QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 30 August 2017

Solution: c.
The Sea of Japan is also known as the East Sea.

https://www.britannica.com/place/Sea-of-Japan;
http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/north-korea-fires-missile-over-japan-in-aggressive-test/article19577734.ece
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Solution: b.
“..India and China must reverSolution: a.
The China-Maldives friendship bridge will link Male with Hulhule island, but it won’t be “across the One and a Half Degree Channel”. The One and a Half Degree Channel is well south of Male.
• Beijing will be building a port at one of the Maldive islands (Gadhoo island), which sits at the entrance to the so-called One and a Half Degree Channel (Huvadhu Kandu), a major international shipping passage (we earlier had posted a question on this).
• “Mr. Nasheed said apart from the warships, it was China’s growing influence in constructing major infrastructure projects including the $200 million “China-Maldives friendship bridge” from Male to Hulhule island that should be viewed with some concern. ‘Strategic infrastructure often does facilitate military use. So it is very possible that President Yameen is offering [China] more than just infrastructure projects,’ he said.”
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/ex-president-flags-presence-of-chinese-warships-in-male/article19582196.ece;
From July: http://indianexpress.com/article/explained/in-fact-indian-ocean-churning-why-todays-maldives-no-trust-vote-is-crucial-4763916/;
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t to the spirit of the Border Defence Cooperation Agreement of 2013, which laid down specific guidelines on tackling future developments along the 3,488-km boundary the two countries share. The past two and a half months are also a lesson that India cannot be unprepared for “another Doklam”, as Chief of the Army Staff Bipin Rawat said on Sunday..”

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/agreeing-to-disagree/article19576684.ece
From 2013: http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=100178;
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Solution: d.
• Goal 16 of the Sustainable Development Goals is dedicated to the “promotion of peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, the provision of access to justice for all, and building effective, accountable institutions at all levels”. Some of the goal 16 targets (relevant for our question here) include:
o Promote rule of law at the national and international levels and ensure equal access to justice for all
o Develop effective, accountable and transparent institutions at all levels
o Ensure responsive, inclusive, participatory and representative decision-making at all levels
o Ensure public access to information and protect fundamental freedoms, in accordance with national legislation and international agreements
o Promote and enforce non-discriminatory laws and policies for sustainable development
• Understanding “individual and social justice” through John Rawls’ views/theory of justice: John Rawls, an American ethical philosopher, defends a conception of “justice as fairness”. In his view, Soviet-style communism (linked purely to social justice) is considered unjust because it is incompatible with most basic liberties and because it does not provide everyone with a fair and equal opportunity to obtain desirable offices and positions. Pure laissez-faire capitalism is also unjust (linked purely to individual justice), because it tends to produce an unjust distribution of wealth and income (concentrated in the hands of a few), which in turn effectively deprives some (if not most) citizens of the basic means necessary to compete fairly for desirable offices and positions. Rawl’s work is widely interpreted as providing a philosophical foundation for egalitarian liberalism as imperfectly manifested in the modern capitalist welfare state or in a market-oriented social democracy.
SDG 16: http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/peace-justice/;
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/dera-through-the-punjab-lens/article19582459.ece;
https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Rawls;

Solution: d.
A mains-oriented question.
• The Supreme Court on Tuesday set aside a Gujarat High Court order directing the State to pay compensation to shrines destroyed in the 2002 communal riots (no limit was imposed on the compensation amount that was payable). The court agreed with the State government that taxpayers’ money cannot be spent to promote a particular religion (Article 27).
• The SC expressed satisfaction with the Gujarat government’s scheme to pay up to Rs. 50,000 as ex-gratia assistance to authorised religious places damaged, destroyed or desecrated during the riots. It said that the scheme placed the riot-affected religious structures “on par” with “houses destroyed or damaged” in the violence.

http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/sc-quashes-hc-order-on-repair-of-shrines-damaged-in-2002-riots-117082900928_1.html;
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/top-court-sets-aside-hc-order-on-riot-recompense/article19584025.ece;

Solution: a.

http://pib.nic.in/newsite/mbErel.aspx?relid=158551;
http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=170253;