Insights Current Affairs Quiz (2016) – 30
01 February 2016
The following quiz will have 5-10 MCQs . The questions are mainly framed from The Hindu and PIB news articles.
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INSIGHTS CURRENT EVENTS QUIZ 2016
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Question 1 of 5
1. Question
1 points‘Nano’ is a unit prefix meaning
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Question 2 of 5
2. Question
1 points‘Electronic-beam’, ‘Optical’ and ‘Electro-’ lithography in the Electronics industry are processes that are used for
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Ans: c.
“An invention by Bengaluru-based scientists at IISc is all set to make inroads into the billion-dollar Nano-electronics industry. This is disruptive because the technology can drastically reduce the cost of the existing state-of-the-art e-beam lithography and optical lithography. This invention is a new way to etch thin lines on a substrate using electrodes, termed electro-lithography.”
“This will come in very useful in inscribing, for instance, nanometer-scale circuits which make up IC chips and minute transistors among others. Once developed into prototypes, this technique could in principle reduce the cost of the equipment used presently from about five crore rupees per piece to merely Rs.15-20 lakhs.”
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Ans: c.
“An invention by Bengaluru-based scientists at IISc is all set to make inroads into the billion-dollar Nano-electronics industry. This is disruptive because the technology can drastically reduce the cost of the existing state-of-the-art e-beam lithography and optical lithography. This invention is a new way to etch thin lines on a substrate using electrodes, termed electro-lithography.”
“This will come in very useful in inscribing, for instance, nanometer-scale circuits which make up IC chips and minute transistors among others. Once developed into prototypes, this technique could in principle reduce the cost of the equipment used presently from about five crore rupees per piece to merely Rs.15-20 lakhs.”
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Question 3 of 5
3. Question
1 pointsWith reference to the Rowlatt Bills and Rowlatt Satyagraha of 1919, which of the following statements is/are incorrect?
- A ‘Satyagraha Sabha’ was formed to mobilise and organise the Satyagraha
- The object of the bills was to replace the provisions of the wartime Defence of India Act 1915 by a permanent law
- The acts, as passed by the Imperial Legislative Council, were never actually implemented
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
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Ans: d.
Page 181-182, India’s Struggle for Independence by Bipan Chandra
“Rowlatt Acts February 1919: The acts allowed certain political cases to be tried without juries and permitted internment of suspects without trial. Their object was to replace the repressive provisions of the wartime Defence of India Act (1915) by a permanent law. All nonofficial Indian members of the council (i.e., those who were not officials in the colonial government) voted against the acts. The acts were never actually implemented.”
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/gujarat-must-give-up-terror-bill/article8175731.ece
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Ans: d.
Page 181-182, India’s Struggle for Independence by Bipan Chandra
“Rowlatt Acts February 1919: The acts allowed certain political cases to be tried without juries and permitted internment of suspects without trial. Their object was to replace the repressive provisions of the wartime Defence of India Act (1915) by a permanent law. All nonofficial Indian members of the council (i.e., those who were not officials in the colonial government) voted against the acts. The acts were never actually implemented.”
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/gujarat-must-give-up-terror-bill/article8175731.ece
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Question 4 of 5
4. Question
1 pointsConsider the following statements:
- Under the Indian Telegraph Act, State Home Secretaries do not have independent authority to authorise interception of telephone calls
- The Prevention of Terrorism Act, 2003 is invoked often to file charges against individuals suspected of engaging in terrorist activities
Which of the statements above is/are correct?
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Ans: a.
“Under the Indian Telegraph Act, State Home Secretaries do authorise telephone taps, but using power delegated to them by the Centre.”
“India’s repeated experiments with anti-terrorism laws have been, by and large, unsuccessful. The Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act, 1985, a law considered as draconian as the Rowlatt Act of the colonial era, and its latter-day version, the Prevention of Terrorism Act, 2003, had been allowed to lapse after it was found that they were prone to persistent misuse. However, with the substantive amendments made to the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act in 2012, the country does have an effective law to curb modern-day terrorism.”
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/gujarat-must-give-up-terror-bill/article8175731.ece
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Ans: a.
“Under the Indian Telegraph Act, State Home Secretaries do authorise telephone taps, but using power delegated to them by the Centre.”
“India’s repeated experiments with anti-terrorism laws have been, by and large, unsuccessful. The Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act, 1985, a law considered as draconian as the Rowlatt Act of the colonial era, and its latter-day version, the Prevention of Terrorism Act, 2003, had been allowed to lapse after it was found that they were prone to persistent misuse. However, with the substantive amendments made to the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act in 2012, the country does have an effective law to curb modern-day terrorism.”
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/gujarat-must-give-up-terror-bill/article8175731.ece
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5. Question
1 pointsWith regard to the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) recent Country Quota reforms, which of the following statements is/are correct?
- The BRIC nations will be among the ten largest members alongside large advanced economies in terms of voting share in the IMF
- The combined capital that IMF’s 188 member-countries contribute to it is set to double
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
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Ans: c.
“The greatest gains from the reforms accrue to the IMF itself, as the combined capital that its 188 member-countries contribute will increase to approximately $659 billion from nearly $329 billion. Other winners are India and China, who have respectively increased their voting shares by 0.292 and 2.265 percentage points. The emerging economies wrested a 2.6 percentage points increase. The developed nations have had a haircut in their voting share, somewhere between 0.2 and 0.5 percentage points. Consequently, India, China, Brazil, and Russia will be among the 10 largest members alongside large advanced economies.”
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/on-imfs-country-quota-reforms/article8175732.ece
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Ans: c.
“The greatest gains from the reforms accrue to the IMF itself, as the combined capital that its 188 member-countries contribute will increase to approximately $659 billion from nearly $329 billion. Other winners are India and China, who have respectively increased their voting shares by 0.292 and 2.265 percentage points. The emerging economies wrested a 2.6 percentage points increase. The developed nations have had a haircut in their voting share, somewhere between 0.2 and 0.5 percentage points. Consequently, India, China, Brazil, and Russia will be among the 10 largest members alongside large advanced economies.”
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/on-imfs-country-quota-reforms/article8175732.ece
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