QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz – 27 April 2017
QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz
The following quiz will have 5-10 MCQs . The questions are mainly framed from The Hindu and PIB news articles.
This quiz is intended to introduce you to concepts and certain important facts relevant to UPSC IAS civil services preliminary exam 2017. It is not a test of your knowledge. If you score less, please do not mind. Read again sources provided and try to remember better.
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INSIGHTS CURRENT EVENTS QUIZ 2017
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The following Quiz is based on the Hindu, PIB and other news sources. It is a current events based quiz. Solving these questions will help retain both concepts and facts relevant to UPSC IAS civil services exam.
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1 pointsThe ‘ebird’ platform has been designed for
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- A real-time, online checklist program, eBird has revolutionized the way that the birding community reports and accesses information about birds.
- Launched in 2002 by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and National Audubon Society, eBird provides rich data sources for basic information on bird abundance and distribution at a variety of spatial and temporal scales.
- eBird documents the presence or absence of species, as well as bird abundance through checklist data. A simple and intuitive web-interface engages tens of thousands of participants to submit their observations or view results via interactive queries into the eBird database.
About eBird; About eBird India;
Improvisation: TH: A shrinking home for endemic birds;
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- A real-time, online checklist program, eBird has revolutionized the way that the birding community reports and accesses information about birds.
- Launched in 2002 by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and National Audubon Society, eBird provides rich data sources for basic information on bird abundance and distribution at a variety of spatial and temporal scales.
- eBird documents the presence or absence of species, as well as bird abundance through checklist data. A simple and intuitive web-interface engages tens of thousands of participants to submit their observations or view results via interactive queries into the eBird database.
About eBird; About eBird India;
Improvisation: TH: A shrinking home for endemic birds;
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Question 2 of 5
2. Question
1 pointsThe ‘Prakash Singh’ case, or the ‘Prakash Singh vs Union of India’ case, is well-known for its judgment regarding
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Question 3 of 5
3. Question
1 pointsThe Central Government recently clarified that it has no plan to impose any tax on agriculture income. Additionally, it cited what reason for its inability to impose such a tax?
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1 pointsThe State Security Commission – one of the seven directives passed by the Supreme Court in its judgement on police reforms – must be constituted by states to
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Solution: d.
According to today’s editorial (Click HERE), “In particular, every State should set up a State Security Commission — Kerala has one — to both guide the police and decide on top police appointments and transfers.” More specifically though, according to THIS document (by the Human Rights Initiative) regarding the salient features of the Seven Directives of the Supreme Court judgment in the Prakash Singh Case, SSCs will help resolve two issues:
- The lack of any established meaning in law or conventions in practice that indicate the limits of political ‘supervision’ and ‘control’ over the police.
- The lack of any rationale system for evaluating police performance against a set of pre-determined criteria.
In fact, statements ‘a’, ‘b’ and ‘c’ are three other directives out of the seven. The SSC, according to the TH Editorial, will also play a role in top police appointments and transfers; but from the given options, ‘d’ is the most appropriate.
Human Rights Initiative: Seven steps to police reform;
Improvisation: Th: On reinstating Kerala DGP Senkumar;
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Solution: d.
According to today’s editorial (Click HERE), “In particular, every State should set up a State Security Commission — Kerala has one — to both guide the police and decide on top police appointments and transfers.” More specifically though, according to THIS document (by the Human Rights Initiative) regarding the salient features of the Seven Directives of the Supreme Court judgment in the Prakash Singh Case, SSCs will help resolve two issues:
- The lack of any established meaning in law or conventions in practice that indicate the limits of political ‘supervision’ and ‘control’ over the police.
- The lack of any rationale system for evaluating police performance against a set of pre-determined criteria.
In fact, statements ‘a’, ‘b’ and ‘c’ are three other directives out of the seven. The SSC, according to the TH Editorial, will also play a role in top police appointments and transfers; but from the given options, ‘d’ is the most appropriate.
Human Rights Initiative: Seven steps to police reform;
Improvisation: Th: On reinstating Kerala DGP Senkumar;
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1 points‘INDGEOID’, recently seen in the news in association with India and Nepal, is
- A satellite developed by the Survey of India that will measure the height of objects from the mean sea level more accurately than is currently possible with GPS satellites
- An Earth Observation Satellite to monitor levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere over the Indian subcontinent
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
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Solution: d.
- The partners in this project – remeasurement of Mount Everest – are India’s ministry of science and technology, the Survey of India (SOI) and the government of Nepal. It will use new measurement tools developed by SOI and with the help of the Global Positioning System (GPS).
- INDGEOID Version 1.0 is the new measurement tool, a mathematical model, developed by the SoI. It assists in measurements of the height of objects above mean sea level and is considered superior to the earlier methodology based solely on GPS satellites. INDGEOID will correct the errors in measurements made by GPS satellites.
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Solution: d.
- The partners in this project – remeasurement of Mount Everest – are India’s ministry of science and technology, the Survey of India (SOI) and the government of Nepal. It will use new measurement tools developed by SOI and with the help of the Global Positioning System (GPS).
- INDGEOID Version 1.0 is the new measurement tool, a mathematical model, developed by the SoI. It assists in measurements of the height of objects above mean sea level and is considered superior to the earlier methodology based solely on GPS satellites. INDGEOID will correct the errors in measurements made by GPS satellites.
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