QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz,01 August 2018

Solution: b.

The strategic partnership model was proposed by the Dhirendra Singh Committee in July, 2015. It will help build a domestic defence manufacturing base. The policy will give a boost to the ‘Make in India’ policy in the defence sector and set Indian industry on the path to acquiring cutting-edge capabilities which will contribute to building of self-reliance in the vital sector.

The new model, which is a chapter under the Defence Procurement Procedure, has four segments —submarines, single-engine fighter aircraft, helicopters and armoured carriers/main battle tanks. Additional segments may be added in the future.

From 2017 (DAC finalising SP Model): TH: Defence deals await private firms; IE;

In the news: TH;

Solution: d.

When apprehended by the police at age 15 while participating in Mohandas K. Gandhi’s noncooperation movement, he gave his name as Azad and his address as “prison.” Although because of his age he was not imprisoned, he was given a severe flogging by the police. The Indian National Congress (Congress Party) soon lionized him, and he gained popularity among the Indian people.

Azad was disappointed by Gandhi’s suspension of the noncooperation movement. Joining the radical Hindustan Republican Association (HRA), Azad participated in several violent crimes, notably the Kakori train robbery (1925) and the revenge killing of a British police officer (1928).

Known for his organizational skills, Azad played a key role in reorganizing the HRA as the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association after most of the HRA’s members had been killed or imprisoned. His crimes had made him a wanted man, but Azad was able to elude the police and its informants for several years. It was Bismil who gave the moniker ‘Quick Silver’ to Azad, in the honour of the revolutionary’s agility, restlessness and ever-present enthusiasm for new ideas.

TBI; Britannica;

Improvisation: PIB;

Information about Durgawati Devi: TBI;

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Solution: a.

MEA: PartNIR aims at deepening BRICS cooperation in digitalisation, industrialisation, innovation, inclusiveness and investment, to maximise the opportunities and address the challenges arising from the 4th Industrial Revolution. It should enhance comparative advantages, boost economic growth, promote economic transformation of BRICS countries, strengthen sustainable industrial production capacity, create networks of science parks and technology business incubators, and support small and medium-sized enterprises in technology intensive areas.

TH;

Solution: c.

Recognizing that flash floods have a particularly disastrous impact on lives and properties of the affected populations, the Fifteenth WMO Congress (2016) had approved the implementation of a Flash Flood Guidance System (FFGS) project with global coverage that had been developed by the WMO in collaboration with the US National Weather Service, the US Hydrologic Research Center and USAID/OFDA.

WMO; TH;

Solution: c.

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