QUIZ – 2016: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 29 December 2016

Solution: d.

GK Question.

“Including the shopkeepers and hangers-on across the two roads, this meeting — a jan sunwai or public hearing called by the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS) on December 26 — probably involves a thousand people. Roughly one-fourth are invited outsiders, but the vast majority are citizens of Beawar, a town in Rajasthan with a population of three and a half lakh, famous as the birthplace of the movement that gave India the Right to Information Act as well as the now ubiquitous device of the jan sunwai.”

TH: Stories of Notebandi;

Solution: b.

Section 26, The RBI Act, 1934: 26. Legal tender character of notes.— (1) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (2), every bank note shall be legal tender at any place in 1[India] in payment, or on account for the amount expressed therein, and shall be guaranteed by the 2[Central Government].

TH: Ordinance to end RBI’s liability;

Solution: b.

“Ram Singh, a retired Havaldar of the Indian Army, causes a flutter by beginning with a firm “Sanatana dharma ki jai”, but quickly returns to the theme of the day, detailing how he is unable to draw enough money from his own pension to manage his large household.”

• Sanatana dharma, in Hinduism, term used to denote the “eternal” or absolute set of duties or religiously ordained practices incumbent upon all Hindus, regardless of class, caste, or sect.
• Different texts give different lists of the duties, but in general sanatana dharma consists of virtues such as honesty, refraining from injuring living beings, purity, goodwill, mercy, patience, forbearance, self-restraint, generosity, and asceticism.
• Sanatana dharma is contrasted with svadharma, one’s “own duty” or the particular duties enjoined upon an individual according to his or her class or caste and stage of life.

Improvisation: TH: Stories of Notebandi;

Britannica: Sanatana Dharma;

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Solution: d.

• The Supreme Court recently issued a blanket ban on the sale of firecrackers in the National Capital Region, citing the grave quality of air.
• The order, passed by a Bench of Chief Justice of India T.S. Thakur and Justices AK Sikri and S.A. Bobde, came on a petition filed by three infants of Delhi through their parents.
• The children claimed that the smog caused by firecrackers post Diwali celebrations were choking their right to live. The petition highlighted the disdain shown by people to the affected ones as the pollution graph climbs without cease.
• The apex court banned fresh issuance of licence to sell firecrackers and suspended licence already issued.

TH: SC bans sale of firecrackers in NCR;

Vikaspedia: Current Affairs November;

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Solution: c.

Wikipedia: Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme;

Improvisation: Vikaspedia – Current Affairs November; TH: Agni-V test-fired again;

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Solution: b.

• Maharashtra has become the first state to adopt Fly Ash Utilisation Policy, paving way for prosperity by generating “wealth from waste”, and environment protection.
• The policy provides for 100 per cent use of fly ash generated from thermal power plants and biogas plants for construction activities.
• This fly ash will be used to make bricks, blocks, tiles, wall panels, cement and other construction materials. It will save soil excavation and protect environment.

Vikaspedia: Current Affairs November;

BS: Maharashtra becomes first state to adopt a fly ash utilisation policy;

Solution: a.

“On December 23, the United States Ambassador to the UN abstained on UN Security Council resolution 2334, which condemned Israel’s settlement activity in the occupied territory of the West Bank and East Jerusalem.”

TH: Tel Aviv on tenterhooks;