World Current Affairs

Option: C
Explanation :The Kounotori8, which means ‘white stork’, is the world’s biggest transport spaceship according to Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency(JAXA). HTV-8 is the eighth mission of robotic Kounotori8 cargo ship to resupply the International Space Station (ISS). It was meant to lift-off on September 11, 6.33 AM JST from Tanegashima Space Center in Minamitane, Japan. However, the launch was aborted when a fire broke out at 3:05 AM JST.
The launch was then rescheduled to September 24, 1:30 AM JST, but eventually the launch date was postponed again. The launch provider, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, delayed the launch after analysis of the ISS and Soyuz spacecraft as there was a possibility that the second stage of the H-IIB rocket might approach the Soyuz spacecraft after separation.
Finally, on September 25 at 1:05 a.m JST, the H-IIB launch vehicle lifted off from the Tanegashima Space Center. The spaceship will arrive on the ISS on September 28. The resupply mission will deliver about 5.3 tonnes of supplies to the astronauts aboard the ISS, including fresh food, water, batteries and devices required for experiments.
According to NASA, the spaceship is carrying six new lithium-ion batteries and adapter plates that are meant to replace the older nickel-hydrogen batteries powering the station’s far port truss segment. A series of robotics and spacewalks will be required for changing the batteries. Experiments aboard the spaceship are an upgrade to the Cell Biology Experiment Facility (CBEF-L), a small-sized satellite optical communication system (SOLISS), and a payload for testing the effects of gravity on powder and granular material (Hourglass).

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Option: B
Explanation :The collaboration builds on the unprecedented digital success of the ICC World Cup 2019, which cemented cricket’s position as one of the world’s most watched sports.
The International Cricket Council on Thursday(26-sep-2019) announced a landmark deal with Facebook which will become the exclusive digital content rights partner for ICC global events and will also carry post-match recaps throughout the rest of the world through to 2023.
The collaboration builds on the unprecedented digital success of the ICC World Cup 2019, which cemented cricket’s position as one of the world’s most watched sports, netting 4.6 billion #CWC19 video views across ICC’s digital and social media platforms.
Facebook will carry a range of digital content across four years including match recaps, in-play key moments and other match and feature content, giving the hundreds of millions of cricket fans in the region the opportunity to deepen their engagement with the sport with more content available than ever before.

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Option: D
Explanation :The SAARC Council of Ministers meeting is to be held in New York on 26th Sep 2019. Nepal is chairing the meeting. SAARC is a South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation. The member nations of the grouping are Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Pakistan. The last and 18th SAARC summit was held in Kathmandu.

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Option: C
Explanation :World Tourism Day is celebrated every year by the United Nations World Tourism Organization since 1980 on 27 September. This date was chosen to be so because, on that day in 1970, the Statutes of the UNWTO were adopted.
Travelling has become a major source of revenue for several countries across the globe in the last several decades. The advent of social media has also paved a way for the exhibitionism of our lives.
The aim of the day is to raise awareness about the role of tourism and to focus on the fact that travelling has a major social, cultural, political and economic effect on all of our lives.
“That is why, in 2019, in line with United Nations World Tourism Organisation’s overarching focus on skills, education and jobs throughout the year, World Tourism Day will be a celebration on the topic ‘Tourism and Jobs: a better future for all,’ it added.

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Option: D
Explanation :World Tourism Day is celebrated every year by the United Nations World Tourism Organization since 1980 on 27 September. This date was chosen to be so because, on that day in 1970, the Statutes of the UNWTO were adopted.
Travelling has become a major source of revenue for several countries across the globe in the last several decades. The advent of social media has also paved a way for the exhibitionism of our lives.
The aim of the day is to raise awareness about the role of tourism and to focus on the fact that travelling has a major social, cultural, political and economic effect on all of our lives.
“That is why, in 2019, in line with United Nations World Tourism Organisation’s overarching focus on skills, education and jobs throughout the year, World Tourism Day will be a celebration on the topic ‘Tourism and Jobs: a better future for all,’ it added.

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Option: B
Explanation :Prime Minister Imran Khan has announced that Pakistan, Turkey, and Malaysia will jointly start an English language channel dedicated to confronting Islamophobia. This was announced by Prime Minister Imran Khan in a tweet 26-sep-2019. The decision was announced after a trilateral meeting between Prime Minister Imran Khan, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Malaysian PM Mahathir Mohamad on the sidelines of the 74th UNGA session being held in New York.
Under the joint venture, series and films would be produced so that the Muslims and the world can be educated on Islamic history, he said. The channel aims to set the record straight about Islam. PM Khan called for effective measures to counter hate speech and Islamophobia, stressing upon the importance of addressing both the causes and consequences of these phenomena

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Option: B
Explanation :The ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2019 was the most-watched ICC event ever, with a global cumulative average audience of 1.6 billion for live coverage, a 38% increase over the 2015 edition and a unique broadcast audience of 706 million viewers, demonstrating the phenomenal reach and power of live cricket around the world.
There were more fans watching the 2019 edition compared to the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 in Pakistan with a 37% increase, Bangladesh saw 35% more fans watching and in Sri Lanka the figures were up 11% on 2015, reaching a unique audience of over 100 million.
The most-watched match in India was India against Pakistan which had a unique TV audience of 233 million from the 273 million unique viewers that had tuned in globally. The tournament reach within India was 545 million across TV and digital platforms.
A unique audience of 15.4 million witnessed the most exciting final in Cricket World Cup history via Sky Sports, Sky, Channel 4 and More 4, peaking with 8.92m unique viewers at 19:29 at the start of the historic Super Over. This is the highest ever peak for a cricket match on record for UK television audiences. The Final also received the highest viewing hours for a live cricket match on UK record with 36.6 million.

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Option: A
Explanation :Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stands at the top of the most influential Muslims list, followed by Saudi King Salman bin Abdul-Aziz Al-Saud, King of Jordan Abdullah II ibn Al-Hussein stands at third, while Supreme Leader of Iran Ali Khamenei is at fourth. King of Morocco His Majesty Amir al-Mu’minin is at fifth.
Among the top 50, ranked at 29 is PM Imran, whose crackdown on corruption and bringing “accountability” to the forefront has fast made him a global name.

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Option: C
Explanation :Prime Minister Imran Khan has been ranked at 29th place in the list of World’s 500 Most Influential Muslims by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Center.
The premier has jumped from 450th in 2018 to 29th in 2019 for his humanitarian contributions, political struggles, efforts to curb corruption and money-laundering and achievements in the field of sports.
Sheikh Taqi Usmani is the highest-ranked Pakistani in the list. The Deobandi figurehead is listed as the 6th most prominent Muslim in the world.
Prominent religious scholar and preacher, Maulana Tariq Jameel, and Nobel Peace laureate, Malala Yousafzai have also been named among the most influential Muslims across the globe.

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Option: B
Explanation :Last there states to join NATO are Albania(2009),Croatia(2009) and Montenegro(2017). As of 2019, NATO officially recognizes four aspiring members: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, North Macedonia and Ukraine. North Macedonia signed an accession protocol to become a NATO member state in February 2019, which is undergoing ratification by the member states.
So Macedonia is undergoing ratification while Albania,Croatia joined NATO in 2009.

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