QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 03 March 2017

Solution: b.

• While the latest, the fourth NFHS 4 conducted in 2015-16 shows that critical indicators of women’s empowerment like literacy, economic empowerment (women with bank accounts/mobile phones) have shown a dramatic improvement and domestic violence and child marriages are down, the girl child still remains unwanted.
• The sex ratio at birth (number of girls per 1,000 boys) for children born in the last five years showed a dip in most major states although the overall national figure went up marginally from 914 in the last survey (NFHS 3, conducted in 2005-06) to 919.
• In Assam, West Bengal, Gujarat, among others, the overall sex ratio in urban areas is better than the sex ratio at birth for children in the past five years. Chandigarh is an exception, where the last five years’ sex ratio at birth is better than the overall sex ratio. Sex ratio has traditionally been worse in urban areas than rural because of better access to technology and trained doctors. However, the fact that it has gone further downhill in the last five years, experts say, is because little has changed in mindsets on the ground.

Explained, IE;

Solution: a.

CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Instituted (CSIR-CFTRI), is one of the 40 national research laboratories in India, set up under the aegis of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).

Wikipedia: CFTRI; CFTRI;

Improvisation: TH: CFTRI’s most-downloaded food tech is for idlis, dosas;

Solution: c.

Improvisation: TH: 30 women rescued from flesh trade;

Ans: d.

Competition Commission of India is a body responsible for enforcing The Competition Act, 2002 throughout India and to prevent activities that have an adverse effect on competition in India.

• CCI consists of a Chairperson and 6 Members appointed by the Central Government.
• The duty of the Commission is to eliminate practices having adverse effect on competition, promote and sustain competition, protect the interests of consumers and ensure freedom of trade in the markets of India.
• The Commission is also required to give opinion on competition issues on a reference received from a statutory authority established under any law and to undertake competition advocacy, create public awareness and impart training on competition issues.

The Competition Act, 2002 prohibits anti-competitive agreements, abuse of dominant position by enterprises and regulates combinations (acquisition, acquiring of control and Merger and acquisition), which causes or likely to cause an appreciable adverse effect on competition within India.

From 2015: Insightsonindia Daily Current Events;

Improvisation: TH: ‘Public procurement needs to be opened up’;

Solution: a.

“On February 3, the Supreme Court passed an order in the December 16, 2012 gang-rape case which could have far reaching consequences on the administration of the death penalty in India. Recognising that neither the trial court nor the high court considered any evidence regarding the mitigating circumstances of the accused before sentencing him/her to the death penalty, the court granted defense counsel extensive access to the accused in prison and sought relevant mitigating evidence.”

“In the landmark case of Bachan Singh (1980), the SC resoundingly laid down that a sentence of death can only be imposed by a court when the alternative of life imprisonment is unquestionably foreclosed. In aid of this determination, the court held that “great weight” be given to mitigating factors including the probability of reformation of the accused or the existence of extreme mental disturbance. However, India’s death penalty jurisprudence has since suffered from the lack of judicial guidelines on the collection or presentation of mitigating factors.”

IE: Hard cases and good law;

Solution: c.

• Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) is a statutory body of Ministry of Women & Child Development, Government of India.
• It functions as the nodal body for adoption of Indian children and is mandated to monitor and regulate in-country and inter-country adoptions.
• CARA is designated as the Central Authority to deal with inter-country adoptions in accordance with the provisions of the Hague Convention on Inter-country Adoption, 1993, ratified by Government of India in 2003.
• CARA primarily deals with adoption of orphan, abandoned and surrendered children through its associated /recognised adoption agencies.

About CARA;

Improvisation: IE;