QUIZ – 2016: Insights Current Affairs Quiz – 08 October, 2016

Solution: c.

Natural termination of the fixed term employment contract requires “no notice or pay in lieu thereof.”

“This step would ultimately benefit the workers as their working conditions would be at par with the regular employees including social security and other benefits. It would, on the one hand provide flexibility to the employers and on the other hand improve the working conditions of the workers already working for some fixed tenure only by way of contracts. The measures assume significance due also to its potential for social transformation through women empowerment; since 70% of the workforce in the garment industry are women, majority of the new jobs created are likely to go to women.”

http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=151537

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Solution: a.

“The Directorate General of Anti-Dumping and Allied Duties was constituted in April 1998 under Ministry of Commerce and Industry and is headed by the Designated Authority”.

“The role of DGAD is to ensure a level playing field to the Domestic Industry against the adverse impact of the unfair trade practices like dumping and actionable subsidies from any exporting country, by using Trade Remedial methods under relevant framework of WTO arrangements, Customs Tariff Act & Rules and other relevant laws and International agreements, in a transparent and time bound manner”.

Improvisation: http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=151519

Solution: b.

Same question was posted here last month.

• “With nearly 60% of all new cases of leprosy every year being recorded in India, the Indian government has launched an intensive programme to eliminate the dreaded disease.”
• “Prof Gursaran Prasad Talwar first developed the Mycobacterium indicus pranii (MIP) vaccine in the 1980s at the National Institute of Immunology, an autonomous state-funded institution under the government’s Department of Biotechnology.”
• “An ambitious house-to-house survey was also launched in July and the Leprosy Case Detection Campaign promises to screen more than 32 million people in problem areas. Dr Swaminathan, who says the vaccine is totally safe, highlights its effective use for other treatments, including bladder cancer.”
• “But vaccination is only part of the solution. Sanitation must be improved too. Transmission is human-to-human contact, but we think environment is also playing a role. Dr Sengupta, who has studied the disease for more than 40 years, points to findings that show how the bacteria that causes leprosy – Mycobacterium leprae – can live outside a host for prolonged periods in wet soils and pools of water.”

Primary Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-37316907

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Improvisation: http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/the-fight-against-leprosy-symptoms-india-causes-cures-3071272/

Solution: d.

• “Gandhi failed to grasp the importance of an alliance between oppressed groups. That task was taken on by his heir Jawaharlal Nehru. Nehru learnt the virtue of solidarity by participating in the ‘Congress of Oppressed Nationalities’ in Brussels in February 1927. The 1927 congress was the precursor of the Bandung Conference in 1955.”
• Wikipedia: The All India states people’s conference was formed in 1927. Nehru who had been supporting the cause of the people of the princely states for many years was made the President of the conference in 1935. He opened up its ranks to membership from across the political spectrum. The body would play an important role during the political integration of India, helping Indian leaders Vallabhbhai Patel and V.P. Menon (to whom Nehru had delegated the task of integrating the princely states into India) negotiate with hundreds of princes.
• In 1928, Jawaharlal Nehru joined hands with Subhas to organise the Independence for India League to fight for complete independence and ‘a socialist revision of the economic structure of society’.

Page 298, India’s Struggle for Independence, Bipan Chandra

Improvisation: http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/before-he-became-mahatma/article9198678.ece

Solution: a.

Once again, not quite a question that would appear in the preliminaries. This issue is relevant and helpful for answer/essay writing.

“Ramanappa is fortunate that his euthanasia petition jolted the state machinery into enabling a new lease of life for his daughter, but the same cannot be said of others in the arid Madanapalle division of Chittoor district which is witnessing a disturbing trend. At least two other parents in the last three months — and three more in the past — were pushed, under similar tragic circumstances, into moving the courts to seek administered death for their ailing children.”

The Hindu: Chittoor’s Euthanasia seekers