UPSC 2020: Weekly GK and Current Affairs Quiz Oct 24 - Oct 30

Which of the following statements is/are correct?

1. Parliamentary privilege refers to rights and immunities enjoyed by Parliament as an institution and by MPs in their individual capacity.
2. The Constitution of India does not specify any of the privileges and allows the Parliament to define them by passing a suitable law.

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Which of the following statements are correct regarding the Representation of Peoples Act, 1951?

1. The Act deals with the qualification and disqualification of members of both houses of Parliament.
2. According to it, a person convicted of any offence and sentenced to imprisonment for not less than two years shall be disqualified from the date of such conviction and shall continue to be disqualified for a further period of six years since his/her release.
3. It provides the conditions for the qualification of voters to be eligible for voting.

Which of the given statement/s is/are incorrect?

Which of the following statements are correct regarding the POCSO Act?

1. Recent amendments have included the provision of the death penalty for aggravated sexual assault on children.
2. The act provides for levying fines and imprisonment to curb child pornography.

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Which of the following statements are correct with regard to the SC guidelines on crackers?

1. These guidelines are valid only for the NCR where severe air pollution is a grave concern.
2. The Guidelines prohibit bursting of crackers in and around 100 mts from hospitals, educational institutes, religious institutions and courts.

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Which of the following statements are correct regarding the Sarus crane?

1. It is the tallest of all the flying birds.
2. It is endemic to the Indian sub-continent.
3. Unlike many other cranes that make long migrations, Sarus cranes are largely nonmigratory.
4. The Sarus crane is classified as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.

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Consider the following statements regarding SAFAR – India:

1. SAFAR stands for System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research.
2. The SAFAR system is developed by the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, along with the India Meteorological Department (IMD) and the National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF).
3. It provides location-specific information on air quality in near real-time and it forecasts 1-3 days in advance for the first time in India.

Which of the given statement/s is/are correct?

Which of the following tiger reserves is not correctly matched with its state location?

Consider the following statements with respect to “Snow Leopard”:

1. It is classified as “Endangered” in the IUCN Redlist.
2. It is the state animal of Himachal Pradesh.
3. Besides India, snow leopards are only found Pakistan, Russia and China.

Which of the given statement/s is/are correct?

Consider the following statements with respect to the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR):

1. The Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources is part of the Antarctic Treaty System.
2. It is headquartered in Tasmania in Australia.
3. India is not a member of the Convention.

Which of the given statement/s is/are incorrect?

Consider the following statements with respect to Lok Adalats:

1. National Legal Services Authority (NALSA), along with other Legal Services Institutions, conducts Lok Adalats.
2. Lok Adalats have been given statutory status.
3. The jurisdiction of the Permanent Lok Adalats is up to Rs. One Lakh.
4. The award of the Permanent Lok Adalat is final and binding on all the parties.

Which of the given statement/s is/are INCORRECT?

Consider the following statements with respect to the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana:

1. It is a part of the National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM).
2. It is a placement linked skill development program.
3. It is an initiative of the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship.

Which of the given statement/s is/are correct?

Which of the following is/are correct with respect to the Samagra Shiksha Scheme?

1. It subsumed the Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan and the Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan under it.
2. The scheme focuses on improving the quality of education at all levels by integrating the two T’s –Teachers and Technology.

Which of the following is/are correct about the Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana?

1. The objective of the scheme is to supplement or agriculture, modernize processing and decrease agricultural-waste and to utilize the potential in the fishery sector.
2. It is a centrally-sponsored scheme.

Which of the following is/are correct about the Ayushman Bharat Programme?

1. Ayushman Bharat is an integrated approach comprising health insurance and primary, secondary and tertiary healthcare.
2. Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY) is one of its components.

Which of the following is/are correct regarding the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana (PMGKY)?

1. It comes under the Ministry of Finance.
2. It was initially launched in 2016.
3. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the scheme was extended till November 2020.

Consider the following pairs:

Terms often seen in news                                             Context/Topic

1. Belle 2 experiment                                               Artificial Intelligence
2. Block chain technology                                     Digital Crypto currency
3. CRISPR – Cas9                                                            Particle Physics

Which of the pairs given above is/are correctly matched?

Which of the following statements is/are incorrect?

1. The Integrity Pact (IP) is a powerful tool developed by Transparency International (TI) to help governments, businesses and civil society fight corruption in public contracting.
2. For public procurement in India, the Integrity Pact is enforced by the Lokpal.

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Which of the following statements is/are correct?

1. The International Labour Organization (ILO) is a United Nations agency and is the first and oldest specialized agency of the UN.
2. The Governing Body of ILO decides on matters of agenda and budget as well as elects the Director-­General.
3. India holds a permanent seat in the governing body as one of the 10 States of chief industrial importance.

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The benchmark interest rate in India is fixed by –

Which of the following is/are a part of India’s foreign exchange reserves?

1. Gold
2. Foreign Currency Assets
3. Special Drawing Rights (SDRs)

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Matters related to visa and immigration policy, its guidelines and restrictions, are handled by the

INS Kavaratti of the Indian Navy, recently seen in news, is a –

Which of the following statements is/are correct?

1. The Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers (CPI-IW) is brought out by the Finance Ministry.
2. Recently, the base year for CPI-IW was changed from 2001 to 2016 to reflect the changing consumption pattern.
3. It is used for measuring retail inflation, to regulate the dearness allowance (DA) of government staff and industrial workers, as well as to revise minimum wages in scheduled employments.

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India’s sole operational aircraft carrier – INS Vikramaditya, was procured from which country?

The Nag Missile developed by the DRDO is a –

The Organization of American States (OAS) includes countries from

Which of the following is/are the indicator/indicators used by IFPRI to compute the Global Hunger Index Report?

1. Undernourishment
2. Child stunting
3. Child mortality

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What does COVIRAP, recently seen in news, refer to?

Which of the following statements best describes Annie Besant?

Which of the following statements is/are correct?

1. The historic Brihadishvara Temple is located in Belur, Karnataka.
2. It is located on the banks of the river Kaveri.
3. It was built by Raja Raja Chola-I and the temple is a part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site known as the “Great Living Chola Temples”.

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