QUIZ: Insights Current Affairs Quiz – 55

Disinvestment proceeds of Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs) are credited to the existing Public Account under the head ‘National Investment Fund’. For what purpose can funds be withdrawn from it?

1. Financing selected social sector schemes
2. Recapitalisation of public sector insurance companies and Public Sector Banks
3. Investment in Bhartiya Nabhikiya Vidyut Nigam Limited
4. Subscribing to shares being issued by the CPSEs, on rights basis so as to ensure 51% ownership of the Government in them is not diluted

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Recently, the ‘whitefly attack’ damaged over 75 per cent crop across the cotton belt in Punjab. How do whiteflies damage crops?

Consider the following statements:

Assertion (A): Petroleum prices have not reacted to the worsening geopolitical situation in the major oil-producing regions of West Asia (Middle-East)

Reason (R): Global demand for commodities is sluggish

Which of the above statements is/are true?

Government of India’s long term goal is to increase its forest cover through a planned afforestation drive. This planned afforestation drive includes which of the following programmes and initiatives?

1. Green India Mission
2. Green Highways policy
3. Plantation along rivers
4. United Nations REDD-Plus programme
5. Compensatory Deforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority

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Which of the following are elements of the ‘basic structure’ of the Indian Constitution?

1. Harmony between Fundamental Rights and Directive Principles
2. Primacy of judiciary in judicial appointments
3. Parliamentary democracy

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