QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 24 November 2018

Solution: d.

The Manipur Olympic Association hosted the first NEOG in Imphal from October 24^th to 28^th. The first national sports stadium for differently-abled is set to come up in Meghalaya.

IE; Vikaspedia National Current Affairs October 2018

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Solution: c.

InvestIndia: It is a non-profit venture under the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, Ministry of Commerce and Industry.

It was recently awarded the UN Award for excellence in promoting investments in sustainable development. Invest India also partners with substantial investment promotion agencies and multilateral organizations. Invest India also actively works with several Indian states to build capacity as well as bring in global best practices in investment targeting, promotion and facilitation areas.

Vikaspedia National Current Affairs October 2018;

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Solution: b.

WFC: Gold Prize winner Sikkim is the first organic state in the world. All of its farmland is certified organic. At the same time, Sikkim’s approach reaches beyond organic production and has proven truly transformational for the state and its citizens. Embedded in its design are socioeconomic aspects such as consumption and market expansion, cultural aspects as well as health, education, rural development and sustainable tourism. The policy implemented a phase out of chemical fertilisers and pesticides, and achieved a total ban on sale and use of chemical pesticides in the state. The transition has benefitted more than 66 000 farming families. The Sikkim tourism sector has benefitted greatly from the state’s transition to 100 percent organic:  the number of tourists increased by over 50 percent between 2014 and 2017. As such, Sikkim sets an excellent example of how other Indian states and countries worldwide can successfully upscale agroecology.

Vikaspedia National Current Affairs October 2018;

About the Future Policy Award;

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Solution: d.

The walled city of Ahmadabad is another UNESCO WHS.

Pathan architecture is an austere style of architecture favoured by the Khalji rulers in Delhi who were considered Afghans. .. The so-called robust, austere Pathan architecture of Mandu with its surface embellishments of jalis, carved brackets, etc. and the lightness of the structures was an important intervention in the narrative of the Indo-Islamic architectural experience.

Improvisation: Vikaspedia National Current Affairs September 2018;

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Solution: d.

IE: the ratio stands at 19.66 judges per million (10 lakh) people. The ratio was 17.48 judges per million in 2014, according to law ministry figures put in public domain.

TH: A Bench, led by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, had taken suo motu cognisance of more than 5,000 vacancies for subordinate judicial posts even as pendency touched crores. The court found there were more than 1,000 vacancies in Uttar Pradesh alone.

TH: Undertrial prisoners accounted for 62% of India’s prison population, against the world average of 18-20%, the court said. The statistic raised questions about the humaneness of our system, it said.

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