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Spotlight/News Analysis (08, January 2018):

• Topic of Discussion: Discussion on annual conference of DGPs and IGPs
• Expert Panel : Amodh Kanth ( Former DGP ), Nikunj Garg (Journalist)

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Current Affairs MCQ for UPSC Exams - 9 January 2018

Ques.1)- Which of the following is correct regarding Computer Emergency Response Team?

1. Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) is the Government organisation under Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.
2. It was setup after the terrorist attack in Mumbai in 2008

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29. Which one of the following layers of atmosphere has high concentration of ions'?

(a) Stratosphere
(b) Exosphere
(c) Thermosphere
(d) Troposphere

Ans: (c)

30. Which one of the following cities has greater annual range of temperature?

(a) Kuala Lumpur
(b) New Delhi
(c) Shanghai
(d) Ulaanbaatar

Ans: (d)

31. Match list I with list II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists.

Code:

(a) 3 1 4 2
(b) 2 4 1 3
(C) 3 4 1 2
(d) 2 1 4 3

Ans: (c)

32. Ramsar Convention, to which India is a signatory, is related to conservation and wise use of

(a) wetlands
(b) genetic resources
(c) mines
(d) forest lands

Ans: (a)

33. Which one of the following rivers flows between Satpura and Vindhya ranges?

(a) Tapi
(b) Sabarmati
(c) Narmada
(d) Mahi

Ans: (c)

34. Which one of the following is the correct taxonomic hierarchy?

(a) Kingdom-Phylum-Order-Genus-Family-Class-Species
(b) Kingdom-Order-Class-Phylum-Family-Genus-Species
(c) Kingdom-Class-Order-Phylum-Family-Species-Genus
(d) Kingdom-Phylum-Class-Order-Family-Genus-Species

Ans: (a)

35. The subunits of DNA are known as

(a) Nucleotide
(b) Nucleosome
(c) Nucleoside
(d) Polypeptide

Ans: (a)

36. The process of using microbes to treat areas of land or sea that have been contaminated by pesticides, oil or solvents is known is

(a) Eutrophication
(b) Nitrification
(c) Ammonification
(d) Bioremediation

Ans: (d)

37. How is the rate transpiration affected by decreasing humidty and by decreasing light intensity?

Decreasing humidity      Decreasing light intensity

(a) Decreases                     Decreases
(b) Increases                      Decreases
(c) Increases                       Increases
(d) Decreases                     Increases

Ans: (b)

38. Vaccination involves

(a) Injecting the body with materials that simulate the body to produce antibodies
(b) injecting the body with materials that stimulate the body to produce antigens
(c) the use of monolonal antibodies to cure a disease
(d) use of antibotics to cure diseases

Ans: (a)

39. Which of the following are examples of carnivorous plants?

(a) Sundew, Venus fly trap, Pitcher plant
(b) Cuscuta, Raffesisa, Mistletoe
(c) Sandalwood, tree Broom rape, Pitcher plant
(d) Cuscuta, Bladderwort, Mistletoe

Ans: (a)

40. Consider the following statemetns relating to Sea Salinity.

1. The ocean salinity depends on evaporation and precipitation.
2. Any change in the temperature or density influences the salinity.
3. Major source of sea salinity of terrestrial discharge by rivers.

Which of the statements given above are correct?

(a) 1 and 2
(b) 2 and 3
(c) 1 and 3
(d) 1, 2 and 3

Ans: (d)

41. Consider the following statements relating to salt production in India.

1. India is the second largest producer of iodised salt in the world next only to China.
2. Salt mining is carried out in Himachal Pradesh.
3. Gujarat is the leading producer of salf in India.
4. Ground water is the important source of salt in Rajasthan.

Which of the statemetns given above are correct?

(a) 1 and 2
(b) 3 and 4
(c) 1, 2 and 3
(d) 2, 3 and 4

Ans: (c)

42. Which of the following statements relating to Dharwar geological system are correct?

1. They belong to Archaean geological period.
2. They re metamorphosed sedimentary rocks.
3. They are of great economic importance for its mineral resources.
4. They are found predominintly in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Odisha and Jharkhand.

Select the correct answer using the code given below.

(a) 1, 2, 3 and 4
(b) 2, 3 and 4
(c) 3 and 4
(d) 1 and 2

Ans: (d)

43. Which one of the following is the correct order of formation of geological system in India in terms of their age? (Starting with the oldest)

(a) Dharwars - Aravallis - Vindhyans - Cuddapahs
(b) Aravallis - Dharwars - Cuddapahs - Vindhyans
(c) Vindhyans - Dharwars - Aravallis - Cuddapahs
(d) Cuddapahs - Vindhyans - Dharwars - Aravallis

Ans: (b)

44. A change of state directly from solid to gas without changing into liquid state is called

(a) Fusion
(b) Sublimation
(c) Diffusion
(d) Emulsion

Ans: (b)

45. Water at 273 K is less effective in cooling than ice at the same temperature. It is because

(a) water is difficult to handle
(b) water at 273 K has less energy than ice at the same temperature
(c) water at 273 K has more energy than ice at the same temperature
(d) water is not a cooling agent

Ans: (b)

46. Which one of the following statements is not correct?

(a) The rate of evaporation depends on temperature
(b) The rate of evaporation does not depend on surface area exposed to the atmospher but on volume of the liquid
(c) The rate of evaporation depends on humidity of the surroundings
(d) The rate of evaporation depends on teh wind speed

Ans: (b)

47. Which one of the following is not a colloid?

(a) Milk
(b) Mud
(c) Butter
(d) Boric acid

Ans: (d)

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(a) if only (i) conclusion follows
(b) if only (ii) conclusion follows
(c) if neither (i) nor (ii) follows
(d) if both (i) and (ii) follow

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Some dogs are bats.
Some bats are cats.

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(i) Some dogs are cats.
(ii) Some cats are dogs.

2. Statements:

All the poets are goats.
Some goats are trees.

Conclusions:

(i) Some poets are trees.
(ii) Some trees are goats.

3. Statements:

All the trucks are flies.
Some scooters are flies.

Conclusions:

(i) All the trucks are scooters.
(ii) Some scooters are trucks.

4. Statements:

All buildings are chalks.
No chalk is toffee.

Conclusions:

(i) No Building is toffee.
(ii) All chalks are buildings.

5. Statements:

Some ants are passots.
All the passots are apples.

Conclusions:

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(ii) Some ants are apples.

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1. पानी और जूस के 20रू. प्रति लिटर के मिश्रण किस अनुपात में मिश्रित किया जाए कि उनकी कीमत 5 रूपए प्रति लिटर कम हो जाए?

(a) 3: 1
(b) 1: 3
(c) 2: 3
(d) 4: 1

2. 15.17 मीटर की लंबाई और 9.02 मीटर की चैडा़ई वाले आयताकार फर्श को भरने के लिए पेन के बक्सों की न्यूनतम संख्या ज्ञात करें?

(a) 841
(b) 714
(c) 814
(d) इनमें से कोई नहीं

3. राहुल की आयु रवी की आयु से 60% ज्यादा है, और रोशन की आयु रवि की आयु 3/2 का गुना है। यदि राहुल, रवि और रोशन की आयु का जोड़ 125 वर्ष है, तो रवि और रोशन की आयु का अनुपात क्या है?

(a) 1: 2
(b) 2: 3
(c) 3: 4
(d) 4: 5

4. चर्तुभुज के कोंणो का अनुपात 3: 6: 4::7 है। चर्तुभुज के दूसरे सबसे बड़े कोण का आधा समांतर चर्तुभुज के छोटे कोण के बराबर है। समांतर चर्तुभुज के निकटवर्ती कोण का मान कितना है?

(a) 126°
(b) 136°
(c) 94°
(d) 96°

5. दो अंको की एक संख्या में इकाई स्थान की संख्या दहाई स्थान की संख्या के दुगुने से एक अधिक है। यदि इन दोनों अंको के आधे का अंतर ‘2’ है, तो संख्याओं का आधा क्या है?

(a) 16.5
(b) 24.5
(c) 18.5
(d) 12.5

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Q.1 : बिहार में "पटना संग्रहालय" की स्थापना किस वर्ष हुई थी ?

(a) 1910 ई. में
(b)1912 ई. में
(c) 1915 ई. में
(d) 1911 ई. में

Q.2 : प्रसिद्ध दीदारगंज यक्षी की प्रतिमा का सम्बन्ध किस बिहार के किस संग्रहालय से है ?

(a) नवादा संग्रहालय से
(b) चन्द्रभारी संग्रहालय से
(c) पटना संग्रहालय से
(d) गया संग्रहालय से

Q.3 : बिहार में बुद्ध की ताम्रमूर्ति कहॉं से प्राप्त हुई थी ?

(a) दीदारगंज (पटना)
(b) वैशाली से
(c) सुल्तानगंग (भागलपुर) से
(d) बोधगया से

Q.4 : "थंका चित्रशैली" के 109 चित्र बिहार राज्य के किस संग्रहालय में सुरक्षित है ?

(a) नवादा संग्रहालय, नवादा
(b) पुरातात्विक संग्रहालय नालन्दा
(c) गया संग्रहालय, गया
(d) पटना संग्रहालय, पटना

Q.5 : बिहार की "चक्रवर्ती देवी" किस शैली की प्रमुख चित्रकार थी ?

(a) मधुबनी पेंटिंग
(b) पटना शैली
(c) मंजूषा शैली
(d) इनमें से कोई नहीं

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Current Affairs Daily Voice Notes

Spotlight/News Analysis (09, January 2018):

• Topic of Discussion: Discussion on e- Sansad and e-Vidhan
• Expert Panel :  Prof. Subrato Mukherjee ( Political Analyst ), K S Sachchidanand Murthy (Journalist)

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Current Affairs for IAS Exams - 10 January 2018

::National::

Playing National Anthem made optional by SC

• The Supreme Court modified its November 30, 2016 interim order and made it optional for cinema halls to play the 52-second national anthem before every show.
• A Bench, led by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, clarified that it is not mandatory to play the anthem before screenings. The court left the choice of whether to play the anthem or not to the discretion of individual cinema hall owners.
• However, if the anthem was played, patrons were bound to stand up in respect. The court clarified that the exception granted to the disabled persons “shall remain in force on all occasions.”
• The court banked on a Union Home Ministry order of 2015 which directs that “whenever the Anthem is sung or played, the audience shall stand to attention.”
• “Playing of the Anthem is directive, but showing respect is mandatory,” Chief Justice Misra observed.
• The court took note of its judgment in the Bijoe Emmanuel versus State of Kerala, which dealt with three children belonging to the Jehovah Witnesses sect who refused to sing the anthem in the school assembly though they stood up in respect, to drive home the point that standing up was a sign of “proper respect” to the anthem.
• The modification will be in place till the Union government takes a final decision on the recommendations of an inter-ministerial committee on the occasions, circumstances and events for the solemn rendering of the national anthem.
• The committee will examine whether any amendment is necessary to the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act, 1971, to expand or specify the meaning of ‘respect’ to the national anthem. The committee, which was set up on December 5, 2017, will submit its report in six months.
• The Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act states: “Whoever intentionally prevents the singing of the Jana Gana Mana or causes disturbances to any assembly engaged in such singing shall be punished with imprisonment for a term, which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both.”

US has no plans to discontinue the extension of H-1B visa

• The U.S. has no plans under consideration to discontinue the extension of H-1B visas beyond six years, when beneficiaries apply for permanent residency — green card — authorities clarified.
• USCIS is not considering a regulatory change that would force H-1B visa holders to leave the United States by changing our interpretation of section 104(c) of AC-21, which provides for H-1B extensions beyond the six-year limit.
• AC-21’ or the ‘American Competitiveness in the Twenty First Century Act’ is the law passed by the U.S. Congress in 2000, which also governs the extension of H-1B visas.
• Even if it were (considering changes to section 104-c), such a change would not likely result in these H-1B visa holders having to leave the United States because employers could request extensions in one-year increments under section 106(a)-(b) of AC-21 instead.
• The section on three-year extensions uses the word ‘may’ which could allow some discretion by the executive but there is a separate section in the same Act that allows one-year extensions in which the executive has no discretion.

Centre tells SC that there are no alternatives to hanging

• There is no viable method presently other than hanging to execute condemned prisoners. Lethal injections are unworkable and often fail, the Centre told the Supreme Court.
• The government was responding to a query from the apex court on alternative modes of execution.
• The court had previously said a condemned convict should die in peace and not in pain. A human being is entitled to dignity even in death. Issuing notice, the court had earlier asked the government to consider the the “dynamic progress” made in modern science to adopt painless methods of causing death.
• Additional Solicitor-General Pinky Anand, while seeking more time to file a detailed affidavit, made preliminary remarks that hanging to death is the only viable option in India. “Today, there is no viable method other than hanging,” Ms. Anand submitted orally.
• Petitioner-in-person and advocate Rishi Malhotra countered that death by lethal injection is practised in several States in the U.S. and even the Law Commission of India had recommended lethal injection. The court gave the government four weeks to file the affidavit.
• The court has already clarified that it is not questioning the constitutionality of the death penalty, which has been well settled by the court, including in Deena versus Union of India and earlier in the Bachan Singh case reported in 1980. Section 354 (5), which mandates death by hanging, of the Code of Criminal Procedure has already been upheld.
• However, the Bench had, at an earlier hearing, favoured a re-look at the practice of hanging to death as “the Constitution of India is an organic and compassionate document which recognises the sanctity of flexibility of law as situations change with the flux of time.”
• The court is hearing a writ petition filed by Delhi HC lawyer Rishi Malhotra, who sought the court’s intervention to reduce the suffering of condemned prisoners at the time of death. Mr. Malhotra said a convict should not be compelled to suffer at the time of termination of life.

India will sign a pact with the United Kingdom for a return of illegal Indian migrants

• India will sign a pact with the United Kingdom for a return of illegal Indian migrants within a month of them being detected by British authorities.
• The U.K has consistently raised the issue of return of illegal migrants — said to number in thousands — with India.The memorandum of understanding comes ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s proposed visit in March.
• During her maiden visit to India on November 7, 2016, British Prime Minister Theresa May had said the U.K. would consider an improved visa deal “if at the same time we can step up the speed and volume of returns of Indians with no right to remain in the U.K.”
• An Indian delegation, led by Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju, is visiting the U.K. The delegation is expected to ask Westminster to “spell out the position” it is going to take in court on businessman Vijay Mallya’s extradition.
• Mr. Modi’s visit to the U.K. coincides with the hearing in Mr. Mallya’s case when the court takes up the “admissibility of evidence.”

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Ques.1)- Consider the following form of taxes:

1. Income tax
2. Wealth tax
3. Fringe benefit tax

which of the following are part of direct tax?

A. 1 only
B. 1,2
C. 2,3
D. All

Ques.2)- Which of the following ports are matched correctly with their country?

1. Chabahar : Iran
2. Hambantota : Sri Lanka
3. Gwadar : Bangladesh

A. 1,3
B. 1,2
C. 2,3
D. All

Ques.3)- Which of the following are incorrect?

a) Indian constitution allows single citizenship
b) U.S constitution allows single citizenship
c) The Govt of india amended the citizenship act and merged PIO and OCI cards

1) Only 2
2) Only 3
3) Only 1
4) All

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