10 PM Current Affairs Quiz : September 28

The movement of the eyebrows, the eye-balls and the lower eye-lids as described in the Natya Shastra are not used to such an extent in any other dance style. The weight of the body is on the outer edges of the feet which are slightly bent and curved.
In no other dance style is the entire body used so completely as in Kathakali. The technical details cover every part of the body from facial muscles to fingers, eyes, hands and wrists. The facial muscles play an important part.

Bihu is the most popular folk dance of Assam. Bihu dances are performed by young boys and girls during the Bihu festivities which represent youthful passion, reproductive urge and joy. It is characterized by brisk dance steps, and rapid hand movement. Dancers wear traditionally colorful Assamese clothing. The dances are accompanied by musical instruments like dhol(dholak), penpa, gagana, banhi(flute) etc. Though the origins of the Bihu dance is unknown, the first official endorsement is cited to be when Ahom king Rudra Singha invited Bihu dancers to perform at the Ranghar fields sometime around 1694 on the occasion of Rongali Bihu.
Statement 2 is incorrect. It is Bagurumba, one of the famous folk dances by the bodo community in Assam.
Details:
Bodo community has many folk dances to boast. Among them the best and the most attractive is the Bagurumba dance. This is mainly a formation dance with slow steps and outstretched hands. About a score of girls dressed in most colourful attire perform this dance to the accompany- merit of Bodo traditional musical instruments. A tourist in Assam can see this dance in the Bodo inhabited areas of Kokrajhar, Bongaigaon, Nalbari, Darrang and Sonitpur districts. It is the usually practiced during Bwisagu, a festival of the Bodos in the Bishuba Sankranti or Mid-April. The Bagurumba dance is also called “butterfly dance” because this attractive folk dance of the Bodo tribe of Assam, resembles the movement of birds and butterflies. Then young people reverentially bow down to their parents and elders.

Statement 1 is correct. Bills to reorganize states introduced with prior permission of the President
Statement 2 is correct. Bills affecting taxes in which the states are interested introduced with prior permission of the President
Statement 3 is correct. State bills imposing restrictions on freedom of trade introduced with prior permission of the President
Statement 4 is incorrect. Bills involving expenditure from the Contingency fund of India not introduced with prior permission of the President .

Statement 3 is incorrect as Climate proofing can be applied at national, sectoral, local and project level.

The heartbreaking issue of farmer’s suicide is being addressed by the NITI Aayog. As the matter is quite delicate and serious it was necessary to give the government some time to implement its welfare schemes.
Recent initiatives
Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bhima Yojan was a huge improvement over the previous schemes of the past.
ATM-enabled Kisan Credit cards had been introduced to enable farmers to purchase raw materials and draw cash.
The government has also initiated programmes like National Food Security Mission, National Mission for Oilseed and Oil Palm, Mission of Integrated Development for Horticulture, National Mission on Agricultural Extension and Technology.

Aquatic Rhabdops
The three-foot-long nocturnal snake hunts for prey underwater,
scientist named the new species after its aquatic nature since the adults are mostly associated with freshwater forest streams and juveniles are seen in water-logged areas, mostly on rocky plateaus,
Rhabdops aquaticus, was till now considered a variant of the Olive Forest Snake, first described in 1863. However, the new study confirms that the Aquatic Rhabdops is a different one: they sport not only different colours and patterns, but also vary in other features of size, shape and structure, and also genetic make-up.

Endemicity
all Rhabdops snakes are endemic to India.
The Olive Forest Snake Rhabdops olivaceus is found only in the Western Ghats
the bi-coloured Forest Snake Rhabdops bicolor lives in a few localities in the northeast.
The Aquatic Rhabdops too is found only in the laterite plateaus of the northern Western Ghats in Goa, southern Maharashtra and northern Karnataka, in areas facing severe human pressures.

Statement 2 is incorrect. A scheme for special Central assistance (SCA) for 35 districts worst hit by LWE had been introduced with an outlay of Rs. 3,000 crores to tackle the issue of underdevelopment. So, the amount is 3,000 crores and not 300 crores – which is a smaller amount.

Statement 1 is correct. Modernization of Police Forces (MPF) has been recently sppproved.

Thus, option a is the correct answer.