QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz – 06 April 2017
QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz
Clarifications:
Q4, 5th April 2017 (Click HERE): The Right to Vote is only a statutory right, as paragraph 21 (Page 19-20) of THIS judgement, authored by a former Chief Justice of India in 2013 states, “…there is no contradiction as to the fact that right to vote is neither a fundamental right nor a Constitutional right but a pure and simple statutory right. The same has been settled in a catena of cases…”.
Q6, 5th April 2017 (Click HERE): The question should have included the word ‘all’, viz. “Which of the following devices of direct democracy is/are available to all Indian citizens?”.. The article makes it clear that some of these instruments of direct democracy are available to citizens in various local level bodies.
The following quiz will have 5-10 MCQs . The questions are mainly framed from The Hindu and PIB news articles.
This quiz is intended to introduce you to concepts and certain important facts relevant to UPSC IAS civil services preliminary exam 2017. It is not a test of your knowledge. If you score less, please do not mind. Read again sources provided and try to remember better.
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INSIGHTS CURRENT EVENTS QUIZ 2017
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Question 1 of 6
1. Question
1 pointsThe ‘M.P. Sharma v. Satish Chandra’ and ‘Kharak Singh v. the State of U.P.’ are cases associated with which one of the following issues that are often seen in the news?
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Solution: b.
These two cases have in recent times repeatedly appeared in the news whenever there has been any issue related to Right to Privacy.
In the news: “When the hearing began, senior advocate K.K. Venugopal, for Facebook, raised the contention that if the WhatsApp-Facebook contract is going to be challenged as a violation of the right to privacy, then a larger Bench than five judges should hear the case. He referred to the 1954 eight-judges Bench verdict in M.P. Sharma’s case and the six-judges Bench judgment of 1962 in Kharak Singh case on the right to privacy. Both judgments had categorically rejected the existence of privacy as a guaranteed right under Article 21 of the Constitution.”
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Solution: b.
These two cases have in recent times repeatedly appeared in the news whenever there has been any issue related to Right to Privacy.
In the news: “When the hearing began, senior advocate K.K. Venugopal, for Facebook, raised the contention that if the WhatsApp-Facebook contract is going to be challenged as a violation of the right to privacy, then a larger Bench than five judges should hear the case. He referred to the 1954 eight-judges Bench verdict in M.P. Sharma’s case and the six-judges Bench judgment of 1962 in Kharak Singh case on the right to privacy. Both judgments had categorically rejected the existence of privacy as a guaranteed right under Article 21 of the Constitution.”
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Question 2 of 6
2. Question
1 pointsThe Rail Development Authority will be responsible for
- Setting efficiency and performance standards for rail operations
- Setting passenger and freight fares
- Ensuring fair play and level playing field for stakeholder investment
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
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Solution: c.
The regulator will perform four primary functions— 1) tariff determination (it will not set the tariffs; it will only recommend tariffs “commensurate with costs”); 2) ensuring fair play and level playing field for stakeholder investment; 3) setting efficiency and performance standards; and 4) dissemination of information.
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Solution: c.
The regulator will perform four primary functions— 1) tariff determination (it will not set the tariffs; it will only recommend tariffs “commensurate with costs”); 2) ensuring fair play and level playing field for stakeholder investment; 3) setting efficiency and performance standards; and 4) dissemination of information.
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Question 3 of 6
3. Question
1 pointsThe McMahon Line, the result of the 1914 Simla Convention, between British India and Tibet, demarcated the boundary line between Tibet and present-day state(s) of
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Solution: b.
McMahon Line: Frontier between Tibet and Assam in British India, negotiated between Tibet and Great Britain at the end of the Shimla Conference (October 1913–July 1914) and named for the chief British negotiator, Sir Henry McMahon.
- It runs from the eastern border of Bhutan along the crest of the Himalayas until it reaches the great bend in the Brahmaputra River where that river emerges from its Tibetan course into the Assam Valley.
Improvisation: TH: Ties severely damaged, says China;
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Solution: b.
McMahon Line: Frontier between Tibet and Assam in British India, negotiated between Tibet and Great Britain at the end of the Shimla Conference (October 1913–July 1914) and named for the chief British negotiator, Sir Henry McMahon.
- It runs from the eastern border of Bhutan along the crest of the Himalayas until it reaches the great bend in the Brahmaputra River where that river emerges from its Tibetan course into the Assam Valley.
Improvisation: TH: Ties severely damaged, says China;
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Question 4 of 6
4. Question
1 points‘Air Services Agreement’, sometimes seen in the news, is
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Solution: d.
ASA is the basic legal framework for any air operation between the two countries. According to Wikipedia, “An air transport agreement (also sometimes called an air service agreement or ATA or ASA) is an agreement which two nations sign to allow international commercial air transport services between their territories. The bilateral system has its basis under the Chicago convention and associated multilateral treaties.”
- Additional Information: The Convention on International Civil Aviation, drafted in 1944 by 54 nations, was established to promote cooperation and “create and preserve friendship and understanding among the nations and peoples of the world.” Known more commonly today as the ‘Chicago Convention’, this landmark agreement established the core principles permitting international transport by air, and led to the creation of the specialized agency which has overseen it ever since – the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).
PIB;
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Solution: d.
ASA is the basic legal framework for any air operation between the two countries. According to Wikipedia, “An air transport agreement (also sometimes called an air service agreement or ATA or ASA) is an agreement which two nations sign to allow international commercial air transport services between their territories. The bilateral system has its basis under the Chicago convention and associated multilateral treaties.”
- Additional Information: The Convention on International Civil Aviation, drafted in 1944 by 54 nations, was established to promote cooperation and “create and preserve friendship and understanding among the nations and peoples of the world.” Known more commonly today as the ‘Chicago Convention’, this landmark agreement established the core principles permitting international transport by air, and led to the creation of the specialized agency which has overseen it ever since – the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).
PIB;
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Question 5 of 6
5. Question
1 pointsAccording to the International Astronomical Union, a ‘Planet’ in the Solar System is a celestial body that
- Is in orbit around the Sun
- Has sufficient mass of its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium
- Has not cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
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Solution: a.
You can (hopefully) expect UPSC not to give statements that may cause panic (this is with reference to Statement 2).
- In simple words, according to THIS TH article, a ‘planet’ is a celestial body that “must orbit the sun, must be round, and along with its satellites, must “orbit in a clear path around the sun”.
- The exact definition, according to the IAU (Click HERE), of “a planet in the Solar System would be as follows: A celestial body that (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, and (c) has cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit.”
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Solution: a.
You can (hopefully) expect UPSC not to give statements that may cause panic (this is with reference to Statement 2).
- In simple words, according to THIS TH article, a ‘planet’ is a celestial body that “must orbit the sun, must be round, and along with its satellites, must “orbit in a clear path around the sun”.
- The exact definition, according to the IAU (Click HERE), of “a planet in the Solar System would be as follows: A celestial body that (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, and (c) has cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit.”
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Question 6 of 6
6. Question
1 pointsA recent proposal of the Ministry of Agriculture and Family Welfare seeks to prepare an inventory of the assets created in the last one decade under the Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana through Geotagging technique. Which one of the following is responsible for geotagging?
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Solution: c.
- ‘Geotagging’ is the process of adding geographical identification like latitude and longitude to various media such as a photo or video. Geotagging can help users find a wide variety of location-specific information from a device. It provides users the location of the content of a given picture.
- ‘Geomapping’ is a visual representation of the geographical location of geotagged assets layered on top of map or satellite imagery.
- Who does Geotagging? The National Remote Sensing Agency (NRSA), ISRO (Hyderabad) has a software platform, Bhuvan that allows users to explore a 2D/3D representation of the surface of the Earth. It also acts as a platform for hosting government data.
- Geotagging for monitoring of assets is already started in Ministry of Rural Development for MGNREGA and Department of Land Resources for monitoring of watershed activities in the states. Postal department has also geotagged the post offices using NRSC Bhuvan Platform.
- Several assets are created in the states under various schemes of various Ministries. Monitoring of such wide spread activities is of paramount importance to states and Government of India to understand flow of funds, inventorising the assets, bringing in transparency, planning of assets for future, and finally informing the farmers about the facilities available. Geotagging helps with such monitoring.
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Solution: c.
- ‘Geotagging’ is the process of adding geographical identification like latitude and longitude to various media such as a photo or video. Geotagging can help users find a wide variety of location-specific information from a device. It provides users the location of the content of a given picture.
- ‘Geomapping’ is a visual representation of the geographical location of geotagged assets layered on top of map or satellite imagery.
- Who does Geotagging? The National Remote Sensing Agency (NRSA), ISRO (Hyderabad) has a software platform, Bhuvan that allows users to explore a 2D/3D representation of the surface of the Earth. It also acts as a platform for hosting government data.
- Geotagging for monitoring of assets is already started in Ministry of Rural Development for MGNREGA and Department of Land Resources for monitoring of watershed activities in the states. Postal department has also geotagged the post offices using NRSC Bhuvan Platform.
- Several assets are created in the states under various schemes of various Ministries. Monitoring of such wide spread activities is of paramount importance to states and Government of India to understand flow of funds, inventorising the assets, bringing in transparency, planning of assets for future, and finally informing the farmers about the facilities available. Geotagging helps with such monitoring.
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