or laptop through a wire or via Bluetooth.
• The device allows storing the auscultated sound as part of the health record of the patient and sharing it with other doctors for confirmatory opinion.

Additional Information

• The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has developed an ultraviolet (UV) disinfection tower that can be used for rapid and chemical-free disinfection of infection-prone areas.
• The oxygen enrichment technology was developed indigenously by the CSIR-Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute (CSIR-CMERI) for treating COVID-19 patients.

The chairman of the National Expert Group On Vaccine Administration for COVID-19 (NEGVAC) Dr V.K. Paul.

Key Points

• National Expert Group on Vaccine Administration for COVID-19, met for the first time on 12^th August 2020.
• The meeting was chaired by Dr V K Paul, Member Niti Aayog along with Secretary (Ministry of Health and Family Welfare) as co-Chair.
• National Expert Group on Vaccine Administration for COVID-19 (NEGVAC) is an expert committee constituted by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), India to provide advice and guidance on all aspects of COVID-19 vaccination.
• The committee is also responsible for prioritisation of population groups in the country, deciding procurement and inventory management procedure, selection and delivery of vaccines etc.
• Issues related to vaccine safety and surveillance were taken up and strategies for community involvement through transparent information and awareness creation were discussed in the meeting.

Additional Information

• Mr Amitabh Kant serves as the former Chief Executive Officer of NITI Aayog.
• He is a member of the Indian Administrative Service, Kerala Cadre, 1980 batch.
• Currently, Parameswaran Iyer is the CEO of NITI Aayog appointed in June 2022.
• Suman Bery is the current vice-chairperson of the NITI Aayog.

The winner of the French Open 2021 men's singles title is Novak Djokovic.

Key Points

• Novak Djokovic won the men's singles tennis title at the 2021 French Open by defeating Stefanos Tsitsipas in the final.
• It was his second French Open title and 19^th major title overall. With the win, he became the first man to achieve the double Career Grand Slam in the Open Era.
• The French Open is a major tennis tournament held over two weeks at the Stade Roland-Garros in Paris, France, beginning in late May each year.
• The French Open is the premier clay court championship in the world and the only Grand Slam tournament currently held on this surface.

Important Points 

• Novak Djokovic (born May 22, 1987) is a Serbian tennis player who was one of the premier performers in the early 21^st century.
• He won a record 9 Australian Open championships, and he was the third player (after Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal) to win 20 Grand Slam men’s singles titles.
• Djokovic entered the top 100 of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) at age 18, and in July 2006 he won his first ATP event.

Additional Information

• Rafael Nadal Parera is a Spanish professional tennis player. He is ranked world No. 3 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals.
• Roger Federer is a Swiss professional tennis player. He has been ranked world No. 1 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 310 weeks.
• Dominic Thiem is an Austrian professional tennis player. He is the second-highest ranked Austrian player in history, behind former world No. 1 Thomas Muster.

The Asian Games 2022 will be hosted in China.

Key Points

• The 2022 Asian Games are due to take place in Hangzhou in China.
• Hangzhou will be the third Chinese city to host the event, after Beijing in 1990 and Guangzhou in 2010.
• The 2022 Asian Games will be a multi-sport event celebrated in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China from 10 to 25 September 2022.
• The official slogan of the 2022 Asian Games, "Heart to Heart, @Future" was announced on 15 December 2019 to mark 1,000 days before the opening ceremonies.
• The slogan is intended to symbolise the connectivity that the Asian Games create between the countries of Asia.

Additional Information

• India hosted the first Asian Games at New Delhi in 1951.
• The 2026 Asian Games will be hosted by Japan in Nagoya city.
• The 1962 Asian Games was hosted by Indonesia in 1962.

The prestigious Akashvani Music Festival has been renamed after Pandit Bhimsen Joshi.

Key Points

• On Feb 06, 2020, Union Minister for Information & Broadcasting announced that the prestigious Akashvani Music Festival had been renamed after Pandit Bhimsen Joshi.
• This announcement was made at Pandit Bhimsen Joshi Centenary Commemorative function organized in Pune.
• Pandit Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi was one of the greatest Indian vocalists from Karnataka, in the Hindustani classical tradition.
• He was known for the khayal form of singing, as well as for his popular renditions of devotional music.
• He belongs to the Kirana Gharana tradition of Hindustani Classical Music.
• Pandit Bhimsen Joshi was widely recognised in India due to his performance in the Mile Sur Mera Tumhara music video (1988), which begins with him and was composed originally by him.

Additional Information

• Pandit Ravi Shankar was an Indian sitarist and composer. A sitar virtuoso, he became the world's best-known exponent of North Indian classical music.
• Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi was an Indian Carnatic singer from Madurai, Tamil Nadu. She was the first musician ever to be awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour and Ramon Magsaysay award.
• Pandit Shivkumar Sharma is an Indian music composer and santoor player from the state of Jammu and Kashmir.