Daily Quiz 14th January 2017

Explanation
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-opinion/Surviving-the-drought/article17031553.ece

More than a decade ago, the National Commission on Farmers pointed out that successive droughts, illness, high expenditure on social obligations and asset loss push farmers to the brink. Yet, not much has changed in the management of drought from the low-budget practices of the colonial era, as the Swaraj Abhiyan case in the Supreme Court last year revealed.

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The U.S. government used the term "Operation Enduring Freedom – Afghanistan" to officially describe the War in Afghanistan, from the period between October 2001 and December 2014. Continued operations in Afghanistan by the United States' military forces, both non-combat and combat, now occur under the name Operation Freedom's Sentinel.

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Coringa Wildlife Sanctuary is a wildlife sanctuary and estuary situated in Andhra Pradesh, India. It is the second largest stretch of mangrove forests in India. Recently in News for Olive Ridley Turtles.

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The Hutu /ˈhuːtuː/, also known as the Abahutu, are a population inhabiting the African Great Lakes region. They mainly live in Rwanda, Burundi, and the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, where they form one of the principal population divisions alongside the Tutsi and the Twa.

There was a mass killing in Rwanda in 1994 of the Hutu Population.